Answers to last week's quiz (#140)

 

1. What is the term used to describe the trail of clicks that internet users leave behind from which value can be extracted? For instance, analysing user behaviour in search engines.
   Data Exhaust 
    
2. Which company’s forthcoming products are being developed under the code name Pink?
   Microsoft-branded mobile phone 
    
3. What are H-Bomb and Sway?
   Sex magazines published by students at Harvard University and Yale 
    
4. The logo of this brand was inspired from a pattern on the wallpaper in a Paris hotel room. The founder of this company detached a small piece and kept it in his wallet and put it to use in the early 1900s. Name the brand.
   The Chevrolet Bowtie logo. It was founded by William Durant in 1911. 
    
5. In 1987, the Indian government became the beneficiary of £777,000 as per the will of the co-founder of a company in India which is over 100 years old. One of India’s famous Bollywood stars worked in the shipping division of this company as a freight broker. Identify the company and its co-founder.
   Charles William Wallace of Shaw Wallace. Amitabh Bachchan’s first job was with Shaw Wallace’s shipping division. 
    
6. Which company is associated with its vision “The Work” (repeated thrice)?
   BBDO Worldwide 
    
7. What are these: Be proactive; begin with the end in mind; put first things first; think win/win; seek first to understand; synergise; and sharpen the saw?
   The 7 Laws of Effective People postulated by Stephen Covey 
    
8. Sindh, Sultan and Sahib are associated with one of India’s firsts. What is it?
   The three locomotives were Sindh, Sultan and Sahib, and 400 guests left Bombay for Thane which was India’s first rail run. 
    
9. Who said this: “My theories have tended to emphasise strategies for keeping the sane sane”? He also introduced the acronym Kita into management.
   Frederick Herzberg 
    
10. What is common to the logos in the picture above? Name each one of them. 
    All are companies taken over by Google. Docverse, Doubleclick, Dodgeball and Picasa.

 

 

There were two all-correct entries for the strategist quiz #140. The winners who will receive a copy of Credibility: How Leaders Gain And Lose It, Why People Demand It are: K Ravishankar, Bangalore and Ranjit Kamat, Mumbai. K Ravishankar also wins Rs 2,000.