Answers to the Strategist quiz (#483)

1. Name the brand that launched its ready-to-wear Spring Summer Collection in Paris with a set resembling a data center and droid-like catwalk models recalling Softbank's Pepper or Honda's ASIMO robots instead of human models.
   Chanel
    
2. Who said this "Ultimately it comes down to taste. Picasso had a saying: Good artists copy, great artists steal. We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas. I think part of what made the ____great was that people working on it were musicians, poets, artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world." Fill in the blank too.
   Macintosh. Steve Jobs said this during an interview with PBS in 1996
    
3. This Englishman came up with an innovative idea in horticulture in the 1890s. He found that the general public were being priced out of taking an interest in gardening. He thought that by selling penny packets of seed through mail order, he could make it affordable for people to take a pride in sprucing up their gardens and at the same this could prove to be a profitable business. He is also associated with a famous sporting event Name him and the event?
   Samuel Ryder and the Ryder Cup, a golf tournament played between Europe and the US. Initially it was the UK vs the US. He was the first sponsor who donated the golden trophy for the tournament that began in 1927
    
4. This brand opened its first store in the mid-1960s, with the grateful dead playing at the opening as poster of Bob Dylan hung in the window. It is celebrating its 50th year this year, name it.
   American outdoor product company The North Face
    
5. Which brand's first topical advertisement came out in mid- 1960s when horse racing in India was becoming popular. The ad featured_____ riding a horse with a pun on a word which means of pure breed?
   The Amul Girl topical campaigns began in March 1966. The phrase used here was Thoroughbread
    
6. In this island Portuguese sailors inflicted with scurvy during the 16th and 17th centuries were dropped off by their ships and subsequently on their return found them to be have recovered from it. A product from this island is popular with bar tenders and is found in alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks. Name the product and the island it comes from.
   The island of Curaçao and the Blue Curaçao liqueur. The liqueur is extracted from the peel of the laraha citrus fruit developed from the Valencia orange transplanted and grown by Spanish explorers. It is understood that the Portuguese sailors cured themselves after eating this fruit and hence called it ilha da Curaçao (Island of Healing)
    
7. Founded by a NASA researcher, the firm's product was refined by two brothers when their high school team mates were murdered in a road rage in the US. It gets its name from Tom Swift, a Sci-Fi character by Victor Appleton. What is it.
   A Taser or conducted electrical weapon is an electroshock weapon sold by Taser International
    
8. In war this term is used for an infallible attack or defense. In business it's a guaranteed solution to a problem. Name it?
   Silver bullet
    
9. This firm's scrip is touted as "From a Balloon seller to the most valued stock" in the Indian bourses. It has grown more than 100 per cent since 2001. Name it.
   MRF Limited. It has touched Rs 53,000 in the recent past
    
10. Whose logo is this?
    The Russian oil company Rosneft which recently bought Essar Oil

 

There were eight entries to quiz No 483. The winner is Subhamay Pradhan of Bhubaneswar. The winner is based on the first correct entry received.