Answers to last week's quiz (#068)

 

1. Which car company’s subsidiary produced a series of commercials featuring comic character Batman using its branded service?
   OnStar Corporation, a subsidiary of General Motors, which provides subscription-based communications, in-vehicle security, turn-by-turn navigation, and remote diagnostics systems in the US and Canada. 
    
2. Which industry is governed by the 10 freedoms? These are agreed conventions that are followed worldwide.
   The commercial airlines industry. The 10 freedoms are covered under the Bilateral Air Service Agreements. 
    
3. What is common to the following founders of companies whose names are now famous brands: Milton Hershey, Walt Disney, Donald Trump and Henry John Heinz?
   They all filed for bankruptcy during their business years and sometimes more than once 
    
4. What was sold by a British Quaker and Temperance Society member in the 1830s as an alternative to alcohol?
   Drinking chocolate by John Cadbury 
    
5. Who recently has been advertising with its new brand ambassador and trademarked base line: Make it Happen?
   Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). Sachin Tendulkar is its global brand ambassador. 
    
6. Which coffee chain has one of its biggest coffee stores in Dubai? It can seat more than 300 people at a time.
   Costa Coffee 
    
7. The first AGM of which organisation was held at the Pachiappa’s College, Chennai in 1927?
   FICCI 
    
8. Name the restaurant and the Indian curry served there that is named after a British prime minister?
   The John Major Curry served at the Bombay Brasserie run by the Taj Hotels group in London 
    
9. The founder of which technology company named every conference room in his headquarters after a customer? He also had a strict code that his sales people wear suites only.
   Tom Seibel of Seibel Systems Inc. It is now part of Oracle. 
    
10. This logo belongs to a company which is known for a first of its kind study that covered the entire population of its country of origin. Identify it.
    
    deCODE genetics

 

 

 

 

There were seven all-correct entries for the strategist quiz # 68. The winners who will receive a copy of Cool Down: Getting Further by Going Slower are: Hinda Parveen, Patna; Minhaj Alam, Trivandrum; Andalibur Rahman, Patna; Sharique Alam, New Delhi; Chinubhai Patel, Noida; Aftab Alam, New Delhi; and P N Bakuli, Kolkata. Hinda Parveen also wins Rs 2,000.