Answers to last week's quiz (#191)

 

1. Name this supply chain game played by up to four people with an objective to minimise the total cost for everyone in the supply chain by maintaining low stocks but managing to deliver all orders. It is named after a beverage.
   The Beer Game, designed by the supply chain forum at MIT 
    
2. Which company in India used to call its management trainees ‘pupils’? This company began its operations from a leased office on Radha Bazar Lane located in one of the metros.
   ITC 
    
3. “The five forces would be generally worse, as the internet made information more freely available helping buyers and increasing rivalry. The internet also potentially reduces long-term barriers to entry.” Whose thoughts are these?
   Management guru Michael E Porter 
    
4. The book titled From the Brink of Bankruptcy tells the story of which company?
   DCM (Delhi Cloth Mills) 
    
5. In the late 1990s, two graduate students at Stanford University approached a dotcom company — one of the top ones then — to sell the technology they developed for $1 million since they were unable to concentrate on their studies. The CEO tried to negotiate them down and later refused their offer. This CEO also is known to have thrown out venture capitalist Vinod Khosla out of his office. Name the students, the CEO and the company.
   Excite’s CEO George Bell refused to buy Google from Sergey Brin and Larry Page in 1999 for a meagre $1 million. 
    
6. This person compiled one of the first French dictionaries and also was responsible for introducing tobacco to France. What is named after this person?
   Nicotine is named after Jean Nicot of France 
    
7. What’s the connection between The Jammu and Kashmir Bank, M Pallonji and Co and the Peanuts comic characters Snoopy and Charlie Brown?
   MetLife India. J&K Bank and M Pallonji are joint promoters of MetLife India. 
    
8. This character turns 50 in March this year and has a Facebook page too. He is a star in an Oscar winner for 2011 and is trying to win his girl back after his 43-year relationship ended some years back. Name the character. 
   Ken, Barbie’s boyfriend, is a star in Toy Story 3 
    
9. Whose baseline reads “Absolutely everything” and claims to be the world’s second largest in its business?
   GetJar, the world’s second largest apps store with over 1 billion downloads after Apple’s App Store. 
    
10. Identify the company from its unique logo. 
    
    IMRB International

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