Answers to The Strategist Quiz (#553)

Answers to The Strategist Quiz, March 8, 2018

1. What are pie tops and who manufacturers them?

Limited edition shoes made by Pizza Hut. In 2017 it made the first shoe that ordered pizza. This year it is making the world’s second shoe that orders pizza—and pauses live TV, so viewers won’t miss a thing when their March Madness pizza gets delivered

2. Connect Tony the Tiger, Marlboro cowboy and the Jolly Green Giant and what do you arrive at?

The initial TV ads of these brands in the 1960s had the voice of Elmer “Len” Dressler, Jr. He was an American voice actor and vocalist, best known as the deep bass voice

3. Name this company which made its first profit quarterly profit in its 12-year history last December 2017. Close to Pound sterling 65million.

Twitter has posted its first quarterly profit in its 12-year history. The San Francisco-based social network, which went public five years ago, made a profit of $91m (£65m) in the fourth quarter of 2017

4. In the recently held Oscars what was the distinction of costume designer Mark Bridges besides winning the Oscar for Phantom Thread?

He also won a Jet Ski from Kawasaki awarded to the shortest speech made by an Oscar winner


5. Where would you find the Hotel that is completely staffed by robots? Name it too.

Henn na Hotel in Japan. One of the definitions of the Japanese word “Henn” is to change

6. With which industry would you connect the varieties Bhima, Prabha, Kalyani, Uttara, Sarayu, Krishna, Harayana, Rajbhog and Rashbari?

All varieties of sugarcane grown in India

7. What is the buzzword used to describe a situation when in a corporate the top management hires outside consultants to do what it should be doing and deciding how to run the company? This demotivates the employees who were actually supposed to manage these functions.

Management Insultancy

8. The founder of a tech company named his house in homage to Citizen Kane. Name both the person and the house.

Bill Gates Mansion on Puget Sound in Seattle is called Xanadu 2.0, named in homage to Citizen Kane

9. Who uses this line, “As a rule, challenge the rule”?

Genesis, the luxury car brand and division of Hyundai Motors

10. Name the company from its logo

The Weinstein Company LLC. is a mini-major film studio, founded in New York City by Bob and Harvey Weinstein in 2005. Harvey Weinstein was dismissed last October after dozens of women came forward to accuse him of sexual harassment, assault or rape
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