Answers to last week's quiz (#115)
- If Wayne McLaren, who was an American stunt man, model, actor and rodeo performer, is linked with Marlboro cigarette advertisements, with what is David Whitbread linked to?
The model who portrayed the Onida devil
- Name the brand which has come out with a Mahatma Gandhi limited edition of one of its products. The product design includes a lacquered surface showing cotton texture and yarn spun on a spindle.
Mont Blanc pens
- In the 1890s, who ran “The Wonderful Mother” ad campaign and for which of its products?
Johnson and Johnson for its baby powder
- If Shakti Ammas are linked to Hindustan Unilever’s rural initiatives, with which company are Jyothi Ammas associated with?
British Petroleum’s biomass stoves initiatives for the rural folk
- Which company invented the first watch in the world to generate and save its own electricity?
Seiko of Japan invented the Kinetic in 1986
- Which company’s logo is interpreted by many as a tribute to Alan Turing, often considered to be the father of modern computer science? He committed suicide in 1954 by biting into a cyanide-tainted fruit.
Apple Computers
- What is common to the star Harvard MBA CEOs Meg Whitman of eBay and Steve Ballmer of Microsoft?
They were former employees of Procter and Gamble
- With which film star is the brand Tiger Eyes linked to?
Perfumes named after Shah Rukh Khan
- In the mid-1990s, a number of car accidents involving British (male) drivers were apocryphally attributed to the head turning nature of which advertisement?
Gossard Wonderbras advertisement billboards with the punch line Hello Boys
- Identify the company by its logo.
- Apple Corps Ltd founded by The Beatles in January 1968
| There were four all-correct entries for the strategist quiz #115. The winners who will receive a copy of Adventure Capitalist are: R Yogesh Kumar Jain, Hyderabad; Niket Khaitan, Mumbai; Rashmi Rao, Bangalore; and C Vikram, Chennai. R Yogesh Kumar Jain also wins Rs 2,000. |