The Strategist Quiz (#111)

 

1. Dwayne’s Photo is the only lab in the world that still does the complicated film processing of which product/brand? It will continue to do so till the end of 2010. 
    
2. Mahatma Gandhi’s first fast for a public cause during the early 1920s was to help the striking workers of two famous companies. Name them. 
    
3. Name the world’s first post-graduate research university in science and engineering that will focus only on alternative energy and sustainability. 
    
4. Name the founder of the company that was conceived after his wife complained that she couldn’t reach her real estate clients via her cell phone while on vacation in the Bahamas in 1985. 
    
5. With which company are the following linked: Thomas Edison, Samuel Morse, Alexander Graham Bell and the founder of Cornell University? 
    
6. What was founded as the Newton Heath LYR FC during the 1870s? 
    
7. The founder of which company said this and about what: “I don’t love it but it will grow on me”? 
    
8. Which foreign company when it decided to go on its own in the US was called “The advanced car with the backward name”? In its native country, its name when translated into English means Fifty Bells. 
    
9. What is common to Grasim, Lederle Laboratories and Atul Products Limited? 
    
10. Identify the company from its logo.

 

 

 

Ten all-correct entries will receive a copy of Jack M Kaplan’s Patterns of Entrepreneurship, published by Wiley India (books courtesy: Wiley India). One lucky winner will also receive a cheque for Rs 2,000. Send your entries to strategist@bsmail.in. All entries must carry the postal address of the contestant. Last date for receiving entries: 26 August. Previous winners, employees of Business Standard and Wiley India and their families are not eligible to participate.

Correction
We published wrong answers to The Strategist Quiz (109) on August 18. So, in this edition, we are publishing the correct answers to the quiz. The winners list published last week was based on the answers for quiz 109 and remains the same. The error and the inconvenience caused to readers are regretted.

Answers to Quiz 109

1. General Motor’s experiment with its EV1 electric car 
    
2. Loblaw Companies Ltd, a Toronto-based grocery giant 
    
3. The book was published by Doubleday where Jacqueline Kennedy was once an editor 
    
4. Children’s TV channel Nickelodeon, owned by MTV Networks 
    
5. Hindustan Lever Limited 
    
6. Louis Vuitton 
    
7. Alibaba.com 
    
8. They are all owned and marketed by Phillips Van Heusen 
    
9. Nancy Green, an African American who modeled as “Aunt Jemima” for a ready-mix pancake flour in 1893 
    
10. Fujitsu