Answers to last week's quiz (#429)

1. Name this company that continues to change owners despite its R&D being credited as the first unit to have possessed the recipe for making egg less cakes in India. It also manufactured a Cola in the late 70s when Coke was asked to leave India then.
   Modern Foods, the PSU that was bought by HUL in 2000 and sold in 2015 to an Everstone controlled company.
    
2. After 93 years, this publishing group is changing its name to Trusted Media Brands, Inc. A move that reflects its significant and transformative growth. Name it.
   The Reader's Digest Association, Inc
    
3. In which industry does one often use this phrase "Let George take over" or "letting George take over"?
   The aviation industry. The auto-pilots in aircrafts are referred to us George.
    
4. Connect Levi Strauss to a business school whose motto is "Leading through Innovation" and arrive at a person's name.
   The Walter A Haas School of Business, also known as the Haas School of Business at Berkeley, California is named after a former President and Chairman of Levi Strauss & Co. He was credited with saving the once struggling company.
    
5. In 1971 this company's first brand of shoes went on sale in the US. Since it was made in warm climate of Mexico and no one had tested them in the cold weather of the Northern US, the soles cracked and the shoes had to be sold at a reduced price of less than $8. Name it
   Nike.
    
6. What is the term used to describe a lucrative severance package that not only pays the executive to step down from his or her current positon, but includes a new employment contract with lucrative pay to continue with the company in another role?
   Golden Bungee.
    
7. In order to find its business a new name it hired Landor Associates to run an internal programme for its employees across to globe to suggest a name. An employee from Scandinavia gave it the name by which it is known today. This entity's genesis is linked to a feasibility study for GE to automate its payroll processing and manufacturing in the 1950s.
   Accenture, the erstwhile Andersen Consulting.
    
8. What do you get on connecting these: 80,000 numbers, 1,000 degrees Centigrade, 550 Kgs, 4 secs and 4 Kgs?
   Formula 1 racing. An F1 car consists of 80,000 components. The lifespan of its engine is two hours. When in full use the temperature of car's brake disc is 1,000 degrees celsius. The weight of the car is 550 kilogram. An F1 car takes four seconds to accelerate from 0-160 kmph. An average F1 driver loses four kilogram after every race.
    
9. This name in Sanskrit means Mighty and Enduring, a first of its kind venture in India has been given this name. What is it?
   Saha, India's first venture capital fund focused on women entrepreneurship.
    
10. Identify all the three logos and establish their connection with a business person who was in the news recently.
    The Pentagon, which is the US defense HQs; the Gestapo, the German Secret service police during the World War II and Triad, the name of the organised Chinese crime ring. All these names were used by R Subramanian, founder of the erstwhile Subhiksha retail chain, for his investment companies.

 

 

There were nine all correct entries for quiz No.429. Vineet Chaurasiya from Pune wins Rs 2,000. The winner is chosen on the basis of the first correct entry received.