Answers to the Strategist quiz 579

Answers to the Strategist quiz 579

1. Provost is remembered for introducing spice plants to Zanzibar, Mauritius, Madagascar and the Caribbean in the 18th century. This was when the Dutch had a virtual monopoly on them in Indonesia. After his death, his wife Sophie married a liberal politician and publisher who set up an explosives company in North America. She used her inheritance which mostly came from her late husband's spice trade. Name the founder of this 200 plus year old company. 

Answer: E I Dupont

2. This company faced seven bankruptcies in its 100 plus year old history. It has embarked on a new strategy named "Second Century" to reinvent itself and make it more suitable in the Digital era. Name it.

Answer: Aston Martin

3. This lady nicknamed the "Witch of Wall Street", was an American businesswoman and financier known as "the richest woman in America" during the Gilded Age (1870s -1900). Known for both her wealth and her miserliness, she was the lone woman to amass a fortune as a financier when other major financiers were men. Name her.

Answer: Henrietta Howland "Hetty" Green

4. When is the buzzword used for the practice of transferring a problem employee to another department without alerting the supervisor to the person’s objectionable traits?

Answer: Passing the trash

5. Who is the founder of Stratolaunch Systems Corporation, an American space transportation venture developing a new air launch to orbit system? 

Answer: Paul G Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft

6. This brand founded in the 1930s initially was positioned as an energy product that helped women slim down. Currently its ads talk about diverse women who are often invisible in advertising and also help break taboos of people with disabilities. Name the brand. 

Answer: Maltesers, American equivalent of M&Ms

7. Connect "The Importance of Being Earnest", a comedy play written by Oscar Wilde at the end of the nineteenth century with the Internet world and what do you arrive at?

Answer: The TIOBE index. TIOBE is programming community index is a measure of popularity of programming languages

8. If Big Fry is the autobiography of an English Footballer Barry Fry whose book is called Small Fry?

Answer: Small Fry is a 2018 memoir by Lisa Brennan-Jobs, daughter of Steve Jobs

9. This 30-year-old British company uses this line "Mission Possible" in its advertisements. It is a premium bespoke service company. Name it.

Answer: Gray & Farrar is a premium global matchmaking website accepts only the "most eligible single people" as clients

10. Identify the logo of a cultural group that can be traced back to 12,000 years ago. They own one of the most unique business enterprises/brand which they acquired in the mid 2000&is present in 68 countries. Name them and the brand.

Answer: The Seminole tribe owners of The Hard Rock Café chain. It was sold to the Seminole Tribe of Florida in 2007.Now, Hard Rock owns or licenses 164 cafes, 22 hotels, with 15 hotels under development, 11 casinos and five concert venues. The brand is now in 68 countries and has more than 80,000 pieces of music memorabilia

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