Answers to the Strategist quiz (#486)

1. This Chicago-based channel WBBM-TV now known as CBS2 traces its history to 1940 when Balaban and Katz, a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures, signed on experimental station W9XBK, the first all-electronic television facility in Chicago. When World War-II began, its facilities were used as a prototype school for training navy electronics technicians. It pioneered something in 1960 which has now become a tradition that is followed in the US. What is it?

It hosted the first televised US presidential debate in September 1960, between Richard Nixon and John F Kennedy

2. During the bombing of their town by RAF planes during WWII the founders of this company and their immediate families in Germany were taking refuge in their shelter. A comment by one of the founders referring to the bombers as “Here are the bloody bastards again” was mistaken by the other founder as directed against him. This suspicion led to hatred and a split in the company. Virtue of this a new brand was formed in the late 40s. Which one?

Puma. Adi Dassler formed Adidas and Rudolf Dassler created Puma

3. Connect ‘The Thirteen Colonies’, a group of British colonies on the east coast of North America founded in the 17th and 18th centuries that declared independence in 1776 and formed the US and a global consumer brand and what do you arrive at.

Procter & Gamble’s former controversial Moon and Star’s logo. It originated in 1851 as a crude cross that barge workers on the Ohio River painted on cases of P&G star candles to identify them. P&G later changed this symbol into a trademark that showed a man in the moon overlooking 13 stars, said to commemorate the original 13 colonies

4. This product was a natural progression starting with the Model A in the early 1900s. B, C, F, K, N, R S and T followed. The missing letters were experimental or never got off the drawing board. Suddenly in the late 1920s the founder felt that his company was entering a new era and started again with Model A. Name the founder and the company.

Henry Ford and Ford Motor Cars

5. Connect Agatha Christie to a village between Brussels and Lille (French speaking part of Belgium) and identify a beer brand.

The beer brand Ellezelles is named after the home town of Hercule Poirot, a character created by Agatha Christie

6. What term is used to describe the offline mechanism for storing Bitcoins?

Paper wallets

7. One of the forefathers of the founders of this business group saved Ahmedabad from the marauding Maratha army in 1725 by paying a ransom of Rs 5 lakh on behalf of the city. Name this person and the business group.

Khushalchand (1680- 1748) saved the city of Ahmedabad from the marauding Maratha army in 1725 by paying a ransom of Rs 5 lakh. The founder of the Lalbhai group, Lalbhai Dalpatbhai, is the great great great grandson of Khushalchand

8. This commodity gets its name from Taíno, a language historically spoken by the Taíno people of the Caribbean. More than a billion people worldwide consume it and the global total crop production exceeds 300 million metric tonnes. Name it.

Potato from Spanish patata

9. Which company is changing its name to American Outdoor Brands Corp?

The Gun company Smith & Wesson Holding Corporation

10. Identify this character whose name is supposedly linked to a famous brand.

Eugene Jeep and the Jeep brand now owned by Fiat Chrysler



There were no entries to quiz No 486. The winner is based on the first correct entry.