Answers to the Strategist quiz (#542)

Answers to the Strategist quiz (#542)

1 What is the term used to describe the trail of clicks that internet users leave behind from which value can be extracted?
 
Data exhaust
 
2 This American brand started in a Michigan farm by two brothers in 1892 is now British owned. Mark Twain, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Edison and Mahatma Gandhi were its users. It was one of the first to bring out a Mickey Mouse branded edition during the 1930s. Name it.

Ingersoll watches

3 In 1916, when this brand started its creators wanted to use the line “the first ‘feel-like-everyday’s-a-Saturday’ shoe”. Since it was too long for a tag, they called it Champion. Name the brand and give the two words that are its contribution to the footwear industry and used generically.

Keds. It was the first to introduce rubber-soled shoes which became known as sneakers because the rubber soles allowed sneaking around silently
 
4 This symbol was first incorporated on at least one 1889 model of the Underwood typewriter and subsequently from 1905 all its successful typewriters carried it. In 1971, he made a breakthrough invention and said to his colleague “Don't tell anyone! This isn’t what we’re supposed to be working on.” Name him, his invention and the symbol.

Ray Tomlinson, inventor of email and the adopter of @ symbol which he used to introduce an email address with
 
5 What is common to the brands, Asian Paints and Pringles?

Names for both were chosen from the telephone directory
 
6 This camera was apparently picked up at a second-hand shop by a person who knew little about cameras. It was a rare model with only just over 9,000 units ever made. He recorded a feat, one of the firsts to be achieved by any man just a few days before Queen Elizabeth II was crowned. Name the person and the camera.

A Kodak Retina (Model 118) was used by Sir Edmund Hillary to take the iconic image of Sherpa Tenzing conquering Mount Everest on May 29, 1953
 
7 Its first failure in India was a joint venture with Chamundi Mopeds which manufactured a two-wheeler. Name the company

Peugeot. Its subsequent joint ventures with Premier Automobiles (Peugeot 309) and Mahindra & Mahindra (Logan) also did not take off
 
8 In 1987, the Indian government became the beneficiary of £777,000 as per the will of the co-founder of a firm that is over 100 years old. A famous Bollywood star worked in the shipping division of this company as a freight broker. Identify the company and its co-founder.

Charles William Wallace of Shaw Wallace. Amitabh Bachchan’s first job was with Shaw Wallace’s shipping division

9 What are H-Bomb and Sway?

Sex magazines published by students at Harvard University and Yale
 
10 Whose logo is this?

Formula One world championships
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There was 18 correct entries to Quiz No 542. The winner is Kakali Patgiri of Guwahati