Answers to last week's quiz (#188)

 

1. In cricket it’s a term used to describe a delivery that reaches the batsman without bouncing on the pitch. Name the company that has launched a brand using the same term?
   Full Toss by Parle. It competes with PepsiCo's Kurkure.
    
2. A scene from the movie The Social Network shows Mark Zuckerberg rushing out of the electrical engineering building at Harvard. How is the Microsoft duo of Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer connected with it?
   The Maxwell Dworkin Laboratory is named after Mary Maxwell Gates and Beatrice Dworkin Ballmer, mothers of Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer respectively 
    
3. Which brand uses the slogan “The energy drink for your feet”?
   Reebok Zigtech shoes 
    
4. It started in 1994 as a research project inside Norway’s largest telecom company. By what name is it known today?
   Opera Software 
    
5. A 102-year-old bottle of whisky was recovered from an Antarctic hut used by Ernest Shackleton during his 1909 expedition. Name the brand of whisky found and also its current owner.
   Mackinlay's whisky which is a Whyte&Mackay brand 
    
6. Where and when was India’s first time-share holiday resort opened?
   Sterling Holidays and Resorts in Kodaikanal in 1988 
    
7. What is common to Maureen Wadia, Parmeshwar Godrej, Sunita Garware, Sakina Mallya and Nina Pillai?
   Air hostesses with Air India 
    
8. The scaling up of the operations of a firm called Delhi Express lead to the formation of what?
   IndiGo Airlines 
    
9. What is the term used to define how individuals, organisations and companies can use social media to propel social change?
   The Dragon Fly Effect, a term coined by Andy Smith and Jennifer Aaker, authors of a book on the same subject 
    
10. Identify the brands from their logos.
    
    Maybach and Polycom

There were 21 all-correct entries for the strategist quiz #188. The winners who will receive a copy of The Instant Productivity Toolkit are: Preeti Sahay, Gujarat; Bhavesh C Sangem, Pilani; Sandeep Soni, Bangalore; Parag Sharma, Delhi; Akshatha Pai, Bangalore; Shalini Rao, Kasaragod; Shivtej Shinde, Pune; AV Kamath, Bangalore; Sangram Samantray, Raipur; and Suresh Mallya, Bangalore. Preeti Sahay also wins Rs 2,000.