9th Feb 2011

• Sir Narandas Desai started this in Ahmedabad in 1892 with what he had owned in South Africa. He did a commendable job that even Mahatma Gandhi had praised him once.

• Its logo is A SYMBOL OF CO-EXISTENCE AND HARMONY.

• Of the X and Y in the brand logo X symbolises the bold, affluent and influential segment of the society and Y, represents the submissive, not so rich and commoners.

• What are we talking about?

And the answer is

Wagh Bakri Chai

• Wagh-Tiger• Bakri-Goat

• What name, meaning "quills" in Italian, are used to refer to tubes of pasta that have angled ends resembling pen nibs. They are available smooth or ridged (rigate).

And the answer is

Penne

• The word ______ is reminiscent of the Italian verb riavvolgere ("to wrap"), though the two words are not etymologically connected.[citation needed] The word may also be a diminutive of Italian dialectal rava, or turnip. Similar in appearance to German Maultaschen, ______ are usually smaller.

And the answer is

RAVIOLI

• _________ was founded in Molsheim, France (Germany at that time) as a manufacturer of high performance automobiles by Ettore ______, an Italian-born, described as an eccentric genius.

• The company struggled financially, and released one last model in the 1950s, before eventually being purchased for its airplane parts business in the 1960s.

• Today the name is owned by Volkswagen Group

And the answer is

• Isaac Asimov relates a joke in his Treasury of Humor (1971) that claims that __________challenged Rudolf Virchow to a duel. As the challenged party had the choice of weapons, Virchow chose two sausages, one of which had been infected with cholera. ___________is said to have called off the duel at once

And the answer is

Otto Von Bismark

• This weird term was coined by Thomas Carlyle in 1858,[5] relates to Robert _______captain of a British merchant ship, who did this in the parliament following the boarding of his vessel by Spanish coast guards in 1731. This affair and a number of similar incidents sparked a war against the Spanish Empire, ostensibly to encourage the Spanish not to renege on the lucrative asiento contract (permission to sell slaves in Spanish America)

And the answer is

Jenkin’s Ear