Answers to The Strategist Quiz 253 & 254 for Wed & Thurs

[Charpiece]

Charpiece,

All except two answers are given below.

Best

Shirani




On 5/23/12, Charpiece <char...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Charpiece,
>
> The starategist quiz 254 posted two days ago:
>
> When and which company coined the acronym for Office Automation — OA?
> It recently unveiled a new global brand tagline.

Ricoh a Japanese Company
>
> During the early years of this US university, established in the
> 1630s, tuition fees could be bartered for with lumber, livestock or
> construction stones. Name the university.

Cambridge Univ -- Not very sure.
>
> This company was very popular for its chain of tea shops it
> established during the 1890s in the UK which unfortunately closed in
> the early 1980s. In the information technology world, not known to
> many, it is credited with one of the industry’s firsts. Name the
> company and its pioneering achievement.
>
> This business book published last year is about a famous personality
> and is titled____Invests Like a Girl. The author feels that the
> subject of the book is a great investor because he activates
> deliberative “feminine” wisdom when making investment choices. Name
> the person on whom this book is written and its author.

> Warren Buffet Invests Like a Girl---LouAnn Lofton is the author.

> Who introduced the concept of the 3 Horizons for growth to the
> management world?
>
3 Horizons of Growth developed by Steve Coley at McKinsey

> Whose quote is this “I don’t think of work as work and play as play.
> It is all living”?

Richard Branson
>
> A Danish telephone engineer and inventor patented what he called a
> telegraphone in the 1890s. By what name is his invention better known
> as today?

Valdemar Poulsen, the Danish telephone engineer and inventor, patented
what he called a telegraphone in 1898. The telegraphone was the first
practical apparatus for magnetic sound recording and reproduction. It
was an ingenious apparatus for recording telephone conversations.

Answering Machine
>
> Which brand of fuel and lubricants did the Wright brothers use for
> their first historic flight at Kitty Hawk?
>
> Which technology product company’s mascot is called Redhead or simply, Rex?

The Kingston Redhead, or "Rex," as he is known to his friends, hasn't
changed much over the years. People everywhere recognize this icon as
the symbol of the world's independent memory leader.
>
> starategist quiz 253
>
>
> What name is given to a new type of company/corporation which uses the
> power of business to solve social and environmental problems?
>
> B Corporations. B Lab, a non-profit organisation, certifies B
> Corporations, the same way TransFair certifies Fair Trade coffee or
> USGBC certifies LEED buildings.
>
> Which company’s new baseline is Go Further?
> Ford
>
> In this era where social networks are beginning to dominate the
> internet space, what have been named after actresses Aishwarya Rai,
> Dia Mirza, Celina Jaitley and Bipasha Basu?
> Slideshare’s servers from where the portal delivers the slides to
> users across the world. LinkedIn has now bought slideshare for $119
> million
>
> In 1916, when this brand started its creators wanted to use the line
> “the first ‘feel-like-everyday’s-a-Saturday’ shoe”. Since it was too
> long for a tag, they called it Champion. Name the brand and give the
> two words that are its contribution to the footwear industry and are
> used generically.
> Keds. It was the first to introduce rubber-soled shoes which became
> known as sneakers because the rubber soles allowed sneaking around
> silently
>
> This symbol was first incorporated on at least one 1889 model of the
> Underwood typewriter and subsequently from 1905 all its successful
> typewriters carried it. In 1971 this person made a breakthrough
> invention and said to his colleague “Don’t tell anyone! This isn’t
> what we’re supposed to be working on”. Name the person, his invention
> and the symbol.
> Ray Tomlinson inventor of email and the adopter of @ symbol which he
> used to introduce an email address with
>
> The advertisements of which brand in the mid 2000s featured Manoj
> Night Shyamalan, Tiger Woods, Kate Winslet, Robert De Niro, Venus
> Williams and Beyonce Knowles?
> American Express
>
> The family member of which famous business group published a book of
> essays titled “Buried Stories”?
> Lee Maeng-hee, older brother of the current Chairman of Samsung
>
> Despite this iconic brand’s founder passing away way back in 1888, the
> company has opened a twitter account in his name which has more than
> 79,000 followers. Name the twitter account and the brand.
> The Coca Cola Company operates a twitter account by the name Doc Pemberton
>
> What is common to the sale of the library of a British politician Sir
> John Stanley and the sale of the library Napoleon took with him into
> exile on St Helena?
> The auction house Sotheby’s, founded by London bookseller Samuel
> Baker, in 1744, was responsible for the sale of British politician Sir
> John Stanley’s library and the one Napoleon took with him into exile
> on St Helena
>
> Best
>
> Shirani
>