Answers to the Strategist Quiz (#347)

1. In the early 90s, which publication played a leading role in exposing Jordan Belfort, the crooked Long Island stockbroker depicted by Leonardo Di Caprio in The Wolf of Wall Street?
   The Forbes magazine.
    
2. Name the Indian businessman who has written a book On a Prayer? Ironically his group is doing not so well.
   Yash Birla (Yashovardhan Birla) of the Ashok Birla group.
    
3. This brand's luxury collection gets its inspiration from the Katana, a single-sided curved blade sword developed 800 years ago in Japan. These swords were weapons of choice of the Shoguns. The Katana's precision, artistry, parabolic curves and sharpness are all mirrored in the product. Name the brand and its collection.
   The Ananta brand from Seiko watches.
    
4. This product was designed by an engineer of a car manufacturing company in the UK. It was used in the World War II bombers between 1939-1944. Four decades later, an American team searching for the Loch Ness Monster salvaged a Wellington bomber submerged in the mud that had this product. Remarkably the product invented and patented in 1933 still worked. The plane, complete with this product, is exhibited at the Brooklands Museum in Surrey, UK. Name the product and the person who invented it.
   The Anglepoise Lamp (table lamp). Automotive engineer George Carwardine used special springs with a ‘constant tension’ quality developed by his company to create an articulated task lamp that could combine ultimate flexibility with perfect balance. The designed mimicked the movement of a human hand.
    
5. Which brand's philosophy is captured by the phrase Disruptive by Design? It is about having the guts to start from scratch, charge through challenges. It's a mindset that seeks to collapse the conventional, dismantle the accepted, shatter expectations and embrace the unknown.
   Oakley, the eyewear brand.
    
6. Name this global crowdsourcing company that connects some of the world s biggest brands with its community of 50,000 filmmakers in more than 140 countries around the world. Many of the world s biggest brands use it to provide them with breakthrough content that can be used online, or to create memorable advertising campaigns that can be broadcast during occasions such as the Super Bowl.
   MOFILM. Its mission is to inspire filmmakers and musicians to create content for big brands and social causes.
    
7. This lady invented a board game and patented it in 1903. The game was designed to demonstrate the economic ill effects of land monopolism and the use of land value tax as a remedy for them. She was a follower of the economist Henry George, who inspired the economic philosophy known as Georgism, whose main tenet is that people should own what they create, but that everything found in nature, most importantly the value of land, belongs equally to all humanity. Name the lady and the board game.
   Elizabeth "Lizzie" J Phillips née Magie invented The Landlord's Game, a precursor to Monopoly. Later in 1933 she sold the rights to Parker brothers inventors of the Monopoly game.
    
8. This company launched perfumes co developed with L'Oreal and gave it names like Black Fire, Destiny and Hot Road. It is known as one of the famous brand failures. Name the brand.
   Harley Davidson.
    
9. The City of Manchester Stadium in Manchester, England, is also known as _____stadium for sponsorship reasons. It is the home ground of Manchester City Football Club, the fifth-largest stadium in the Premier League. Name the sponsor.
   Etihad Stadium named after the emirate airline Etihad.
    
10. This is an award that is named after an inventor who founded his company in 1903 that changed hands and was finally taken over by Ericson in 2005. Name the only 2 Indians who have got this award.
    

The Marconi Prize is an annual award recognising advancements in communications awarded by the Marconi Foundation. Professor Yash Pal was awarded this prize in 1980. Tamil Nadu-born scientist Arogyaswami Joseph Paulraj has become the second Indian to be awarded the Marconi Society Prize, in 2014.

There were 15 all-correct entries for quiz No. 347. Ahmadullah Rabbani from Patna wins Rs 2,000. Winner was chosen by drawing lots.