Answers to The Strategist Quiz (#532)

Answers to The Strategist Quiz, October 5, 2017

1. It was first developed by the Countess of Seafield as her estate’s signature tweed in the early 19th Century. It was here that a member of the royal family who often went shooting discovered and borrowed it to make his own variation. What is it called now?

The Prince of Wales Check fabric. Nicknamed after the Prince of Wales (Edward VII) who popularised it
 
2. State this term which is a product of the dot com boom. It describes workers who move on to hot companies and look elsewhere once the stock price drops.

Heat-seeking workforce
 
3. Connect Lost, GI, Silent, C, D, X, Y & Z and what do you arrive at?

Names of social generations that originated in the Western world
 
4. In the 1700s in India what was a Cartaz and Dastak. Who issued them?

The Cartaz was a selling permit issued by the Portuguese for the safe passage of ships, similarly Dastak was a permit issued by Kanhoji Angre. He was one of the first notable chiefs of the Maratha navy who fought foreign powers on the Indian coast during the 18th century

5. Who recently said, “We’ve all grown up with this idea that content is king, and I realised, it actually isn’t. Content is the king maker, it’s not the king. The king is the platform. HBO is the king. Netflix is the king. Spotify is the king”? Name him and his new channel he is setting up.
 
Jeffrey Katzenberg. He is starting a TV channel that would set a record for digital media financing and deliver premium short-form programming in snack-size bites for mobile

6. This person was a prison keeper and an animal breeder. He was considered a medical mystery and died in the early 1800s. He became extremely heavy and was considered his country’s first documented obese man. Since his ungainly weight prevented him from working he earned a fortune by charging people a shilling to see him and would travel across the country. Name this person.

Daniel Lambert of Leicester
 
7. This enterprise was in the news recently, it gets its name from a poem by Rudyard Kipling that was first published in 1892. The poem colourfully illustrates the nostalgia and longing of a soldier of the British Empire for Asia’s exoticism, and generally for the countries and cultures located “East of Suez.”

The Mandalay Bay resort in Las Vegas from where a gunman create havoc
 
8. It is slang for a live musical performance, originally coined in the 1920s by jazz musicians. Today the same word is also used as a buzzword in Economics. Explain.

Gig. A gig economy is one in which temporary positions are common and organisations contract with short-term independent workers  

9. Which company’s base line is “We save lives”? It was set up in 1916 and hand crafted a product which was used in a product for the masses.

Key Safety Systems Inc
 
10. Explain what this image represents. 

The Blue Banana, aka the European Megalopolis or the Manchester-Milan Axis, a discontinuous corridor of urbanisation and high economic activity in Western Europe

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