Answers to The Strategist Quiz (#543)

Answers to The Strategist Quiz, December 21, 2017

1) This brand’s name is derived from the word “revolution” and the number of attempts it took to bring this product to the market. It is a polymer that was developed at the University of Bristol in an effort to curb pollution issues, due to regular chewing gum, which are prevalent in the United Kingdom. The UK used to spend over £150 million annually on gum cleanup efforts to help remove this synthetic material from sidewalks and other public spaces. Name it.

Rev7

2) This brand gets its name from Turkish meaning black stone. Four years ago it launched a limited edition version of its products inspired by Lord Venkateshwara of Tirupathi. Name the brand and the series.

Caran d’Ache has launched a silver pen collection called Balaji

3) Name the commodity named in honour of the 6th Duke of Devonshire, who acquired an early specimen of this and from whose hothouses the cultivars were developed for commercial exploitation worldwide. India is the largest producer of this commodity in the world.

Cavendish Bananas named after William Spencer Cavendish, the 6th Duke of Devonshire

4) What is the term used to describe a technique deployed by a company to support its wholesaler or distributor’s salesforce by deputing one of its employees with them?

Missionary selling

5) Connect the first American woman to fly as a passenger in an airplane, a French fashion designer whose contributions to his field have been likened to Picasso’s legacy in 20th century art and the description of the packaging of a global brand that set it apart from its many imitators.

The Coca-Cola bottle is often referred to as the Hobbleskirt bottle. It refers to a skirt designed by Paul Poiret, a French fashion designer

6) This person nicknamed as the Boss was part of a team, which was called the Barn gang. His most famous invention with the gang led to the formation of a company in 1909. Name him and the company.

Charles Kettering. He, along with his colleagues from NCR, worked late nights and during the weekends to develop the self-starting ignition for automobiles. He quit NCR to form the Dayton Engineering Laboratories called DELCO

7) According to the patent filed in the early 1780s it was called the Geneva System, a first of its kind. What was it?

The first industrial production of artificial mineral water was achieved by English scientist Joseph Priestley. He developed it with an engineer, Paul, and the druggist Gosse in 1783. It was known as the Geneva System

8) Name the company that helped re-engineer the Callaway Golf XR 16 driver to maximise aerodynamics for more driving distance.

Boeing

9) What does the term, “purpled out”, generally mean in offices and how did it come about?

Out of office, taken from the Outlook calendar, which generates a purple bar when someone is out of office

10) Whose logo is this?

TicToc

There was 10 correct entries to Quiz No 543. The winner is A Rajagopalan of Chennai