Answers to last week's quiz (#194)

 

1. This company has been a rumoured takeover target 21 times and its name in Hawaiian means ‘intelligent’. Name it.
   Akamai 
    
2. What is common to these brands: Ferrari, Ford Mustang and Porsche?
   Prancing horses are part of their logos 
    
3. She is India’s first female brew-master who incorporated her company in the late 1970s. Her 3,000 sqft garage was her first office and her first employee was a car mechanic. Identify this person and the company she founded.
   Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, the founder of Biocon, Asia’s largest producer of insulin 
    
4. What kind of branded styles are Hillbilly, Circus, Snowga and Acro?
   Different branded styles of yoga that are being trademarked in the West 
    
5. The first airport hotel was built in the US 30 years before Hilton Hotels established one at the San Francisco Airport in 1959. Who built this hotel and at which airport?
   Henry Ford was watching travelers arrive at the Ford Airport on Oakwood Boulevard in Dearborn. He realised the passengers had no place to eat or sleep closer than Detroit. So, he commissioned the famed architect, Albert Kahn, to design one of the world’s first airport hotels, The Dearborn Inn. 
    
6. This person beat a heart attack, advanced stage cancer and a stroke all in three years and introduced the concept of disruptive innovation to the business world. Name him.
   Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business School professor, who wrote the book The Innovators Dilemma in 1997 
    
7. Fill in the blank and name the person who said this: “One could buy two ____ for the price of one Banni buffalo.”
   Nano cars. Statement made by Narendra Modi, chief minister of Gujarat. 
    
8. What did the Kumar Mangalam Birla Committee, Narayana Murthy Committee and JJ Irani Committee review?
   Corporate governance in India 
    
9. During the internet boom years (1998-2000) who was called the Queen of the Net?
   Mary Meeker, a technology analyst from Morgan Stanley 
    
10. Identify the brand that makes this promise.
    
    Pizza Hut

There were 64 all-correct entries for the strategist quiz #194. The winners who will receive a copy of Executive Stamina are:Monica Damodar, Mumbai; Abdul Hamid, New Delhi; Vikram Chellappa, Chennai; Sanjit Dutta, Lucknow; Kavitha Sri M, Chennai; R Banumathi, Karaikudi; N A Narasimhan, Chennai; Shibajee, New Delhi; Dilip, Raipur; and Sanat Kumar Mukherjee, Kolkata. Monica Damodar also wins Rs 2,000.