Answers to the Strategist quiz 641

Answers to the Strategist quiz 641

1. Recently Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge posted a historic time of 1:59:40 as he completed the fastest marathon distance at the Ineos Challenge in Vienna, Austria. A day after that, Brigid Kosgei smashed the record for the fastest marathon (female) at the Boston marathon. Name the common technology used by both and also name the brand that supplied it to them.
 

 Both were wearing Nike shoes featuring its Vaporfly technology.  

2.In Norse mythology this is a huge hall ruled over by the god Odin. Chosen by Odin, half of those who die in combat travel to this hall upon death, led by Valkyries.Connect this with James Bond 007 and one of his favourite brands and what do you arrive at?
 

 The Aston Martin DB5 Valhalla version is one of the cars that will feature in the soon to be released Bond movie “No time to Die”.  

3.Who is the author of the business book "What it takes"?
 

Stephen A Schwarzman, founder Chairman, CEO and Co-founder of Blackstone. 

4.Starting from the 1830s, predominantly in the cities of London and New York the terms sweater for the middleman and sweat system for the process of subcontracting piecework were in use. The jobs were low-paying and lacked security. Name the industry and also the term that is still used to describe this kind of employment.
 

Garment making industry and Sweat Shops. 

5.Recently this group announced its first major quarterly loss after more than a decade of $6 billion approx. primarily because of its investments in Uber and We Work. Name it.
 

 SoftBank Group

6.Name India's only app-based home pick up company for gold loans.
 

Rupeek Fintech Pvt Ltd

7.Which brand uses this line for its ads in India "We Believe: The best men can be"?
 

Gillette.

8.This company uses the baseline "Value from Innovation" and says it is now in the business of protecting the worlds data. Name the company.
 

Fujifilm 

9.Whose ad copies run with the following line "The future unfolds"?
 

Samsung for its Galaxy fold model of cell phone.

10. Identify the logos and mention. what is common to both?
 

The first logo belongs to the underground Global seed Vault in Svalbard and the second one belongs to Github, a Microsoft company that also has an underground storage vault at Svalbard in Sweden. 

Like the seed vault it is storing all the open source platform code in this vault.  

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