Answers to the Strategist quiz #638

Here are the answers to the strategist quiz #638

1. Based on a survey for Halloween 2019 in the US, what is common to the states of California, Washington, Florida and Hawaii? (trick or treat).

Answer:  The most popular candy that is given out as a treat is Hershey’s Cookie’s and Crème candy bar.

2. This company’s name was derived by turning the letters of the holding company's logo upside down. Its name was changed a few years later to avoid a trademark lawsuit and it was folded back into its flagship company before 1960. Name it.

Answer:  HP spun off a small company, Dynac, to specialise in digital equipment. The name was picked so that the HP logo "hp" could be turned upside down to be a reverse reflect image of the logo "dy" of the new company. 

3. What is common to the books Leaving Microsoft To Change the World by John Wood and Fluid concepts and creative analogies by Douglas Hoffstadter.

Answer:  They were the first books to be sold on Flipkart and Amazon.com respectively. In effect the first products too.

4. Connect a Trakehnerstallion, which is a light warmblood breed of horse, to a public limited company founded in the mid-1760s, which is still in existence.

Answer:   The Logos of the Lloyds Bank that was set up in 1765. Initially it was represented by a Beehive which represented thrift and industriousness it was later replaced by the Black Horse. 

5. Amul in one of its recent topical ads asks customers to increase their adrenaline, connect this with the publisher Hachette and what do you arrive at?

Answer:  The ad was a take on the latest Asterix comic book titled “Asterix and the Chieftain’s Daughter”, whose name is Adrenaline.

6. Under the legal terminology of Ancient Rome, the names "Numerius Negidius" and "Aulus Agerius" were used in relation to hypothetical defendants and plaintiffs. Similarly, what name is used in the US, especially in the Panama papers whistle blower's case.

Answer:  John Doe was the mysterious whistle blower at the law firm Mossack and Fonseca.

7. This Scotsman born in the mid-1700s was an engineer, a draftsman, an accountant, an economist, a statistician, a convict, a journalist and a spy for Great Britain. He introduced in the 1780s and early 1800s, which is being used even today. Name him and his invention

Answer:  William Playfair invented four types of diagrams: in 1786 it was the line graph and bar chart and in 1801 the pie chart and circle graph.

8. The toponym for this French town comes from the two Gaulishwords combined into meaning "market or field, of the confluence". It has an unrelated similarity with an English word. Taking advantage of this, the Mayor of this town had opened a museum in relation to this product category in the mid-1990s which subsequently got closed. Name the product.

Answer:  Condom, is a small commune in South West of France. The Mayor of this commune in 1995 set up a museum of contraceptives. 

9. What do you arrive at when you combine the names of the chairman of the Financial Times from 1945 to 1958, and the managing director of McKinsey from 1950 to 1967?

Answer:  The Bracken Bower Prize. is a prestigious annual award given to the best business book proposal of the year by a young business writer under the age of 35.

10. Many brands display this logo as a part of their credentials. What does it signify?

Answer:  Royal Warrant issued by the Prince of Wales to firms who supply goods and services to the Royal Household based on some terms and conditions.

One lucky winner will receive a cheque for Rs 2,000. Send your entries to strategist@bsmail.in. All entries must carry the postal address of the contestant. Last date for receiving entries is November 22 till 8 pm. Previous winners and employees of Business Standard and their families are not eligible to participate. The winner is chosen on the basis of the first correct entry received.

There were six correct entries to Quiz number 638. The winner is Narasimhan Chellappa from Chennai