Answers to last week's quiz (#179)

 

1. By what name is the Littlewoods brand better known now in India?
   Westside, Trent's retail chain 
    
2. What is common to basketball player Tony Parker, football player Michael Owen and Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone?
   All are brand ambassadors of Tissot 
    
3. Which brand has used the lava of a European volcano for one of its world-famous products? This lava has a high degree of resilience. It’s flame proof, and it absorbs hand sweat during use.
   A pen in the Visconti Homo Sapiens collection incorporates lava from the Italian volcano Mt Etna 
    
4. Which brand promotes a two-week weight reduction programme for women?
   Kellogg's Special K 
    
5. Why Crown Airlines and Magic Airlines, that never took off, were in news?
   Failed business attempts of Nira Radia 
    
6. Whose concept is the 10X factor?
   Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel 
    
7. Name the brand that got benefited by BP’s massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that came days after the brand launched the annual campaign around its “_____ Saves Wildlife” effort. Since three decades, this brand has donated dish soap to help clean the oil spills.
   Dawn liquid dish soap from Procter & Gamble 
    
8. The choice of the name as a trademark for this 100-year-old brand was a tribute to the founder’s wife who was a native of New Zealand. Name this brand. (Sara Lee Corporation now owns it.) 
   Kiwi boot polish 
    
9. A US political scientist coined a phrase in the 1950s after he found white families would stay for a while after the first few black families moved into the residential area, but the arrival of many would witness a white exodus. Name it.
   The Tipping Point 
    
10. Identify the brands and explain the logo designs.
    Café Coffee day using a blurb to signify a lot can happen over coffee (conversations) and Vodafone's speech mark logo which has two quotation marks one in red and the other in white

 

 

There were 52 all-correct entries for the strategist quiz #178. The winners who will receive a copy of Strategic Human Resources are Dimple Sudersan, Kochi; Sourish Biswas, Kolkata; Zaid Ahmad, Thane; Rajani Gaynar, Delhi; Anita Swain, Kolkata; Amrita Sabat, Bhubaneswar; Anita Rana, Delhi; Nigar Fatima, Tanda; Fatema Bookwala, Mumbai; and Shamimur Rahman, Patna Dimple Sudersan also wins Rs 2,000.

There were 19 all-correct entries for the strategist quiz #179. The winners who will receive a copy of Executive Stamina are Udayabhanu, Kochi; Mamta Ghosh, Gurgaon; Vineet Gupta, Meerut; Adeel Rahman, Patna; Shreya Chakraborty, Kolkata; Mahtba Alam, Patna; Vikram Rana, Delhi; Ishrat Jahan, Thane; Babulal Sarkar, New Delhi; and Sarwet Parveen, Giridih. Udayabhanu also wins Rs 2,000.