ANSWERS to the Strategist quiz #636

ANSWERS to the Strategist quiz #636

1. There's a popular legend about how in the 1880s, this person tipped others in the cotton business by sending boats to the sea to secure information on the condition of the Liverpool cotton market much before anyone else. Fast sailing boats were kept in readiness to board the steamer at what was known as the outer lighthouse and information was sought from businessman and travellers. This person also published his autobiography in1913. Name him. 

Premchand Roychand. The Father of the Indian Stock Market also known as the Bullion and Cotton King

2. Name the company that organises the thumb stoppers summit a forum that brings folks from the advertising and marketing industry in Asia

Facebook

3. Connect the term used in the UK for a Member of Parliament who does not hold office in the government or opposition and who sits behind the front benches in the House of Commons with Flipkart and what do you arrive at?

Backbenchers is the title of Flipkart's first video production like that of Netflix and Amazon

4. Name this gun manufacturer which is coming out with an electric car to compete with Tesla.

Kalashnikov, makers of the AK47

5. Connect this watch Seiko 5 sports timer 7017 6020 and all the tourists who especially visit the monuments at the Marina beach in Chennai and what do you arrive at?

People still put their ears on the tomb of former Chief Minister M G Ramachandran to hear this watch still ticking

6. Connect the nose cone of a missile with cookware and which brand do you end up with?

Donald Stookey, a scientist with Corning Glass Works,who in the 1950s accidentally discovered a remarkablystrong material that could beused not just to make the nose cone of a missile but alsoto contain a casserole in both a refrigerator and hot oven — its durable culinary incarnation was called Corning Ware

7. When this person first started his business in the mid-1930s, he had one customer, eight employees and a bowl of apples on each desk in the reception lobby. His only customer was the Green Giant. Name this person. 

Leo Burnett

8. Name the company that has recently announced the use of a Green Fibre Bottle for their products, which is a first of its kind. 

The Danish company Carlsberg

9. What is the term used for the act of posting or sending offensive messages over the Internet?

Flaming

10. What is common to all the three logos and name the individuals behind these companies that help form the common 

All companies invested by Cricket Players. 1. Umesh Yadav and Fashionove. 2. Robin Uthappa and HealthEminds 3. Yuvraj singh and Bengaluru-based portal for jets and helicopters, JetSetGo

One lucky winner will receive a cheque for Rs 2,000. Send your entries to strategist@bsmail.in. All entries must carry the postal address of the contestant. Last date for receiving entries is October 29 till 8 pm. Previous winners and employees of Business Standard and their families are not eligible to participate. The winner is chosen on the basis of the first correct entry received.

There were six correct entries to Quiz number 636. The winner is Yukta Arun from Sangrur