Answers to the Strategist quiz #656

Answers to the Strategist quiz #656

1. It first originated as B814 then 229E was discovered and subsequently OC43 during the 60s. In the current form it seems to have caused massive damage to businesses and humans alike. Name it.

 
Answer: The coronavirus. OC stands for Organ Culture
 
2. Connect the game of Ice hockey where a flat ball is used and BruceJay Wasserstein who was an American investment banker, businessman, and writer and what do you arrive at?
 
Answer: He coined the term "Pac-Man defense" in mergers and acquisitions that refers to a hostile takeover, after the Pac-Man game that was originally named Puck Man since it looked like the puck used in ice hockey.
 
3. Name the person who completing his PhD in military occupied Berlin in 1949 and came back to India and launched a soap brand on the 15th of August in the early 50s. Name the person and the brand that was launched.
 
Answer: Burjor Godrej launched the Cinthol soap in 1952

4. Who operates an online platform, called Community, for buying and selling consumer-centric digital advertising?
 
Answer: Xandr, Inc., the advertising and analytics division of AT&T

5. Manufactured by a British MNC, this brand was sold in India with the byline “Hair’s Natural Food”. This brand is still available in other variants. Name it.
 
Answer: Silvikrin, the hair care brand that was originally manufactured by Smit Kline Beecham
 

6. Whose women’s day campaign reads “She rocks when she travels on an ___”?
 
Answer: Enfield Motorcycle

7.Who ran ads in the 70s and 80s in India, which read “Your credit is better than a Millionaire’s”?
 
Answer: Diners Club India

8. Which 100-year-old company says that its vision of “Passion, Artistry and Technology” are more than buzzwords and they have been living up to it?
 
Answer: Japanese electronics company Denon

9. Who uses this punch line in their ads “What are you solving for”?
 
Answer: Google Cloud
 
10. What profession does this Egyptian Hieroglyphic represent?
 

Answer: A beer brewer
 

Compiled by Gaurav Sri Krishna, www.facebook.com/gaurav.s.krishna

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There were three correct entries to Quiz number 656 and the winner is Gangubai Bhat from Bengaluru