Friday, February 13, 2009

Biz Wizards - Quark 2009 : Prelims (Non-Visual Answers)

1. The company is 23AndMe (a personal genomics and biotechnology company) and it enables consumers to understand their own genetic information.

2. Starbuck (passage from Moby Dick)


3. Patent Pool

4. 1. Lee (not Levi's)

2. flixter.com

3. Reddy Laboratories

4. UPS


5. Made in Japan (Akio Morita)


6. Volvo

7. The verb "gazump" means to refuse to formalise a property sale agreement at the last minute in order to accept a higher offer.

8. Harley Davidson

9. Samsung

10. Universal Pictures

11. Fictional companies (Tyrell - Blade Runner, Morley Cigarettes - QT films & X-Files, InGen - Jurassic Park, Milliways - the restaurant at the end of the universe in the Hitchhikers' novels, Universal Exports - the company OO7 claims to represent when undercover)


12. id Software

13. Camay

14. Zyklon-B

15. Hang Seng

16. Reva

17. Arthur Charles Nielsen (AC Nielsen)


18. Berkshire Hathaway