The Strategist Quiz #669

1. Connect over a century-old brand, a famous minstrel star from early 1900s, trademark precedent and the current Black Lives Matter protests and what do you arrive at?

2. Thanks to Covid-19, the demand for this product that was registered as a brand by a German company in the early 1930s is soaring. It was born out of an accident when a sample of a monomer was stored in a bottle placed by a window in this company’s labs. A polymerisation reaction was triggered as daylight hit the bottle and destroyed it, leaving behind a block made of an interpenetrating polymer. The new material was named ____and sold in form of panels. Name the company and the brand.