Answers to the Strategist quiz (#446)

1. Which service industry's origins would you relate to a dog called Sarama in the Rig Veda and people known as Palagalas mentioned in the Atharva Veda?
   The postal/courier industry. Sarama was a dog that was used to carry messages and as per Atharva Veda Palagalas were couriers
    
2. She is known as the catalog queen in the US and this is one of her statements: "Live like a miser in the beginning. Reinvest all the money you earn." Name her.
   Lillian Vernon. The catalog business she started at 24 went on to become the first company founded by a woman to be listed on the American stock exchange in 1987
    
3. Which company's brand guideline reads "So next time you get a cup of java to go, remember, you can't drink coffee from a ____ cup - because there is no such thing!?" Fill in the blank and mention why this statement is made.
   STYROFOAM™ is a registered trademark for a line of extruded polystyrene foam products made by The Dow Chemical Company
    
4. In the mid-1950s the Ford motor company opened a special products division which was meant to develop a car called the E-Car. Expand the E in the E-Car.
   Experimental car
    
5. Name the cocktail that gets its name from a beach and an iron mine near Santiago de Cuba. The drink was supposedly invented by an American mining engineer who was working for a Spanish-American iron mining company.
   Daiquiri. The drink was said to be invented by an American mining engineer Jennings Cox, who was in Cuba during the Spanish-American War
    
6. Which was the first country in the world to ban plastic bags altogether?
   Bangladesh in 2002
    
7. Name the company that is credited with the invention of the world's first double coiled bulb.
   Toshiba
    
8. The flagship store and the first global outlets of a very popular United States animated sitcom are opening in Beijing and Shanghai this year. Name it.
   The Simpsons Retail Store, owned by 20th Century Fox
    
9. Which brand uses a trademarked phrase called "Why Wait"? It claims, "We started connecting the phone to the Internet. Now we are connecting the Internet to everything."
   Qualcomm
    
10. Name the brand from its logo.
    Abarth & C. S.p.A. is a racing car and road car maker founded by Carlo Abarth in 1949

 

There were 10 correct entries to quiz No 446. Saroj Mehta from Jodhpur, wins Rs 2000. The winner is based on the first correct entry received.