Answers to the Strategist quiz (#481)

1. Legend has it that the founder of this brand dreamt of a kind of a beetle some 300 hundred years ago and established a knitting and weaving business in a central European country. His son purchase the brand name that it is still known in the 1930s from an existing UK company. During the same time this family invented a garment when translated meant "a rowing camisole". Name the founder, the brand and the popular name by which the garment is known.
   Johannes George Pasold established a knitting and weaving business in Fleissen, Czechoslovakia, in the late 18th Century. The name "Ladybird" was bought by his son Adolf Pasold for £5 from the Klinger Manufacturing Co, UK. According to legend, the founder had seen a ladybird in a dream when first starting the family firm. In 1938, they invented the Ruderleibchen, which became famous under the English name, the "T" Shirt. Ladybird is now owned by Shop Direct UK
    
2. The mayor of Paris some months ago protested the arrival of this service in her city, warning it would foul the air, snarl traffic and damage local businesses. Also may seriously destabilise the Parisian trade balances. Name the service.
   Amazon's Prime Now
    
3. This company's founder was a mayor of the capital city of Corsica in the early 1930s. He launched his business in the early 1900s with a product that was named after a flower which in turn was named after a famous French general who fought the Napoleonic wars. P&G at one time owned a lot of its brands. Name the person and the product that made him launch his business.
   French perfumer François Coty.The perfume was named La Rose Jacqueminot. The company he founded in 1904 is now Coty, Inc.
    
4. Connect a mobile app that allows users to create temporary disposable phone numbers in the US and Canada with the nickname used for pre-paid phones.
   Burner. The application's name is a reference to so-called "burner phones", prepaid mobile phones that are replaced frequently
    
5. Name the software linked to the Syrian conflict where people began using secure connections to bypass government censorship and Internet surveillance.
   DarkComet
    
6. This brand when introduced in 1929 was the first of its kind. It has a lot of Hollywood celebrities endorsing it in ads that carry the line "Whose that behind those __". Peter Sellers, Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Brooke Shields and many more celebrities endorsed this brand. Name it and state its significance.
   The Foster Grant sunglasses. Inexpensive mass-produced sunglasses made from celluloid by Sam Foster in 1929
    
7. Connect the hieroglyphics found at airports, rail stations, highways and other public places and GUI used extensively in the digital world to a social and economic museum in Austria that was set up to inform the Viennese about their city and what do you arrive at?
   The isotype method shows social, technological, biological, historical connections in pictorial form
    
8. Name this couple who are associated with the longest court hearing in an Australian state and involved in one of the longest running property disputes over an unfinished mansion named "The Taj Mahal"?
   Pankaj and Radhika Oswal
    
9. Which brand was the first one in the world to introduce the "left hander's shirt"? It was first introduced in India.
   Louis Philippe from Madura Garments
    
10. Identify the brand.
    Tork Electric Motorcycles

 

There were three correct entries to quiz No 481. The winner is Bikramjit Dey of Hyderabad. The winner is based on the first correct entry received.