ANSWERS to the Strategist quiz 622

1 Connect the Heavy Metal Band Black Sabbath & Rainbow with Tanzania born Charulata Patel who has become a sensation now especially on digital media and what do you arrive at?

The gesture used by Charulata Patel for the Pepsi ads was introduced to the world by Ronnie James Dio, who sang with Black Sabbath and Rainbow before forming his own band. He was partly responsible for it becoming a common symbol among metal fans. Now commonly seen at rock concerts, the index finger and the little finger are upright and the thumb is clasped against the two middle fingers

2 This inventor left school during his early teens to work in his father's typeface making factory. During the Crimean war, his attention was drawn towards the guns used by the British & French against the Russians. After being refused by the British war office, he approached Napoleon III with an idea of his and the rest is history. Name this person and the process he developed that revolutionised the production of __ since it could be produced on an economic scale.

Henry Bessemer, steel 

3 Where in the late 1700s did a Coffee House open in India very similar to the Lloyds Coffee House of London? Also name it.

In 1792, the Exchange Coffee Tavern was opened at the Madras Fort (St. George's Fort) 

4 This company's founder set it up as a utility company supplying electricity to a city in the US. It made the original ____ that helped build the railroads, erect skyscrapers, and expand highways across America. A historic mile marker for the company took place in 1914, when it introduced a product line called the 1,000 mile ____. Name the company and the product being referred to here.

The Wolverine Shoes manufactured by the Wolverine World Wide Inc. It is famous for its 1,000-mile shoes. Its stock symbol on the NYSE is WWW

5 If GDP is Gross Domestic Product, what is GCP?

Gross Criminal Product. It was popularised by Raymond Baker 

6 What is the term used to describe a quiet protest of company policy in which employees go through the motions of doing their jobs but intentionally accomplish nothing?

Malicious Obedience

7 Who said this "One person's car is another person's scenery"?

Jonathan Ive, the ex-chief designer of Apple

8 Haw, Hem, Scurry and Sniff are characters from a popular motivational business book. Name the book and its author.

Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson

9 What has been recently launched in the Russian market by a global brand that goes by this line "Wear it? Eat from it. Live the full branded experience of the __?

The KFC Bucket Hat

10 Connect the image with a Bank and also name its current owner.

Adam and Company is now a trading division of The Royal Bank of Scotland plc. The bank was founded in 1983 in Edinburgh, often referred to as the birthplace of Scottish Enlightenment, and it was named after one of the leading lights of that era, Adam Smith