Answers to last week's quiz (#153)

 

1. Which company makes the following brand promises: Play, People, Partner and Planet?
   Lego 
    
2. What was codenamed Maldives?
   Microsoft’s 6.5.3 version of Windows Mobile software 
    
3. After a head of state caused considerable damage to the reputation of Swiss banks in the mid-1980s, they established a process to screen PEPs. Expand PEP and name the head of state.
   Politically Exposed Persons. Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines stashed illegitimate funds in Swiss banks that led to a huge legal battle. 
    
4. Name the initiative started by a management guru along with sponsors like HCL, McKinsey & Co, Dell and London School of Business. It's an innovative one. 
   The Management Innovative eXchange, an online community-based innovation project aimed at reinventing management for the 21st century, started by Gary Hamel 
    
5. Its office in India has barbed wire stretched conspicuously across the glass at the reception. All its conference rooms are named after cities in Japan and its design was a result of a seven-month exercise conducted by its employees to decorate the interiors. Name the organisation.
   Dentsu, the Japanese ad agency 
    
6. A British engineer was helping his wife wash dishes one day in 1952 when the soap suds floating on the surface of the water got his attention and also inspired him. What did he go on to invent? This invention makes up nearly 90 per cent of the global market of its product category.
   Float Glass invented by Alistair Pilkington 
    
7. A challenge put up by an Indian entrepreneur when he bought over a multinational company’s India business is captured in a book titled The Light Has Come To Me. Name the author, the Indian entrepreneur and his challenge.
   Mike Barker. Ajay Piralmal bought this company in 1988 and challenged to make it as one of the top five pharma companies in India. 
    
8. Who said PCs will become niche products like trucks?
   Steve Jobs 
    
9. Identify the brand that uses the “All Hydro Processing Technology” patented by Chevron Lummus Global and which enrolled MS Dhoni as its brand ambassador in 2006.
   MAK Lubricants from BPCL 
    
10. This company is the only auto manufacturer in its country and it is now owned by a foreign brand. Identify it.
    SEAT, the Spanish car manufacturer, now owned by Volkswagen.

 

 

There were 20 all-correct entries for the strategist quiz #153. The winners who will receive a copy of How to Manage Problem Employees are:Kavitha Sri M, Chennai; Sahiil Batra, Pune; Shambhavi Singh, Kolkata; Kamlesh Unadkat, Mumbai; Pragya Kothari, Baroda; Bishwajit, Bangalore; Dhara Shah, Ahmedabad; Priyanka Ray, Secunderabad; Radhesh Raj, Kochi; and Kushal Dev, Bangalore. Kavitha Sri M also wins Rs 2,000.