Answers to the Strategist quiz (#458)

1. These vessels in the mid-19th century got their names from a word English poet John Dryden used to describe the swift flight of a falcon. They were owned by merchants and would compete in The Great __ Race, which were informal races between the coast of China and England. Name the vessel and fill in the blank.
   
   Clippers which carried cargoes of tea from China to Britain used to take part in the Great Tea Race. Clipper is possibly derived from the verb "clip", which in former times meant to run or fly swiftly.
    
2. It was first instituted by the mineral water brand Perrier and it is now being sponsored by Foster's beer. What is it?
   
   The Edinburgh Comedy Awards. From their inception in 1981 until 2005, the awards were sponsored by Perrier & were known as the Perrier Comedy Awards.
    
3. This business group uses the baseline "Connecting __ East & West". It's currently planning to reduce its business in the West though. Its name, when translated in English, means "a village in wilderness or a village full of fields". Name it.
   
   Nomura Holdings, Japan. Connecting markets East and West
    
4. Which businessman considers himself the "wrong man at the right time" in his autobiography?
   
   Subhash Chandra, Zee Group
    
5. The founder of this business group was an unsuccessful lawyer who returned from Zanzibar in the late 1890s. After joining a pharmacy as an assistant he wanted to make surgical equipment with a Swadeshi stamp, but he read a newspaper article on the rising crime rate in the city he was living in and decided to manufacture __. Name him and the business group he founded.
   
   Ardershir Burjorji Godrej. He set up a lock manufacturing unit along with his brother Pirojsha and called it Godrej Brothers
    
6. Who has launched a brand called 1893 and why?
   
   A soda drink launched by Pepsi. The "1893" name is a reference to original recipes created by Pepsi founder Caleb Bradham in that same year.
    
7. This brand's name, when translated into English, means "skid". It is a revolutionary since for the first time in the world it uses an oil-free and corrosion-resistant drive belt rather than a metal chain as one of its key mechanisms.
   
   IKEA's new bicycle Sladda
    
8. Establish the connect between Sunil Bharti Mittal and a water company named Compagnie Generale des Eaux (CGE) that was created by an imperial decree of Napoleon III in 1853.
   
   Vivendi, the French company. In 1998 CGE changed its name to Vivendi. In 1992, Mittal successfully bid for one of the four mobile phone network licences auctioned in India with the French telecom group Vivendi and set up Airtel
    
9. __ is the name economist Keynes gave to one of the essential ingredients of economic prosperity: confidence. It is a particular sort of confidence or "naive optimism", he said. Attempts by politicians and others to talk up confidence by making optimistic noises about economic prospects is an example.
   
   Animal Spirits
    
10. What is common to both these brands?
    
    

Both brands were established in Nottingham, the UK - Boots in 1849 and Allen Solly in 1744

There were 12 correct entries to quiz No 458. Pramod Kumar from Bengaluru, wins Rs 2000The winner is based on the first correct entry received.