Answers to the Strategist quiz (#470)

1. Connect the jazz club musicians from the 1920s in the US with some of the people employed by digital era entities like Uber and Air BnB now and what do you arrive at?
   
   Gig workers or the Gig Economy. The phrase "gig economy" was coined during the financial crisis in early 2009, when the unemployed made a living by gigging, or working several part-time jobs. It originated in the 1920s when gig work was referred to jazz musicians working without other employee benefits like medical care, paid leave or pensions
    
2. This company was set up way back in the late 1920s; its name draws inspiration from "Mecca". The founder wanted an easy word for everybody to pronounce when he began exporting his products out of the UK. Name the company and its founder.
   
   Decca Records. It was established by Barnett Samuel & Sons
    
3. Whose password "dadada" for a LinkedIn and Pininterest account has become public thanks to OurMine?
   
   Mark Zuckerberg
    
4. Where would you find the figurines of the Roman god Jupiter, his wife Juno and Galileo Galilei together and name the company responsible for it?
   
   Inside NASA's spacecraft Juno that entered Jupiter's orbit recently. They are all Lego figurines manufacture by Lego
    
5. Connect the payment app created in collaboration between AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless, a pharma company that was partially funded by the ALS Association, the non-profit that received money from the viral Ice Bucket Challenge and a private label perfume brand sold by Marks & Spencer (available in stores in India) and what do you arrive at?
   
   The name ISIS. The payment app's name was changed to ISIS wallet to Softpay, the pharma company is named ISIS Pharma and a lady's perfume brand sold at M&S carries the ISIS name
    
6. This particular category in the confectionary market in India has a 43 per cent share approximately and its English name was derived from Sanskrit. Name it.
   
   The hard-boiled candy category. Candy is from Sanskrit "khanda" meaning piece, fragment but passed through Persian to Arabic as "sukkar qandi" and then through old French sucre candi into English as sugar candy
    
7. Which business leader's forthcoming book is titled "Hit refresh"?
   
   Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft
    
8. Where would you "Find your moment"?
   
   The tagline for the Ashley Madison (dating) website
    
9. Whose base line is "Inspired Work"?
   
   BAE Systems. British Aerospace and Engineering
    
10. Whose logos are these?
    
    
    
    
    The Commercial Spaceflight Federation

There were 7 correct entries to quiz No 470. Sasmit Kumar Nayak from Nagpur, wins Rs 2000. The winner is based on the first correct entry received.