Answers to last week's quiz #039

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Strategist Team Mumbai
Last Updated : Feb 05 2013 | 3:55 AM IST
  1. Richard D Fairbank, CEO, Capital One

  2. Pepsodent introduced free dental insurance with purchase of a toothpaste tube in 2003

  3. It created the category called minicomputers and challenged IBM mainframes and hold-over computing

  4. Brownie was a camera introduced by George Eastman for $1 and was launched with the slogan "You push the button and we do the rest"

  5. Tim Berns Lee, founder of the World Wide Web

  6. Sega (Service Games)

  7. HP and MTV announced the "Take Action. Make Art" campaign for a global design competition in September last year that challenged young people to create graphics for a special edition HP notebook

  8. Draculin, patented by Rhone Poulenc of France

  9. Elbit Imaging, an Israeli company

  10. Hans Wildorf, the founder of the Rolex watch company, gave his secretary Mercedes Gleitz a Rolex Oyster to wear before she started her cross-channel swim in 1936 to prove that it is waterproof
 

There were 27 all-correct entries for the strategist quiz # 39. The 10 winner s who will receive a copy of Passion: The Untold Story of LG Electronics India are: Laxmi Ku Sahoo, Bhubaneswar; Nalini Bansal, Delhi; K Sankaranarayanan, Chalakudy; A Rishi Ganesh, Chennai; J R Sethi, Lucknow; Shilpa Pakalkar, Mumbai; Purnima Iyer, Mumbai; Naunidh Singh Chadha, Delhi; Dhrubajyoti De, Jalpaiguri; and Shrinidhi Rai, Bangalore. Laxmi Ku Sahoo also wins Rs 2,000.

 

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First Published: Apr 01 2008 | 12:00 AM IST

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