Answers to last week's quiz #055

 

1. Which company first manufactured calculators under the brand name Televista?.
   Microcomp, later HCL
   
    
2. Which airline is known for imprinting the line "Without you we'd just be flying a bunch of TVs around the country" on the seatbacks and below the DirecTV monitors in its aircraft?
   JetBlue
   
    
3. Which company has a unique business model and firm culture called "20 per cent time"?
   Google, which grants employees the right to spend 20 per cent of their time at work on independent projects.
   
   
4. Identify this company founded in 1918, which has set up an organic exchange focused on the expansion of an organic culture. It has developed new ways of using organic cotton for its products and prints its annual reports with soy ink on recycled paper.
   The Timberland Company
   
   
5. Which multinational had launched a soap called Cucumber in India?
   LG Chemicals
   
   
6. What is common to the brands Bigboy, Miss Mary, Contura and Ventura?
   Bigboy, Miss Mary, Contura and Ventura are all pressure cooker brands from Hawkins Cookers
   
   
7. Name the brand for which one of the first and last men who walked on the moon were its ambassadors?
   Omega Watches. They were worn by Buzz Aldrin during the first mission in 1969, and Eugene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon in 1972.
   
    
8. Which worldwide publicly listed company is ironically headquartered out of a hamlet called Purchase in New York?
   MasterCard Worldwide, and PepsiCo
   
    
9. Only this item that is tailor-made at the Dharwad Taluk Garg Ketriya Seva Sangh, in Karnataka, qualify for official government use. Name it.
   The national flag
   
    
10. Which brand gets its name from the Latin word for snow white?
    Nivea

Please note we are announcing 10 new winners based on correct entries to eight questions  (excluding #4 and #7 whcih had some errors). The  winners who will receive a copy of Seven Secrets of Inspired Leaders are: Jitender Kumar, Pune; Pukhraj Choudhary, Goregaon; Sonali Das, Mumbai; Komal Singhal, Pune; Shaifali Jain, Meerut; Pameli Naskar, Kolkata; Saikrishna, Chennai; Akshay Mathur, New Delhi; Shyam Naren J, Chennai; and Sandeep Kumar Soni, Bangalore. Jitender Kumar also wins Rs 2,000.