Answers to last week's quiz (#316)

1. Who said this and where will you find this line "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading"?
   Novelist Jane Austen's statement. It is printed on the £10 bank notes to be introduced in UK.
    
2. Taking a cue from Bill Gates perhaps, who has named their social media platform 'Khidki' (meaning window in Hindi)?
   The Congress party has named its social media platform 'Khidki'.
    
3. After Perestroika and Glasnost, Gorbhachev dismissed a high ranking official Vladeilen Nikitin in 1990 because of an acute shortage of a particular item of mass consumption. Since the country witnessed large scale demonstrations in Moscow and other cities, as a stop gap measure the Soviet authorities resorted to imports from Bulgaria. Name the item.
   Cigarettes
    
4. Whose captive advertising and branding agency is Spark44?
   Jaguar Land Rover, a Tata group company
    
5. The chairman of this company is an Arjuna Award winner who captained the Indian Table Tennis team for four years, won 4 national championship titles. Name the company and the person.
   Niraj Bajaj, chairman of Mukand Limited and Bajaj family member
    
6. This startup gets its name from German meaning "above", "over" or "across. Jeff Bezos and Goldman Sachs are its investors. It makes a mobile application that connects passengers with drivers of luxury vehicles for hire.
   Uber
    
7. One of Winston Churchill's paintings completed in 1915 is a homage to one of his favourite brands. Till this day it hangs in the dining room of the country estate of the family that created this brand in Chartwell UK. Name the painting and the brand.
   Sir Winston Churchill's painting "Bottlescape" is a homage to Johnnie Walker Black Label
    
8. If 'Just Do it' was Nike's catchphrase, which brand's philosophy is 'Do:More'?
   Degree cosmetics brand from Unilever. During the 1960s, Rexona brand was introduced in the US as Degree
    
9. Whose uses this baseline: Now everyone can fly?
   Air Asia
    
10. Identify the Logos and mention what is common to them.
     
    
    The logos for istockphoto.com, an online, royalty free, microstock photography provider operating with the micropayment business model. The second logo is a Twitter error screen. Both were designed by Simon Oxley. When the Twitter founders were browsing the site in search of a company logo, their decision to use Oxley's bird from istockphoto earned him $3 to $4, but it made him famous in the graphic design world
    
     

 

There were two all-correct entries for the strategist quiz #184. The winners who will receive a copy of The living dead: Switched off, zoned out are Ankita Verma, New Delhi and Murthy V S, Nellore.
Ankita Verma also wins Rs 2,000.