Answers to The Strategist Quiz (#518)

The Strategist Quiz, 13 July, 2017

1. Recently a car brand took four years to release a custom-built car for one of its wealthy customers costing upwards of $10 million. It gets its name from the design where the body work wraps under the car with no visible boundary, akin to the hull of a yacht and an upward sweep at the rear departure angle culminating in the __. Name it.

Rolls Royce’s Sweptail

2. The Manasollasa, written in 1130 CE, is a Sanskrit text composed by the South Indian king Someshvara III of the Kalyani Chalukya dynasty. In a chapter dedicated to food which famous Indian dish is claimed to have been mentioned here for the first time?

Idli

3. This former CEO of a bank always carried a small jar in his pocket to catch a beetle if he found one. He built up a collection of 90,000 specimens in his lifetime. Name him.

David Rockefeller, millionaire & philanthropist he ran Chase Manhattan bank for 35 years

4. It was prescribed by the strategist Kautilya (Chanakya) in his famous Arthashastra in 300 BCE and was adopted by the Indian Council of Medical Research in 1987. Also many consumer product companies follow it. What is it?

The Ideal balance diet consisting of rice 500gms, dal 235gms, oil 56gms and salt 5gms

5. The first term used in this series is now common business jargon, the subsequent ones were: Woodenman, Tinman, Ironman, Sandman, Steelman, Peebleman. What is it?

Strawman Proposal. A brainstormed simple draft proposal to generate discussion to provoke the generation of better proposals.

6. What is the connection between Benjamin Franklin and a company that was established in the late 1950s by Grumman Aircraft Engineering Co., a company known for military aircraft production?

The Gulf Stream. Intrigued by the fact that ships could travel faster eastwards across the Atlantic to Britain then they could on the return trip, the British treasury commissioned Benjamin Franklin to investigate this. He along with veteran mariner Folger made the first map of this current showing its origins from the gulf of Florida and called it the Gulf Stream. When Grumman developed a marketable business aircraft it named it after the Gulf Stream, since Florida was a favorite vacation spot for its executives

7. In the 60s this person envisioned a future time when machine cognition (cerebration) would surpass and become independent of human direction, as a basic stage of development within human evolution, relevant in today’s A.I. world. Name him and the title of his work.

"Man-Computer Symbiosis" by J.C.R. Licklider

8. Whose baseline now reads “Taking care of business”?

Office Depot

9. This brand uses models dubbed as the “Brandy Girls” or Brandy Ambassadors. Name the brand and the country of its origin.

Italian fashion brand Brandy Melville

10. What does this logo represent?

The Goodwood Festival of Speed

Compiled by Gaurav Sri Krishna, www.facebook.com/gaurav.s.krishna

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