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Answers to last week's quiz (#120)
Strategist Team / New Delhi November 03, 2009, 0:53 IST

  1. Desire, Calgaro, Diya, Kashmi, Maya and Lucera are some of the brands of this company. It has 25 film stars who are its brand ambassadors. Name it.
    Gitanjali Gems 
     
  2. A consumer products company’s marketers videotaped men taking shower and were surprised that many used body wash on their hair. This led to the company to introduce a hair and body wash combined product. Name the company and the brand it launched.
    Procter & Gamble, Old Spice High Endurance Hair and Body Wash
     
  3. What was introduced by Levi Strauss on its jeans to help its salesmen identify and count the number of Levi’s jeans at rodeos?
    The tiny red tab on Levi’s Jeans was introduced in 1936 for easy identification 
     
  4. The original design for the Volkswagen beetle is supposedly stolen from a non-German company by Adolf Hitler and handed over to Ferdinand Porsche to build it. Identify the company and its nationality.
    Tatra, a Czech company
     
  5. In which product would one find Aero Shake, Jump and Peek?
    Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system
     
  6. Antarctica and Brahma are popular brands of what and are sold in which country?
    Beer brands sold in Brazil
     
  7. Name the law that states: “A social network’s effectiveness grows exponentially with the addition of each new member.” 
    Reeds Law, devised by computer scientist Dave Reed 
     
  8. Which brand is identified by its signature ‘potato, potato, potato’ sound?
    Roar of Harley Davidson bikes
     
  9. A Swedish advertising man joined hands with the world’s first advertising agency in the late 1970s to create the Chivas Regal of vodkas. Identify the brand and the person behind it.
    Absolut Vodka. In 1978, Gunnar Broman decided to create “the Chivas Regal of vodkas” and he approached the ad agency NW Ayer. 
     
  10. Identify the company from its logo below. It is a high-tech company.
    Lockheed Martin

     

    There were 43 all-correct entry for the strategist quiz #120. The winners who will receive a copy of Death by Meeting are: Manas Ranjan Behera, Angul; Arvind Kuchibhotla, Secunderabad; Manjuthgowri N, Chidambaram; Mahesh Kumar Govindaraj, Bangalore; Manjunath Shet, Bangalore; Jayanth Ganapathy, Chennai; Harika, Secunderabad; Pratyush Shastri, Indore; Nikhil Aggarwal, Faridabad; and C Rajagopalan, Gurgaon. Manas Ranjan Behera also wins Rs 2,000.
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poulomi November 09 , 2009 ,12:32 IST
I want to see the answer sheet of quiz #119. plz can u post it again. thanks
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