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The Strategist Quiz Answers #023

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Strategist Team Mumbai
  1. Dhirubhai Ambani. He was paid Rs 8.85 crore.

  2. The 46664 initiative is a non-profit organisation owned by the Nelson Mandela Foundation, which focuses on raising awareness about HIV/AIDS. It gets its name from Mandela's prison number.

  3. The event led to the compilation of The Guinness Book of Records

  4. Easy VC funding and the desire to cash out in the technology industry. It was coined by author Jim Collins.

  5. They are all winners of the King Baudouin International Development Prize. This was established in 1978 by the King of Belgium.

  6. Ruby Tuesday

  7. Malcolm Purcell McLean. He built the world's first container ship Ideal-X, a converted T-2 tanker, which carried 58 metal containers between Newark and Houston on its first voyage, in April 1956.

  8. The fictional character Homer in the animation series, The Simpsons.

  9. GE

  10. Kongo Gumi Co Ltd was the world's oldest continuously-operating company. It operated for over 1,400 years. Headquartered in Osaka, the family-owned construction company dates back to 578 CE. It went into liquidation in 2006.
 

There were seven all-correct entries for the strategist quiz # 23. The winner s who will receive a copy of Business Leadership: A Jossey-Bass Reader are: Ashish Saini, Indore; Medini Rai, Bangalore; Sandeep Kumar Mishra, Indore; Ranjit Kamat, Mumbai; Sunitha Natarajan, Bangalore; Ruhee Golchha, Nagpur; and Piyush Ahuja, Indore. Ashish Saini also wins Rs 2,000.

 

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First Published: Dec 11 2007 | 12:00 AM IST

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