Answers to Strategist quiz #611

Answers to Strategist quiz #611

1 Connect the following: 1630s, A Spanish viceroy of a South American country who got his title from a Spanish county which is a town and municipality now 50 km from Madrid and the introduction of a particular South American plant in the mountains of Nilgiris& Darjeeling in the 1850s and what do you arrive at?

The cinchona plant from which quinine is extracted and used for treating malaria and also manufacturing tonic water.
 

2 Connect these dates with a company and state its significance. January 28, 2019, January 27, 2020, January 25, 2021, January 24, 2022,January 30, 2023, so on and so forth.

The National Bubble Wrap day is celebrated on these dates in the US .This Appreciation Day for a product was invented in 1957 
 

3 Way back in the late 1890s, this Indian businessman established the practice of calculating the managing agents' remuneration on the basis of profits and not sales or production. He also made an attempt to export mangoes to Europe in cold storage steamers and tried his hand at frozen food and built an ice house for that purpose.Name him.

J N Tata
 

4 Who has taken over Juhi Chawla, Parineeti Chopra and Taapsee Pannu as this brand's spokesperson or ambassador?

An animated mascot called Ms. Kurkure by Pepsico
 

5 What term is used to describe service providers like Amazon Video, Hulu, Netflix, etc. who live stream video /film content over public Internet, rather than a closed, private network with proprietary equipment such as set-top boxes.

Over the Top or OTT content providers
 

6 Name the two companies that were involved in launching the very first smartwatch much ahead of its time about 15 years ago. Also name the brand.

In 2004, the Swatch group and Microsoft launched the Paparazzi watch that could connect to the MSN Direct service and access data from the Internet
 

7 In which country is the acronym BATs used in connection with Internet based businesses?

In China, BATS refers to Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent the three most prominent companies
 

8 Name the brand that has launched a new category of jeans for the gym in India?

Spykar's Gymjns
 

9 Which brand’s promise is a “brighter everyday”, for its customers?

Croma

10 Identify the breed of the dog from the images below and connect it with a luxury brand that was named after a dog from the same breed. This dog was owned by the founder of the said brand. 

Oakley was started by James Jannard in 1975 out of his garage with an initial investment of $300. The name "Oakley" came from Jim's English setter, "Oakley Anne"

There was one correct entriy to Quiz no. 611. The winner is S Govindharajan from Chennai