The Strategist Quiz (#552)

The Strategist Quiz, March 1, 2018

1 Which organisation that is making strides in its business currently, started in the 1960s, on beach just outside a South Indian city and used a church that traces its roots back to the 16th century when St Francis Xavier visited India as its first office?

2 Name the brand that made history recently when it became the first to sell on Snapchat.

3 This program was created in the US by a former __ president 34 years ago when he was looking for a way to motivate his son to read. Each time the boy met a reading goal, he received a trip to a pizza joint with his dad. The motivation worked and the son began reading more and spent quality time with his father to boot. Today it is a formal CSR program run by his company. Name the program and the company.

4 This invention in the 1830s by French pharmacists François Mothes and Joseph Dublanc has helped an Indian company become the world’s second largest in the manufacture of the item they invented. Name the invention and the company.

5 The commodity was cultivated during the 14th Century BC. Evidence has been found at Neolithic sites in India. From India it travelled to East Africa and West Africa and from there to North America courtesy Christopher Columbus and the slave trade. It was a feed for a particular kind of bird in Barbados. India is the world’s largest producer. Name it.

6 With which industry would you connect the terms Butterfly, Snow and Mushroom flake?

7 What is the buzzword used to describe any neighbourhood or community where a disproportionate number of residents work in high-tech industries? They tend to have a disproportionate number of electrical outlets and phone jacks.

8 Connect the brands Vodafone (Germany), Nokia, Audi and what do you arrive at?

9 Who uses the line, “Anticipate tomorrow. Deliver Today”?

10 Whose logo is this? It got liquidated in the late 1490s.

 

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One lucky winner will receive a cheque for Rs 2,000. Send your entries to strategist@bsmail.in. All entries must carry the postal address of the contestant. 
 

Last date for receiving entries: March 2 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 two correct entries to Quiz No 551. The winner is Laxmidhar Pradhan from Bhubaneswar