Answers to the Strategist quiz #634

Answers to the Strategist quiz #634

1 Portuguese traders introduced this commodity in Japan, subsequently a Japanese Samurai who invaded Korea in the 1590s left it behind there. This enabled the Koreans to add it to their National dish Kimchi and make it what it is today. Name it.

1.  Chillies or chili pepper

2 Connect these sentences: "News from Bombay House", "I am travelling to Redmond on Business, "Wall Street is in a bad shape", "Announcement of a new launch from Cupertino" and arrive at a term used in the English language to describe them.

2.  Metonyms. Metonymy is a figure of speech in which a thing or concept is referred to by the name of something closely associated with that thing or concept

3 Name the person who said this and the brand "It's cool to see a young brand disrupting the tech landscape... I was challenged to help them create an authentic campaign based on the tenets of quality and craftsmanship, and it's already proving to be a great fit creatively".

3. Robert Downey Jr. Brand ambassador for One Plus

4 What is unique about the British East India Company and the Swedish East India Company?

4. Both have been revived in the recent times

5 Connect iMac G3 launched in August 1998 with Neptune's Trident and what do you arrive at?

5. The first computer to be launched with an USB port.  Neptune's Trident, the mighty Dreizack is the icon for an USB/USB port

6 It was first introduced in France in the 16th century and was offered to Catherine de' Medici as a remedy for headaches caused due to migraine. Connect this product with a suburban railway station and colony in the northern part of Chennai and a company that sells the same product and made a turnover in Euro 566 million in 2018. Name the product and the company.

6. Snuff or Snus made by the Swedish Match company that set up the erstwhile Wimco Matches in India. Wimco Nagar is a suburb of Chennai

7 Along with Priyanka Chopra Jonas, what have these brands brought to India: Apple, L'Oréal, TVS, Croma Electronics, William Grant, Myntra and Pepsi?

7. NBA (National Basketball Association of America)the NBA India games, that feature the Sacramento Kings and Indiana Pacers in two pre-season exhibition matches played on October 4 and 5 in India

8 Which brand is using Alpona art, which adorns homes in Bengal on auspicious occasions, to adorn its packaging for this Dussera season?

8. Tata Tea Gold

9 Which controversial brand used this tagline "Hardware for Feet"?

9. Tuff Shoes.

10 Connect these two images and arrive at a brand name.

10. The harp, which serves as the emblem of Guinness, the Irish beer company, is based on a famous 14th century Irish harp known as the "O'Neill" or "Brian Boru" harp, which is now preserved in the Library of Trinity College Dublin. The first image is the Coat of Arms of the O'Neill family which is present on this harp and the second one is a modified image of Trinity College's logo

 

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