The Strategist Quiz (#455)

1. WPI (Wholesale Price Index) and CPI (Consumer Price Index) have been the traditional indicators used to track inflation. What is DPI and who has come up with this indicator?
    
2. Which airline allows its passengers to flirt with their co passengers by sending an inflight cocktail through its seat to seat communication feature? It also markets some of its stylish cocktails on board as pick up tools.
    
3. Who said this at the recently concluded WEF at Davos: "Managing and moving money should be a right for all citizens and not just a privilege for the affluent"?
    
4. This start-up is infusing two varieties of coffee beans with bacteria and fungi chosen from a library of about 700 species to make fermented coffee beans. Its process resembles the one that takes place inside the civet cat's guts. Name it.
    
5. This lady, born in 1834, was an American businesswoman and financier known as "the richest woman in America" during the Gilded Age (1870s -1900). Known for both her wealth and her miserliness, she was the lone woman to amass a fortune when other major financiers were men. She opened her first bank account at eight and received much of her education reading the financial pages to her near-blind grandfather, discussing each stock and bond in detail. Name her and also mention her nickname.
    
6. Name the person who received a patent in the 1870s for an Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments. It was an adjustable strap that could be used to tighten shirts at the waist. It was not only used for shirts, but for underpants and women's corsets as well. The purpose was get rid of suspenders, which the inventor considered uncomfortable.
    
7. What is common to Mahout, Pig and Zookeeper?
    
8. The first airport hotel was built in the US 30 years before Hilton Hotels established one at the San Francisco Airport in 1959. Name the person and the airport at which it was built.
    
9. OIL is a favourite abbreviation of consultants and project managers. What is it?
    
10. Name the brand from the logo?
    

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