The Strategist Quiz (#532)

The Strategist Quiz, October 5, 2017

1. It was first developed by the Countess of Seafield as her estate’s signature tweed in the early 19th Century. It was here that a member of the royal family who often went shooting discovered and borrowed it to make his own variation. What is it called now?
 
2. State this term which is a product of the dot com boom. It describes workers who move on to hot companies and look elsewhere once the stock price drops.
 
3. Connect Lost, GI, Silent, C, D, X, Y & Z and what do you arrive at?
 
4. In the 1700s in India what was a Cartaz and Dastak. Who issued them?

5. Who recently said, “We’ve all grown up with this idea that content is king, and I realised, it actually isn’t. Content is the king maker, it’s not the king. The king is the platform. HBO is the king. Netflix is the king. Spotify is the king”? Name him and his new channel he is setting up.
 
6. This person was a prison keeper and an animal breeder. He was considered a medical mystery and died in the early 1800s. He became extremely heavy and was considered his country’s first documented obese man. Since his ungainly weight prevented him from working he earned a fortune by charging people a shilling to see him and would travel across the country. Name this person.
 
7. This enterprise was in the news recently, it gets its name from a poem by Rudyard Kipling that was first published in 1892. The poem colourfully illustrates the nostalgia and longing of a soldier of the British Empire for Asia’s exoticism, and generally for the countries and cultures located “East of Suez.”
 
8. It is slang for a live musical performance, originally coined in the 1920s by jazz musicians. Today the same word is also used as a buzzword in Economics. Explain.
 
9. Which company’s base line is “We save lives”? It was set up in 1916 and hand crafted a product which was used in a product for the masses.
 
10. Explain what this image represents.