Answers to the Strategist quiz (#520)

Strategy Quiz (#520) answers

1. Name the company that is recruiting its next wave of engineers thru the animated band Gorillaz’s mixed reality app. It will be used to challenge aspiring team members and fast-track the best performers through recruitment.

Jaguar Land Rover

2. Connect the iPhone model 3GS and Intel and a business term that now finds common usage in the corporate world.

Bring your Own Device (BYOD). In 2009 after the launch of iPhone’s 3GS model corporate leaders began using it for official communication and at the same time Intel also recognised an increasing tendency among its employees to bring their own devices to work and introduced the concept of BYOD

3. Which Indian brand has made the ISD code for India an integral part of its name?

Indian beer brand Bira 91

4. Name the technology company and mention its objective for using Elephants in Thailand and Camels in the UAE for one of its service lines?

Google. It uses these animals as cartographers for remote locations. Camera packs are donned by these animals

5. On July 17th 2002, Steve Jobs introduced the iCal that was made available as a free download as a part of Mac OS X v10.2. The iCal icon was set to this date in a way to pay tribute to the big announcement and later to serve as a “Birthday” reminder for the project. Whom did this inspire and what is another event that is celebrated on this day?

World Emoji Day, the brainchild of Jeremy Burge who started reference site emojipedia. He created this on July 17 based on the way the calendar emoji is shown on the iPhone.

6. This brand was initially launched with a name that bore resemblance to a city in Sri Lanka.It was later re-launched as ___ in 1979 and distributed by Voltas, who additionally began marketing it in 1983. Give the first and subsequent names of this brand.

Rasna was initially launched as Jaffee after a variety of mango from Sri Lanka called Jaffna mango

7. Recently where were the brands Fila and Capri watches seen together?

The brands are endorsed by men’s Wimbledon runner-up Marin Cilic

8. While Hercules was strolling along the shores of Phoenicia with a nymph he loved, named Tyrus, his dog, who was running beside them, came upon a Murex trunculus, with head protruding from its trumpet-like shell. The dog devoured the shellfish and came away with a mouth stained ___. Enraptured by the tint, Tyrus claimed a robe of that same striking shade. Name the shade of color that is globally used even now?

Tyrian purple also known as royal purple, imperial purple. It is a bromine-containing reddish-purple natural dye. It is a secretion produced by several species of predatory sea snails in the family Muricidae, rock snails originally known by the name Murex

9. The common name for several species of trees in tropical or temperate climates that have spiky, thorn-like leaves, e.g. the Acacia and the boxthorn is the name given to a very popular online forum of travelers. What is it and who runs it?

Lonely Planet’s Thorntree forum for travellers

10. Whose logo is this?

ILC Dover, LP (also known as ILC) is an American special engineering development and manufacturing company based in Frederica, Delaware.Best known for making space suits for NASA, ILC outfitted every US astronaut in the Apollo programme, including the 12 who walked on the moon.

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Last date for receiving entries: July 28 till 8 pm. Previous winners and employees of Business Standard and their families are not eligible to participate. 

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