Answers to last week's quiz (#353)

1. What is Strategy&?
   PwC and Strategy& (formerly Booz & Company) have come together to form a new consulting business. As part of the PwC network, Strategy& will be a leading strategy firm in its own right and help PwC become the pre-eminent strategy-through-execution firm
    
2. Until the 1930s Saudi Arabia had no real interest in oil; its economy relied on pilgrimages to the holy sites of Mecca and Madina. The US saw untapped potential and approached the king about the possibility of drilling for oil. What did the King actually hope to find when the Americans started drilling in 1933?
   Water.
    
3. During the 1940s, pet food was not available in stores and animals were predominantly fed homemade food, usually table scraps. Paul ___ an animal nutritionist who graduated from Ohio State University in 1938, founded The ___ Company in 1946 in a small feed mill near Dayton. In 1950, he developed the world's first animal-based protein, dry dog food and called it ___ 999. Fill in the blanks. Who owns this company?
   IAMS pet food company bought initially by P&G has been recently sold to Mars, the pet food and chocolate company.
    
4. This company became a subsidiary of Northrop Gunman in 1952.It was in this company in 1944 an Army photographer David Conover saw a young lady technician named Norma Jeane and thought she had potential as a model. This 'discovery' made her very famous and she eventually changed her name to Marilyn Monroe. Name the company.
   The Radioplane Company.
    
5. Which company's products are associated with the term Click-to-Run and why?
   Microsoft Click-to-Run is a way to quickly install Microsoft products, including versions of Office 2010 and Office 2013 and Office 365. Click-to-Run uses a combination of streaming and application virtualisation to move the product onto a virtual disk. This virtualised environment allows users to begin using the new Office components before the entire package has been downloaded on the system.
    
6. What is Capitalism 24902 and what does it stand for?
   This term was coined by Richard Branson and his team at Virgin. Capitalism 24902 is taken from the equatorial circumference of the earth, which is 24901.55miles.
    
7. What does Graicunas's Formula determine? It is represented by the notation C = n a (2^n)/2 + n - 1 b.
   Span of Control. V.A.Graicunas developed a formula for determining the number of possible relationships between a manager and subordinates when the No. of subordinates is known.
    
8. In the world of finance what are round tripping or Lazy Susan transactions?
   It is a form of barter that involves a company selling "an unused asset to another company, while at the same time agreeing to buy back similar assets at about the same price
    
9. Which brand uses the tagline "Trusted Medicines. Healthier Lives?
   Ranbaxy
    
10. What does this represent?
    
    The Economist's Big Mac Currency Index. This logo is used for the interactive index that is found online.

 

There were 10 correct entries for quiz No. 353. Ahmadullah Rabbani from Patna, Bihar wins Rs 2,000. Winner was chosen by drawing lots.