Answers to last week's quiz (#122)

 

1. Whose product launches have had the code names Cupcake, Donut and Éclair?
   Google’s versions of its Android application 
    
2. Name the oldest legal journal published in India?
   Madras Law Journal established in 1891 
    
3. In which country is Tata Motors launching its Indica electric car before rolling it out in India in 2010?
   Norway 
    
4. What is the name given to a corporate structure in which a number of organisations link together, usually by taking small stakes in each other to have close business relationships, often being suppliers to each other?
   Keiretsu, the Japanese term when translated literally means headless combine 
    
5. The founder of which company in the 1930s worked for the Elka Company before he started on his own?
   Charles Revson, the founder of Revlon 
    
6. The components of this invention that were put together in 1907 by an asthmatic janitor working in a department store in the US, consisted of an electric fan motor, a soap box stapled to a broom handle and a pillow case. Which product and brand was born out of this invention?
   The portable electric vacuum cleaner invented by James Murray Spangler and later sold to WH Hoover who bought the patent and started the Hoover company 
    
7. Who said this about whom: “One of the great industrialists, may God preserve him”? 
   Joseph Stalin on Henry Ford 
    
8. Which brand is linked with the origin of the concept instant fashion?
   Zara 
    
9. Whose mascot is Dr Rabbit? 
   Colgate toothpaste 
    
10. Identify these fast-moving brands by their logos.
    Pantene; Head and Shoulders

 

 

 

There were 63 all-correct entry for the strategist quiz #122. The winners who will receive a copy of The Capstone Encyclopaedia of Business are: Renu, Kolkata; Amrita Shukla, Mumbai; Sharath P K , Bangalore; Sreya Bhattacharji, Hyderabad; Mohit Agrawal, Pune; Saravanan Palanichamy, Coimbatore; Dilip C, Dahej; Sachin Shenoy, Bangalore; Sujana Shruthi, Secunderabad; and K Yashwanth Kumar, Hyderabad. Renu also wins Rs 2,000.