The Strategist Quiz (#488)

1. The word paradise comes to English from Persian Avestan “pairidaeza” meaning a “Garden in a walled-enclosure”. Carl Linnaeus suffixed this commodity’s scientific name with it. It is considered as a perennial herb, Arabs called it the Tree of paradise, Alexander the Great called it a fig, some in Christianity consider it to be the actual forbidden fruit, for Hindus it is an incarnation of Goddess Laxmi. Approx. 80 plus million tons of it are produced around the world. India is currently the leader. Name it.
    
2. This brand’s initial print publication was called the Pineapple and now it is called the ____mag. Name it.
    

Connect an Latin American hardware salesman of the retailer Home Depot in the US and the inflation rate of the Venezuela and what do you arrive at? 
 

_____ originated in what is now Manchuria around 220 BCE, and is said to have been imported to Japan around 400 CE. It is produced by fermenting tea using a "symbiotic 'colony' of bacteria and yeast" (SCOBY). Recently a brand connected with this was in the news. Fill in the blank and name the brand
 

Energy to Succeed’ is the baseline of this foreign coaching company that has a base in India to coach students for the IITJEE entrance examinations. Name it.
 

While on a voyage to Calcutta as an apprentice sailor during the 1830s, this person whittled out of pine wood a prototype of his invention that is now a world famous product. One of the names for his famous models is Peacemaker. Name him and his invention?
 

What has been named after a Persian mythical hero and a former professor of the Indian Institute of Science who also bears the same name and was responsible for it? It means a warrior.
 

This banking payment mechanism goes back to Egypt in the 4th century BC. The term used now for it is common to Dutch, German and Italian. The origin of the word is from the Greek meaning "circle"
 

Which brand’s base line reads “Be Different”?
 

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