The Strategist quiz #639

Here are the questions for the strategist quiz #639

1. Name the brand that gets its name from a sacred banner used by the kings of France in the Middle Ages in times of great danger.  
 

2. In the 1960s, the founder of this firm asked Van Cleef & Arpels to create a gift for its employees. It created one with  a lion’s head surround by 14 sunrays. It eventually went on to become this firm’s logo. Name the firm and its founder.    

3. The founder of this brand raced his yachts five times unsuccessfully for the America's Cup between 1899 and 1930. Name him.

4. Name the first cement company that was opened in India way back in the early 1910s. 

5. Connect the first American woman to fly as a passenger in an airplane, a French fashion designer whose contributions to his field have been likened to Picasso's legacy in 20th-century art and the description of the distinctive packaging of a global brand that set its apart from its many imitators. What do you arrive at. 

6. Name the company whose logo represents a simple magneto armature and casing, one of the company's first products.  

7. What is the term or buzzword used to describe companies that become too big and in turn become fat and complacent? They become lazy and are no longer creative or nimble in the marketplace.

8. Name the founders and the entity that gets its name from “Questions and Answers”.

9. Ride on and Enjoy the ride are whose brand lines?  

10. What are these and whom do they relate to? 

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 November 22 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 638. The winner is Narasimhan Chellappa from Chennai