Answers to last week's quiz (105)

 

1. Which company’s stated vision is to “be the largest and No. 1 electric vehicle manufacturer in the world by the year 2011”?
   Kabirdass Motor Company, which manufactures electric scooters 
    
2. Which confectionery brand gets its name from a play written by the author of Peter Pan?
   Mackintosh’s Quality Street of London. It was the name of a play by J M Barrie. 
    
3. Name the microprocessor that was proclaimed to be the fastest on the planet in 1992.
   Alpha, the 64-bit microprocessor by Digital Equipment Corporation 
    
4. Which soft drink brand was phased out in 2000 to make way for Sprite in the Indian market?
   Citra, the Parle drink that was sold to Coca-Cola 
    
5. This company’s Russian abbreviation is OAK, by what name is it otherwise known? 
   United Aircraft Corporation 
    
6. The Invisible College of the 1600s is better known as what today? It is generally linked to the concept of crowd-sourcing in today’s Internet era where ideas are contributed by amateurs.
   The Royal Society of United Kingdom 
    
7. Who articulated his company’s business purpose as: “We try never to forget that medicine is for the people. It is not for the profits. The profits follow and if we have remembered that, they have never failed to appear”? 
   George Merck II of Merck & Co. 
    
8. Whose brands were Wall Street, Scabal and Old Trafford?
   Grasim Suitings 
    
9. Competing in existing market space, beating competition, focusing on existing customers, exploiting existing demand are all constituents of which strategy?
   Red Ocean Strategy 
    
10. Whose new mascot is this?
    Andhra Bank’s Doll-e, the dolphin

 

 

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