The Strategist Quiz (#538)

The Strategist Quiz, November 16, 2017

1. In 1928, thousands of workers were murdered by military forces in Colombia. The workers were protesting the bad working conditions in the company plantations. Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez depicted a fictional version of this in his novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, and the inhuman impact that this particular company had in Colombia. Name the company and the incident.

2. Pharrell Williams performed to a song, “Double 11”, and Jessie J performed her hit, the appropriately titled “Price Tag”, at a recent event. Which one?

3. Connect the first basketball made, the first official baseball, the first American football and the world’s first basketball that was created and what do you arrive at?

4. Who had these four classes of employees: Senior merchants, junior merchants, factors and writers?

5. Which industry uses these terms: Flush and Killing the Green? Also explain what they mean.

6. Olympic medalist Ibtihaj Muhammad, an American sabre fencer who became the first athlete to compete while wearing a hijab at the 2016 Rio Olympics, is now the inspiration for which company’s flagship product?

7. Connect the two vintage Hollywood hits Everybody’s Acting and Two Arabian Knights and what do you arrive at?

8. This endowment was established in the 1960s by a couple to support reproductive choice and petitioning for a reduction of nuclear weapons. Name the couple.

9. Which brand’s punch line reads: “Find your Fun”?

10. Identify the brand from the logo and state its philosophy.

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Last date for receiving entries: November 17 till 8 pm. Previous winners and employees of Business Standard and their families are not eligible to participate. 

The winner is chosen on the basis of the first correct entry received.

There were six correct entries to Quiz No 537. The winner is Chitransha Chauhan of Roorkee