Answers to The Strategist Quiz (#561)

Answers to The Strategist Quiz (#561)

1. The company founded 135 years ago is known for using children in its ads and disruptive innovation in the US market. It introduced a dating app and also a scented alarm clock that rings and wakes up the person with the smell of its most famous products. It has recently launched a branded cryptocurrency as a promotional stunt. Name the company.

The Oscar Mayer Company an American meat and cold cut production company has recently launched a Bacoin in the US

2.  This airport built in the mid-1960s originally was intended to be built on flat farmlands,but the local farmers did not want to give up their land, so the airport was built on a steep slope. The founder bought the land from the locals for $635 and involved them in building it. He was unhappy with the runway's soil resistance and therefore he bought the popular homebrewed liquor for the locals and ask them to perform foot-stomping traditional dances to flatten the land.It makes money during spring and autumn. Name the airport and its location.

The Tenzing–Hillary Airport, also known as Lukla Airport, is a small airport in the town of Lukla in Nepal. It was built by Edmund Hillary. It one of the world’s 10 most dangerous airports 

3. This term is borrowed from the TV show “Survivor” and is now used in the world of business. It is generally used when a person is booted from a team, task force or committee. State it.

Voted off the Island

4. Name the brand associated with the following nomenclature: Desks & chairs are named after men, fabric materials are named after women, carpets are named after places in Denmark, bed linen, covers and pillows are named after plants, flowers and precious stones.

IKEA

5. If you are “Knocking on Heaven’s Door” you would be buying a soon to be launched product. What is it?

It is a Whisky brand called “Heaven’s Door” co-foundedby Nobel laureate and music icon Bob Dylan. It’s a name inspired by his 1973 song, Knocking on Heaven’s Door

6. Connect Elvis Priestly, Michael Jackson, Muhammad Ali, Shaquille O’Neil, the latest one joining the list — Nautica and what do you arrive at?

The Authentic Brands Group (ABG) a brand management company which owns and manages these brands

7. Whose lines are these from 60s Las Vegas trip “The wires to the speaker broke often, leading to tedious repairs and the need to rewire ourselves. This stopped us from serious betting on this trip. Except for the wire problem, the computer was a success. We could solve this with larger wires and by growing hair to cover our ears, a conspicuous style at the time, or persuade our reluctant wives to “wire up.” ?

Edward Thorpe and Claude Shannon inventors of the first wearable computer that was tested in a Casino at Las Vega

8. What is common to the brands Lonesome Pine, Laughing Gravy and Another Fine Mess?

They are all beer brands celebrating Stan Laurel’s (Laurel & Hardy) connection to the town of Ulverston in UK, where they are made. Lonesome pine is a song from film Way out West.

9. Who made this statement “I haven’t frowned since 1987” and with what is it connected?

Statement made by Canadian Jean Carruthers who, along with her husband, dermatologist, Alastair Carruthers, is credited with the discovery and pioneering of Botox

10. Connect both the images and state the significance of a brand launched recently.

Budweiser’s Freedom Reserve Red Lager beer was launched recently in the US. It is based on a historic recipe for a beer from 1757 put together by George Washington