Answers to the Strategist quiz (#501)

Strategy Quiz (#501) answers

1. In order to celebrate Women’s Day 2017 which company has installed a statue of the Fearless Girl, standing in front of the iconic symbol of power in America, the bull statue on Wall Street?

State Street, a $2.5-trillion asset management company

2. McDonald’s and The Home Depot, the ninth largest retailer in the US, use a particular object to define their basic business philosophy. What is it?

The three-legged stool. For home depot three-legged stool represents three tenets: Customer experience, product authority and capital allocation driven by productivity and efficiency. For McDonald’s the three legs represent McDonald’s, its franchisees and suppliers

3. Who gives out the Earthian awards and for what purpose?

Instituted by Wipro Ltd, they are given at an institutional level to encourage capability building in the area of sustainability

4. Connect the thermometer, piano, typewriter and the oldest film festival in the world.

All were invented in Italy. The Venice Film Festival is regarded as the oldest in the world that started in 1932

5. Which scandalous company that folded in late 2001 had set up small limited partnership firms or special finance vehicles (SPVs) named after Star Wars characters. The SPVs were used to remove debt from its balance sheet in order to increase its borrowing capacity.

Enron. Its SPVs were Chewco Investments L. P, named after the Star Wars character Chewbacca, because it was created to hide losses from the Joint Energy Development Investment Limited, known by its acronym “JEDI”

6. What is the term used to describe annoying web pages, generally carrying ads, that pop up on the page you are actually hoping to read?

Interstitials

7. This person, who set up India’s first Rayon manufacturing unit in the mid-1940s, also was the founder of a bank that had branches in Karaikudi in Tamil Nadu, Madras and Rangoon when it first started in 1937. Name him, the bank and the rayon company.

M. Ct. M. Chidambaram Chettiyar. He set up the Indian Overseas Bank and Travancore Rayons

8. Who invented and uses a typeface called Ecotype? It is its main typeface and was designed to help it manage and respond to electronic transmission and different printing conditions at its international production sites.

The Economist, a magazine which still calls itself a newspaper

9. This company’s corporate message is “Bringing water to life” and its mission is “In harmony with people and nature”. Name it.

The Japanese liquor giant Suntory Holdings Adidas Superstar shoes

10. This image is found suffixed to the logo of a famous sportsperson’s brand. Name it.

Tennis legend Bjorn Borg

Compiled by Gaurav Sri Krishna, www.facebook.com/gaurav.s.krishna

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The winner is chosen on the basis of the first correct entry received.

There were four correct entries to quiz No 501. The winner is Rohit Jain from Meerut (Uttar Pradesh)