Answers to last week's quiz (#066)

 

1. Why was “Dunnington” in news recently?
   Dunnington was the codename given to the world’s first six-core processors, the Intel Xeon 7400 series, launched last month 
    
2. What does “R” in Maruti Suzuki’s small car Wagon R stand for?
   Recreation 
    
3. What happened for the first time on August 5, 1891 at Hotel Hauffe in Leipzig, Germany?
   The first American Express Travelers cheque honoured 
    
4. What term was supposedly coined after a moth found its way into a computer called Mk1 at the Harvard University in 1945 and caused its malfunction?
   Debugging 
    
5. Which country imposed a ban on beer for 74 years from 1915 to 1989? It is home to the oldest parliament in the world.
   Iceland 
    
6. Which brand, in order to commemorate its historic relationship with the Olympic games, launched a special limited-edition pocket watch in 2006, using components from the unassembled movement kits, which had been originally kept to manufacture pocket watch chronographs for the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics?
   Omega 
    
7. Which founder of one of the world’s most famous Fortune 500 companies said: “Most everything I have done I’ve copied from someone else”?
   Wal-Mart’s founder Sam Walton 
    
8. What technology tools were named after the comic characters Archie, Veronica and Jughead?
   Names of the first Web search engines launched during 1990-1993 
    
9. He was born on July 7 and he is designing a fashion range called D7 for a sportswear company. Name him.
   Mahendra Singh Dhoni 
    
10. This is the logo for which company and what’s its historical significance?
    
    The Bass & Co Brewery was established by William Bass in 1777 and is now part of the Inbev group. The Bass Red Triangle is one of the world’s oldest logos and was the first trademark and to be registered in Britain in 1876.

  

There were 51 all-correct entries for the strategist quiz # 66. The winners who will receive a copy of The Leadership Challenge are: Prem Raj P, Kochi; S Arulmozhi, Chennai; Ankit Govil, Gurgaon; Satish Seshadri, Bangalore; Lokesh Gurunathan, Noida; Nagesh Prabhu K, Bangalore; Tadasmi Koul, Gurgaon; Rani Ruplata, New Delhi; Vinod Solomon, Chennai; and Utkarsh Jain, Meerut. Prem Raj P also wins Rs 2,000.