Answers to the Strategist quiz (#493)

Strategy Quiz (#493) answers

1 This item gets its name from a Hindi word which in turn was derived from Sanskrit. It was used as a form of currency on almost every continent: America, Asia, Africa and Australia. It was most abundant in the Indian Ocean and was collected in the Maldives, Sri Lanka, Malabar Coast and some islands in Indonesia. What is it?

The Cowry Shell currency. Cowry or cowrie, is the common name for a group of small to large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries

2 Connect Sacred Heart, Cabbage Soup and General Motors company.

The GM Diet. It launched a seven-day eating plan for its employees that has been reported to bring weight losses of 10 lbs to 17 lbs in a week. It is being called by the company’s name despite being known as  Sacred Heart or Cabbage Soup diet

3 Which QSR chain in the UK has launched an ordering system based on a lick and stick temporary tattoo or arm ink? To place an order one has to tap the tattoo with a cell phone.

Pizza Hut

4 Ganga Bishen Agarwal, also known as __, launched a brand in the early 1930s which has a group turnover of $520 million. Name it.

Haldiram’s. He was known as Haldiram

5 Fill in the blanks and identify the brands from their corporate anthems. Ever Onward __, Ahhhh! __, and __ Fast Forward.

Ever Onward IBM, Ahhhh! Fujitsu and Texas Instruments Fast Forward

6 This newspaper was founded in 1927 and the oldest Urdu newspaper and the last in the world that is handwritten. Name the newspaper and the city it is published from.

The Musalman published from Chennai

7 Its silk is the toughest biological material ever studied, over 10 times tougher than a similarly-sized piece of Kevlar. It is found on an island in the African continent and the species was named in honour of a naturalist on the 150th year of the publication of his seminal publication.

Darwin’s bark spider found on the island of Madagascar

8 Manguli and Nuagaon are two villages from an Indian state that have the same distinction. What is it and name the state?

Both are villages in Odisha that will be the first and second in going cashless

9 In which country would you find taxi Uncles?

Singapore. It’s a nickname for taxi drivers

10 Name the brand and its mascot from the image.

Bitly, a URL-shortening service, has a pufferfish mascot named Chauncey

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