Answers to the Strategist quiz (#487)

1. An outstanding French chemist and technologist found a commercial way of extracting this metal from its ore. The ore gets its name from a French commune located in the province of Provence in southern France. Emperor Napoleon III was so impressed by it that he funded the propagation of this metal and also went to the extent of having handcrafted jewellery and tableware made out of it. In fact he is said to have given banquets at which his most honoured guests were served in __ cutlery and the hoi polloi had to make do with silver and gold cutlery. Name the metal and its ore. Globally, about 5,000 MT of this metal is now produced.

Henri-Etienne Sainte-Claire Deville Ore is Bauxite.

2. An embarrassment, for this brand that was set up in the late 1810s in the US, was converted into an endorsement when its ad agency O&M used the lines “Guaranteed to Bleed”. The agency targeted readers of the teenage magazine Seventeen and this product went on to become a global success. Name the brand and the product.

Bleeding Madras Checks shirts sold by Brooks Brothers

3. For what purpose have Richard Branson, Deepak Chopra, Jack Welch, Arianna Huffington and Bill Gates been grouped together?

Roped in as the Global Key Influencers for LinkedIn

4. Start with Eastern Airlines in 1957 and arrive at US Airways in 2016. What is being referred to here?

The world’s oldest Airhostess, 80 year old Bette Burke Nash who started her career with Eastern Airlines in 1957

5. Lego became the first big company to stop advertising its products in the __, following a public campaign calling on big companies to drop adverts from newspapers accused of promoting “hatred, discrimination and demonisation” in the UK. Fill in the blank.

The Daily Mail

6. Connect the French Davis Cup player Robert Halliet and two-time Grand Slam champion Stan Smith of the US and what do you arrive at?

The Adidas Stan Smith Tennis shoes. It first appeared as the "Halliet," after French player Robert Halliet. When Stan Smith became No. 1 in 1972, Adidas tapped him to co-brand the shoe, as Halliet retired & wasn't too well-known outside of France

7. Born 1938 and terminated in 1954. Born again in January 1946 and yet again terminated in 1978. What was it?

The highest denomination note ever printed by the Reserve Bank of India was the Rs 10,000 note in 1938 and again in 1954. 

8. Whose brand/product incorporates these elements or three tiers of shapes — “I” (low-rise), “V” (mid-rise) and “Y” (high-rise)?

IVY Park apparel brand by Beyoncé

9. Which company’s ad reads, “Today we salute a schoolteacher who built a trusted national brand”?

Peerless (Finance) Group. In memory of its founder Radhashyam Roy

10. What is being represented in the image that has a connection with the Sistine chapel?

The trophy of the Geneva Watchmaking Grand Prix created by graphic artist Roger Pfund. The artist drew his inspiration from the fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, in which God touches Adam’s extended hand to give him life. It symbolises the memory and the passing on of knowledge. Also known as the Oscars for watchmakers

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