Answers to last week's quiz (#186)

 

1. Whose brand promise is Rethink Possible? 
   AT&T 
   
2. Its first product is branded as Adam and it runs on Eden. It is coming up with an app store called Genesis. Name the product and company. 
   Adam is a tablet PC made by a Bangalore-based company called Notion Ink. It participated in the CES at Las Vegas this year.    
3. What is common to the founder of Detroit city and 16th President of United States, Abraham Lincoln? 
   Both have cars named after them. Henry M Leland designed and named cars after his ancestor Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, founder of Detroit city, and President Abraham Lincoln.    
4. The founder of which Indian business group has built replicas of the White House and Buckingham Palace as his residences? Subrata Roy of the Sahara Group    
5. Which film was India’s first entry for the Oscars? 
   Mother India    
6. Name the $2 million company in the late 1970s for which Ross Perot, the founder of EDS, made an open offer to purchase. The owner wanted $40-60 million and the deal fell apart. 
   Microsoft    
7. What is common to Jack No. 2, Davy Jones, Blackbeard and Tiber? 
   Names of BP’s oil rigs operating in the Gulf of Mexico    
8. Who recently launched the brand Fili Folly in India? 
   Perfetti Van Melle India    
9. Link Ross Graham Walker, Jorge Paulo Lemann and Erl C Daum to three Indians and what do you get? 
   Chairs at Harvard Business School and Tuck School of Business being held by Krishna Palepu, Tarun Khanna and Vijay Govindraj    
10. This logo represents an alliance between a European and Asian company. Name it.
    The Renault-Nissan alliance

There were 42 all-correct entries for the strategist quiz #186. The winners who will receive a copy of The Freedom Years are: K Subrahmanyam, Kakinada; Aman Jain, Hoshiarpur; Rima Sarkar, New Delhi; Madhu Mishra, New Delhi; Nigar Fatima, Tanda; Shefali Jain, Meerut; Varun Ramamurthy, Kolkata; Vinay R M, Bangalore; Vineet Gupta, Meerut; and Minhaj Alam, Patna K Subrahmanyam also wins Rs 2,000.