Answers to last week's quiz (#286)

 

1. This agricultural products company, based in the US, is the world’s largest in its category. Beginning in late October, its staff strength swelled to about 700. They work 16 hour shifts with about a half a dozen helicopters. It was founded in 1955. Name the company and its founder?
   Holiday Tree Farms, the world’s largest Christmas tree producer. It was founded in 1955 by Hal Schudel who pioneered growing Christmas trees in rows 
    
2. The founder of this company bred earthworms in his backyard when he was 9-year old. He wanted to become the number one worm seller in the world. When he was in High School he was hired as a video game tester for Lucasfilm and got paid $6 an hour. At Harvard University, he sold pizzas to fellow classmates in the dorm. Name him.
   Tony Hsieh, founder of Zappos.com which is now a part of Amazon 
    
3. What is the term used for the permission granted to a beverage manufacturer / bottler to control beverage distribution at a venue or an event, such as a sports tournament?
   Pouring Rights 
    
4. This person quit the Drexel Institute of Technology to work on a problem faced by a supermarket executive. He got the idea while sitting on Miami Beach and dragging his fingers in the sand. He visualised these lines as dots and dashes of the Morse code. Who is this person and what did he go on to invent? 
   Joseph Woodland invented the bar code along with his fellow batch mate Bernard Silver. Woodland passed away couple of weeks ago 
    
5. Who has launched a new sub brand that runs the baseline “Go More”? Name the sub brand also.
   Air Canada has launched a low cost airline called Rouge 
    
6. Name the person who conceived the Capability Approach, also referred to as the Capabilities Approach to welfare economics.
   Amartya Sen 
    
7. Who had founded these erstwhile failed brands Pizza King in the mid 80s and Shilton Hotels in the late 90s?
   Vijay Mallaya of UB Group 
    
8. Whose baseline reads “Knowledge that delivers”?
   Goldratt UK. It was established by the famous management Guru Dr Goldratt and his partners in 1989. He is famous for his Theory of Constraints 
    
9. Which company is transforming light field technology from a scientific theory into a reality and a consumer product that can be used by everyone?
   Lytro. They are pioneers of a camera that allows you to shoot first and then focus later on the parts of the picture and by doing this repeatedly you get a perfect picture 
    
10. Identify the company from the logo.
    
    
    The Pharma company Novo Nordisk. The Novo Nordisk logo since the year after the company’s foundation in 1923 has been the Apis bull, one of the sacred animals of ancient Egypt. The Apis bull was worshipped as the incarnation of Ptah, creator of the universe, city god of Memphis and the patron deity of craftsmen

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