The Strategist Quiz (#479)

The Strategist Quiz (#479)
Gaurav Sri Krishna
Last Updated : Sep 21 2016 | 10:26 PM IST

  1. Connect the exploration of the Baffin Bay by William Edward Parry, Captain George Vancouver's expeditions to the North Pacific in the 1770s, East India Company's voyages covering Cape of Good Hope to China, astronomer Don Jose Joaquin to whom the world is indebted for determining the longitude of Cuba and measuring the moon's precise diameter and a brand that exists even today and what do you arrive at?
     
  2. This person was a dean of St Paul's Cathedral in the early 1600s. A keen angler, he would take some home brewed beverage in an old medicine bottle. On one occasion he forgot the bottle and on his return to the river he opened it and found that his beverage remained in good condition and tasted nice. Though perhaps apocryphal this incident in a particular industry is regarded as the beginnings of bottled __. Name the person and the beverage.
     
  3. Name the venture set up by an Indian business group whose name is inspired by the group's motto, Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam (The world is one family).
     
  4. The Quit India movement was the last major civil disobedience movement organised before India became a sovereign nation in 1947. Connect this with one of the main issues people in J&K are opposed to. What do you arrive at?
     
  5. Apart from being sportspersons what is common to P Gopichand, Rohit Sharma and Rohan Bopanna?
     
  6. Connect the airport in Columbus Ohio to Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin and what do you arrive at?
     
  7. Connect brick, window, wallpaper, hearth and glass with the United Kingdom and what do you arrive at?
     
  8. In Japan it is called Karoshi, Gwarosa in South Korea and in China the same phenomenon is termed "Guolaosi". What do they represent?
     
  9. In which company's logo the son of its founder Daniel is represented as a young figure?
     
  10. Whose logo is this and what does it signify?






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First Published: Sep 21 2016 | 10:26 PM IST

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