Answers to the Strategist quiz #589

Answers to The Strategist Quiz #589

1. In 1497, Vasco da Gama was ordered to find a sea route to India be the first to start trading in Pepper and propagate Christianity. When he arrived at Calicut he was extremely disappointed because his mission was in a way already accomplished by some else. Who was this person?

Ans. St. Thomas, one of the chosen disciples of Christ, had already arrived in 52 A D in Cranganore and established seven churches and seven pepper trading depots

 

2. The CEO of this company prefers to be called the Chief Big Ass. Name the person and the product his company manufactures
 

Ans. Carey Smith is the founder CEO of the Big Ass fan company based in the US. It makes extremely large fans for industrial and residential ceiling fans. Initially, it was called high volume, low speed company. It changed its name when customers kept calling and asking them if they made those Big Ass Fans.

3. This company's slogan is Heart and Wisdom. Its products are being reintroduced in India after a gap of nearly 45 years. Name it.

Ans.The Jawa motorcycle is being relaunched by the Mahindra Group 

4. Connect Tillie the All-Time Teller which was one of the first ATMs, run by the First National Bank of Atlanta in 1974 and the iPhone and what do you arrive at?
 

Ans.Both carry the voice of Susan Alice (Cameron) Bennett an American voice-over artist. She is best known for being the female American voice of Apple’s “Siri” since the service was introduced on the iPhone 4S on October 4, 2011. 
 

5. Name the brand for which these names were initially tried out - Blitzbuggy, Jitterbug, and Iron pony.
 

Ans. The Jeep vehicle that went into production during WWII

6. What is the term used for describing any major news or event that pushes a company to the brink of extinction by wiping out the value of its stock almost overnight? The corporate version of Dinosaurs getting extinct.

Ans. The Asteroid event
 

7. In the late 1940s what was named Sierra Sam in the US and what was its significance?
 

Ans. The first crash test dummy manufactured by Sierra Engineering in 1949. This led to the formation of the crash test dummy Industry

8. Name the person whose initial businesses were Dhanunjaya Hotels and a cotton spinning mill in Andhra Pradesh?
 

Ans. Ramalinga Raju the disgraced founder CEO of the erstwhile Satyam Computers

9. PV Sindhu and AR Rahman are ambassadors for which brand?
 

Ans. Harman Kardon

10. Identify the brand from its logo.
 

Ans.Singer, Diplomat, Businesswomen Rihanna’s fashion label “Savage-X-Fenty’..