The Strategist Quiz #667

The Strategist Quiz #667

1 Which brand recently launched its video ads with a film star being hailed as the Lockdown hero

2 Connect a Kuaizhou rocket launch sold for a price of $5.6 million, 1,700 plus Dongfeng SUVs sold within seven minutes each for $14000 and 853 vouchers to buy apartments in Hangzhou in China 

3 Name the brand that is extending an open invitation to locked down Indians to upload a picture of their cooking “fails”, with a humorous caption, to stand a chance to win a gift voucher for a ___. 

4 Who became famous after posing for an advertisement with the lines “Want to know what gets between me and my Calvins? Nothing”?

5 This US politician who farmed a particular commodity used to tell his voters in the late 1980s “all of my life, I hoed it, chopped it, shredded it, put it in the barn and stripped it and sold it”. He is now campaigning against the same commodity. Name him and the industry his campaigning impacts 

6 Name this company which in 2012, created a product which is now touted as the world’s first when its founder noticed that one of his colleagues had put his computer on top of a cardboard box. That co-worker wanted to stand 

and work to relieve his sciatic nerve pain.

7 Connect a group of courtiers or favourites or chamchas who surround a king or ruler, who do not hold any office or have any official authority at the royal court but influence their ruler behind the scenes and the stock markets and what do you arrive at?

8 Connect KitKat and Bingo. What is in some way common to them? 

9 Globally its production is about 160 million tonnes and it was an important part of the monetary system during the Mesopotamian civilization way back in 3100 BC. What is it?

10 Identify the brand and connect it with one of the first successful IPOs the world has seen post Covid-19.

 

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