Answers to the Strategist quiz (#479)

1. Connect the exploration of the Baffin Bay by William Edward Parry, Captain George Vancouver's expeditions to the North Pacific in the 1770s, East India Company's voyages covering Cape of Good Hope to China, astronomer Don Jose Joaquin to whom the world is indebted for determining the longitude of Cuba and measuring the moon's precise diameter and a brand that exists even today and what do you arrive at?
   They all used chronometers and watches made by John Arnold who set up his watch business in 1764. The brand is now known as Arnold & Son
    
2. This person was a dean of St Paul's Cathedral in the early 1600s. A keen angler, he would take some home brewed beverage in an old medicine bottle. On one occasion he forgot the bottle and on his return to the river he opened it and found that his beverage remained in good condition and tasted nice. Though perhaps apocryphal this incident in a particular industry is regarded as the beginnings of bottled __. Name the person and the beverage.
   Alexander Newell and bottled beer
    
3. Name the venture set up by an Indian business group whose name is inspired by the group's motto, Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam (The world is one family).
   Essel (Zee) Group's WION. It stands for "World is One News", inspired by the motto, vasudhaiva kutumbakam
    
4. The Quit India movement was the last major civil disobedience movement organised before India became a sovereign nation in 1947. Connect this with one of the main issues people in J&K are opposed to. What do you arrive at?
   The Armed Forces Special Powers Ordinance of 1942 was promulgated by the British on August 15, 1942, to suppress the Quit India Movement. It is now called the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Acts (AFSPA), ratified by Parliament that grant special powers to the armed forces in what each Act terms "disturbed areas"
    
5. Apart from being sportspersons what is common to P Gopichand, Rohit Sharma and Rohan Bopanna?
   Employees of Indian Oil Corporation
    
6. Connect the airport in Columbus Ohio to Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin and what do you arrive at?
   The airport in Columbus Ohio is named after astronaut John Glenn. Blue Origin's rocket is also named after Glenn. It is called the New Glenn
    
7. Connect brick, window, wallpaper, hearth and glass with the United Kingdom and what do you arrive at?
   Different kind of taxes levied in the history of Great Britain
    
8. In Japan it is called Karoshi, Gwarosa in South Korea and in China the same phenomenon is termed "Guolaosi". What do they represent?
   Death from over working, due to heart attack, stroke, stress and starvation
    
9. In which company's logo the son of its founder Daniel is represented as a young figure?
   Danone. Daniel was the son of Isaac Carasso, the founder
    
10. Whose logo is this and what does it signify?
    The United Nations Virtual Reality series. Through the use of high-tech headsets, viewers are transported to another time and place with 3D images that fill the full range of perspective. The series addresses crises that threaten the livelihoods of vulnerable groups
    

 

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