Answers to last week's quiz (#076)

 

1. What is common to the brands Accenture and Buick?
   Tiger Woods is the brand ambassador for both Accenture and Buick 
    
2. Born in 1930, this person filed his income tax return at the age of 14, paying $7 as taxes. He peddled refurbished golf balls, pinball machines and collectible stamps as a high school student. By age 30, he was a millionaire and set up his firm based on the Newman & Graham model in 1956. Today, he is a legend. Identify him.
   Warren Buffet 
    
3. This agency was set up under the US Department of Treasury in 1865 and was primarily involved in stamping out counterfeiting and financial fraud. Name the agency and its current role today.
   The Secret Service, responsible for protecting the First Family and also US presidential candidates 
    
4. An NBFC which is credited with the first asset securitisation transaction in India is also responsible for the genesis of one of India’s largest retail chains. Name both of them.
   Vishwapriya Financial Services whose founder R Subramanian started the Subhiksha chain of small-format stores 
    
5. Which model of buying behaviour denotes that much of the consumption is due to social influence or pressure than due to economic considerations?
   The Veblenian model 
    
6. Who owns the brand Junglee Music?
   It is the independent Hindi and regional film music label of the Times Group 
    
7. One of Colgate Palmolive’s failures was the launching of food products. It was short lived because it found that its sales of toothpaste were dipping and the customer was not interested in its food products. Name the food brand.
   Colgate’s Kitchen Entrees 
    
8. Which Web address was the first registered domain name?
   Symbolics.com in 1985 became the first registered domain name 
    
9. This product gets its name from the Greek word for pearl. It was invented in 1869 when Napoleon III of France held a competition to find a cheaper, long-lasting substitute for an existing product that could be used by the armed forces and also the less prosperous classes. Name it.
   Margarine, a substitute for butter 
    
10. This logo belongs to a non-profit organisation that is named after a famous writer and promotes this writer’s philosophy. Alan Greenspan believed in this author’s philosophy and also wrote essays for one of the books. Identify it.
    The Ayn Rand Institute that promotes objectivisim  

 

There was one all-correct entry for the strategist quiz # 76. The winner, Bajrang Sanghi of Kolkata, will receive a copy of Business the Bill Gates Way and Rs 2,000.