Answers to the Strategist quiz #584

Answers to the Strategist quiz #584

1) "My name is ___, and the research project I'm going to describe has been going on down the road at the Stanford Research Institute. While I'm the only person you will see up here today, I am actually backed up by a staff working not just back stage, but also in Menlo Park, where all the computing you will see is actually occurring". Name the person who spoke these lines and what was the event?

1) Doublas Englebart during the first public demonstration of remote computing in 1968. He is also known as the Father of the Mouse

2) For which brand is George Clooney back in his first worldwide campaign where he is suited up in an armour to save a medieval kingdom before hitting the streets of New York City on a quest to find the kingdom's most exceptional ____?
 

2) Nespresso Coffee

3) Which company in its 132-year-old history pursued a strategy called "Socks and Stocks" in its business model?
 

3) Sears. It pursued a strategy known as "socks and stocks" 

4) What have been named after Ian Fleming, Charles M Schulz (Snoopy), Mozart and John Lennon?
 

4) Airports 

5) What term is used to describe the widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, human populations (including slaves), communicable diseases, technology and ideas between the American and Afro-Eurasian hemispheres following the voyage to the Americas by Christopher Columbus in 1492?
 

5) The Columbian Exchange.The term was coined in 1972 by Alfred W Crosby

6) Connect the picturesque Later Stone Age village of Skara Brae, off the North coast of Scotland, (2800 BC), the city of Mohenjadaro in the Indus valley and a Mesopotamian palace at Eshnunna, on the Diyala River in Iraq (2300 BC) and what do you arrive at? Today a business connected with it runs into billions of dollars.
 

6) Evidence of the first lavatories having been built and used.

7) What is the buzzword that is used to describe the integration of online access into daily life that has made a connection to the internet an absolute necessity?

7) Online Oxygen

8) Which cricketer endorses MRF, Nike, Protinex and Indian Oil Corporation?

8) Prithvi Shaw

9) It was initiated in 1865 and is informally known as The Knowledge. Brain scans have found that people who complete "The Knowledge" have a larger hippocampus compared to others. What's The Knowledge all about?
 

9) The Knowledge is an in-depth study of a number of preset London street routes and places of interest that taxicab drivers in that city must complete to obtain a licence to operate a black cab

 

10) Explain by combining the first two logos with the third partial image of a logo 

 

10) Truvia is a brand of stevia-based sugar substitute developed jointly by The Coca-Cola Company and Cargill  

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 October 30 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 eight correct entries to Quiz no 584. The winner is Kabitanjali Martha from Bhubaneswar