Answers to the Strategist quiz 556

Answers to the Strategist quiz 556

1 This new generation company was established seven years ago after its scientists discovered that a molecule called __ (derived from Greek meaning blood) is a key factor in how meat behaves. It is the molecule that gives blood its red colour, helps carry oxygen in living organisms and is abundant in animal muscle but is found naturally in all living organisms, especially plants. Name the molecule, the company and mention the business it is into.

Ans: Heme. Impossible Foods Inc. is a company that develops plant-based meat and dairy products made without animals

2 Connect well-known games such as croquet, ping-pong, snakes and ladders, ludo, the Staunton chess set, Happy Families and Snap and what do you arrive at?

Ans: Jaques of London, the oldest games firm and sports manufacturer. It was set up in 1795. Passed down from father to son for six generations, it has invented many well-known games

3 During the era of trade wars in the 1660s in India, which city was renamed New Orange?

Ans: Cochin. This is when the Portuguese surrendered to the Dutch East India Company in the Battle of Cochin and installed the prince who the Portuguese had ignored as the Raja of Cochin. Pepper was the top traded commodity then

4 Amazon, Intel, Airbnb, GE, Nokia, BMW, Vodafone, Toyota and now Netflix have one thing in common. What?

Ans: They have their own fonts. Netflix is the recent one to join the bandwagon with its Netflix sans font

5 Connect the Koh-I-Noor and Star of South, both diamonds, with a 175-year-old company. Name the company and state its distinction.

Ans: Both the diamonds (at various points owned by Indians) were cut and polished by Dutch firm Royal Coster Diamonds, the oldest firm and one of the most famous

6 This person, during the 1870s, was called up for military service in Vienna but was declared unfit and, therefore, he resumed his diplomatic career as Austrian vice-consul in Algeria. He also began trading Algerian grown tobacco to Europe. He was a car dealer and racing enthusiast too. He specified an engine design for the first modern car and named it after a member of his family. Who is he?

Ans: Emil Jellinek, known after 1903 as Emil Jellinek-Mercedes, who was on Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft’s board during 1900-1909. In 1926, he specified an engine design naming it after his daughter, Mercedes. Thus, brand Mercedes was born

7 This company founded in the late 1830s had at one time Richard Twining and William Duncan on its board. Today, it is into oil exploration and infrastructure development also. Name the company.

Ans: Assam Company India Limited set up in 1839. Dwarakanath Tagore was one of its founder directors

8 What is the buzzword that describes the time honoured art of whacking or kicking something to get it running? For instance, vending machines, computer monitors, laptops and white goods.

Ans: Percussive maintenance

9 Which brand’s lines are “One Shot. Make it count”?

Ans: Polaroid’s new OneStep 2 instant camera

10 Whose logo is this? 

Ans: The Allstate Corporation is the one of the largest insurance providers in the US. Founded in 1931 as part of Sears, Roebuck and Co, it runs the baseline: “You are in good hands”