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Answers to last week's quiz (#143)

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Strategist Team New Delhi

 

  1. Almond, orchid, saffron, sandalwood, rose and chocolate are the prominent variants of which popular FMCG brand? This brand has so far had only one male model in India.
    Lux soap 
     
  2. The ice cream flavours Rocky Road and Rum Raisin of Haagen Dazs supposedly played a role in the negotiations of a recent brand takeover. Which one? 
    Phillips Van Heusen's takeover of Tommy Hilfiger. At about 4 am, in New York, a member of the catering staff of the law firm that advised Phillips Van Heusen brought about 15 pints of Häagen-Dazs ice cream to the negotiating table. That pushed them to close the deal by 7 am in the morning. 
     
  3. Which company claimed recently that printing errors by its auditors led to faults in its accounts and claimed that no mistake was done from its side? 
    Vishal Retail 
     
  4. Which brand was the first to sell mineral water in plastic bottles and when?
    Vittel in 1968 
     
  5. Name India’s first in-train magazine and also the railway division that publishes it. 
    Shades of Life, published by the South Central Railway for its AC Class passengers 
     
  6. Which company deploys a go-to-market strategy called Tick-Tock?
    Intel 
     
  7. In which country was the first meter-equipped taxi cab introduced and what was it called?
    Germany. It was called the Daimler Victoria. 
     
  8. Name the world’s oldest technology magazine, and since when is it being published? 
    Technology Review, published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1899 
     
  9. Which was the second country in the world to set up a radio broadcasting service and when? 
    India in 1921 
     
  10. Identify the characters, the brand and the ad agency from these controversial ads (see picture below).
    Mao Ze Dong and Hitler featured in a condom ad created by Grey Worldwide for German pharmacy chain Morris Pharmacies 

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First Published: Apr 13 2010 | 12:24 AM IST

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