Answers to last week's quiz (#177)

 

1. What is common to ICICI Bank, DuPont, Reynolds, American Tobacco, New York Times and Yahoo?
   All companies managed by women CEOs
    
2. Which is India’s first farmer-owned private cotton marketing company?
   Zameen Organic. It comprises farmers from Amaravati district in Maharashtra and Adilabad district in Andhra Pradesh. 
    
3. Whose brands are Livon and Zatak?
   Paras Pharmaceuticals 
    
4. In the mid-1890s, a mechanic and a bookseller, both bicycle enthusiasts, started manufacturing bicycles of their own design, patriotically named after their country. A few years later, they began producing motorcycles, and at the turn of the century, the production of motorcycles was gradually replaced by automobiles. By what name is the company known now.
   Skoda founded by Václav Laurin and Václav Klement 
    
5. What is Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart better known as? Also name the person who coined it.
   CAPTCHA was coined by Luis voh Ahn of Carnegie Mellon University 
    
6. This person was a Bible salesman before he became a mechanical engineer. He left a course at Harvard Business School three months before graduating to join Westinghouse. His first article during the 1960s in Harvard Business Review put forward a game theory view of business. Name the person and the business he founded.
   Bruce Henderson who founded the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) 
    
7. This company has products named as Bang and Bam, and has an online presence called IdeaLink for consumers to contribute innovative ideas for its products. Name it.
   Reckitt and Benckiser 
    
8. This business group has invested in a company involved in manufacturing of precision equipments for oil exploration, wind energy and aviation sector and it also received a certificate of excellence from the Tobacco Board for best performance in export of chewing tobacco. Name the business group and the first brand it launched. 
   Kothari Products, makers of Pan Parag 
    
9. What is common to Rahul Dravid, Roger Federer, Shoaib Malik and Tiger Woods?
   All have advertised for Gillette 
    
10. Identify the company by its new logo. Why did it changed its logo?
    
    Xerox. The change is meant to reflect less on the photo copying duties Xerox has carried out and instead to refocus on document management and solutions.

There were 37 all-correct entries for the strategist quiz #177. The winners who will receive a copy of International Business are: Syed Qais Hayat, Patna; Hena J, Delhi; Afroz Ahmad, Thane; Aayushi Mishra, Faridabad; Vijayan Ashokkumar, Chennai; Fariha Hayat, Delhi; Sanat K Mukherjee, Howrah; Anil Kumar Gaynar, Uttar Pradesh; Praveen Kumar M, Hyderabad; and Shreya Chakraborty, Kolkata Syed Qais Hayat also wins Rs 2,000.