Answers to the Strategist quiz (#381)

1. By connecting Franz Kafka's novella Metamorphosis and a Japanese company, whose name in its native means heart or spirit, what does one arrive at?
   
   A theatre production in Japan that has opened with a play based on the adaptation of Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis, in which the main character Gregor Samsa is played by an actroid (android) called Repliee S1. This actroid was developed by the Kokoro Company, which is a part of the Sanrio group in active collaboration with Hiroshi Ishiguro of the Osaka University.
    
2. During the early 1790s, a Britisher established a coffee house in India, which operated on the lines of the Lloyd's of London. He maintained a register of the arrival and departure of ships and offered Indian and European newspapers for his customers to read. Where was this opened and what was the name of the coffee house?
   
   In 1792, the Exchange Coffee Tavern was opened at the Madras Fort (St. George's Fort). The Fort was acquired in 1787 by one Peter Massey Cassin.
    
3. What is the generic term used to describe online retailers like Snapdeal, Flipkart, Amazon and taxi service companies like Uber, Olacabs and Taxi for Sure in the world of business?
   
   Aggregators. These companies do not make their own products but aggregate existing brands on their platform.
    
4. This company's tagline on the landing page in its website is "For Sure since 1883". Its 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 also mention its stock ticker on NYSE.
   
   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. An Indian mythological symbol was used by Coca-Cola in its ads and Carlsberg beer on its beer bottles. The Boy Scouts adopted it and the Girls' Club of America called their magazine by its name. It was used by American military units during World War One and it could be seen on RAF planes till the late 1930s. Name it.
   
   The Swastika. It was used as the symbol of good fortune world over till the Nazis adopted it.
    
6. This country's former capital's name when translated into English was known as the 'Father of Apples'. This city is known as the genetic epicenter of Apples, Walnuts and Apricots. Deforestation is threatening the wild precursors of the apple in this country. Name the country and its former capital city.
   
   Almaty in Kazakhstan. Alma-Ata in Kazakh translates to Father of Apples. Its current capital is Astana.
    
7. This term is generally used to describe money generated out of criminal activities. It includes Illegal capital flight, narcotics trade, smuggling of arms and other goods, computer crimes, human trafficking and counterfeiting. Name it.
   
   GCP, Gross Criminal Product. It was popularised by Raymond Baker, founder and president of Global Financial Integrity, a research and advocacy organisation in Washington, DC working to curtail illicit financial flows.
    
8. What is Kari Beck? It sells at Rs 15,000 per kg in India.
   
   It is the Indian version of Kopi Luwak, a coffee made out of civet cat droppings. TS Ganesh at Biligiri Rangan Hills in Karnataka is the only planter in India promoting this variety of brew. He scoops up about three kgs of these droppings - labelled as Kari Beck (for Black Cat in Kannada) Coffee - every year.
    
9. Connect the term used to describe the process used in leather crafting to reduce the thickness of leather and an instance of avoiding work or a duty by staying away or leaving early and what do you arrive at?
   
   The term skiving.
    
10. Identify both the images and establish the connection between them. The second image where a part of it has been erased is a symbol, which can be found in cities of Mumbai & Surat.
    
    
    

 

The first image is the symbol for the Man Booker prize and the second one is the Happy Shopper Symbol that was introduced by Booker India. The Booker group established in 1835 is UK's largest food retailer that established this literary award way back in 1969. It introduced the Happy Shopper concept with Indian kirana stores in order harness the lessons learned from its premier chain of retail stores in the UK. Currently these branded stores can be found in Mumbai, Surat and Pune.
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