Answers to last week`s quiz (#282)

 

1. Whose products also have a range of brands that go by the names Chant, Bag of Rhythm and Get up Stand up?
   Audio products from the House of Marley set up by Bob Marley’s son Rohan Marley. Bob Marley named his son after the famous West Indian Cricketer Rohan Kanhai. 
    
2. This question is part of which company’s interview process— “If your flight got cancelled, and you were stuck in the airport for three hours with this guy or this girl, how happy would you be about that?” What name is given to it:
   The Airport test administered by Google 
    
3. What is the term used for selling products that are custom created, typically with images from the customers?. 3D printers are coming in handy for such purposes.
   Me-tailing. Retailing in a Social networking era. 
    
4. Who is promoting research into using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to deliver vaccines to remote populations? 
   The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. 
    
5. What is common to Ironhead, Knucklehead, Hummer, Panhead and Shovelhead? 
   All names of Harley Davidson motorbike engines. 
    
6. The senior executives of which company are forced to read documents called “narratives” during their meetings instead of flipping through power point presentations? Name the company and its CEO who established this practice. 
   Amazon. Jeff Bezos insists that meetings of his senior team of executives begin with participants quietly absorbing the written word in the form of printed memos. His team calls them the narratives. 
    
7. Connect the Tata Nano, Maruti A-Star and the Honda CBR 250cc motorcycle and what to you arrive at?
   They were all recalled by their respective manufacturers to replace defects in India. The Honda CRBR 250cc motorcycles recall recently is the first in the two wheeler category in India. 
    
8. Name the brand, which ran its ad campaigns in the US with the following lines – ‘cheap and ugly does it’ and ‘when you get it you get it’? 
   The Japanese car brand Subaru. 
    
9. Who said this about whom: “You should invest in a business that even a fool can run, because someday a fool will”? 
   Bill Gates said this about Warren Buffet in 1996. 
    
10. Identify the images and establish the connection between them. 
    The first visual that carries the image of a pencil sharpener is a postage stamp released in the US in honour of Raymond Loewy, the famous design legend. The shell logo and the Coco Cola bottle are one of his noteworthy designs in use even today. The current logo of Spar supermarket chain, in the second visual, was created by him in 1968. 
    
    
     

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