Answer to Strategist Quiz #647

Answer to Strategist Quiz #647

1. Name the brand that is named after the Goddess Amba Devi. There is a famous temple of this goddess in the town of Amravati in Maharashtra.

Ambuja Cements

2. Which Warren Buffet owned company is seeking wannabe singer-songwriters to pen a new theme song for the company and win $25,000 as a reward?

Nebraska Furniture Mart, a Berkshire Hathaway group company 

3. At the age of 15, this person began writing down ideas for inventions and making other notes in a pocket diary, a practice he maintained for the rest of his life. He sketched concepts for a rotating billboard, a machine for cleaning shoes and a trick safety pin. Later, he worked in a print shop and published a magazine called the Amateur Chemists'. Name this person who launched an industry.

Chester Carlson, Inventor of xerography

4. Connect names of places on alocal Philadelphia train route and the cities of London, Chicago, Geneva, Toronto, Venice, Los Angeles, and San Francisco and what do you arrive at?

Names of the wide choice of fonts available when Steve Jobs introduced his first Mac computer. 

5. Connect the baselines "As Chicago as it gets" and "Give the lady what she wants" with pneumonia and eventually the death of a business pioneer.

VolkMarshall Fields, the now defunct department store chain, had hired Mckinsey & Co founder James O Mckinsey to clean up the firm. By 1936, he shut down a lot of divisions. O Mckinsey  succumbed to pneumonia in 1937

6. Name the brand has released ads based on the theme of "Do Nothing".
 

Cadbury's 5 Star

7. For the love of it has now become___in the US markets. Name the brand also.

Pepsi's new line "That's what I like"

8. Which tech industry related firm gets its name from a higher order function which is a part of the LISP software language?

Y Combinator, a seed funding accelerator that has funded famous names in the tech industry like Air BnB etc

9. Who is competing with "Apni Dukaan" by introducing "Desh ke Nayi Dukaan" in India?
 

Reliance Jio Mart pitching to compete with the existing e commerce giants like Amazon, Big Basket etc 

10. Where do you find these three brands together as sponsors?
 

They are the official soft drink, snack and beer sponsors of the English Football Premier League 

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