Answers to the Strategist quiz (#482)

1. Connect the name of a crater on the moon and the monsoon winds. The discovery of the monsoon winds boosted the Indian Ocean trade.
   Hippalus, a Greek navigator and merchant credited with discovering the direct route from the Red Sea to India over the Indian Ocean by plotting the sea's scheme and the location of trade ports along India's coast. He discovered the south-west monsoon wind, also called Hippalus. A crater on the moon is named after him
    
2. In 1990 Mikhail Gorbachev dismissed an official by the name of Vladilen Nikitin, blaming him for an acute shortage of __