Answers to last week's quiz (#202)

 

1. What is common to Albert Einstein and Ramalinga Raju, founder of Satyam Computers? Initiatives launched by them have created a lasting impression.
   The International Rescue Committee (IRC) that responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises was founded in 1933 at Albert Einstein’s request. Ramalinga Raju had set up the Emergency Management and Research Institute in 2005 in Andhra Pradesh, which has now spread to 11 states in India. 
    
2. Identify this celebrity who is a brand ambassador for Yahoo! and Adidas. A perfume made by Coty and the largest-selling contraceptive in China are also named after this celebrity. Name him.
   David Beckham 
    
3. Who said: “Management courses for people without a few years of management experience are a waste of time”?
   Peter Drucker 
    
4. Which brand has launched the world’s first 3D TV that does not require the viewers to wear glasses? 
   Toshiba 
    
5. The home page of a company reads “_________ from San Francisco, California, making the web more interesting since 1999”. Fill in the blank with the company’s name and also name its current owner.
   Pyra Labs, the company that coined the word ‘blog’ and introduced the service Blogger 
    
6. This CEO was uninterested in the human resources department of his company and is known to deliver a sermon on the “difference between a janitor and a VP” every time an executive reaches the VP level. Name him.
   Steve Jobs of Apple 
    
7. In 1969, the head of an Indian business group offered the presidentship of the workers union of one of his group companies to a trade union leader. In 1978, the reverse happened when the same trade union leader offered this businessman the chairmanship of a PSU in order to nationalise his company. Name these two persons. 
   JRD Tata and George Fernandes 
    
8. If Youku is the Chinese equivalent of YouTube then what is Taobao.com the equivalent of? 
   Amazon.com 
    
9. What is common to Chopin Vodka, Miami Cruise lines, Hublot watches and Les Echos, the French newspaper? 
   They are all part of the luxury business group LVMH (Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton) 
    
10. Identify the three companies by their logos and establish the connection. 
    Maytas Infra, earlier owned by the Ramalinga Raju family and now by Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services that has global construction conglomerate — the Saudi Bin Ladin group — as a strategic partner. Osama bin Laden belonged to the same family.

There were three all-correct entries for the strategist quiz #202. The winners who will receive a copy of Return On Ideas are: Deepak Taneja, Faridabad; Shefali Jain, Meerut; and K Suresh, Noida. Deepak Taneja also wins Rs 2,000.