Answers to The Strategist Quiz (#531)

Answers to The Strategist Quiz, September 28, 2017

1.This phenomenon has been described by a professor and author whose field of study is evidence-based management. He defines it as __. People being less nice and less civilised because of status and income inequalities, sleep deprivation and use of technology primarily social media. At workplaces people are talking less to colleagues despite being in the same room and communicating more through social media. State the term and the person who coined it. 

“The age of Peak Asshole”. Coined by Robert Sutton, a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and author of “The No Asshole Rule”
 
2.Tata Sons, the holding company of the Tata Group, is planning to follow what the 106-year-old TVS & Sons did in 2015. What are they planning?

To become a private limited company from a deemed public limited company
 
3.It is considered as the world’s oldest shopping mall and contains the world’s only certified 7-star hotel. It was built in the 1870s. Name it and a global luxury brand that set up its first store here in the early 1900s.

The Galleria Vittorio Emanuele in Milan. Prada opened its first-ever store here in 1903. It is named after Victor Emmanuel II, the first king of the Kingdom of Italy 
 
4.Connect the following currencies: India’s ~200 note, Israel’s 100 Shekel note, Fiji’s 7 dollar note, Madagascar’s 20,000 Ariary note and Norway’s 100 Kroner note. These are some out of a list of 12.

Bank notes nominated for 2017’s Banknote of the Year award instituted by the International Bank Note Society
 
5.It is termed as “A Miracle in the Hole in the Wall in Delhi”and an inspiration for education through the technology industry globally. It happened way back in the late 1990s. What is it and who was responsible for it?

An experiment by Sugata Mitra of Newcastle University in 1999 when he fixed a computer in an empty ATM hole in New Delhi and let street kids explore and learn on their own
 
6.Who is soon going to launch an exclusive airline designed for millennials? Name the same. It plans to offer in-flight VR, organic meals and have attendants wear white sneakers.

Air France’s low-cost subsidiary Joon
 
7.Which successful company’s mission is “Solve the problems that others ignore”?

Dyson Ltd
 
8.Connect a brand whose Hindi punch line reads “ek achhi aadat” with a recently introduced GPS-enabled handheld device for general consumer use developed by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research and CEERI.

The Ksheer Tester
 
9.Name the soon to be launched brand that is made out of a yeast strain found by this company’s scientist in Argentina. He found the yeast strain growing on trees in the mountains of Patagonia.

Heineken’s H41 Beer
 
10.This image is part of a very pertinent book.
Name the book and its author. 

A world of three zeros: The new economics of zero poverty, zero unemployment, and zero net carbon emissions by Nobel laureate Mohammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank

One lucky winner will receive a cheque for Rs 2,000. Send your entries to strategist@bsmail.in. All entries must carry the postal address of the contestant. 

Last date for receiving entries: October 6 till 8 pm. Previous winners and employees of Business Standard and their families are not eligible to participate. The winner is chosen on the basis of the first correct entry received.

There were six correct entries to Quiz No 531. The winner is Renu Choudhary from Raipur