Answers to last week's quiz (#085)

 

1. This company’s website greets you with the tag line: “Faster. Further. Freer — Our Message in a Bottle.” These are its leading principles on the basis of which it runs its business. Name it. 
   Coty, the 100- year-old fragrance company 
    
2. Which famous brand name is a tribute to Sir William Thomson who in 1850 had laid down the scientific foundations for refrigeration methods?
   Kelvinator. Sir William Thomson was the first Baron Kelvin of Largs. 
    
3. Name the business model (term) that service providers like Flickr, Newsgator and Skype have adopted?
   Freemium. It is a business model where the owner or service provider offers basic services to users free and charges a premium for supplemental or advanced features. 
    
4. Which French company in the early 1970s invited the Swiss company, Nestle, to take an indirect holding in it, fearing that François Mitterrand, a presidential candidate at that time, would nationalise the firm if he got elected?
   L’Oréal. 
    
5. This business book’s title comes from a character in Lewis Carroll’s classic Through the Looking-Glass who explains to Alice that “It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.” Aptly, this book is on competitiveness, written by a Stanford University Professor. In fact, the title is also a management term now. Name it.
   The Red Queen Among Organisations written by William P Barnett. “Red queen of competition” is a management jargon. 
    
6. Identify this person: He followed Buddhism as a religion, was expelled from Harvard University twice for dissident behaviour, he predicted the Internet in 1962 and has 47 honorary doctorates to his name.
   Buckminster Fuller. 
    
7. This retailing brand in India has its origins to the year 1863 when two men set up a shop that was later taken over by the Oakshott family and made into a public limited company in 1897. Name this existing brand. 
   Spencers, now owned by the RPG Group.  
8. Although it was invented in 1889, the first printed reference to this invention appeared only in 1939 (in the Time magazine). Name this invention.
   The Jukebox. 
    
9. Which accounting firm took over Arthur Andersen’s partners in India (after the Enron scam) and went on to become the largest professional services firm in India then. 
   Ernst and Young. 
    
10. Identify the brand from the logo.
    Guinness '

 

There were 40 all-correct entries for quiz # 85. The winners who will receive a copy of Damodaran on Valuation are: Atul Agrawal, Bhubaneswar; Dimple Sudersan, Kochi; Jayati Chakraborty, Kolkata; Vamsi Krishna S V, Indore; Mohita Y, Secunderabad; Sahiti P, Chennai; Neha Agarwal, Mumbai; Rachana Kapadia, Mumbai; Abhishek Ramanand Modani, Pilani; and Udayabhanu, Kochi. Atul Agrawal also wins Rs 2,000.