Answers to last week's quiz (#413)

1. In which company's recent annual shareholder meeting in the US did the actor Reese Witherspoon participate and why?
   Reese Witherspoon graced the stage for Walmart's annual meeting recently. She was the meeting's incredibly perky host who appeared in videos shot in-store and taught an employee how to add 'stock' to the 'bend and snap' from Legally Blonde. She also plays a Walmart employee in an upcoming movie along with Rod Stewart, Brian McKnight, Mariah Carey and Ricky Martin.
    
2. During the 1890s, it was sold for $60-$65 and was called Van Cleve in honour of the great-great-grandmother from the father's side of the founders of this company. She was the first white woman to have settled in Dayton Ohio. Name the product, company and its founders.
   Bicycle brand sold by the Wright Brothers who started Wright Cycle Company in 1892.
    
3. What is the Pike's place roast and why was it launched?
   The Pike Place is Starbucks' attempt to address complaints that its regular cup of coffee is bitter, over roasted and burnt. It is also Starbucks homage to their humble beginnings in Pike Place market in Seattle where it set up its first store. This flavour used to be a Starbucks in-house exclusive sold only at its Pike place store but now coffee drinkers can purchase it in all its outlets.
    
4. Name the business book and its author that gets its title from a term used in Silicon Valley for the most important innovations that reset everything following them. The term is supposedly to have originated in 1961 during the John F Kennedy days.
   John Sculley's book titled Moonshot.
    
5. What is JOLTS and who releases reports related to it on a periodic basis?
   Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) is managed and published by the US Bureau of Statistics, Department of Labour. It is an important statistic for predicting the state of the US Economy.
    
6. The founder of which newage company said this: "I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognise or not"?
   Reid Hoffman, co-founder and executive, chairman of LinkedIn.
    
7. Which company's biggest project undertaken by its research labs is called 'The Machine'?
   HP Labs. The machine will fuse memory and storage, flatten complex data hierarchies, bring processing closer to the data, embed security control points throughout the hardware and software stacks, and enable management and assurance of the system at scale.
    
8. Why is Pullmantur Cruises, the cruise provider which is headquartered in Madrid, and acquired by Royal Caribbean in the news recently in India?
   Bollywood's latest film Dil Dhadakne Do has been shot on one of Pullmantur Cruise liners on high seas and is the central theme of the movie.
    
9. Connect Falcon Heavy and Dragon, and what do you arrive at?
   SpaceX Company, founded by Elon Musk. Falcon Heavy is considered as the world's first most powerful rocket and Dragon is the world's first private spacecraft that visited the orbiting space station and returned successfully to the earth.
    
10. Name the brand which also uses this Katakana logo.
    Uniqlo, the Japanese clothing brand.

 

There were 12 all correct entries for quiz No.413. Tulika Rath from Orissa wins Rs 2,000. The winner was chosen on the basis of first correct entry received.