Answers to the Strategist quiz #595

Answers to the Strategist quiz #595

1. In the 18th Century what was the main commodity that was controlled by a cartel of wealthy Chinese merchants called Hongs?

Answer: Opium

2. Connect a trademark registration received by a company from the US Patent & Trademark Office in 2003 and a phrase that is used by most Kiswahili-speaking countries such as Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Mozambique, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.An online movement is challenging the grant of this patent to the company since it did not create or invent it.  Name the company and mention the details of the patent.  

Answer: The trademark registration is for “Hakuna Matata”, the phrase used by Disney in one of the company’s most popular movie, The Lion King. The phrase is also Swahili for what roughly translates in English to no problems" or no worries.

3. What is the term used to describe a situation when a person is fired from his company because he or she posts something not acceptable by the company on his/her personal blog? 

Answer: Dooced

4. Name the Indian company & its founder whose shares of Rs 5000 face value each, were then put on an auction and sold for Rs 26,500 per share, a premium of Rs 21,500 per share in the mid-1860s. Its share price at one point in time peaked to Rs 55,000.

Answer: Backbay Reclamation Co. by Premchand Roychand 

5. In the 1970s what was the first of its kind introduced in India thru the brands Sona and Vijay?

Answer: Quartz watches

6. Connect Sacred Heart, Cabbage Soup and General Motors company and what do you arrive at?

Answer: The GM Diet

7. Patchouli is a species of plant that is native to the tropics of Asia. The heavy and strong scent of patchouli has been used for centuries in perfumes and, more recently, in incense, insect repellents and alternative medicines. The word derives from the Tamil patchai for green and ellai for leaf. Connect this with one of Mattel'sProducts.

Answer: Action figure Stinkor 

8. Connect Greenery, Ultra Violet and Living Coral and what do you arrive at?

Answer: Pantone’s Colour of the Year by the company Pantone

9. Scarlet, Gus, Rod and Bluetiful are the mascots for which brand?

Answer: Crayola crayons

10. What is this mascot called and whom does it represent?

Answer: Duke is the mascot for the programming language Java, now part of Oracle. Duke was the interactive host that enabled a new type of user interface that went beyond the buttons, mice, and pop-up menus of the desktop computing world