Answers to the Strategist Quiz #659

Answers to the Strategist Quiz #659

1 Connect the BSNL directory enquiry services number”197” and a company that was inspired by it in a way and is now funded by the likes of Softbank, Alibaba and Saif partners. Name its founder too.

1. One97 Communi-cations, founded by Vijay Shekhar Sharma
 

2 Connect this brand that uses the lines “Simple put, We Age, We Blend, We Age Again” with an award established in the UK in the early 1900s for outstanding technical achievement in the Automotive Industry and what do you arrive at?

2. The Dewar’s Trophy, instituted in 1906 by Thomas Robert Dewar, a Scottish whisky distiller, along with his brother John 
 

3 What is the “Purity Law/order” that was enacted in the1500s and with which industry does it relate to?

3. The Reinheitsgebot or "purity order" is a series of regulations limiting the ingredients in beer in Germany and the states of the former Holy Roman Empire
 

4 This term is used in IT Hardware design and refers to the size, shape or physical arrangement of components etc. It also relates to products or devices. What is it?

4. Form factor
 

5 This NASDAQ listed company’s mission is “To be part of everyone's everyday life, starting with coffee”. Name the company which was in the news recently.

5. Chinese Coffee Chain Luckin Coffee
 

6 The founder of this company was always unhappy by the inconvenient fact of distance. In 2011, he tried to convince the CISCO leadership that mobile phones needed a product for better communication, they didn’t listen, and he went on to found a company on his own. Name him and his company.

6. Eric Yuan, the founder of Zoom
 

7 Name the game show that has been launched by two media houses that puts a satirical spin on WhatsApp forwards — by placing misinformation in the middle of the show

7. Kaun Banega, Kaun Banayega, a Times of India and Dainik Bhaskar initiative
 

8 Which brand ran a campaign called “Utsav Anek, Market Ek”?

8. Reliance Market
 

9 Who uses the base line “Anticipate tomorrow and Deliver Today”?

9. KPMG
 

10 Connect these respective phone models with an individual whose comments made news recently

 

10. Warren Buffet upgraded to iPhone-11 from a Samsung SCH u32 flip phone. Buffet, who has a 5.5% stake in Apple, said it is in the best business in the world

One lucky winner will receive a cheque for ~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 April 7 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 nine correct entries to Quiz number 659 and the winner is Niru Kumari 

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