Answers to The Strategist Quiz #591

Answers to The Strategist Quiz #591

1. This person authored a seminal book on the IT industry way back in the late 80s. He popularised the terms "disintermediation," "interoperability" and "convergence" as ways to describe long-term IT trends. He also invented ideograms used for visual communication of qualitative information. What are they called?

1. Harvey L. Poppel is generally credited with inventing Harvey Balls in the 1970s while working at Booz Allen Hamilton as head of their worldwide IT consulting practice. These are commonly used in comparison tables to indicate the degree to which a particular item meets a particular criterion

2.  This company feels that it learns out of the mistakes and then succeeds. One of its first failed ventures was Zshops (Zee shops). Name the company and its CEO.   

2. Amazon, Jeff Bezos

3.  These lines "Profits of the exchange are the treasures of goblins" it meant a profit today could be a loss tomorrow, are found in a book authored in 1688. Name the book and its author. 

3. Confusion of Confusions, written by Penso de La Vega, a Jew who migrated from Spain to Amsterdam.

4.  Connect these and what do you arrive at: Pamplona (known for its famous bull run), Leonardo da Vinci, Napoleon, Dracula, Dalmatian and Nightflight?

4. Names of Red Bull's famous cartoon characters, generally used by the brand for its advertising

5. This brand was established in the 1880s first as "Diastoid" subsequently it changed its name. Amitabh Bachchan lent his voice for its commercials between 1960-70). Name it. 

5. Horlicks

6 Initially these were made from the hide of a white stag & bore a special pattern by the Han Wu dynasty (140-87 BC) in China. Subsequently making of these came to a halt because the availability of white stags was very limited. So what did they use to replace it and what was it called?

6. Paper was used to make currency notes and they called it Flying Money since the notes could get blown away

7.  What is the buzzword or jargon used to describe a person who is given the job of taking the notes on a Flip chart in conference room? It could also be the white board. (Clue: Lead)  

7. Pencilator

8.  Film stars in China have been accused of resorting to ___ contracts to avoid payment of taxes. It is supposedly a fraudulent dual contract system which facilitates tax dodge. What are they called? 

8. Ying Yang.

9.  Whose base line is "Feel Welcome"?

9. The Accor group of Hotels

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Identify this Fortune 500 Company and also mention its 2018 rank  

10. Rajesh Exports Limited. It is one of the 7 Indian Fortune 500 companies from India. It fell from 295 in 2017 to 405 in 2018. It is in the business of Gold and Gold refining

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