Answers to last week's quiz (#091)

 

1. What is common to singer Christina Aguilera and the brands Hugo Boss, Puma and Lacoste? 
   Fragrances sold under their names are manufactured by Procter and Gamble 
    
2. Name the company and the strategic planning tool it used that envisions multiple future events and help develop plans to respond to them. It helped this company navigate the oil shock of the 1970s.
   Shell, which used the Scenario Planning tool 
    
3. What was formed after the “India Report” was submitted by Charles and Ray Earnes to the Indian government?
   The National Institute of Design, set up in Ahmedabad 
    
4. The co-founder of which company shared his principles in the book Management: How Modern Business Buildings Are Operated? 
   Clyde Cushman, the co-founder of Cushman and Wakefield, the world’s largest privately held real estate services firm 
    
5. What did a European artist who has a doctorate in biology, an Italian fashion house and a Nigerian bank together set up in London?
   The Double Club, a fusion bar and restaurant 
    
6. Which company supplied the four-colour television broadcast vans for India’s first-ever colour television transmission, which happened during the Asian Games in 1982?
   Philips 
    
7. Which company’s CSR initiative is branded as White?
   Godfrey Phillips India 
    
8. Whose Rolls Royce car dons an exclusive mascot and not the Spirit of Ecstasy or the Flying Lady? Also give details of the mascot.
   The Queen of England. The mascot is that of St George slaying the dragon, cast in sterling silver. 
    
9. For which detergent brand did film star Govinda model?
   Wheel detergent from Unilever India 
    
10. This logo belongs to a division of a large company that derives its name from its mascot. Also, this division’s name has become a generic term that is used in industry now. Identify it.
    Skunkworks. In 1943, to build a new fighter jet in just 143 days, Lockheed Martin created an organisation called Skunk Works, which used small groups and advance funding to work with little interference from its corporate parent.

 

  

There were 27 all-correct entries for the strategist quiz # 91. The winners who will receive a copy of How to Read People Like a Book are: Sanjoy Chakraborty, Kolkata; Sharvari Khadilkar, Bangalore; Shamimur Rahman, Patna; Anubha Joshi, Kanpur; Chandana Venkatayogi, Hyderabad; M V S S Sastri, New Delhi; Syed Azam Hayat, Mysore; Udayabhanu, Kochi; Soumi Biswas, Sarojini Nagar; and Ruma Gope Sharma, New Delhi. Sanjoy Chakraborty also wins Rs 2,000.