Answers to the Strategist quiz (#522)

Strategy Quiz (#522) answers

1. This company was associated with the movie Blade Runner when it was first made in 1982. Now after emerging from a recent bankruptcy, it is busy reviving its brand ahead of its biggest comeback imaginable in the upcoming movie sequel Blade Runner 2049. Name it.

Atari

2. Connect the oldest sports and games manufacturer in the world, Parker Brothers of the USA, British military officers serving India during the 1870s-80s, a set of books and a golf ball.

Ping-pong. English firm J. Jaques & Son registered an indoor game called Gossima. By the late 1890s, the Jaques catalogue listed the game as Ping Pong. Parker Brothers registered the Ping-Pong trademark and reached a settlement allowing Jaques to have rights to the name everywhere except in the US. British officers in India are credited with inventing the after dinner parlour game when they used books for the net and a golf ball to play with

3. If you are chatting online with “Heidi” where and what would you be doing?

Chatting up with a specialist on the Switzerland tourism website

4. Why is the perfume industry grateful to Sir William Henry Perkin, an English chemist best known for his accidental discovery of the first aniline dye: the purple mauveine?

His discovery of a synthetic route to Coumarin in 1868 is considered the birthday of fragrance chemistry. Coumarin is a fragrant organic chemical compound

5. Who is supposed to have made this statement in the 1990s: “The digital economy will begin to happen when the bits are for free”?

Vinod Khosla, considered the father of the Pentium chip

6. This brand rose to household name status after repeated lust-filled mentions on fashion-obsessed HBO show Sex in the City. The brand still sells product designed in honour of its “Sex and the City moment”. Name the brand.

Jimmy Choo Shoes. Recently this brand has been bought over by Michael Kors for $1.2 billion

7. This West Asian city has the following sobriquets: city of poets, city of gardens, city of flowers and nightingale. Its name became popular thanks to a particular industry in Australia. Name it.

Shiraz

8. Connect London School of Economics with Tata Steel and what do you arrive at?

The Tatas had invited Sidney James Webb, co-founder of the London School of Economics, and his wife Beatrice Webb to work on welfare schemes for employees in the 1930s

9. If you are practising “Fika” at your workplace then where would you be working?

Sweden or a Swedish company. Fika is a common practice at workplaces in Sweden where it constitutes at least one break during a workday

10. Name the brand and its owner.

Consumer product brand Pravesh (Enter) Steel doors from Tata Steel

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

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