Answers to last week's The Strategist Quiz (#249)

 

1. Connect the Bollywood film Fanaa and the army truck scam that has hit BEML and find out what is common to both
   Tatra, a mountain range which forms a natural border between Slovakia and Poland. The army truck is named after the mountain range and Fanna was filmed in Zakopane in Poland which is at the foothill of Tatra. 
    
2. If Facebook is the No.1 social networking site then what is SpaceBook?
   It is a website exclusively for Virgin Galactic Future Astronauts. 
    
3. What is common to N Chandrasekaran, CEO of TCS, Winston Churchill and former US president Franklin Roosevelt? Get the clue from Rembrandt’s famous painting titled “Night Watch”?
   They are 3 out of the only 4 non-Dutch individuals to receive the Medal of the City of Amsterdam — Frans Banninck Coqc medal so far. 
    
4. What is named after Georg Joseph Kamel, a Moravian missionary who was in Philippines in the mid 1600s?
   The scientific name for Tea, Camellia. After water, tea is the second most consumed drink in the world. 
    
5. This person was a PhD from Yale, who at the age of 28 set up a national telegraph company to compete with Marconi’s. He was associated with 25 different companies that went into bankruptcy. He was called a scientific kleptomaniac. Name him and the invention he is famous for. 
   Lee De Forest who is credited with the invention of the Triode. 
    
6. This brand was developed by a pharmacist and his wife way back in the 1900s in Australia. It was introduced in India in 1947. Today this brand is considered as the worlds largest in sales and market share in its category. Name it.
   Rexona, brand owned by Unilever. It claims that it is the world's largest deodorant brand in sales and market share. 
    
7. The co founder of which company who had always enjoyed tinkering with machinery and had gained some notoriety for building a working printer out of Lego bricks, took on the task of creating a new kind of server environment that used low-end PCs instead of big expensive machines.
   Larry Page of Google. 
    
8. The alkalising process associated with this machine became to be known as “Dutching”. Name the inventor whose name is also a popular brand. 
   The invention of the Cocoa Press by Conrad Van Houten in 1828 helped cut prices and improve the quality of chocolate by squeezing out more of the cocoa butter. Van Houten is a popular chocolate brand. 
    
9. What is a Kitemark?
   Kitemark is a registered trademark owned and awarded by the British Standards Institution for products that have demonstrated standards for quality and safety. 
    
10. Identify both the logos which look similar. The brands carry names of their respective founders.
    
    Mahindra and Oldsmobile. Oldsmobile was founded in 1897 by Ransom E Olds and is now part of GM.

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