Answers to the Strategist quiz (#410)

1. Thirty years ago a group of 25 automobile engineers from India, along with their Japanese counterparts, worked on a project that was code named K/YN4 . Such was the secrecy around it that the physical tests were carried out close to midnight under the cover of darkness. Name the car.
   
   Maruti Suzuki Swift.
    
2. Name the brand that is igniting nostalgia with the movie it was associated with 22 years ago. In the movie Jurassic Park, this brand's product was more than a product placement but a pivotal plot point. In the movie one of its containers were modified to nefariously smuggle dino embryos off the island. That attempt met doom with the container lost in the jungle.
   
   Salman Stocks. These are two companies associated with Salman Khan. Mandhana Industries manufactures and distributes products under the Being Human brand.
    
3. This person is an American computer engineer, internet entrepreneur, internet activist, advocate of universal access to all knowledge and digital librarian. He is the founder of the Wayback machine and Thinking Machines and a member of the Internet Hall of Fame. Name him.
   
   Brewster Kahle. He is also co-founded Alexa.
    
4. This auto company named a class of its stock it issued to its shareholders Model AA after its first passenger car. It is issuing this class of shares for medium to long-term investors as it aims to raise capital for a business cycle that requires long-term product planning and development. Name the company.
   
   Toyota Motor Company in Japan. It plans to tap the burgeoning senior citizen investors with this stock plan.
    
5. Which business book's title is an inspiration from a line in Samuel Beckett's book Worstward Ho? It reads Try again, fail again, fail better. Also mention its authors.
   
   The Book titled Fail Better- Design Smart Mistakes and Succeed Sooner is written by Anjali Sastry of MIT Sloan School of Management and Kara Penn.
    
6. This agent was used in the 1880s for the fumigation of citrus trees in California. Its use spread to other countries for the fumigation of silos, goods wagons, ships, and mills. It was first isolated from a blue pigment (Prussian blue) and was given its name from the Greek word for blue. IG Farben a German company used this in one of its products and gained notoriety during WWII. Name this agent.
   
   Cyanide. IG Farben used cyanide in its pesticide called Zyklon B that was by the Nazis in the Gas chambers.
    
7. Which brand has been "Separating men from boys and Separating women from girls since 1783"?
   
   Schweppes.
    
8. What is the slang term used to describe this act when politicians or governments "unofficially" undertake projects that benefit a group of citizens in return for that group's support or campaign donations? This spending mostly benefits the needs of a small select group despite the fact that the entire community's funds are being used.
   
   Pork Barrel Politics
    
9. In stock broker parlance what are these two stocks collectively known as NSE: EROSMEDIA and NSE: MANDHANA?
   
   Barbasol Shaving Foam.
    
10. Name the brand that is using this creature for its branding.
    
    
    
    The apparel brand Indigo Nation uses the chameleon with the tag line "Subject to Change." The Future group owns this brand.

There were nine all correct entries for quiz No.410. Bhushan Khanolkar from Pune wins Rs 2000. The winner was chosen on the basis of first correct entry received.