Answers to last week's quiz (103)

 

1. Which airline owned the car rental service Hertz as well as Westin Hotels with an intent to provide convenience to its passengers in terms of travel, transportation and stay?
   United Airlines 
    
2. Which CEO said: “Fired? Hell, I spent $10 million educating you. I just want to be sure you learned the right lessons”? 
   IBM CEO Tom Watson said this to one of his employees in the 1960s 
    
3. Whose advertising base line was “Live Wirefree”? 
   BPL Mobile 
    
4. What does the series E0, E1 to E6 and P1 to P3 represent? After P3 a proper noun has been assigned to this product by its manufacturer.
   Humanoid robots by Honda 
    
5. China Construction Bank, Bank of Communications Ltd, Ping An Insurance and Petro China Company Ltd are all listed companies and are constituents of the Hang Seng Index. What are such companies collectively known as?
   Red Chip companies 
    
6. The proponent of which theory posed this question: Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas? Name the person and his theory.
   Edward Lorenz, the father of Chaos theory 
    
7. This airline was the first to make all its flights 100 per cent smoking free from 1990 onwards. Name it.
   Air Canada 
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9. This company’s 200,000 square feet flagship store is on the original site where it opened its retail business in 1917. Open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, the flagship store draws close to three million visitors each year. Name it. 
   L L Bean 
    
10. Which company was founded in 1917 as Nippon Ko-gaku Ko-gyo- Kabushikigaisha?
    Nikon 
     
11. Identify the new technology recently introduced by a technology major from this logo.
    Microsoft’s BlueTrack technology 
    
     

There were 33 all-correct entries for the strategist quiz # 103. The winners who will receive a copy of Great People Decisions are:Ramchandra Gujar, New Delhi; Mumtaz Alam, Patna; Jayant Ashtikar, New Delhi; Uday K Mishra, Faridabad; Jai Ram Singh, New Delhi; Mamata pal, Hooghly; Keshav Bhardwaj, New Delhi; P N Bakuli, Kolkata; Ravinder Kumar, New Delhi; and S Nausherwan, Patna. Ramchandra Gujar also wins Rs 2,000.