Answers to the Strategist Quiz #663

Answers to the Strategist Quiz #663

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Gaurav Sri Krishna
3 min read Last Updated : May 17 2020 | 8:27 PM IST
1) This brand is known to display the 'Ouzo effect'. Ouzo is an anise-flavoured aperitif that is widely consumed in Greece and Cyprus. The company that owns it had almost decided to call it PCMX in the 1930s, which is an abbreviation of the aromatic compound it is made out of. By what name do we know this brand today?

1. Dettol

2) Connect the Red Hills area is famous for a large water body that supplies drinking water to the city of Chennai and another area when translated means village of small looms and arrive at an historical first.

2. The country's first train, Red Hill Railway (built by Arthur Cotton to transport granite for roadbuilding), ran from Red Hills to Chintadripet bridge in Madras in 1837 
 
3) What is the term that describes the length of time something is valid or effective? It is a computer programming term that describes the viability of data but is now used by other departments in companies like Marketing, Operations etc.

3. Effectivity

4) Post the Covid outbreak why did a small village called Mungpoo in the Darjeeling come to light?

4. India’s only quinine-making unit was set up in Mungpoo in 1874 and shut down in 2001 

5) This city was a home port of the Dutch East India Company and is known for producing its famous blue pottery. It also is known as the true birthplace of microbiology. Name it.

5. Delft in Holland
 
6) This brand of beverage famous in Mexico is commonly served with a wedge of lime or lemon in the neck of the bottle to add
tartness and flavour. It is also available in North America. Name it. 

6. Corona Beer

7) Which brand has launched the Hallympics 2020, a series of fitness challenges across social media platforms?

7. French Sports retailer Decathlon 

8) #ThePurestGreeting is who campaign and what is it promoting from a product and culture perspective?

8. The Himalaya Drug Company is promoting its range of hand wash and sanitisers in a new campaign and at the same time glorifying the ancient greeting of our land, the namaste

9) Whose base line is “See better. Live Better”?

9. Bausch and Lomb

10) Name the erstwhile company which had this symbol as a part of its logo or emblem.

10. The British South Africa Company (BSAC or BSACo) that was chartered in 1889 following the amalgamation of Cecil Rhodes' Central Search Association and the London-based Exploring Company Limited. It shut down in 1965. 



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May 19 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 four correct entries to Quiz number 663 and the winner is Ramchandra Bhat from Bengaluru 

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