The Strategist 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. 
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. 
    
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? 
    
4. The book titled From the Brink of Bankruptcy tells the story of which company? 
    
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. 
    
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? 
    
7. What’s the connection between The Jammu and Kashmir Bank, M Pallonji and Co and the Peanuts comic characters Snoopy and Charlie Brown? 
    
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. 
    
9. Whose baseline reads “Absolutely everything” and claims to be the world’s second largest in its business? 
    
10. Identify the company from its unique logo. 
    

Ten all-correct entries will receive a copy of Steven J Stein’s Make Your Workplace Great: The 7 Keys to an Emotionally Intelligent Organization published by Wiley India (books courtesy: Wiley India). One lucky winner will also receive a cheque for Rs 2,000. Send your entries to strategist@bsmail.in. All entries must carry the postal address of the contestant. Last date for receiving entries: 8 March. Previous winners, employees of Business Standard and Wiley India and their families are not eligible to participate.