Answers to the Strategist quiz #620

Answers to the Strategist quiz #620

1. Jean-Antoine Chaptal, comte de Chanteloup served as the Minister of Interior and Minster of Agriculture under Napoleon in the early 1800s. Name the industry that uses a process that he developed and also mention the term.

Answer: Chaptalisation is the process of adding sugar to unfermented grape must in order to increase the alcohol content after fermentation. The technique is named a French chemist Jean-Antoine-Chaptal

2. Connect a one-time commodity trader with the Luxury and Degradation series and his Jim Beam-JB Turner Engine and arrive at a name.

Answer: The celebrated artist Jeff Koons

3. Connect the name given to Japanese women who entertain through performing the ancient traditions of art, dance and singing and a town in Western Ethiopia and what do we arrive at?

Answer: A variety of Coffee called Geisha or Gesha that was brought to Panama from Ethiopia and is largely grown there now 

4. This US-based architect-builder found that the numerous motels he and his family stayed were not up to mark and therefore he started his own in the mid-50s. He designed rooms so that a family of four could stay together and was one of the first to offer free stay for children. Name him and the brand he founded.

Answer: Kemmons Wilson founded the Holiday Inn brand in 1954

5. What is the term used for the process of touting the environmental benefits of a product or policy in order to deflect attention from other less savoury aspects?

Answer: Greenwash

6. Whose opening stores called the Zudio in India?

Answer: TRENT Ltd the Tata group retail arm

7. In stock market parlance what is an ankle biter?

Answer: It is a slang term for a stock with low market capitalisation. An ankle bite is also referred to as micro-cap or small-cap stocks.

8. Turning the flyweheel is a monograph for ___authored by ___? Fill the blanks

Answer: Jim Collins Monograph for his best seller Good to Great.

9. "Filter the Future is whose ad campaign and for what?

Answer: Aditya Birla Group social campaign against Air Pollution

10. What is the connection between the images

Answer: The Pink Palace was originally built by Clarence Saunders the founder of the phenomenal Piggly Wiggly Stores which inspired Toyota's industrial engineer Taiichi Ohno on designing the JIT system when he visited in the early 1950s.Business troubles forced Sanders to sell his Pink Palace residence to the Memphis state which is now a museum

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 July 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 five correct entries to quiz number 620. The winner is Sreyan Chatterjee from Noida