Answers to the Strategist quiz #566

Answers to the Strategist quiz

1. Connect the T-Model, Tango, Telstar, Allen and Top Star and what do you arrive at?
Names of some of the former FIFA World cup match balls. The 2018 world cup match ball is Adidas’ Telstar 18 and is being outsourced to a firm called Forward Sports in Sialkot, Pakistan

2. Name the brand that has launched its product in the World’s first recyclable shampoo bottle made with beach plastic?

P&G’s Head and Shoulders 2-in-1 Classic clean shampoo

3. In the mid-90s the CEO of this Global Corporation chartered a Discovery Team to develop a system that would allow sustainable and lasting improvement in organisational safety.One of the best known outcomes of that team is the Bradley curve, owing its name to one of the team members. Name the company which came out with this concept that is a leading indicator of the maturity of an organisation’s safety culture.
DuPont

4. Who said this “If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, you are too large”?
Jeff Bezos

5. This company gets its name from Surinamese which means "Start over again". This 12 year old company was recently it was in the news for its IPO. It was touted as one of the largest tech IPOs in Europe. Name it.
Dutch fintech firm and PayPal rival Adyen

6. Connect the thermometer, piano, typewriter and the oldest film festival in the world and what do you arrive at?
All were invented in Italy. The Venice Film Festival is regarded as the oldest film festival in the world that started in 1932.

7. What is the term used to describe a high-growth company that is increasing its revenues by at least 20per cent annually for four years or more, starting from a revenue base of at least $1 million? This growth pace means that the company has effectively doubled its revenues over a four-year period. Name the person who coined the term.

Gazelle.

8. This company was established by a family in the 1830s and was famous for its coffee grinders and chain bicycles. It also made band saws, horse hoof clippers, corset stays, umbrella frames and sewing machines. Its current logo is a lion and it first appeared on its saw blades and was registered as its trademark in the late 1850s. Name the company. 
The French car manufacturer Peugeot

9. What is the buzzword used to describe a company's valuation based on name /recognition and not tangible assets?
Capitalised reputation

10. Which company is named after this fictional object that was used in movie based on a fantasy classic?

Palantir Technologies is a company which specialises in big data analytics. One of its co-founders, Peter Thiel named it after a fictional magical artefact from J. R. R. Tolkien’s legendarium. It is a crystal ball, used for both communication and as a means of seeing events in other parts of the world or in the distant past

 

Compiled by Gaurav Sri Krishna, www.facebook.com/gaurav.s.krishna

There were 10 correct entries to Quiz no 566. The winner is Pratik Anand from Patna