Answers to the Strategist Quiz #666

Answers to the Strategist Quiz #666

1 The true story about migrant labourers renovating and painting a school in Rajasthan a month ago has now been replicated in a brand’s commercial.Name it.

1. Birla White
 

2 This company began life in 1929 when Radio Corporation of America formed a UK subsidiary, to support the country's growing cinema industry. Today it is one of the big names in the Global BPO industry space. Name it.

2. SERCO
 

3 Name the brand that says that its __ now comes with triple the number of raw onions, in order to ensure that stench of the onion breath is good enough to keep people away, thus helping social distancing goals.

3. Burger King Italy
 

4 This company founded in the 1930s was influenced by the modernism movement that propounded the concept of Art and Technology — a new unity. Their USP is selling standardised individual components that can be pieced together to form a comprehensive collection of furniture. Name it and one of its world-famous creations launched in 1933.

4. The Finnish company Artek that was cofounded by Alvar Aalto. It is famous for its Stool 60 like the Billy bookcase of Ikea
 

5 Whose ad has the base line “Your Extraordinary Story”?

5. Abu Dhabi
 

6 Name this 100 year plus international spirits brand that gets its brand name from the place where it sources its raw material has established itself. The name of the place, in the language of its natives, actually means yellow brown water.

6. Jacob’s Creek, the Australian wine brand
 

7 Name the brand that is running a Covid era campaign called “Never too far down — You can’t stop us” 

7. Nike

8 Name the Rock group which originally composed the Dhara Oil signature tune and has now recreated the same during the Covid times

8. Indian Ocean 
 

9 Name the product that was launched in the 1950s with the intention to fit in a pocket and cost no more than a pack of cigarettes.

9. Modern Classics series from Penguin
 

10 Connect the two images and what do you arrive at?

10. Richard Branson, the owner of Virgin Atlantic revealed some time ago that a part of his ancestral origins lies in India. Dating back to 1793, his great, great, great grandmother Aria, was from Tamil Nadu. He placed a picture of her on their Virgin Atlantic planes connecting Mumbai from London as a part of the airline’s flying icon

 

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 June 9 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 666 and the winner is Subhashish Nandi from New Delhi