Answers to last week's quiz (#203)

 

1. What is the term used to describe software or hardware that is announced publically and actively promoted by a vendor even though it does not exist?
   Vaporware 
    
2. This Indian company began production of this product in the 1950s — when Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru described it as a symbol of India’s independence and industrialisation. It stopped production in 2009 due to obsolescence. Name the company and the product. The product was invented in 1867.
   Godrej & Boyce and typewriters 
    
3. Which product adorns the legendary Madras stripes that are hand-painted by two brothers for all of its production that rolls out of the factory? This tradition is being maintained since 1901.
   Royal Enfield Bullet motorcycles 
    
4. Which multinational launched an ayurvedic digestive candy brand called Chatpat Churanet in the late 1980s that failed?
   Procter & Gamble 
    
5. Name the restaurant in India that is considered as the first one to use iPads as menu cards. Worldwide this phenomenon is catching on like wild fire. 
   iKoh Thai restaurant at the Intercontinental Marine Drive in Mumbai 
    
6. Which business school’s base line is “Get the Smith Effect”?
   University of Maryland's -- Robert H Smith School of Business. Its website is called smitheffect.com. 
    
7. What is and who has funded a Panic Button app for cell phones? Predominantly, can be used on Blackberry and low-end Nokia phones.
   The Panic Button is an app that allows activists to send a text message for help which does not show up in the call log 
    
8. What is common to Nokia and the popular mobile game Angry Birds?
   Like Nokia, Rovio, the mobile gaming company that developed Angry Birds, too is headquarter in Espoo, Finland. 
    
9. Which Indian government agency’s motto in Sanskrit reads Kosha Moolo Dandaha? It is taken from Kautilya’s Arthashashtra.
   The Income Tax department. The Sanskrit phrase means "Revenue is the backbone of governance" 
    
10. Identify the logos below.
    
     Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), India and the Inter Services Intelligence service (ISI), Pakistan

There were 29 all-correct entries for the strategist quiz #203. The winners who will receive a copy of Patterns of Entrepreneurship are: Harshal B M Gavali, Aurangabad; Harini Vemulapati, Nellore; Mohammad Ahmad, Ambedkar Nagar District; S M Aslam Ahmad, Ranchi; Neha Shrivastava, New Delhi; Rajnish K Kaushik, Jharkhand; Sufi Fatimi, Ahmedabad; Ranjit Kamat, Mulund East; Sriprasad R, Coimbatore; and Dibyendu Sarkar, Kolkata. Harshal B M Gavali also wins Rs 2,000.