Showing posts with label Connect. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Connect. Show all posts

Saturday, December 18, 2021

OBQ 1665: The IN Thing

Here are two images that connect to a term that is gaining more and more popularity in the management world.

What is the term and how are they connected to these images?

Answer: Blink the term first popularized by Malcolm Gladwell and being recently adapted by Grofers to rebrand itself



Sunday, December 5, 2021

OBQ 1661: Well oiled machine.

Here is a business that started in pre-independence era in very low-tech industry and is now a full blown conglomerate that spans from agriculture to aerospace and is professionally run.

Connect these images to the Business group.

Answer: Mahindra group


Saturday, November 27, 2021

OBQ 1658: Times...they are changing.

 ...and so is this brand that has survived for over 100 years though under different set of owners.

Connect these images to an iconic brand that defines an entire industry.

Answer: Rado


Friday, November 19, 2021

OBQ 1655: A friend indeed.

A good friend is defined by how someone deals with you when you are at your worst and weakest. Here is few images from one such friend of India that has helped India when it needed it most.

Connect these to a country. If you can explain what all these images represent then you are a genius!


Answer:Russia/USSR

Saturday, October 16, 2021

OBQ 1642:Up for grabs.

At right price everything is available or at least it seems to be the case with this "Investor", identify the small country which has bought a lot of big names thanks to the huge pile of money it has generated by some dubious means.


Answer:The Saudi Arabian investment authority has part in all these, the latest acquisition being the Newcastle united club, last logo.



Wednesday, September 29, 2021

OBQ 1636:Past imperfect.

Be it human beings or companies, when you are born in place like Germany, the past haunts the present but if you deal with it like Frau Merkel you can make future almost perfect.

Connect these images to a firm that has entered in its 15th decade regardless of its shenanigans from the past. 

This is fairly easy if you know your movies or history.

Answer: Munich Re (reinsurer)


Sunday, September 5, 2021

OBQ 1627: Game of thrones.

Simply connect these companies to a business personality who might have something to do with Game of Thrones....both literally and metaphorically :).

Answer: Marc Beinoff


Wednesday, August 25, 2021

OBQ 1623: What is in the name?

There have been lots of questions about how this country and its name should be used globally, however its habitant couldn't care less, as they are the one who are making more money than the big brother!

Connect these images to a country.

Answer: Taiwan.


Sunday, August 15, 2021

OBQ 1620: Master network.

Identify the little network that started under a huge tree and then all of a sudden became so big that now the big tree is scared!

So tip your hat and connect these images to a company.

Answer: Arista Networks



Saturday, July 3, 2021

OBQ 1613: The revolutionary.

The revolutionary is dead (most likely murdered) but the revolution has just started, identify the greatest of the silicon valley icon, he was so good as a technologist and humanist that his peers had to get him jailed!

Connect to an icon whose name will be more famous after 50 years when his contemporaries like Bill Gates and Larry Ellison will be no more!!

Answer: John McAfee






Monday, June 21, 2021

OBQ 1608: Quiet revolution

 Connect these images to a revolution that is happening in the world of mobility.

I need a very specific answer!

Answer: Formula E


Monday, June 14, 2021

OBQ 1605: Repackaging Ayurveda.

Identify the company that is making the most out of Digital goldrush started by COVID-19 and selling its premium product like hot cakes.


Connect.

Ansswer: Wow cosmetics.


Saturday, June 5, 2021

OBQ 1602: Homegrown.

India surely has a lot of IT crowd but it hardly has products/apps that can compete with the likes of Whatsapp, Twitter or Microsoft Office. That is starting to change thanks to companies like this started by some mavericks that are not just redefining what India can do, but also how technology company can run without any need of glass and steel offices.

Connect to a company.


Answer: Zoho Corp


Wednesday, May 26, 2021

OBQ 1598: The connoisseur.

Connect to a giant from its industry that has curated a nice collection of product line that serves all taste over the last 100+ years of its existence.

Answer: Conde Nast group of publications.


Wednesday, May 19, 2021

OBQ 1595: Still roaring.

From backlots of California to beautiful beaches in the tropics this company has been in the limelight for many decades regardless of financial jugglery of its owners.

Connect to a brand/company.

Answer: MGM studios

 

Thursday, May 13, 2021

OBQ 1593: Unlikely savior.

Connect these images to a groundbreaking venture that intends to make us immortals!


Answer:Google's Calico


Thursday, April 29, 2021

OBQ 1589: Nerd-com

Connect to a platform that is all the rage among a particular section of nerds.

Answer: Discord


Wednesday, April 7, 2021

OBQ 1584: Geeks Inc.

This almost feels like history repeating itself, where the upstarts from two decades ago are now billionaire investors and they have found their alter egos in two nerds who will go on to revolutionize more than one industry.

Connect these four gentlemen to a company...unfortunately its not called  Geeks Inc.


Answer: Patrick and John Collison of Stripe






Saturday, March 27, 2021

OBQ 1579: Mad rush- Gold rush.

Simply identify the company that is participating in the current bull run...only time will tell whether it was a gold rush or mad rush!

Answer:Nazara tech



Thursday, March 18, 2021

OBQ 1575: Dark horses and Black swans.

Well this has nothing to do with zoology...or maybe it has. The company in question is privately held and has kept low profile, however some black swan event has brought it in limelight and given it the fame that was long due.

Connect to the company/business family.


Answer: Poonawala group.