Answers to The Strategist Quiz (#528)

Answers to The Strategist Quiz, September 7, 2017

1. Its origin is Scottish. It is named after the jagged effect that might arise from the bite of a canine. The French considered it a “chicken foot”. It was noticed on the oldest garment dating back to 360-100 BC, found in Sweden. It’s a part of an Australian supermarket’s branding. What is it?

1. The Houndstooth checks fabric pattern. It is also known as dogstooth, dogtooth, dog’s tooth, or pied-de-poule, is a duotone textile pattern characterised by broken checks or abstract four-pointed shapes, often in black and white, although other colours are used

2. Range International’s facility in Langfang, China, which spans 6.3 million square feet, is the world’s largest data centre. Name the company that plans to beat this facility and host the world’s largest data centre.

2. Kolos, a Norwegian and American company. It is building what it calls the most innovative, energy-efficient and secure data centre in the world, powered by 100 per cent renewable energy in a fjord in Ballangen, Norway

3. This Mongolian memory marvel turned “human catalogue” is the #1 highest-ranked female memory world champion, a skill honed while growing up in Stockholm, Mongolia, Kenya and Tokyo. She recently memorised every detail on the just-released 328-page 2018 catalogue of a global brand. Name her and the brand.

3. Yanjaa Wintersoul has memorised every detail in IKEA’s 2018 catalogue

4. Whose brands are Btwin, Quechua, and Kalenji, domyos, tribord and Oxelo?

4. The French sporting goods company Decathlon

5. Which management guru’s main thesis is that the world is not flat, in direct contradiction to Thomas Friedman’s bestseller The World is Flat?

5. Pankaj Ghemawat, one of the younger representatives of the Indian gurus of management and a master on globalisation

6. This brand was invented a Yorkshireman, Harry Pickup, in the 1920s. It is now owned by an MNC and is sold across the world. Name it.

6. Harpic. It is now owned by Reckitt Benckiser

7. Which company was the first to market a 3-D home videogame?

7. Sony PlayStation

8. What term was coined by an Engineer at Ford motor company around 1946 where human effort was substituted by mechanical, electrical and computerised operations? It is the buzzword for the IT and high tech industry now.

8. Automation

9. What are the annoying webpages, generally carrying ads that pop up in front of your page you are actually hoping to read called?

9. Interstitials

10. Connect a brand with this fountain of __ found in an Italian city.   

10. The civic Fountain of Neptune located in the eponymous square, Piazza del Nettuno, next to Piazza Maggiore, in Bologna, Italy. The logo of the Maserati car company is based on the trident in this Neptune statue. In 1920, one of the Maserati brothers, the artist Mario Maserati, used this symbol in the logo at the suggestion of family friend 

Marquis Diego de Sterlich

 

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

There were two correct entries to Quiz No 528. The winner is Sachi Danda from Bhubaneswar