Monday, September 1, 2014

Answers to last week's quiz (#371) Gaurav Sri Krishna | New Delhi September 1, 2014 Last Updated at 00:03 IST

  1. Connect Maria Sharapova with the Indonesian word for tiger and what do you arrive at?

    The Porsche Macan, a new model that was launched this year. Sharapova is Porsche's new brand ambassador and is being used to win female customers for the brand. Macan in Indonesian means Tiger.
     
  2. What are these: Mother Surge, Mother Big Shot, Mother V8 Powered, Mother Green Storm, and Mother Revive?

    Variants of Mother, an energy drink marketed in Australia and New Zealand by Coca-Cola.
     
  3. The CEO of this company asked his young recruits to adopt a name from the martial arts and chivalry fantasy novels authored by a person who founded a newspaper in Hong Kong in 1959, an OBE honouree and after whom Asteroid 10930 is named. Name the CEO, his company and the author.

    Jack Ma of Alibaba asks his young recruits to adopt a name from the martial arts novels authored by Louis Cha Leung yung, who has a pen name Jin Yong. His own company name is Feng Qingyang a kung fu guru from one of the novels. The idea behin is to create a band of brothers kind of identity.
     
  4. This sticky brown mixture used by Indian women to beautify their skin gets its name from the historic use of the material for cleaning or 'fulling' wool by textile workers called 'fullers'. Archaeologists in India have found a formula in a 16th century Moghul journal that combines this mud with soil, cereal, milk and lime to remove the corrosive effects of industrial pollution. Give its Indian name and also mention the monument that is being cleaned with it.

    Multani mitti or fullers earth is now being used to clean Taj Mahal and give its marble a nice sheen. It is also being exported to Italy to clean grimy monuments there.
     
  5. Who said: "Your mind is software, program it. Your body is a shell, change it. Death is a disease, cure it. Extinction is approaching, fight it"?

    Peter Thiel, co-founder, PayPal
     
  6. Where is the only Indian post office located outside India? Also mention under whose jurisdiction it falls.

    The Dakshina Gangotri post office set up in Antarctica on Jan 26th 1988 is technically the only Indian post office located outside the country. It is operated under the Goa postal Division.
     
  7. Fill in the blank and name the company that owns this registered baseline: "Alone we are delicious, together we are ____

    'Alone we are delicious and together we are YUM' is the line of YUM brands that owns KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.
     
  8. He was the first to formally draw the graphical representation of demand and supply. Name him.

    Economist Alfred Marshall
     
  9. Who has created biometric earbuds that can measure a user's heart rate and track other fitness data via a smartphone audio jack? The category this product falls under is being called the fitness wearables category.

    Intel and SMS audio, majority owned by rapper Curtis 50 cent Jackson.
     
  10. Name the company from its logo and also mention what the logo represents.

    BASF, the chemical company. The little square and the big square signify a lock and key representing the customer's need and the BASF solution.
There were 21 correct entries for quiz No. 371. Tanvi Kamat Bambolkar from Goa wins Rs 2,000. The winner is chosen on the basis of the first correct entry received.

The Strategist Quiz (#372) Gaurav Sri Krishna | New Delhi September 1, 2014 Last Updated at 00:04 IST

The Strategist Quiz (#372)

  1. Whose words are these: "And there was Jack Welch. I got him into India because GE was not known in India and Pakistan. I pressed upon him to come. Rajiv Gandhi, who was a high-tech guy, had admiration for Jack. India was a closed economy and I became GE's national adviser?"
     
  2. Connect actors Margot Kidder, who played the role of Lois Lane in the first Superman movie released in 1978 and Timothy Dalton, who acted in the 1989 Bond film Licence to Kill, to a strange commercial proposition.
     
  3. Which location has the world's only beach airport for scheduled flights? It was first licensed as a runway in 1936 and its flight schedule is drawn up to accommodate high tide, which submerges three of its runways.
     
  4. During the Depression era of the late 1920s and early 1930s movie theatres in the US introduced a box office stimulant called Bank Nights. What was it?
     
  5. This word now being used as internet slang meant an ugly dwarf or a giant in old English and originated from a Norse word. It is also used to describe a fishing technique. Name it.
     
  6. Name the brand, which was created in 1997 to bring back to life the legendary nameless travel companion that was used by artists and thinkers over the past two centuries, among them Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, and Bruce Chatwin.
     
  7. This idea first surfaced in the work of US leadership theorist Warren G Bennis. It later received a boost through Alvin Toffler and then from Henry Mintzberg, who published a book in 1979 on the structuring of organisations. What was the concept?
     
  8. Which global beverage brand has historic links with Hannibal and Julius Ceaser?
     
  9. Which company formed recently in India uses this sanskrit phrase "Atithi Devo Bhava" as its official slogan?
     
  10. Whose logo is this?
One lucky winner will receive a cheque for Rs 2,000. Send your entries to strategist@bsmail.in. All entries must carry the postal address of the contestant. Last date for receiving entries: September 2, till 8 pm. Previous winners and employees of Business Standard and their families are not eligible to participate.