Answers to the Strategist quiz (#393)

1. This person is a former British Olympic rower and was chairman of Cadbury and Cadbury Schweppes for 24 years. He has been a pioneer in raising the awareness and stimulating the debate on corporate governance and produced the _____ Report, a code of best practice, which served as a basis for reform of corporate governance around the world. Fill in the blank and name him.
   
   Cadbury Report, which was produced by the Committee on Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance in 1992, UK, chaired by Sir George Adrian Hayhurst Cadbury. It set out recommendations on the arrangement of company boards and accounting systems to mitigate corporate governance risks and failures.
    
2. Whose brand variants are called Action, Connect, Cool, Energy, Intense & Power?
   
   The 7 brand of Deos made by MS Dhoni.
    
3. Name the businessman actor Anthony Hopkins is playing in a movie called "Kidnapping _______". It is a 2014 film directed by Daniel Alfredson based on the 1983 kidnapping of a European businessman. It is written by William Brookfield and Peter R de Vries, based on the 1987 book by Peter R de Vries.
   
   Kidnapping Freddy Heineken is a 2014 film directed by Daniel Alfredson based on the 1983 kidnapping of Freddy Heineken.
    
4. This company is credited with five major inventions in the financial world and is known to have forgone a particular line of business over a patent dispute in the late 1800s. It said that it saw no future for a toy product that would require two users. Name the company and the line of business it moved out of.
   
   Western Union and the Telephone business
    
5. Name the organisation whose first advisory board included JC Penney, Thomas J Watson, Arthur Godfrey, the radio and TV personality and Norman Vincent Peale, a minister, inspirational speaker, and author of The Power of Positive Thinking.
   
   An organisation called 40Plus, also known as 40+, it is a United States based non-profit organisation that helps professionals, managers and executives make career transitions and find employment.
    
6. Recently, in the state of Michigan its governor Rick Snyder signed a Bill that bans _______from selling its cars directly to buyers online in the state. The bill removes one word "its" from existing state franchise law, which had originally been enacted to prevent franchised dealers from competition by the automakers whose cars they sell. Name the company that has been banned.
   
   Tesla Motors
    
7. Which TV channel in the US telecast in black and white on one day in the month of Jan 2015 and why?
   
   MTV went black and white in the US on the 19th of January 2015, a first in its history, in honor of the Martin Luther King Day.
    
8. Name the joint venture formed between Accenture and Microsoft in 2000.
   
   Avanade.
    
9. This company set up in 1852 uses the base line "Creating Confidence". Name it and one of its inventions that it brought to the world in 1991.
   
   Giesecke & Devrient. It was the company that invented the first commercial SIM card for mobile phones. It is majorly into the business of banknote and security paper printing.
    
10. Whose logo was this during the 1906 and 1919? It subsequently had about nine logo changes till its current one.
    
    Renault, the French Car manufacturing Company.

There were 12 correct entries for quiz No. 393. Sarojinee Pradhan from Bhubaneswar wins Rs 2,000. The winner is chosen on the basis of the first correct entry received.