Answers to last week's quiz (#187)

 

1. Name the company that got started when its founder’s friend, a glassmaker based in San Francisco, failed to sell one of his pieces on the street simply because he couldn’t accept credit cards. The same person founded a successful online company with projected revenue of $150 million.
   Square, Jack Dorsey’s (Twitter founder) new company that transforms mobile devices into credit card readers, letting anyone accept a credit card and run a transaction in less than 10 seconds
    
2. If Karsanbhai Patel founded the brand Nirma, what did Tribhovandas Patel establish?
   The Kaira (Kheda) District Milk Cooperative Union popularly known as Amul
    
3. Which brand managed to innovate for the Indian market by instituting a usability lab with an IIT and introduce for the first time features like “sari wash course” and “memory restart” in its washing machines?
   Samsung
    
4. Apart from being actresses, what is common to Leela Chitnis and Hollywood’s Ginger Rogers?
   They were the first Bollywood and Hollywood stars to model for Lux soaps respectively
    
5. Connect the X-ray tube, audio tape, VCR, audio CD and DVD and what do you get?
   All inventions of Philips Electronics
    
6. What happened to the erstwhile Bank of Behar, National Bank of Lahore and Bank of Cochin?
   They got merged with SBI in 1969, 1970 and 1985 respectively
    
7. What is common to the terms Thirsty Bird, Nodding Donkey, Grasshopper and Horsehead?
   Names used for a contraption that mechanically lifts liquid out of onshore oil wells
    
8. With which brand is the Striding Man Society associated?
   Johnnie Walker on Facebook
    
9. Who said: “If contact between people is based on trust and absolute integrity, then it is of benefit for both sides.” The entity he founded was in the news recently.
   Julius Baer. He founded the Swiss Bank bearing his own name in 1890.
    
10. The companies identified by these two logos were involved in an acquisition. Which one?
    
    In December 2010, PepsiCo agreed to acquire 66 per cent of Wimm-Bill-Dann, Russia’s largest dairy and juice company for $3.8 billion.

There were 34 all-correct entries for the strategist quiz #187. The winners who will receive a copy of Corporate Governance are: Kavitha Sri M, Chennai; Babulal Sarkar, New Delhi; Shashikala, Kumta; Gazala Shaikh, Patna; Padma Chellappa, Chennai; Balaji Vijayakumar, Neyveli; Gangubai Bhat, Bangalore; K R Seshadri, Chennai; Anushka Shahi, Faridabad; and Vijayan Ashokkumar, Chennai Kavitha Sri M also wins Rs 2,000.