Answers to the Strategist quiz (#485)

1. What was "Thinking about You" and name the company associated with it?

TAY (Thinking about You) was an AI chatterbot released by Microsoft on March 23, 2016. It stirred controversy by releasing inflammatory tweets and was taken offline around 16 hours after its launch. It was accidentally reactivated on March 30, 2016, and then quickly taken offline again


2. In order to promote its ice cream in the first winter of its business in the US, this brand's founders created "POPCDBZWE" or the "pennies off per celsius degree below zero winter extravaganza". They also featured "white sales", inspired by Bloomingdales' winter bedding sales, when vanilla ice cream and whipped cream were 10 per cent off. This strategy turned a liability in the cold weather into an asset. Name the brand.

Ben and Jerry’s

3. This British institution hosts early morning discussion meetings for exchange between politicians, academics, diplomats, policy makers, journalists and businessmen. It began as a forum to consider the consequences of 9/11. Name the forum and its chair.

The London School of Economics iXXi Briefings, where two invited speakers speak for 15 minutes each moderated by Meghnad Desai acting as chairman

4. This product unlike the normal silvered glass mirrors is made by a metal-alloy that eliminates secondary reflections and aberrations typical of back surface mirrors. The exact metals used in the alloy are known to only a few people and is maintained as a secret handed down from family to family of this craftsmen. In a listing in India it is No. 2 after a variety of tea. Name it.

The Aranmula mirror made in Aranmula, Kerala. It is the second item with a GI tag after Darjeeling tea

5. Connect Melina Mercouri, Greek actress, singer and politician, with billionaire Aristotle Onassis.

Lounges in the Athens airport run by Olympic Airlines (founded by Onassis) are named after them

6. What was the technological significance way back in November 1995, when a news channel in the US started the news with the headline: "Bosnian Peace, UN votes to lift sanctions in Bosnia"?

It was the world’s first news broadcast over the Internet on November 23, 1995, by ABC News

7. What is an Age Gate and where is it generally used?

An Adult Verification System, also known as an Age Gate, is a computing system used by a website to confirm the user is of the age required (usually by law) to view its content

8. Which is the only Nobel Prize winner to have featured in a Victoria's Secret advertisement?

Bob Dylan for the 2004 Angels in Venice collection

9. Which brand pays tributes to leaders with its popular line, "They begin where others end"?

Royal Salute scotch whisky

10. Identify the company from its logo.

 

Baker Hughes, the oil field services company that was recently bought over by GE which is creating a $32-billion oil services company

 

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