Answers to the Strategist quiz (#510)

Strategy Quiz (#510) answers

1. Connect Mr. Bean, Homer from the Simpsons and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and arrive at a software brand name and its capabilities.
 

Adobe showcased its Character Animator software to make real-time, interactive animated characters in The Mr. Bean Facebook Live event. It hosted a similar event a year ago with The Simpsons. Adobe Character Animator is in use on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. It featured an animated Donald Trump who was interviewed by Colbert by using the software

2.   Name this firm founded and listed on NYSE in the early 1920s was known as a dependable entity. When rumours were pulling its stock price down, its founder took on Wall Street with newspaper ads that read: “Shall the gambler rule? On a white horse he rides. Bluff is his coat, his helmet is deceit, his spurs clink with treachery and the hoof beats of his horse thunder destruction, shall good business flee?” Hint: Just in Time (JIT).

The Piggly Wiggly supermarket founded by Clarence Saunders in1916. It was the world’s first self-service supermarket which was an inspiration for Toyota’s Taaichi Ohno in the 50s where he found a functional Just in Time system that he took back to Japan and created a similar one for manufacturing 

3.   In the 1720s in England __ was depicted as a national threat to English trade and gender roles. Like imported china, tea and lacquered cabinets, __ contributed to debates over luxury. Since women were mostly its consumers they were reproached for purchasing it. In support of the wool trade, Daniel Defoe and Richard Steele accused female domestic servants, who were subject to fewer sartorial constraints than their liveried male colleagues, of ruining England’s wool industry. What was the commodity and also mention the nickname given to the women who used it?

Calico cotton cloth (which gets its name from Calicut) from India

4.  In the early 80s in the US, starting with airplanes places became off-limits to smoking. Some big tobacco companies and smokers rebelled with a campaign to begin demanding smokers’ rights. Name a brand that was introduced the lines “I like em and am going to smoke em”.

The brand was named “Go to Hell”

5.  The oldest continuously operated veg restaurant set up in the 1890s has sambhar vada, palak paneer, banana Madras and white jackfruit curry in its menu. It was also Morarji Desai's favourite restaurant. Name it.

Haus Hiltl, the world’s oldest vegetarian restaurant based in Zurich, Switzerland

6.  Connect Raj Bhavan built in 1803 in Kolkata and Rambagh Palace, Jaipur, with the firsts in India of two global brands that are part of one company.

The first Otis elevator was fitted at Raj Bhawan in Kolkata in 1892 and Carrier’s first air-conditioning installation was at the Rambagh Palace in Jaipur in 1930. Both of them are now part of United Technologies

7.   After IPL cricket which is the other sport for which Vivo has become the main title sponsor in India?

Vivo is title sponsor for Pro Kabaddi League for the next five years

8.   Connect the Charlie Brown character from the comic strip Peanuts and Charles De Gaulle and what do you arrive at?

French magazine Charlie Hebdo. It took its name from both of them

9.   Which brand ran an ad titled “George Clooney and Einstein’s Choice”? Why was Einstein referred to in this ad?

George Clooney posed for Omega Seamaster Acqua Terrawatches with his adopted & rescued dog Einstein

 10.  Name the company from its logo. 

Liberty House Group

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