Answers to last week's quiz (#205)

 

1. This late animal celebrity was found on postage stamps. Tens of thousands of bank ATM cards featured its face. A candy maker used to churn out more than a million replicas of it as gummy candies a day. The zoo in which it stayed was listed in the local stock exchange and showed profits during the years of its existence and as a brand it generated more than $140 million in business. Name this celebrity and the place it inhabited. 
   Polar bear Knut who was housed in the Berlin Zoo from 2007 to March 2010 
    
2. Which Indian company owns the brand X-Men that is also the title of a movie based on Marvel Comics characters?
   Marico International. The X-Men brand is available in Vietnam. 
    
3. Recently, in the annual shareholder meeting of a global company, its brand mascot, which was rebranded as a balanced active lifestyles ambassador, was axed. Name the brand and its mascot.
   McDonald’s Ronald McDonald 
    
4. Which company posted fake financial numbers on its website during a meeting with its bankers as an April Fools Day prank? It went public in the same year. 
   Google 
    
5. Who is supposed to have said: “Those who sit in stock exchanges shout at one another and think themselves civilised”?
   Jawaharlal Nehru 
    
6. The prime minister of which country made the world’s first commercial GSM call and when?
   The world’s first commercial GSM call was made on July 1, 1991 in Helsinki, Finland over a Nokia-supplied network, by then prime minister of Finland Harri Holkeri, using a prototype Nokia GSM phone 
    
7. The book titled Car Guys vs Bean Counters is about which company? Also name the author.
   Car Guys vs Bean Counters is a book by Bob Lutz on GM 
    
8. Whose ad campaign and base line is ‘Keep Climbing’? 
   Delta Airlines 
    
9. Who is moving the Supreme Court seeking income tax deduction for expenses incurred on heart surgery, wherein he has put forth that the heart should be treated as plant and the expenditure incurred should be classified as current repairs?
   Shanti Bhushan, the lawyer who is a member of the Lok Pal Bill drafting committee 
    
10. Identify the internet company bought out by a Fortune 500 giant by their logos and name the new entity they have formed together. 
    
    
    Kosmix, a web categorisation engine that organises the internet into topic pages, was bought over by Walmart to form @Walmart Labs. Kosmix was founded by Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman in 2005.

There were five all-correct entries for the strategist quiz #205. The winners who will receive a copy of The Prepared Mind Of A Leader are Srinath H R, Bangalore; Shefali Jain, Meerut; Minhaj Alam, Madhepura; Neeru Jain, Ludhiana; and Mythili B, Coimbatore. Srinath H R also wins Rs 2,000.