Answers to the Strategist quiz (#454)

1. This House of ____ is a European royal house of French origin, a branch of the Capetian dynasty. The kings from this dynasty first ruled France and Navarre in the 16th century and by the 18th century, some also held thrones in Spain, Naples, Sicily, and Parma. Spain and Luxembourg now have monarchs linked to this dynasty. Connect it with America's largest selling distilled spirit.
   
   Bourbon. The whisky gets its name from Bourbon County that was established in 1785 from land given by Fayette County, Virginia, and named after the French House of Bourbon
    
2. This person was born into a Jewish family in Budapest in the 1930s and managed to survive both the Holocaust and then the Hungarian Communist Party. A childhood bout of scarlet fever left him almost deaf. He fled to America in 1956 when the Soviets invaded his homeland, anglicised his name and enrolled in the City College of New York. He graduated at the top of his class in chemical engineering, despite struggling with poor English and impairment. He once said: "I am a hotheaded 30-year-old running around like a drunken rat." Name him.
   
   Andy Grove of Intel. His name originally was Andras Grof
    
3. Andrew Carnegie, JP Morgan and Rockefeller are three of the many businessmen in the US labelled as ____, a term that owes its origins to what the Lords were called during the Holy Roman Empire in the Kingdom of Germany (962-1806AD).
   
   Robber barons. A robber baron is a powerful businessman who employs practices including exerting control over resources, influencing high levels of government, paying subsistence wages, squashing competition by acquiring competitors, creating monopolies and raising prices, and schemes to sell stock at inflated prices to unsuspecting investors
    
4. This airline is called the Bikini Airline because for every inaugural flight to a beach destination its young and attractive attendants wear bikinis and featured similar models on its calendars. Name the airline and its founder.
   
   Viet Jet, founded by Vietnamese Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao, Vietnam's lady lady billionaire
    
5. Way back in 2010 who purchased a Boeing 767 from Qantas Airways for 15 million to make it their company jet?
   
   Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin
    
6. How is a treasury secretary during the presidency of Abraham Lincoln still remembered as a financial services brand today?
   
   The Chase Bank, now a part of JP Morgan Chase, was named after Salmon Portland Chase, a treasury secretary during Lincoln's presidency in 1877
    
7. Which was the first bank in India to introduce debit cards? It has the distinction of being the first to open special accounts for women back in the 1920s.
   
   Central Bank
    
8. Who use these lines as their slogans or punchlines: "Consider IT done" and "Consider it Solved"?
   
   Syntel Inc and Emerson Electric Company
    
9. For which brand do Sania Mirza and Shoaib Malik disagree on everything except the brand they are modelling for?
   
   Nestle's EveryDay Whitener
    
10. Whose logo is this?
    
    
    Workday. It was founded in 2005 by Dave Duffield, founder of Peoplesoft and Aneel Bhusri

There were 5 correct entries to quiz No 454. Pankaj Bhandari from Jaipur, wins Rs 2000. The winner is based on the first correct entry received.