Answers to The Strategist Quiz (#534)

Answers to The Strategist Quiz, October 19, 2017

1. Thanks to the e-commerce world we can buy just about anything online and get it delivered to your doorstep in a snap. Not only has that been insanely convenient for us, but it’s also created a giant window of opportunity for so-called __. They are experts at stealing the packages kept at people's doorsteps. What are they called?

Porch pirates. Amazon is exploring ways to prevent “porch pirates” from stealing customer packages

2. Connect actors Prabhas, Rana Daggubati (Bahubali fame) and shuttlers P V Sindhu and her coach P Gopichand and what do you arrive at?

All have signed up as brand endorsers for the Coffee Board of India

3. This person quit his job as a copywriter for Esquire magazine in the US when he was denied a small raise. He started his own venture by raising USD 8,000 from 45 investors. Who and what did he create?

Hugh Hefner, the founder of Playboy

4. Who conceived these three laws in the 1940s well before robots made an appearance: Robots should not harm a human through action or inaction, they must obey human orders and they must protect only themselves?

The Three Laws of Robotics were laid down by Issac Asimov as an ethical code for the robots in his stories

5. The first chapter of whose book is titled “How Karl Marx, a Sanskrit scholar and a cricket hero shaped my boyhood”?

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s maiden book Hit Refresh

6. Connect Tony the Tiger and a brand that has the lines “No B.S” as one of the ingredients in its products.

Kellogg’s acquisition of RXBAR, a start-up company in the US that makes whole food protein snack bar with $100-million in annual sales. No BS stands for “No Bad Stuff”

7. Its roots can be traced to ancient Greece, India and China. Its current form has been derived directly from “Poona”. A certain produce from Portugal and China are the key elements in the manufacture of its most critical component. It owes its origins to a Gloucestershire country house. Name it.

Badminton. The Yonex professional shuttle cocks are made with 16 goose feathers imported from China and cork from Portugal. The game was also known as Poona or Poonah, played by the British army officers. It is here that the first rules for the game were drawn up in 1873

8. Livestrong was connected with Lance Armstrong. Who is the public service announcement “Be Strong” connected to and what is it about?

Monica Lewinsky and her campaign to fight online bullying or trolls

9. This member of the royalty was given this city as a part of his dowry in the 1660s. He was not able to realise any revenue from it and found maintaining a garrison too expensive. So he leased it to the East India Company for an annual rent of Pound Sterling 10. Name him and the city.

Bombay city. On 21 May 1662, the marriage treaty of Charles II of England and Catherine of Braganza, daughter of King John IV of Portugal, placed Bombay in possession of the British Empire, as part of dowry

10. Who is this person and on which currency is this image found?

Thomas De La Rue. These 1 pound Guernsey notes issued in 2013 commemorate the 200th anniversary of the printer's first commercial venture, which was the launch of the French newspaper Le Miroir Politique in Guernsey in 1813