Answers to the Strategist quiz #650

Answers to the Strategist quiz #650

1. Name the brand that came out with a limited edition of its product for the Tata Mumbai Marathon. It branded it as ___Tata Mumbai Marathon Limited Edition.

Asics came out with a limited edition of its Gel-Nimbus 22 variant for running shoes

2. Name the person who said this "I was five-years-old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television...it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration. A year or so ago, I started to wonder, with the right team of undersea pros, could we find and potentially recover the F-1 engines that started mankind's mission to the moon".

Jeff Bezos; his Bezos Expeditions company has invested money to recover these engines lying in the Atlantic Ocean floor

3. Sold in the late 1890s, this was regarded as one of the world's first production models which needed a person to run and jump to use it. What was it?

Hildebrand and Wolfmüller which is considered to be the world's first production motorcycle.Since it didn’t have clutch or pedals, one had to run and jump when the engine started

4. Name this country that is ranked amongst the world's most safest and peaceful in the Global Peace Index of 2019. Its currency notes feature Hindi and Tamil alongside English.

Mauritius

5. Name the mascot of a global brand that was featured in one of the Asterix series of comics titled "Asterix in Switzerland".

Bibendum, the mascot for Michelin tyres 

6. What is the term used to describe the method of rethinking existing businesses from the ground up and in the case established companies?

Clean Sheet design

7. Name the bran that narrates the story of India's first blind solo paragliding pilot in its latest advertisement spot.

Colgate

8. This company was founded in the mid-40s with its core purpose being to help with creative use of money. It used this also as a base line in its advertisements. Name it.

3i, the investment management company that focuses on private equity and infrastructure, founded in 1945

9. Whose ad campaign is titled "The Day men forgot"?

Indian Terrain

10. This cultural hero was treated as a God in a South American civilisation. Name him and the likely industry that could make him their patron saint and why?

Quetzalcoatl, the Mayan feathered serpent god called Kukulkan. He was a great chewer of gum and thereby probably a good fit as a patron saint for the chewing gum industry

There was one correct entry to Quiz number 650. The winner is Sunil Pal from Meerut