Answers to the Strategist quiz #649

Answers to the Strategist quiz #649

1.  Connect Chittagong, a major coastal city and financial center in southeastern Bangladesh, with the capital city of Afghanistan, Kabul and what do you arrive at?

Answer: They are the east end and west end of the Grand Trunk Road. For at least 2,500 years, it has linked the Indian subcontinent with Central Asia. It runs roughly 2,400 kilometres

2.  Name the place in Mumbai which get its name from the artisans and construction workers who migrated from the state of Hyderabad in the 1850s.

Answer: Kamathipura, which is now a red-light area in Mumbai was named after workers called Kamatis

3.  Whose now famous line is this, when he spoke to the public almost after a year last December “I am here to clear my name”?

Answer: Carlos Ghosn, the ex-CEO of Renault Nissan

4. A leading Indian edible oil and foods brand recently released its campaign which is a challenge that is powered by one of its brands and gives the person the right reason to kick start the new year with a healthy routine. The challenge is backed by the scientifically proven fact that if a practice is sincerely followed for 21 days continuously, it eventually becomes a habit. Name the brand.

Answer: Fortune Foods and its #SehatKaPromotionChallenge

5.  Dry ___ and No Shave ____are two different months in a year where people volunteer abstinence mostly in the UK and USA. The former will disappoint the alcohol industry and the latter shaving product companies. Fill in the blanks.

Answer: Dry January and No Shave November. Both were started by voluntary organisations in the UK and the US respectively.

6. Which company’s cloud operating system when translated in English means “Tower of Collected Stones”?

Answer: Alibaba, it operates the Jushita cloud environment, which is considered to be the most secure environment to protect the security of its merchants and consumers.

7. Which brand’s latest campaign is titled “Women of Change”?

Answer: Dhara from Amul

8. What is the term that describes one’s action of wasting time engaging with any screen — for instance, computer, video game, television or smartphones?

Answer: Screensucking

9. Whose ad campaign runs the hashtag “NothingToSeeHere”?

Answer: Apollo Tyres

10. Who is this person and what is the award that he received way back in the 1940s?

 

Answer: Henry Ford received the Clifton Award in 1946 for his pioneering work in the automobile industry

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