Answers to last week's quiz (#181)

 

1. What term was coined by the UK post office after it commissioned a study to look into the anxieties suffered by mobile phone users?
   Nomophobia or no mobile phone phobia 
    
2. Link the terms weight, lift, drag and thrust to a Yorkshireman and what do you get?
   Sir George Cayley, the father of aviation who discovered and identified the four aerodynamic forces of flight — weight, lift, drag, and thrust 
    
3. What is common to Dawn, Passion and Achiever and another set of brands, namely, Stunner, Dazzler and Shine?
   The former are Hero Honda’s brands and the later are Honda’s two-wheeler brands in India. They recently parted ways. 
    
4. Which company invented the world’s first erasable ball point pen and by what name was it sold?
   Gillette. It was known as Eraser Mate. 
    
5. The founder of which company said: “I think God is using this company as his vehicle?” 
   Mary Kay Ash of Mary Kay cosmetics 
    
6. What do the Eiffel Tower, the Kremlin, Dubai’s Burj Khalifa and the Washington Monument have in common?
   They all have Otis elevators installed in their premises 
    
7. A fine charged on returning a rented copy of the video of Apollo 13 was the cause for the founding of which company?
   Netflix 
    
8. Which brand was launched in India because Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was concerned that Indian women were spending precious foreign exchange on beauty products?
   Lakme 
    
9. This company was formed out of patriotic fervour and named after the founder’s mother and the French word for stainless steel. Its most popular product is now known by a famous name given to it by US Army soldiers who could not pronounce its actual name. Name the company and the product.
   Victorinox, founded by Carl Elsener, makes the famous Swiss army knife known in Swiss as Schweizer Offiziersmesser 
    
10. Identify the brand from the logos it uses. For the first time an Indian has now been selected to contribute to this brand.
    Mills and Boon

     

 

There were seven all-correct entries for the strategist quiz #181. The winners who will receive a copy of The Quest For Global Dominance are SM Haque, Patna; Manu Chugh, Chandigarh; Tushar Naphade, Thane; Jayati Chakraborty, Kolkata; Vedha Narasimhan, Chennai; Susangata Ghosh, Thane; Vineet Gupta, Meerut; and Vedha Narasimhan, Chennai. SM Haque also wins Rs 2,000.