Answers to the Strategist quiz #568

Answers to the Strategist quiz #568

1. It’s supposed to have originated in Japan in the late 1880s. Subsequently Christian missionaries were using it in India and then the Chinese by 1914. Till about 1990 the ‘Meerut Model/Body’ was the most popular version used across the country. At one point in time there were more than a million of them being used in India. Name it. 

Cycle rickshaws.

2. Like the big four in the accounting business who are referred to as the GAFA’s especially in Europe?

Google, Apple Facebook and Amazon

3. To celebrate the 150th anniversary of this sporting event in 2018 a poster has been designed by artificial intelligence (AI). It looks like a water colour image but it’s made up of a mosaic of images. Over 300,000 separate images were reviewed from the entire historical photo archive of this event and nearly 9,000 images were selected for final design. Name the event and the computer that was used.

The Wimbledon 2018 poster designed by IBM’s Watson

4. Connect Robert Owen, a Welsh socialist and labour reformer in London, John Gray, a socialist economist who worked with Ricardian Socialists, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Karl Marx and a system which is prevalent in Switzerland.

Time Banking. Time-based currency is an alternative currency or exchange system where the unit of account/value is the person-hour. 

5. This fund was launched along with UNDP, where the partners commit to contributing 0.5 per cent of their media spend to the fund for each advertisement they use featuring an animal. The funds will be used to support animals and their habitats . The fund seeks to raise $100 million a year within 3 years. Name the fund and the company involved in this social venture.

It’s called the Lion’s share, a fund mooted by Marc Inc. and the UN body UNDP

6. In the late 1950s the iconic CH-4 was introduced by an Indian firm inspired by a Bauhaus designer. Name the firm and the designer.

The famous Godrej steel-based office chair 

7. Which business group is truly “Inspired by Life”?

The Manipal Group of Hospitals

8. This word in Sanskrit means full of life. It’s the name a publicly listed firm in India has taken. Name the firm and its promoters?

Viaan Industries, promoted by Raj Kundhra and Shilpa Shetty 

9. Widowed at an early age in 1902, Lane Bryant supported herself and her young son as a dressmaker. Borrowing $300 from her brother-in-law, Bryant went to the bank to open an account. The bank officer misspelled her name on the application as Lane instead of Lena. Rest is history the Lane Bryant brand now has more than 800 stores in the US. What unique term has this brand contributed to the fashion industry?

 Plus size Clothing or Plus size. Initially they sold it under the Stout women category

10. The CEO who took this 92 year old firm to glory and built its strong image that lasts even now disallowed his employees from wearing particular type of socks during his tenure. Name him, the firm and the pattern found on the socks.

strategy #568

Marvin Bower, McKinsey and argyle socks













Compiled by Gaurav Sri Krishna, www.facebook.com/gaurav.s.krishna.
There were two correct entries to Quiz no 568 and the winner is Utkarsh Jain from Meerut.