Answers to the Strategist quiz (#489)

1) It started as a movement to create an international day of giving at the beginning of the Christmas and holiday season in 2012. It was started by a voluntary organisation in New York and the United Nations Foundation as a response to commercialisation and consumerism in the post-Thanksgiving season (Black Friday and Cyber Monday). It is now a global movement and has raised more than 110 million from 700k people in 70 countries. Name it.

Giving Tuesday, often stylised as #GivingTuesday for hashtag activism, refers to the Tuesday after Thanksgiving in the US. Giving Tuesday was started in 2012 by the 92nd Street Y and the United Nations Foundation

2) What is /dev/payments now?

Stripe, an American technology firm operating in over 25 countries, which allows private individuals and businesses to accept payments online

3) Columbo is an American television series starring Peter Falk as Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. It ran from 1968 to 2003. His tendency to have one last parting shot before he left has influenced a business buzzword in the world of emails. What is it?

A Columbo site is the name given to a webpage that opens after one unsubscribes from an email list, where a final appeal is made to keep you or your reason for leaving is sought

4) What is the unique distinction these two brands have in common — Titleist golf balls and Hasselblad cameras?

They are the two brands or products (two golf balls, 12 cameras) left on the moon by astronauts. Alan Shepard is considered not only the first American to fly in space but also the first one to hit a golf ball on the moon

5) Connect RPG Phillips Carbon Black, Mcleod Russel, FACT (Fertilisers and Chemicals of Travancore), Fevicol from Pidilite and the Times of India.

All have elephants in their logos

6) He was one of Cartier’s main clients in India and also the first Indian to own an aeroplane. He also followed an annual ritual/tradition of parading himself in the buff along with a diamond studded breastplate. Name him.

Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of Patiala

7) What system was introduced into the rest of Europe and the world by émigré Venetian glass-blowers to protect their skills against those of local workers?

The system of patenting. It is claimed to have been first introduced in Venice, Italy, during the late 1400s

8) What was priced at $666.66 as the mark of the beast when it was introduced for the first time?

The first Apple Computer designed by Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple. The pricing was Wozniak’s prank

9) Which company can also be called the Octothorpe Company?

Twitter. The hash symbol originated as the Octothorpe in the Sixties to be used on telephone keypads

10) Identify this brand that courted controversy recently.

 

Men’s apparel brand Jack Jones. Its ad hoardings showed actor Ranvir Singh picking up a miniskirt-clad girl on his shoulders with the tagline ‘Take you work home’

There were no correct entries to quiz No 489. The winner is based on the first correct entry.