Answers to the Strategist quiz (#504)

Strategy Quiz (#504) answers

1. Connect this region in the southeastern part of India, which is rich in iron ore and copper and hence its name translates to “red earth”, an East India Company administrator N S Brodie, Le Marais, the aristocratic district of Paris which had residents like Victor Hugo and Jim Morrison (Doors), Anand Mahindra and Kris Gopalakrishnan and what do you arrive at?

Gourmet Araku Valley coffee grown on the Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh. An NGO called Naandi, funded by Mahindra and Gopalakrishnan, has opened its first luxury coffee store in the Le Marais area of Paris. N S Brodie was responsible for starting coffee planting in the Araku Valley

2. What is the name given to a corporate structure created to isolate illiquid and high-risk/toxic assets held by a bank or a financial organisation, or perhaps a group of banks or financial organisations? The now defunct Mellon Bank in the US was the first to deploy this strategy.

Bad bank

3. This Italian city of Lucca is famous for its annual summer festival where stars like Eric Clapton, Placebo, Roger Waters, Tracy Chapman, and Santana performed. This year Imagine Dragons and Green Day are performing. In what way is this city connected to waiters/waitresses, domestic servants/maids, rape victims and lost keys?

The patron saint for waiters, domestic servants, rape victims and lost keys and the city of Lucca; Saint Zita or Sitha, as she is known, died in this city in 1272 AD

4. Armenia, an ancient nation sandwiched between Europe and Asia, is said to be the birthplace of the famed __. It is a part of one of the oldest traditions of the early Armenians who worshiped the sun to an extent that its symbols were as integral to their culture as being a trader was. The __ was once worshipped as it resembled the setting sun. Though borrowed and indigenously mastered in varied countries, Armenians still see it as one of the earliest forms of worship where each time, Armenian women are baking bread or preparing food, they bend down before the __ which also meant worship for deity. What is being referred to here?

The tonir (clay oven) which eventually became the tandoor in India and the rest of the world

5. Whose sound marked themed song has the following lines: In the light of a new beginning has dawned,it brings with it a ray of new hope/ O! please don’t go in search of distant shores, should one rise, thousands will join/ The movement has begun, the tide beckons you. The time of reckoning is here?

National Stock Exchange

6. Which brand’s ad lines are: “A pair of Jeans you can’t do without”?

Durex Jeans

7. This was originally a small dental supply company purchased by its current CEO. Its product range has names like “I am not really a waitress” and “You don’t know Jacques”. Name the company and its business.

OPI, a professional nail care company established in 1981 now bought over by Coty. It has fanciful names for its nail polish shades

8. Whose base line is “Sail through your day”?

Flavoured water brand O’cean

9. Whose awards are known as the Maddys?

The Madras Advertising Club Awards

10. Whose logo is this?

Cupid Limited, an Indian company which makes Cupid condoms

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: April 7 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 15 correct entries to quiz No 503. The winner is Bhagyarathi Pradhan from Bhubaneswar