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The Strategist Quiz (#490)

Connect The Delhi and London Bank established in 1844 with the business family which owned the first car and telephone in Delhi

The Strategist Quiz (#489)

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What term is used to describe the offline mechanism for storing Bitcoins?

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Start with Eastern Airlines in 1957 and arrive at US Airways in 2016. What is being referred to here?

Answers to the Strategist quiz (#485)

What was "Thinking about You" and name the company associated with it?

The Strategist Quiz (#487)

Start with Eastern Airlines in 1957 and arrive at US Airways in 2016. What is being referred to here?

The Strategist Quiz (#486)

What term is used to describe the offline mechanism for storing Bitcoins?

The Strategist Quiz (#488)

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If you are having conversations with Erica online then with which brand would you be dealing with?

The Strategist Quiz (#485)

What was "Thinking about You" and name the company associated with it?

The Strategist Quiz (#484)

If you are having conversations with Erica online then with which brand would you be dealing with? A CEO said this while talking to his customers, "I am really excited about revitalising manufacturing, I think it needs love and we are going to give it. My new obsession is the machine that builds the machine." His new manufacturing plant resembles an advanced computer chip instead of a standard factory complex layout. Who is he? Walmart, PepsiCo, Mondelez, Nestle, Taco Bell, Starbucks, Sodexo and Marriott are all committed to the free-run variety. What does this mean? This institution or academy, the first-of-its-kind in India was set up in a town in Kerala in 1901. It provided free training to students and played an important role for the growth of a particular industry. It closed in March this year due to the state government's inability to fund it while it was housed in an old cinema theatre called the Rajkamal Talkies. Name it. Its name in ancient Egyptian means "good luck" and is

The Strategist Quiz (#483)

Name the brand that launched its ready-to-wear Spring Summer Collection in Paris with a set resembling a data center and droid-like catwalk models recalling Softbank's Pepper or Honda's ASIMO robots instead of human models. Who said this "Ultimately it comes down to taste. Picasso had a saying: Good artists copy, great artists steal. We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas. I think part of what made the ____great was that people working on it were musicians, poets, artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world." Fill in the blank too. This Englishman came up with an innovative idea in horticulture in the 1890s. He found that the general public were being priced out of taking an interest in gardening. He thought that by selling penny packets of seed through mail order, he could make it affordable for people to take a pride in sprucing up their gardens and at the same this could prove to be a profitable business.

The Strategist Quiz (#482)

Connect the name of a crater on the moon and the monsoon winds. The discovery of the monsoon winds boosted the Indian Ocean trade. In 1990 Mikhail Gorbachev dismissed an official by the name of Vladilen Nikitin, blaming him for an acute shortage of __ that caused demonstrations in Moscow. Eventually the commodity was imported from Bulgaria. Name it. What is the term used to describe small confectionery like gum, mints, candy and chocolate bars that are kept near the billing counters? This dynasty ruled China during 618-907 AD. Due to the inconvenience of transferring large amounts of the standard copper cash coins, where government purchases were made, it started to pay merchants in certificates called __. Who said this in an interview in 1926, "When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain. We shall be able to communicate with each other instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and h

The Strategist Quiz (#481)

Legend has it that the founder of this brand dreamt of a kind of a beetle some 300 hundred years ago and established a knitting and weaving business in a central European country. His son purchase the brand name that it is still known in the 1930s from an existing UK company. During the same time this family invented a garment when translated meant "a rowing camisole". Name the founder, the brand and the popular name by which the garment is known. The mayor of Paris some months ago protested the arrival of this service in her city, warning it would foul the air, snarl traffic and damage local businesses. Also may seriously destabilise the Parisian trade balances. Name the service. This company's founder was a mayor of the capital city of Corsica in the early 1930s. He launched his business in the early 1900s with a product that was named after a flower which in turn was named after a famous French general who fought the Napoleonic wars. P&G at one time owned a lot of its brands. N

Answers to the Strategist quiz (#480)

The Camera. The Ottewill Double Folding Camera produced in 1854 was favoured and glorified in the poem by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. He practised photography for 25 years The Hire from BMW Films was the inspiration for the Titanium Lion to be established in 2003. It's an Austrian start-up called Kreisel Electric founded by the Kreisel brothers Philipp, Markus and Johann Pajamahadeen. Blend of pajamas + mujahedeen, from the notion that bloggers write at home in pajamas Li Shufu, founder of the Chinese car manufacturer Geely The soft drink brand Fanta. From fantasie (imagination in German). Fanta originated due to difficulties in importing Coca-Cola syrup into Nazi Germany during World War II after a trade embargo. To circumvent this, Max Keith, head of Coca-Cola Deutschland, decided to create a product for the local market, using ingredients available in Germany then Ashok Leyland. Automotive manufacturing. It started as Ashok Motors in 1948 Skoda Superb Acqui-Hire or Acqui-Hiring The n

The Strategist Quiz (#479)

Connect the exploration of the Baffin Bay by William Edward Parry, Captain George Vancouver's expeditions to the North Pacific in the 1770s, East India Company's voyages covering Cape of Good Hope to China, astronomer Don Jose Joaquin to whom the world is indebted for determining the longitude of Cuba and measuring the moon's precise diameter and a brand that exists even today and what do you arrive at? This person was a dean of St Paul's Cathedral in the early 1600s. A keen angler, he would take some home brewed beverage in an old medicine bottle. On one occasion he forgot the bottle and on his return to the river he opened it and found that his beverage remained in good condition and tasted nice. Though perhaps apocryphal this incident in a particular industry is regarded as the beginnings of bottled __. Name the person and the beverage. Name the venture set up by an Indian business group whose name is inspired by the group's motto, Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam (The world is one family). T

The Strategist Quiz (#478)

This building was the headquarters of a global brand when it was built in the late 1930s. It was the second-tallest building in Europe when it was built. It had a paternoster lift, a passenger elevator which consists of a chain of open compartments that move slowly in a loop up and down inside a building without stopping. It included the world's first elevator office, which allowed the founder to move between floors without leaving his desk. Name the building. Connect these and what do you arrive at: Pamplona (known for its famous bull run), Leonardo Da Vinci, Napoleon, Dracula, Dalmatian and Nightflight? This person who founded an Indian dot com company produced a computer-based movie in which a group of highly trained mavericks set out to foil a terror attack on a New York school. It was distributed by the now defunct Blockbuster, home entertainment company in the US. Name the person and the film. Name this global QSR brand that is planning to turn about 500 of its outlets across no

The Strategist Quiz (#477)

This former British test pilot entered aeronautical design and engineering in the 1940s and designed a landing gear allowing aircraft to take off and land in crosswinds. In the 1960s, he invented a device that is also made in collaboration with BMW. The birth of his granddaughter inspired it. Name him.2 Connect the informal name given to a Californian labour code after a Hollywood actress and an American rock band that released an album called "This is War" which was a reflection of its legal battles it faced with its recording company.3 This person helped fund William Hewlett and David Packard to form HP. He also funded movies like Walt Disney's Snow White, West Side Story, Gone with the Wind and Lawrence of Arabia. Known as the "reluctant millionaire", who is he?4 Tancitaro is a remote and seemingly peaceful mountain town, whose entrance is marked by a statue of an __. Four of every five __ sold in the US originate in Tancítaro's home state of Michoacán. It's estimated that 120 m

The Strategist Quiz (#476)

Name this North American company that has been appointing a chief play officer after a stringent selection process since 2009? Also name its current CPO Connect the Norwegian explorer, Captain Roald Amundsen, first man to reach the South Pole in 1911, Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Sir Ernest Shackleton who were also explorers who reached the South Pole and the first non-stop transatlantic flight with a brand and what do you arrive at? From a brand showcasing perspective what is common to the erstwhile Kingfisher airlines and Vistara Airlines? It was first set up by NCR (National Cash Register) company, BBC took it over and now it has changed hands once again and is with an investment bank that was set up in 1908. It is considered as the world's most prestigious and the first of its kind that was set up in 1999. What is it? What is common to Nonesuch, Roadrunner, Eastwest, Canvasback and Rhino? The second highest purchase price ever paid in the world for a painting at an auction was $17

The Strategist Quiz (#475)

In the Rio Olympics 2016, which team embodies this brand's belief which is "Acceptance for everyone, everywhere"? As a young boy he tried to teach his Skye Terrier to growl in words. He made a speaking machine modelled on a lamb's larynx. He became a professor of speech physiology in the 1870s. His invention is described as something that "annihilated time and space". Name him. What is the term used to describe an inverted U-shaped relation between income inequality and economic growth? The person who propounded this concept found that in poor countries, economic growth increased the income disparity between rich and poor people. In wealthier countries, economic growth narrowed the difference. A former deputy director of the People's Liberation Army engineering corps founded this company in the '80s. He bought used office telecom equipment from Hong Kong for use in mainland China. Today, it's a billion-dollar action-oriented global company. Name it. This chemical was synthesised in th