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This Month's Contest
A Creativity Quiz -- and if you read this
whole e-newsletter you already have one question answered! The idea of creative
problem solving has been handed down to us by the masters, the giants, from who
we learn and inherit their innovation.
Test your innovation-awareness
radar with the quiz below. Each question below has several possible
answers. Choose what you think is the correct answer. Of course, if you're
stuck, go surfing and see what you can find!
1. What famous product was considered a failure and
abandoned - but became a success when one of the engineers took some discarded
samples home, only to find that his teenage daughters used the product for
setting their hair?
a) styling gel
b) Scotch tape
c) Post-It notes
2. What invention was discovered after its inventor
discovered an analogy between a toy funnel and the motions of a paper doll and
sound vibrations?
a) the telephone
b) the phonograph
c) the telegraph
3. What famous inventor had a conversation with God
where he asked if he could learn the mysteries of the universe, only to be told,
"No." He finally asked to learn all he could about one small object.
a) George Washington Carver
b) Marconi
c) Samuel Morse
4. Who solved a famous problem by imagining he was
travelling on a beam of light?
a) Thomas Edison
b) Albert Einstein
c) Benjamin Franklin
5. George Foerstner went door to door selling
wholesale food. But he wasn't knocking on doors primarily to sell food. He was
there to take orders for this appliance (to be used once he had sold people a
large quantity of food). What was it?
a) Osterizer Blender
b) General Electric Stove
c) Amana Freezers
6. What famous inventor was standing by a well when
he saw a stone hit the water at the same time a bell rang. Watching the circular
ripples in the water while at the same time listening to the ringing of the
bell, he realized that sound travels in waves.
a) Sir Isaac Newton
b) Leonardo da Vinci
c) Marconi
7. What famous invention was discovered after the
inventor studied under a microscope the burrs in his dog's hair?
a) velcro
b) the zipper
c) the sewing machine
8. What famous person said if he were told that a
comet would hit the earth in one hour, totally destroying it, replied that he
would spend 55 minutes thinking about the question and 5 minutes solving it?
a) Stephen Hawking
b) Carl Sagan
c) Albert Einstein
9. For five years, Spencer Silver tried to sell 3M
on the usefulness of this product, it was a solution looking for a problem. Finally, he showed it to
colleague Arthur Fry who saw
the possibilities. Once marketed, it caught the attention of consumers all over
the world.
a) Scotch tape
b) Overhead transparencies
c) Post-It Notes
10. What famous inventor threw a paint-filled sponge
at the wall and then looked to see what shapes he could find in the splatters of
paint, then thinking about connections between the image he saw and the problem
he was working on?
a) Alexander Graham Bell
b) George Washington Carver
c) Leonardo da Vinci
The Rules
 | E-mail your contest entry with "March Contest"
in the subject line to info@stratevative.com
|
| Include your name and email address with your
entry.
|
| When submitting your entry, indicate both the
question number and your letter response (ex: 1 a, 2 b, etc.) |
| Results (and correct answers) will be announced
in the next issue of Stratevative e-Newz. |
| Deadline for the contest is 11:59 PM CET, 15-March-2002.
All items must be received by the deadline. |
| The first three correct entries by the deadline
date win a Return on
Investment (ROI) Analysis Plan
for use in their organizations. |
