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The Strategist Quiz (#123)
Gaurav Sri Krishna / New Delhi Nov 17, 2009, 00:17 IST

 

  1. Name the brand whose up to 43 wood parts include mahogany from west Africa, maple from North America and pure wool from Australia, north China and California . 
     
  2. In which brand’s product will you find the world’s smallest Bhagavad-Gita engraved or imprinted? 
     
  3. Where will you get to use a service called Blue&Me? Also, name its providers. 
     
  4. When one its large stores opened in 1965, on the first day there were more customers than the store could handle. Therefore, the store manager made a judgement call and let the customers choose items from the warehouse attached to the store. Since then it has become a successful operating model for this company. Name the company. 
     
  5. Who was awarded a patent for “a method and system for placing a purchase order via a communications network”? 
     
  6. Where in India are coffee mugs being sold as souvenirs with an image of a bullet shot by terrorists in November 2008 in Mumbai? 
     
  7. The Telegraph, Sunday, The Asian Age and ______ . Link the commonality between the three and fill in the blank. 
     
  8. When this article was written by two professors in 1998, no management journal was willing to publish it. Finally, in 2002 strategy+business published it. Its title is today a well-known management and industry jargon. What was the title of the article? 
     
  9. To which company are the following attributed: Stereo sound, broadcast TV, a secret device that helped defeat the Nazis and the CAT scanner? 
     
  10. Name this US company and its Indian parent company: It owns premium brands called Hi-Val and Checkers.

 

 

Ten all-correct entries will receive a copy of Patrick Lencioni’s Silos, Politics and Turf Wars, 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: 18 November. Previous winners, employees of Business Standard and Wiley India and their families are not eligible to participate.

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