Answers to the Strategist quiz (#475)

1. In the Rio Olympics 2016, which team embodies this brand's belief which is "Acceptance for everyone, everywhere"?
   The first-ever refugee team, also known as Team Visa. To be on the Rio 2016 #TeamRefugees, the athletes must have official refugee status from the United Nations High Commission on Refugees, and the IOC approving their use in Visa's Olympics marketing
    
2. As a young boy he tried to teach his Skye Terrier to growl in words. He made a speaking machine modelled on a lamb's larynx. He became a professor of speech physiology in the 1870s. His invention is described as something that "annihilated time and space". Name him.
   Alexander Graham Bell
    
3. What is the term used to describe an inverted U-shaped relation between income inequality and economic growth? The person who propounded this concept found that in poor countries, economic growth increased the income disparity between rich and poor people. In wealthier countries, economic growth narrowed the difference.
   Kuznets swing or curve. Nobel laureate Simon Kuznets connected these waves with demographic processes, mainly immigrant inflows/outflows and the changes in construction intensity that they caused, hence "demographic" or "building" cycles/swings
    
4. A former deputy director of the People's Liberation Army engineering corps founded this company in the '80s. He bought used office telecom equipment from Hong Kong for use in mainland China. Today, it's a billion-dollar action-oriented global company. Name it.
   Huawei founded by Ren Zhengfei in 1987. It means action-oriented
    
5. This chemical was synthesised in the 1880s by a Romanian in Germany who invented the modern method of refining crude oil. During WWII, fighter pilots were administered this drug to stay alert and fight sleep. The side effects of this chemical gave rise to another popular segment in the pharma industry. Name the chemical and the popular segment or use.
   Slimming pills industry. Amphetamine was first synthesised in 1887 in Germany by chemist Lazar Edeleanu. It was found that pilots who were administered the drug had a side effect of suppressed appetites
    
6. This inventor spent her childhood hanging around the manufacturing plant run by her father and uncle, who ran an industrial lathe for grinding auto gears and gun barrels. When no manufacturers would even consider her invention, she struck out on her own, and the ___ was an unqualified success when it debuted at Saks Fifth Avenue in 1949. She received a patent in 1951 and promptly sold the rights. Name her and also name the Hollywood actress who subsequently improved upon her invention and patented it.
   Marion Donavon was the inventor of disposable diapers and actress Jamie Lee Curtis invented a disposable baby diaper with pockets containing one or more removable clean-up wipers
    
7. Name the ingredient which is an extracted fluid from a beaver's anal gland and is used for artificial vanilla flavouring?
   It's called Castoreum
    
8. What do you arrive at by connecting Josiah Wedgwood, founder of the porcelain and luxury accessories company, and Cisco Corporation?
   Jasper. It is a fine hard porcelain developed by Josiah Wedgwood and used for Wedgwood cameos
    
9. What is the buzzword used to describe an annoying person who constantly posts news and other information from one e-mail discussion list to another? You find them on social media too.
   Human Gateway
    
10. Whose logo is this? This entity was set up in the late 1950s in Southeast Asia and every July an announcement is made.
    The Rockefeller Brothers Fund

 

There were two correct entries to quiz No 475. Vivek Tiwari from Navi Mumbai, wins Rs 2000. The winner is based on the first correct entry received.