Answers to last week's quiz (#062)

 

1. For which product launch in the US, did the CEO of the company ride a vintage Sherman tank through New York’s Times Square, aiming fire at a huge Coca-Cola billboard?
   Richard Branson, to introduce Virgin Cola in the US 
    
2. In order to make cost-cutting a priority, which Indian company has launched a “one component, one gram” initiative that requires every parts supplier to make lighter components?
   Maruti Suzuki India Ltd 
    
3. Name the managing director of an Indian company who was the first person to derive fatty alcohol from eco-friendly vegetable palm oil rather than from petroleum. He belongs to a distinguished business family and is a polyglot and a poet, too.
   Nadir Godrej 
    
4. Name the company whose board room at its corporate headquarters is called Arjuna. It has hosted international dignitaries like the premier of British Columbia, Canada and the Sheikh of Oman. Also, on most Saturday mornings, the Bhagvat Gita is discussed by about 20 people, including the CEO and his wife in this room.
   Nicolas Piramal 
    
5. Which company was responsible for building and deploying the first Olympics web site and when? It used an open source technology, instead of one of its own proprietary products.
   IBM for the Atlanta Olympics in 1996. It used Apache an open source software. 
    
6. Which brand did Gourmohan Datta introduce in the Indian market? The brand is identified with an elephant as its logo.
   Boroline antiseptic cream, generally referred to as the hathiwalla cream 
    
7. Name the company whose annual production capacity of ceramic tiles can cover 7,894 football fields.
   Kajaria Ceramics 
    
8. Which car was named after Henry Ford’s son, but ended as a failure?
   Edsel Ford. It was launched in 1958 and closed in 1959. 
    
9. Yahoo’s Yodel has been registered as India’s first sound mark. Who created the Yodel for Yahoo?
   Famous singer Wylie Gustafson 
    
10. This is the logo for which event?
    

The Winter Olympics to be held in Vancouver in 2010

There were 78 all-correct entries for the strategist quiz # 62. The winners who will receive a copy of The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive are: Seema Rajan, Aluva; Jasleen Arora, Chandigarh; Nikhil Narayanan, Trivandrum; Vishal Bhandari, Mumbai; Neeraj Mehta, Gurgaon; Sathish Kumar B, Chennai; Parul Budhiraja, Delhi; D Swapna, Bangalore; Aditya Dubey, Jaipur; and K Arun Mihir, Hyderabad. Seema Rajan also wins Rs 2,000.