Answers to last week's quiz (#138)

 

1. What is common to James Bond, the last astronaut to have left his footprints on the moon and film star Abhishek Bachchan?
   All are brand ambassadors of Omega watches 
    
2. A BBC TV series titled after the main character played by a renowned comedian and set in the past was famous for the character’s cunning plans. It was an alternative definition of strategy where the strategy is the cunning plan. Name the actor and the serial.
   Blackadder played by Rowan Atkinson (Mr Bean) 
    
3. Where and when were letters (mail) first taken by air in the world?
   In Allahabad on February 18, 1911 during a trade show on the banks of Yamuna. The letters had the inscription “First Aerial Post — UP Exhibition”. 
    
4. Whose corporate calendar for this year is adorned with paintings of corporate captains like Azim Premji, Keshub Mahindra, Vinita Bali and R Gopalakrishnan?
   Shining Consulting, the consultancy founded by Shombit Sengupta 
    
5. Which entrepreneur has recently offered a 10 per cent stake in himself for Euros 1 million? He currently has three profitable businesses running.
   James Layfield who runs Never Ever Ltd in the UK 
    
6. What are these — Berliner, broadsheet and compact?
   Newspaper formats 
    
7. Whose old advertisements had this line: When in doubt “look it up in” _________?
   Encyclopedia Britannica 
    
8. The refusal of one Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt to eat what was served to him, as he found it too thick to eat, lead to the invention of what in 1853?
   Potato chips. Chef George Crum took back the french fries that were refused by the commodore and served him potato chips. 
    
9. Identify this brand that was founded in 1893 and uses “Be Ready” as a registered TM baseline.
   Amrutanjan 
    
10. Identify the companies from their logos. One is suing the other for trademark infringement.
    The South Butt and the North Face Inc
    
    
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There were six all-correct entries for the strategist quiz #138. The winners who will receive a copy of The Ultimate Strategy Library are: Nidhi Jain, Hoshiarpur; Shefali Jain, Meerut; S Mandal, New Delhi; Satya Jain, Meerut Cantt; Bhuvana Prakash, Chennai; and Saumya Bansal, Meerut.Nidhi Jain also wins Rs 2,000.