The Strategist Quiz (#424)

1. The Global fashion major H&M just launched a new "Close the Loop" line-16 denim styles made from recycled cotton from textiles collected in the Garment Collecting initiative in H&M stores. What is the business term used to describe such a practice? Something that is restorative and in which material flows are of two types, biological nutrients, designed to reenter the biosphere safely, and technical nutrients, which are designed to circulate at high quality without entering the biosphere.
    
2. Which car's name comes from Crete - Greece's largest island?
    
3. This person was 19 years old when he came out with his first invention in the late 1930s after the Second World War had already started. He was determined to investigate the unexplored frequency region above 100 MHz in radio waves. On hearing about this invention, the US Army invited him to join the army and help it solve the problem of sending and receiving messages to and from the war front. His invention for the army was called 'Joan' and the one he invented for the US air force was called Eleanor. He went on to set up a company after the war to manufacture his products. Name him and his invention. 
    
4. Connect the Malabar Princess and Kanchenjunga to a Hamburg banker, Alfred Nehemias, and a Berlin engineer, August Eberstein. What do you arrive at?
    
5. This company name when translated in English reads - Tiger-Leopard Limited. Actually named after its founders this company severed ties with its Indian counterpart four years ago. Name the company and its popular brand.
    
6. After graduating with a law doctorate from the University of Vienna, this person the son of the district administrator entered the civil service in the Austrian ministry of commerce and qualified for a university career as a professor in the field of national economics. He was also a professor at the renowned Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt and from 1882 for twenty years professor of national economics at Vienna's Institute of Technology. Name him and the invention he brought out in 1869?
    
7. Carl Linnaeus the famous Swedish Taxonomist's most persistent attempts to grow this particular crop in Europe during the 1700s failed after 20 attempts. After ages the first commercial crop of this plant variety was harvested in 2005 in Cornwall, UK. Name it.
    
8. What is the slang term for large institutions that have the funds to make high volumes in stock trades? Due to the large volumes of stock that it deals in, any investment decisions that they make will have a large influence on the price of the underlying financial asset.
    
9. Name this company whose name comes from the Latin word for 'day' and the Greek word for 'world'.
    
10. Identify the brand from its product packaging.
    

 

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