Answers to last week's quiz (#154)

 

1. What do terms like BYB, BAY and RUB refer to? They are used by the top 10 software companies in India.
   Employee referral programmes called bring your buddy (TCS), bring another you (Cognizant) and refer your buddy (HCL Technologies) 
    
2. Link the special characters #@$%*! to agitrons, squeans and briffits. Name the creator of these and the common term used to describe them. 
   Grawlix by Beetle Bailey cartoonist Mort Walker in his book Lexicon of Comicana. Grawlix is used to represent a non-profane word or phrase. 
    
3. This company was established in 1600, and it ruled much of the world till it was dissolved in the 1870s. An NRI has bought it and is opening a high-end luxury store under the brand name. Identify it.
   East India Company, acquired by Sanjiv Mehta, an NRI in 2005 
    
4. Which company gave India its first ATM in 1987?
   HSBC 
    
5. The Scottish employees of which former company called a popular tea-growing region in India Haggistan after their favourite dish?
   Munnar was called Haggistan by the employees of James Finlay, a Scottish company 
    
6. Name the athletic shoe brand that claims that it is the only manufacturer still making shoes in the US.
   New Balance 
    
7. Which country is known to have taken the lead in making the 3D MMORPG?
   South Korea was the first to make 3D MMORPGs or massive multiplayer online role playing games 
    
8. Name the company whose new packaging features consumers selected from its first global online casting call. It will be seen by 52 million consumers a day worldwide.
   McDonald’s. The faces will appear on its most prominent packaging — cups and bags. 
    
9. This company is listed as WOW on the stock exchange of its home country, and has a joint venture with an Indian company. Name it.
   Woolworths of Australia. It has a JV with Tata’s Croma. 
    
10. This building is the logo of a chain of outlets. Founded in the late 1970s, its owner pulled out two random names from the Manhattan phone book and got its name. Name it.
    Smith and Wollensky Steakhouse

 

 

There were six all-correct entries for the strategist quiz #154. The winners who will receive a copy of The Art of Constructive Confrontation are:Saurabh Jain, Hoshiarpur; Balaji Vijayakumar, Neyveli; Mohamed Safeer M, Tirunelveli; Sahil Batra, Pune; Alagu Srikanth M, Chennai; and Satya Jain, Meerut. Saurabh Jain also wins Rs 2,000.