Answers to last week's quiz (#389)

1. This person was the former dean of Harvard Business School and was also a Quartermaster General during the World War II. He set up one the first of its kind entities to invest in businesses run by World War II veterans in 1946. Name the person and the company.
   
   Georges Frederic Doriot. He was one of the first American venture capitalists. In 1946, he founded American Research and Development Corporation, the world's first publicly owned venture capital firm, earning him the sobriquet "father of venture capitalism".
    
2. What is McDonalds rationing since the middle of December 2014 in Japan in all its 3,200 outlets because of dock worker disputes in the ports on the US west coast?
   
   McDonald's in Japan began limiting French fry servings at its 3,200 Japanese stores to the smallest of the usual three sizes, blaming a shortage of potatoes from the United States since December 17th.    
    
3. Connect Queen Victoria and US President Dwight Eisenhower and state the first of its kind activity both of them were involved during Christmas for their respective countries.
   
   Both were responsible for issuing official Christmas cards. Queen Victoria in the 1840s and Eisenhower in 1951. Eisenhower's first official white house Christmas card was printed by Hallmark Cards.
    
4. This Naval historian published a humorous essay in the Economist way back in the 1950s with scientific observations supporting the fact that the number of employees increased at the Colonial office as Great Britain's overseas empire declined. Name the person whose postulates went on to become a law in Economics.
   
   Parkinson's law postulated by Cyril Northcote Parkinson.
    
5. This person nicknamed as the Boss was part of a team, which was called the Barn gang. His most famous invention with the barn gang led to the formation of a company in 1909. Name him and the company.
   
   Charles Kettering. He along with his colleagues from NCR worked late nights and during the weekends to develop the self-starting ignition for automobiles. He quit NCR to form the Dayton Engineering Laboratories, called DELCO. It was later taken over by GM.
    
6. The founder of which brand said this: "Through the years, I have greatly feared and sought to keep at bay the four beasts that inevitably devour their keeper - Ego, Envy, Avarice, and Ambition. In 1984, I severed all connections with business for a life of isolation and anonymity, convinced I was making a great bargain by trading money for time, position for liberty, and ego for contentment - that the beasts were securely caged."
   
   Dee Ward Hock, founder and former CEO, Visa International.
    
7. What is Action office II and what did it lead to?
   
   Action Office II is a office cubicle that was invented in 1968. It is part of The Action Office series of furniture designed by Robert Propst, and manufactured and marketed by Herman Miller. Robert Propst is often referred to as the father of the cubicle.
    
8. Which luxury brand has chosen Kim Kardashian and her husband Kanye West as its new brand ambassadors?
   
   Balmain, the French luxury brand that was founded in 1946
    
9. Which brand uses this baseline "Transform Today"?
   
   The Vodka Brand Absolut.
    
10. Name the company from its logo.
    
    The Rocket Internet. It is one of the world's largest e-commerce-focused start-up incubator, founded in 2007 by the Samwer brothers

 

There were eight correct entries for quiz No. 389. Sumanta Samal from Bhubaneswar, Odisha, wins Rs 2,000. The winner is chosen on the basis of the first correct entry received.