Answers to last week's quiz (#144)

 

1. What is common to the Mughal windows that allowed women to view the outside world, Kurukshetra, the battleground for the Mahabharata, and the Lakshmi Vilas Palace?
   All these inspired the design of Titan's Heritage range of watches 
    
2. Hritik Roshan was its first and Ranbir Kapoor is its latest ambassador. Name the brand.
   John Players, the apparel brand from ITC 
    
3. Which Rs 100 crore-plus brand that is over 20 years old has the closing tag line “the argument continues”?
   Parry's Coffee Bite now owned by Lotte India 
    
4. What beer brand is named after a statesman, political philosopher and one of the founding fathers of the United States? 
   Samuel Adams 
    
5. These shoes were dubbed “moon shoes” because their distinctive tread resembled Neil Armstrong’s footprints on the moon. Who designed them and what were they actually called? 
   Bill Bowerman, co-founder of Nike. He invented the Waffle Sole running shoes. 
    
6. Who left consulting firm McKinsey to stand for the governorship of Tokyo and then went on to found companies like Jasdick and EveryD.com?
   Kenichi Ohmae 
    
7. Which brand’s variants are called Hot Water and Cool Water?
   Davidoff's range of fragrances 
    
8. Which company has set up Champi clinics at the Kumbh Mela to promote one of its brands? Name the brand.
   Dabur for promoting its Amla Hair Oil 
    
9. Name the element that was synthesised in a university in the late 1940s and was named after the place where the university is based. 
   Berkelium synthesised at the University of California, Berkeley in 1949 
    
10. These animals are now the models for a corporate advertisement. Name the company and the model they have replaced.
    Accenture. The elephant and the frog appear in its latest ads where they have replaced golfer Tiger Woods. 
    
    

There were 31 all-correct entries for the strategist quiz #144. The winners who will receive a copy of How To Manage Problem Employees are:Rohan Padhi, Pune; Udaya Bhanu, Kochi; Nirad Inamdar, Mumbai; Tapas Ranjan Biswas, New Delhi; Meenakshi Acharya, Bhubaneswar; Avinash Kumar, Patna; Arup K Pal, Hooghly; Anitha Rathod, Hyderabad; Prashant Malaiya, Chennai; and Vaibhav Acharya, Vadodara. Rohan Padhi also wins Rs 2,000.