Answers to last week's quiz #054

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Strategist Team New Delhi
Last Updated : Jan 29 2013 | 1:33 AM IST

  

  1. hich company's earliest lines of products were branded R, S and T?
    Ford Cars.
  2. The legendary founder of which company disappears into a retreat for a week with none but a caretaker, working 18 hours a day to read more than a 100 papers authored by his employees on trends, technologies and products that would influence his company's future? He has been doing this for the last 20 years.
    Bill Gates. He calls it the Think Week.
  3. During the 1920-30s which company sold products under the brand names Baka, Roma and Table?
    Britannia Biscuits

  4. What has been renamed Dong Fang Ocean?
    Exxon Valdez, the oil tanker which ran aground in Alaska in 1989, spilling over 10.9 million gallons of crude oil

  5. Name the technology company that gets its name from the Latin word for play. It is also responsible for launching a photo-sharing website.
    Ludicorp, the name comes from Ludus in Latin, which means play. It launched a multiplayer game called Neverending.
  6. What is the term for a repository in a newspaper office where miscellaneous material for reference is kept?
    Morgue

  7. What were Lop Stops that existed in India about 19 years ago?
    Cadbury India's ice cream shop
  8. Who was responsible for manufacturing the perfume "Lata", named after playback singer Lata Mangeshkar?
    Kiran Mazumdar Shaw of Biocon
  9. Whose catch line is "Unputdownable"?
    The Telegraph

  10. Which brand gets its name from the Urdu phrase for enlightenment to the soul?
    Rooh Afza

There were no all-correct entries for the strategist quiz # 54

 

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First Published: Jul 15 2008 | 12:00 AM IST

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