Answers to the Strategist quiz 602

Answers to the Strategist quiz 602

1.Name the company which — in the month of January 2019, during the US government shutdown — opened a pop-up “The Free Grocery Store” for four days in the country's capital city. It provided free food to unpaid government workers who could present their appropriate identification

Answer: Kraft Foods

2.After the erstwhile East India Company, name the second oldest firm in India that is still operational and is a private company

Answer: The New Piece Goods Bazar Company registered in 1871 

3.The famous TV series X-Files was the inspiration behind naming this brand. It also has brand extensions named after intriguing US military locations and projects like Area 51 and a rumoured reconnaissance aircraft called Aurora. Name it and mention its present owner.

Answer: Alienware, the Gaming PC now owned by Dell.Nelson Gonzalez and Alex Aguila 

4.Connect the Italian Lucca Philharmonic Orchestra and The Detroit Symphony Orchestra and mention a modern innovation they subscribed to and created history

Answer: The Swiss Company ABB's robot YuMi successfully conducted the piece La Donna E' Mobile alongside world class musicians from the Lucca Philharmonic in at the first ever International Festival of Robotics that was held in Pisa, Italy. Similarly in 2008 Honda's Asimo conducted the Detroit Symphony orchestra and performed the piece Impossible Dream.

5.What is the industry buzzword used when a company’s management ignores obvious problems and allows them to resurface on a daily basis? Inspiration from a Bill Murray movie.

Answer: Groundhog Day
 

6.Whom did a recent British Parliamentary report call a “Digital Gangster” for knowing violating data privacy and competition laws in the UK?

Answer: Facebook
 

7.  If the line “Kitna deti hai” is associated with Maruti, who is using the punch line “Kitna safe hai” and why?

Answer: Tata Nexon, the first made and sold in India car to achieve Global NCAP’s five-star crash-test rating

8.Connect the management concepts balance score card, core competence, strategic intent, reengineering and globalisation and state what is common to all of them.

Answer: They were all first given prominence in the Harvard Business Review.
 

9. Dr. Rabbit is the mascot of which brand?

Answer: Colgate
 

10. Identify the individual logos and establish their connection

Answer: The Russian Car brand Lada and Chinese car brand Venucia are part of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance

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