Answers to The Strategist Quiz (#535)

Answers to The Strategist Quiz, October 26, 2017

1. This 133-year-old company was struggling to keep up with the times. Ride-sharing, the Internet of Things, self-driving cars etc. were posing a challenge to its business model. So its internal think tank came up with a revolutionary product that has a name which literally means fast or quick trip in the language spoken in the firm’s home country. Its name also seems to have a connect with the Mahabharata.

Piaggio, Italy. Its newest product is the Gita, a cargo robot. It carries your things so you don’t have to. The goal is to offer an alternative to cars and scooters for quick trips. Gita in Italian means quick trip.

2. It has its origins in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. Some of its varieties are named as Mahboobnagar (Telangana town), Balanagar (locality in Hyderabad), Washington, Barbados, Hillary White and Geffner. About 400 tonnes or more are produced annually in India. Name it.

Custard apple.

3. Some years ago a brand in India had set up a group of local cricket teams having seven players each who played seven balls an over, predominantly in the southern states. Name it.

7UP in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. It was called the 7UP Lemon Pattalam.

4. Connect Algeria, Tunisia, Serbia, Kuwait, Libya, Macedonia, Jordan, Iraq and Bahrain with something that is used in all these countries and gets its name from a Latin phrase.

The currency in all these countries is the dinar. The word dinar stems from Latin “Denarius Aureus”, which means gold coin.

5.What is the buzzword to describe the current crop of entrepreneurial, tech-based 20-somethings also known as young entrepreneurial technocrats?

Yetties.

6. Who is launching a campaign called “Set the Page Free”? A project that hopes to unleash the power of collaboration, demonstrating how the world communicates, connects and works.

Xerox.

7. Where would you find Atari, Coca-Cola, Johnnie Walker Black Label, Peugeot and erstwhile defunct brand/airline Pan-Am making product placements?

In the much-awaited movie “Blade Runner 2049”.

8. Whose motto or theme is “See Now, Buy Now”?

“See Now, Buy Now” is the motto of the 2017 11.11 Alibaba’s Global Shopping Festival, the largest single online day of e-commerce ever conceived.

9. Connect 238 proposals 54 states and HQ2 and what do you arrive at?

238 proposals from cities in 54 states/regions in the US for building Amazon’s two headquarters in North America.

10. An airline ad from the 60s. The actors were travelling to one of the oldest film festivals after Venice. This city gets its name from a holy Roman emperor who reigned during the mid-1300s and is famous for its hot springs. The airline was set up in 1923. Name it and the film fest.

Czech Airlines CSA. The three actors were travelling to the international film festival being held in the Czech city of Karlovy Vary. This event was set up in 1946, the same year as Cannes Film Festival. Karlovy Vary gets its name from King Charles IV, also known as Carlsbad.