Answers to last week's quiz (#111)

 

1. Dwayne’s Photo is the only lab in the world that still does the complicated film processing of which product/brand? It will continue to do so till the end of 2010. 
   Kodakchrome 
    
2. Mahatma Gandhi’s first fast for a public cause during the early 1920s was to help the striking workers of two famous companies. Name them.
   Arvind Mills and Calico Mills 
    
3. Name the world’s first post-graduate research university in science and engineering that will focus only on alternative energy and sustainability.
   Masdar University located in Abu Dhabi 
    
4. Name the founder of the company that was conceived after his wife complained that she couldn’t reach her real estate clients via her cell phone while on vacation in the Bahamas in 1985.
   Iridium, the satellite phone company founded by former Motorola engineer Barry Bertiger 
    
5. With which company are the following linked: Thomas Edison, Samuel Morse, Alexander Graham Bell and the founder of Cornell University?
   Western Union 
    
6. What was founded as the Newton Heath LYR FC during the 1870s?
   Man U or Manchester United 
    
7. The founder of which company said this and about what: “I don’t love it but it will grow on me”? 
   Nike’s Philip Knight’s first reaction when he saw the ‘Swoosh’ logo in 1971 
    
8. Which foreign company when it decided to go on its own in the US was called “The advanced car with the backward name”? In its native country, its name when translated into English means Fifty Bells.
   Isuzu 
    
9. What is common to Grasim, Lederle Laboratories and Atul Products Limited? 
   They were all established in 1947 
    
10. Identify the company from its logo.
    Kao Corporation
    
    
    
    
    
    
    

    There were three all-correct entries for the strategist quiz #111. The winners who will receive a copy of Patterns of Entrepreneurship are:Sonia Jain, Hoshiarpur; Neeru Jain, Ludhiana; and Utkarsh Jain, Meerut. Sonia Jain also wins Rs 2,000.