Answers to last week's quiz (#161)

 

1. Which mobile handset manufacturer is developing phones for the Indian market that can also double up as a mosquito repellent? 
   Micromax Mobile 
    
2. Name the person and the cereal brand he started after visiting the Battle Creek Sanitarium and getting treated by John Harvey Kellogg in the late 1890s?
   CW Post founded the Postum Cereal company. The Post brand. 
    
3. Which company is known to be the first to have promoted its brand by introducing the concept of coupons?
   Coca-Cola 
    
4. This brand is more than 100 years old and one of its founders named it by the time of the day he believed most people drank coffee. Name the brand, its founders and the current owner. 
   Eight O’clock Coffee. It was founded by George Huntington Hartford and George Gilman of The Great Atlantic and Tea Company during the 1880s. It’s now a Tata brand. 
    
5. What does the emerging market group CIVETS comprise? 
   Columbia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey and South Africa 
    
6. What was founded as one of the world’s first email newsletters in the beginning of the internet era and before the dotcom bust?
   The Daily Reckoning 
    
7. Identify this company that is linked not only with brands like the iPad, iPod, Xbox, Playstation and Amazon Kindle but also to infamous employee suicides in its home country. Recently, an untoward incident also sparked minor trouble in its plant in India.
   Foxconn 
    
8. Which Indian company claims that it derives its values from one of the most dynamic, hardworking, adaptable and organised creatures, ants? 
   Bajaj Hindustan Ltd 
    
9. What is common to AMD India and NIIT? 
   Vishwanathan Anand is their brand ambassador 
    
10. Which brand’s mascot is this? 
    
    Gecko the lizard is the mascot of GEICO

There was one all-correct entry for the strategist quiz #161. Rachit Bhatia of Hisar wins Rs 2,000 and a copy of Cool Down: Getting Further By Going Slower