Answers to last week's quiz (#210)

 

1. The latest update for which operating system has been dubbed as Mango? 
   Microsoft Windows Phone 7 operating system 
    
2. ______ Smile is the title by which this brand has a presence on Facebook. It encourages you to share your ‘smile’ by uploading photographs. Fill in the blank with the brand’s name. 
   Colgate Smile 
    
3. This company name when translated in English reads “Tiger-Leopard Limited”. Actually named after its founders, this company recently severed ties with its Indian counterpart. Name the company and its popular brand. 
   The Haw Par Corporation Limited, the makers of Tiger Balm. It gets its name from its founders Boon Haw (Gentle Tiger) and Boon Par (Gentle Leopard). 
    
4. What is common to GE, Hershey’s, Sara Lee and P&G as far as their Indian operations are concerned?
   They all had unsuccessful JVs with the Godrej group 
    
5. When was the first computer bulletin board system introduced and by whom?
   The first computer bulletin board system was introduced by CACHE (Chicago Area Computer Hobbyists Association) in 1978 
    
6. The founder of this company quit her job in the 1960s because a man whom she trained was promoted above her at twice her salary. She planned to write a book and the notes for it became instead a business plan for starting her own company. Name this person who runs one of the most successful sales driven companies. 
   Mary Kay Ash 
    
7. What was used for the first time during the Italo-Turkish war that was fought in Libya in 1911? 
   The first aerial bomb was dropped during the Italo-Turkish war in 1911. First use of aircraft in war as weapons.  
8. What is common to the brands Chairman, Korando and Rodius? 
   All car brands manufactured by Ssangyong Motors of South Korea 
    
9. This brand’s name in its native means a dark, furry animal now called the Pine Marten weasel. Name it. 
   Nokia in Finnish means a dark, furry animal — Pine Marten weasel 
    
10. Identify the symbol and name its designer?
    
    In the early 1970s, Chicago-based Container Corporation of America sponsored a contest for art and design students in high schools and colleges across the US. It was won by Gary Anderson whose entry was the image now known as the universal recycling symbol.

There were 24 all-correct entries for the strategist quiz #210. The winners who will receive a copy of The Jelly Effect are R Sanjay, Bhubaneshwar; Pankaj K Joshi, Almora; P.N.Bakuli, Kolkata; Mamata Pal, Hooghly; S. Purkayastha, Shillong; Karthik M, Chennai; Kanudawala Gaurav, Deesa; Murthy V S, Hyderabad; Anupam Bhowal, New Delhi; Dileep V, Navi Mumbai R Sanjay also wins Rs 2,000.