Answers to the Strategist quiz (#455)

1. WPI (Wholesale Price Index) and CPI (Consumer Price Index) have been the traditional indicators used to track inflation. What is DPI and who has come up with this indicator?
   Digital Price Index. Adobe, along with economists Austan Dean Goolsbee and Peter Klenow, has come up with the index that along with CPI will map inflation better. This index tracks online prices
    
2. Which airline allows its passengers to flirt with their co passengers by sending an inflight cocktail through its seat to seat communication feature? It also markets some of its stylish cocktails on board as pick up tools.
   Virgin America
    
3. Who said this at the recently concluded WEF at Davos: "Managing and moving money should be a right for all citizens and not just a privilege for the affluent"?
   Dan Schulman, CEO of PayPal
    
4. This start-up is infusing two varieties of coffee beans with bacteria and fungi chosen from a library of about 700 species to make fermented coffee beans. Its process resembles the one that takes place inside the civet cat's guts. Name it.
   Afineur, a start-up that was founded by a biologist and flavourist in New York in late 2014
    
5. This lady, born in 1834, was an American businesswoman and financier known as "the richest woman in America" during the Gilded Age (1870s -1900). Known for both her wealth and her miserliness, she was the lone woman to amass a fortune when other major financiers were men. She opened her first bank account at eight and received much of her education reading the financial pages to her near-blind grandfather, discussing each stock and bond in detail. Name her and also mention her nickname.
   Henrietta Howland "Hetty" Green, aka the "Witch of Wall Street", was a businesswoman and financier known as "the richest woman in America" during the Gilded Age
    
6. Name the person who received a patent in the 1870s for an Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments. It was an adjustable strap that could be used to tighten shirts at the waist. It was not only used for shirts, but for underpants and women's corsets as well. The purpose was get rid of suspenders, which the inventor considered uncomfortable.
   Samuel L Clemens, better known as Mark Twain
    
7. What is common to Mahout, Pig and Zookeeper?
   All trademarked software solutions from the stable of open source software framework firm Hadoop
    
8. The first airport hotel was built in the US 30 years before Hilton Hotels established one at the San Francisco Airport in 1959. Name the person and the airport at which it was built.
   Henry Ford was watching travellers arrive at the Ford Airport in Dearborn. He realised there was no place for the passengers to eat or sleep closer than Detroit. So, he commissioned architect Albert Kahn to design one of the first airport hotels, The Dearborn Inn
    
9. OIL is a favourite abbreviation of consultants and project managers. What is it?
   Open Issues List
    
10. Name the brand from the logo?
    Kamiliant, a luggage sub-brand from Samsonite

 

 

There were 10 correct entries to quiz No 455. Gunisetti Ayyappa Chaitanya from Andhra Pradesh wins Rs 2,000. The winner is based on the first correct entry received.