The Strategist Quiz (#049)

 

1. Where would you experience the Tenzing service and what is its significance?
   
    
2. Which company inspired by the programing concept of the "infinite loop" has designed and named its campus after it? An infinite loop is a sequence of instructions in a computer program which loops endlessly, either due to the loop having no terminating condition or having one that can never be met.
   
    
3. What is common to the Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation Tower (the APIIC Tower), the World Trade Center Tower 2, both under construction, and the Beijing Capital International Airport?
   
    
4. What is common to Polo, Rolo, Breakaway and Drifter?
   
    
5. This concept cell phone is form-fitting and curvaceous. It wraps and around your wrist like a bracelet when you're not using it for calls. It also kills germs and looks out for your health by "sniffing" the surrounding air and analysing your sweat. What's this phone called and who's the manufacturer?
   
    
6. Which company had a car model called the Cappuccino, which was in production only for six years?
   
    
7. Which company uses a programme called Ping-Pong in order to provide a structure to its innovation process? It splits the team into two groups. The first one proposes an idea to pursue a specific opportunity, and then the second group improves on the idea. The two groups knock the idea back and forth until they can envision no further improvements.
   
    
8. This company was founded in 1951 in San Diego and is listed on the NYSE. It has a fictional CEO. Name him and the company?
   
    
9. Name the retail chain in India that is celebrating its 60th year of service. It uses the punch line "A cut above the rest".
   
    
10. Name the founder of a renowned hotel chain who served in France during World War I and wanted to purchase a bank in Cisco, Texas, in 1919?

Ten all-correct entries will receive a copy of Steve L Katz's Lion Taming, published by Wiley India (books courtesy: Wiley India). One lucky winner will also receive a cheque for Rs 2,000. Please send your entries to strategist@bsmail.in. All entries must carry the full postal address of the contestant. Last date for receiving entries: 4 June. Previous winners, employees of Business Standard and Wiley India and their families are not eligible to participate.