The Strategist Quiz (#518)

The Strategist Quiz, July 6, 2017

1. Recently a car brand took four years to release a custom-built car for one of its wealthy customers costing upwards of $10 million. It gets its name from the design where the body work wraps under the car with no visible boundary, akin to the hull of a yacht and an upward sweep at the rear departure angle culminating in the __. Name it.

2. The Manasollasa, written in 1130 CE, is a Sanskrit text composed by the South Indian king Someshvara III of the Kalyani Chalukya dynasty. In a chapter dedicated to food which famous Indian dish is claimed to have been mentioned here for the first time?

3. This former CEO of a bank always carried a small jar in his pocket to catch a beetle if he found one. He built up a collection of 90,000 specimens in his lifetime. Name him.

4. It was prescribed by the strategist Kautilya (Chanakya) in his famous Arthashastra in 300 BCE and was adopted by the Indian Council of Medical Research in 1987. Also many consumer product companies follow it. What is it?

5. The first term used in this series is now common business jargon, the subsequent ones were: Woodenman, Tinman, Ironman, Sandman, Steelman, Peebleman. What is it?

6. What is the connection between Benjamin Franklin and a company that was established in the late 1950s by Grumman Aircraft Engineering Co., a company known for military aircraft production?

7. In the 60s this person envisioned a future time when machine cognition (cerebration) would surpass and become independent of human direction, as a basic stage of development within human evolution, relevant in today’s A.I. world. Name him and the title of his work.

8. Whose baseline now reads “Taking care of business”?

9. This brand uses models dubbed as the “Brandy Girls” or Brandy Ambassadors. Name the brand and the country of its origin.

10. What does this logo represent?

Compiled by Gaurav Sri Krishna, www.facebook.com/gaurav.s.krishna 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: July 7 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 No 517. The winner is Mudit Kothari of Pune.