Answers to last week's quiz (#294)

1. This brand’s story is forged by work and driven by life. It urges its customers and followers to become earthmovers — who are bold and confident enough to transform status quo into extraordinary. Name the brand.
   CAT Footwear manufactured by Caterpillar, an American corporation which designs, manufactures, markets and sellsmachineryand engines.
    
2. What is common to these brands — Golf, Polo and Derby, and identify the odd one out?
   These are all cars manufactured by Volkswagen. The odd one is Golf whose name is derived from the German word forGulf Stream (Golfstrom) and not the sport.
    
3. Which company’s employees refer to one of the buildings at their headquarters as the ‘washing machine building’?
   Building No.44, Infosyss electronic city, Bangalore.
    
4. Soon after this library was inaugurated, it placed an order with Cambridge University Press for about 35,000 books, a move that resulted in the publisher issuing its longest invoice ever which was 2,794 pages-long. Name this library.
   The Anna Centenary State Library located in Chennai.
    
5. Connect the following: jet, car, hotel, bus, van, office, pizza, gym, mobile and money with a brand owner who has been knighted by the queen. One of its brand values is to taken on the big boys.
   The Easy group founded by Sir Stelios Haji-IoannouaBritishentrepreneur ofGreek Cypriotorigin. The first business he set up under the Easy brand was the low cost airline EasyJet in 1995. It followed with the EasyCar, EasyHotel, EasyBus etc subsequently.
    
6. This company was founded in 1925 in a small principality of Gujarat.The company adopted the horseshoe as its corporate logo, which stands till today, and is widely recognised as a symbol of excellence for the company. Name it.
   DCW Limited (Dharangadhra Chemical Works) set up Indias first soda ash factory in 1925. It continues to use the horseshoe logo even today.
    
7. What is the term that describes an economic policy through which one country attempts to remedy its economic problems by worsening the economic problems of other countries? This is done by devaluing currencies, imposing import bans/quotas and high customs duties.
   Beggar -thy neighbor policy.
    
8. This country’s official newspaper gets its name from the yacht that carried its revolutionary leader who was the prime minster and president for 40 years. Name the newspaper and the country.
   Granma, is the official newspaper of theCentral Committeeof theCuban Communist Party and is the main paper in Cuba.
    
9. In order to tackle inflation, this country’s president announced a two-month price freeze on supermarket products in the first week of February 2013. Name the country.
   Argentina.
    
10. Identify and establish the connection between these two brands.
    MTV has, in association with Swipe Telecom, launched a co-branded new generation 6-inch fabulous tablet (fablet) called MTV Volt'.
    
    
    

There were two correct entries for The Strategist quiz #294.

Subham Awasthi from Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, wins Rs 2,000 for The Strategist quiz #294. The winner of the cash prize was chosen by drawing lots