The GuestQuiZMAster (GQM): Sandeep Das

ABout the QuiZmaster: Sandeep has close to 9 years of experience as a quantitative market researcher. He is currently an Associate Director with Ipsos ASI, working out of their London offices. Sandeep was an avid quizzer in his college days and now keeps the passion alive by writing and setting quiz questions. His other interests include alternative rock music, writing, video games, detective fiction, movies and cooking.

Q1. Which company started life as the Anglo Persian Oil Company in 1909, before becoming the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company in 1935? The company adopted its present name as recently as 2001, before going through a series of name changes as a result of its purchases and acquisitions.

Q2. What is the name of the parent company of Philip Morris, USA, and which also holds a voting interest in one of the world’s largest brewing companies, the UK based SABMiller Plc?

Q3. Which character in the US TV series, ‘The Cleveland Show’, currently also shown on UK TV, is both based on and voiced by the acclaimed American director, David Lynch? David Lynch is an Academy Award nominated director for his films ‘The Elephant Man’, ‘Blue Velvet’ and ‘Mulholland Drive’.

Q4. Which company’s slogan is ’57 varieties’?

Q5. Which American actor co-wrote, co-produced and narrated the 2007 film documentary ‘11th Hour’, which was centred on the state of the natural environment?

Interested in becoming GQM, shoot a mail at bizdomonline@gmail.com.