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Answers to the Strategist quiz #655

Answers to the Strategist quiz #655

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Answers to the Strategist quiz #655

Gaurav Sri Krishna
1. Whose ad carries the line “Where there is food, there should be alcohol” and what is the context?
 
Answer: Swiggy, emphasising on using hand sanitisers in the wake of Covid-19
 
2. Connect a brand founded in the 1770s that was first known as India ___ ___, (subsequently the India was removed), The Sinking of the Titanic, Napoleon Bonaparte and what do you arrive at?

Answer: The Bass beer brand founded in 1777. It was originally known as India Pale ale because it was sent to the troops of East India company
 
3. Name the person who said, “To be a successful investor you don’t have to outperform the market, you only have to match it”. 
 
Answer: Charles Schwab

4. Name this a billion-plus Euro company which created its brand name in the early 1900s after gaining inspiration from the famous Arc de Triomphe in Paris. It was listed on the German stock exchange.
 
Answer: Triumph International, makers of lingerie
 
5. Name the businessman whose lively autobiography, Struggles and Triumphs, reveals the power of the man's entrepreneurial mind. 
 
Answer: P T Barnum
 
6. Name the person who first started as a painter of miniatures and then went on to invent an award-winning device to cut marble. He also built a submarine with torpedoes and tried selling them to warring parties, Napoleon Bonaparte and Lord Nelson.
 
Answer: The artist-turned engineer Robert Fulton
 
7. During World War I, the US War Industries Board asked women to stop buying a particular item of regular personal use to free up metal. It helped free up some 28,000 tons of metal, enough to build two battleships. What were they stopped from buying? 
 
Answer: Corset, a precursor to the brassiere. Corsets were stiffened with whaleback bones and steel rods
 
8. Hello Darkness, is the ad line for which brand and for what reason? 
 
Answer: WhatsApp. It has introduced a dark mode to reduce eye strain and prevent bright light from disturbing others around the user
 
9. Which pioneering businessman said this “Work is the master key that opens the door to all opportunities”?
 
Answer: Kemmons Wilson
 
10. What does this logo represent?

Answer: It belongs to OEKO-TEX® which first introduced the STANDARD 100 as a label for textiles tested for harmful substances. It consists of 18 independent research and test institutes in Europe and Japan
 

Compiled by Gaurav Sri Krishna, www.facebook.com/gaurav.s.krishna

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