Answers to the Strategist quiz (#471)

1. Identify this special limited edition: It is dedicated to a lady and her time in Paris in the 1920s with art deco motifs. The product's design includes the Venice Lion and mooring poles used in Venice. She has a connection with works of art titled Enchanted Forest, The Moon Woman and Troubled Queen. It also has an engraving of her spectacles.
   The Peggy Guggenheim collection from Mont Blanc. Her spectacles are engraved on the golden nib of the special edition pen. She championed the art of abstract expressionists like Jackson Pollock
    
2. In the first product catalogue produced for this brand, the phrase "Silent Gray Fellow" was used way back in the early 1900s. Name it.
   Harley Davidson
    
3. What is the connection between a 1966 campaign to have NASA release the then-rumored satellite image of the entire earth as seen from space and one of Internet's oldest virtual communities?
   Stewart Brand, an American writer, best known as editor of the Whole Earth Catalog. He, along with Larry Brilliant in 1985, founded The Whole Earth Lectronic Link (The WELL), one of the first virtual communities. In the 60s he was the lead campaigner to force NASA to release satellite images of earth
    
4. Name the former British car racing driver who gave the world of business management the GROW, SMART, PURE and CLEAR models for growth and coaching.
   John Whitmore
    
5. The patent for a major component of this globally famous product is described as "Inherently tacky elastomeric copolymer microspheres". Name the product and its inventor.
   The Post-it Note invented by Spencer Silver (responsible for the adhesive) and Arthur Fry for 3M
    
6. Whose ad lines read: "You Drink We Drive"?
   The tyre manufacturer brand Ceat
    
7. The Humble Twin, The 4X and The Executive are brands owned by whom now?
   Unilever, it acquired these brands from Dollar Shave Club in a $ 1-billion deal recently
    
8. What is common to the Swami, the Hashbury, the Rabbit and the Musa?
   Footwear brands designed by British fashion designer Paul Smith
    
9. What is common to Winston Churchill, the Rothschild family and the Gurkhas of Nepal?
   Cigars. Churchill and Rothschild are types of Parejo cigars. The Gurkha is a cigar brand
    
10. Identify the brand from its logo. It was launched 35 years ago and discontinued 24 years ago.
    The The BBC Microcomputer System, or BBC Micro, a series of microcomputers and associated peripherals designed and built by the Acorn Computer Company for the BBC Computer Literacy Project

 

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