Q90
Current Affairs & General KnowledgeEconomy, Banking & Business
"My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course", — Graham Greene. Which one of the following is a manufacturer of Fountain Pens?
- a.Voltas
- b.Sailor
- c.Hundai
- d.Kirloskar
Answer: (B) Sailor
Sailor is a Japanese fountain-pen maker founded in 1911 in Hiroshima prefecture; with Pilot and Platinum it forms Japan's 'big three'. Other famous fountain-pen brands are Parker, Sheaffer and Waterman (Lewis Waterman patented the first practical fountain pen in 1884), Montblanc, Pelikan and Lamy of Germany, and in India Camlin and the Swadeshi-era Sulekha ink of Kolkata. The distractors are well-known companies in other fields: Voltas (Tata group, air-conditioners), Hyundai (South Korean cars, misspelt in the booklet) and Kirloskar (pumps and engines, Pune). Graham Greene was the English novelist of 'The Power and the Glory' and 'The Quiet American'.