Answers to last week's quiz (#146)

 

1. Who coined the term newsmagazine? 
   Henry Luce and Briton Hadden, founders of the Time magazine 
    
2. What is common to a chandelier made of Swarovski crystals at the JFK airport and Puma shoes?
   Yves Behar, the designer 
    
3. Why has the book Winnie-the-Pooh been in the news of late? 
   Winnie-the-Pooh is being retrofitted into all iPads sold by Apple because it is Steve Job’s favourite book 
    
4. Which company established a special relationship with the world of sport and invented several devices for the precise timing of sporting events, such as the “broken wire” in 1912, the Photogines, the first mechanism to link timing with a photo finish, in 1952, and the Contifort in 1960?
   Longines, the Swiss watch company 
    
5. Whose punch line is “Think outside the Bun”?
   Taco Bell 
    
6. What is common to the Eiffel Tower and the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai? 
   The same steel used in the Eiffel Tower was imported to build the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai 
    
7. Who propounded these laws: Expenditure rises to meet income, and work expands to fill the time available?
   Northcote Parkinson. They are also known as Parkinson’s Laws. 
    
8. Name the recently launched brand whose name means ‘cool’ in Italian.
   Ford Figo 
    
9. Name this 131-year-old company that is considered as the second largest firm of tea auctioneers in the world and collapsed a year ago after it failed to recover loans given to tea growers.
   Kolkata-based Carritt Moran and Co Pvt Ltd 
    
10. This logo belongs to an Indian business group that derives its name from Sanskrit and French. The three cogs in the ratchet wheel symbolise values. Identify it.
    
    The Avantha group owned by the Thapars

 

 

There were 32 all-correct entries for the strategist quiz #146. The winners who will receive a copy of Everyday Negotiation are:Prashant Malaiya, Chennai; Sandeep Sharma, Agra; Jitendra Sharma, Rajkot; Gargi Mallya, Mumbai; Vaibhav Acharya, Vadodara; Manjunath SP, Bangalore; Anitha Rathod, Hyderabad; Dhara Shah, Ahmedabad; Shalini Rao, Kerala; and Siddharth Misra, Lucknow. Prashant Malaiya also wins Rs 2,000.