Answers to the Strategist quiz (#472)

1. Which Indian company is the first to get a nod to sell a follow-on biologic or subsequent entry biologic in a developed country?
   
   Biocon
    
2. The Dissolution of the Monasteries in the late 1530s was one of the most revolutionary events in English history. It was the set of administrative and legal processes by which Henry VIII disbanded Catholic monasteries, priories, convents and friaries in England, Wales and Ireland, appropriated their income, disposed of assets, and reassigned or dismissed their former members and functions. What method was used to value the assets?
   
   Valuing future income streams as a present capital sum known as "years' purchase"
    
3. Connect the king of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia, who was also emperor of Austria, with a German, who was the surgeon general to the armies of Simon Bolivar, and a product that continues to have an oversized label.
   
   The Angostura Bitters invented by Dr.Siegert to use in his medical practice as Surgeon General and as a personal physician of Simon Bolivar. Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria is shown on the label, since Angostura won a medal at the 1873 World Fair in Vienna
    
4. How have the Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia and Italian hero Giuseppe Garibaldi been immortalised as products/brands still in use?
   
   Biscuits. Peek Frean & Co created the 1861: sweet fruit-filled biscuit, the Garibaldi, named after Giuseppe Garibaldi who toured the UK in 1854. The Marie biscuit was created by it in 1874 to commemorate the marriage of the Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia to the Duke of Edinburgh
    
5. What word came into the English language when 19th Century English textile workers or self-employed weavers who feared the end of their trade and protested against newly developed labour economising technologies?
   
   Luddite - a person opposed to increased industrialisation or new technology
    
6. Where and why are these brands seen together: Coca Cola, McDonalds, P&G, Bridgestone, Dow Chemicals, GE, Panasonic, Samsung, Visa, Atos Computers and Omega?
   
   They all are worldwide Olympic partners
    
7. This Nobel Prize winner for economics is noted for a paper he wrote whose title had an American slang for a car that is found to be defective after it has been bought. Who is he?
   
   "The Market for Lemons: Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism" by George Akerlof
    
8. Why was the Sprite Boy character introduced by Coca Cola in 1942?
   
   The character was introduced to convey the message that "Coca-Cola" and "Coke" are two terms that reference the same product
    
9. If Aristotle is to General Motors, Harry Potter is to __? Fill in the blank and identify the books and its author.
   
   Tom Morris authored the books If Aristotle ran General Motors and Harry Potter ran General Electric to apply philosophy to contemporary culture
    
10. Identify the brand from its logo. It has opened its first city cafe recently
    
    
    
    The Moleskine Cafe

There were 10 correct entries to quiz No 472. Dr.Sagarika Parida from Bhubaneswar, wins Rs 2000. The winner is based on the first correct entry received.