Answers to last week's quiz (#084)

 

1. This Indian entrepreneur hit upon the idea to start a low-cost airline when he was travelling from Johannesburg to Cape Town in a flight operated by Kalula.com. Who is he?
   Captain Gopinath, the founder of Air Deccan
    
2. Which company uses the lines “We’re consultants, we’re motivators, we’re educators and we’re leaders. We’re thinkers. We’re inventors. We’re doers”?
   ACS (Affiliated Computer Services)
    
3. This ergonomic chair became an unintended symbol of the rise and fall of the dotcom industry in the late 1990s. However, its breakthrough design has gained it a spot in the New York Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection. The brand is also sold in India. Identify it.
   The Aeron chair sold by Herman Miller
    
4. What is being referred to when these names are mentioned: Fay, Bennet, Mughal, Cole, Niagara, Daisy, Standard and Owl?
   These are different kinds of paper clips 
    
5. The first chapter in one of Salman Rushdie’s book is titled after a famous toothpaste brand introduced in the early 1900s and was acquired by Colgate-Palmolive in the mid-1990s.
   Kolynos, a brand which was owned by Wyeth and sold to Colgate-Palmolive in 1995 
    
6. Which company launched the 211 initiative in India to improve its customer service?
   LG. Under the 211 initiative it promises to call back the consumer within two hours, fix an appointment within one day of registering the call, and allocate a one-hour slot to fix the problem. 
    
7. What was the result when two Cambridge-based computer engineers fixed a camera in front of a coffee-making machine in order to help them check if there was any coffee in the pot before making the long trek to the pantry?
   This led to the invention of world’s first ever web cam. It was invented by Daniel Gordon and Martyn Johnson of Cambridge University in 1993. 
    
8. Link these tag lines to a company: Shape your World, the smarter race, Let’s go, Stop@nothing.
   Maruti Suzuki. Taglines for Zen Estilo, Wagon R, Alto and A-Star. 
    
9. Name the whistle-blower who during the 1950s was responsible for exposing a private insurance company which was siphoning cash. This eventually led to the nationalisation of the insurance industry in India.
   Feroze Gandhi 
    
10. Identify the business group represented by this l
    ogo.
    The Altria Group, formerly known as Philip Morris Companies, one of the world’s largest tobacco companies
    
    

There were 22 all-correct entries for quiz # 84. The winners who will receive a copy of e-Business are: Madhu Sharma Joshi, New Delhi; Appekere Premchandra, Bangalore; Ashish Vaidya, Indore; T Padmanabhan Pradeep, New Delhi; Abdul Hamid, New Delhi; S Nausherwan, Patna; Sarwet Parveen, Jharkhand; Mamata Pal, Hooghly; S Indira Sudha, Delhi; and Sanat Kumar Mukherjee, Kolkata. Madhu Sharma Joshi also wins Rs 2,000.