Answers to the Strategist quiz (#469)

1. Who is responsible for the launch of the Dipper brand of condoms and why?
   
   Tata Motors (funder-initiator brand), Rediffusion Y&R (creative agency), HLL Lifecare (involved in manufacturing condoms), TCI Foundation (distributor of condoms across specialised "Khushi Clinics" for truck drivers, and newly set up clinics funded by Tata Motors, selected according to the prevalence of HIV in the country)
    
2. In the mid-1990s IBM, Compaq, Oracle and Cisco were willing to invest in a $100 million fund collectively to create the ____fund to support start-ups who would use _____to challenge ______hegemony. Fill in the blanks.
   
   The Java fund to challenge the hegemony of Microsoft
    
3. Connect the famous Botticelli painting "The Adoration of the Magi" to the popular concept of Double entry Book keeping in Accountancy and what do you arrive at?
   
   The Medicis from Florence, the wealthiest banking family in Italy that sponsored many artists. Many family members are found striking biblical poses in the painting. It is said that Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici introduced the double entry book keeping method for the Medici Bank in the 14th century
    
4. The late Mrs Mary Lea Johnson Richards, a founder and partner of the Producer Circle, a New York film and theatrical production company, won 22 Tony Awards. It produced Broadway such as ''On the Twentieth Century,'' ''Sweeney Todd,'' ''La Cage aux Folles,'' ''Crimes of the Heart,'' which won a Pulitzer Prize etc., has a first to her credit. What is it?
   
   She was the first baby to appear on Johnson's baby powder label and grandchild of Robert Wood Johnson I (co-founder, Johnson & Johnson)
    
5. The founder of this company as a 9 year old bred earthworms in his backyard. When he was in High School he was hired as a video game tester for Lucasfilm and got paid $6 an hour to test the Indian Jones and the last crusade video game. At Harvard University he sold pizzas. Name him.
   
   Tony Hsieh, founder of Zappos.com which is now a part of Amazon
    
6. 1890 this person invented and patented the unpickable tumbler lock. Several years later, he took out a newspaper ad challenging the magician Harry Houdini to try to escape from his secure luggage that had this lock. Name the person.
   
   Georges Vuitton, son of the founder of Louis Vuitton
    
7. This brand that has been recently launched gets its name from the character created by Robert Southey who was an English poet of the Romantic school and also one of the so-called "Lake Poets".
   
   Godrej's Goldilocks safe. Southey authored the fairy tale "Goldilocks and the three bears"
    
8. This tribe's name means "those who germinate more seeds from one seed". Basically tillers. They are are largely found in the state of Maharashtra but also exist in Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala and Goa. Sant Tukaram, one of the most revered Varkari saints of the Bhakti tradition belonged to this community. Their art of weaving is now being revived by a famous fashion designer. Name him and the community.
   
   Wendell Rodricks is reviving the old traditional art of Kunbi weaving
    
9. This brand's base line is "Free your skin". Name the brand and its website address?
   
   Schick razors whose website is www.shaving.com
    
10. Identify the brands and establish a connection between them.
    
    
    
    Part of the longest partnership in sporting goods history, Slazenger has been the official supplier of tennis balls to The Championships since 1902. Robinsons Squash has been the official soft drink since 1935 at the Wimbledon

There were 5 correct entries to quiz No 469. N.A.Shyam from Chennai wins Rs 2,000. The winner is based on the first correct entry received.