Answers to the Strategist Quiz #660

Answers to the Strategist Quiz #660

1 Connect the 4th edition of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations published in 1786 and Kollur, situated on the banks of river Krishna in Andhra Pradesh and what do you arrive at?

1. Hope Diamond, that was mined from Kollur in Andhra Pradesh in 1660s, gets its name from Amsterdam-based Hope Banking family. Adam Smith dedicated his 4th edition to one of the family members, Henry Hope

2 Which brand’s anthem is We Can We Will?

2. SBI Life has rolled out an anthem titled 'We Can, We Will!'. It highlights the (nation's) cumulative will power to sail through the  ongoing crisis 

3 Name the brand that came out with an ad in the 1920s highlighting “crowds breed contagion” and called mothers doctors.

3. Lifebuoy from Lever Brothers in the US

4 Connect a Flemish writer, herbalist and diplomat who served as an ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in Constantinople during the 1550s and a commodity whose exports from its country of origin is valued at more than $6 billion and accounts for about 5% of its country's GDP.

4. Tulips from Netherlands. The word tulip, first mentioned in western Europe in or around 1554 and seemingly derived from the "Turkish letters" of diplomat Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, mistakenly from the expression for Turban in Turkish

5 Name this Asian company, bought for $ 0.26 in 2001, which ended its FY 2019 with approx $ 1 billion turnover.

5. Air Asia

6 Post Covid why would the family name of a swiss architect-cum-set designer and his father, who was the co-founder of Red Cross, be referred to in correspondences or for location sighting reasons.

6. The WHO’s HQ, located at No. 20, Appia Avenue in Geneva. 

7 This US city changed its name to the title of a popular NBC radio quiz programme during the 50s. The host announced that he would air the programme from the first town that renamed itself after the show. Today it is the headquarters of two of the world's first-of-its kind companies. Name the city and the companies.

7. The city of Hot Springs in New Mexico was renamed Truth or Consequences after Ralph Edwards radio quiz show in 1950. Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic and Elon Musk's SpaceX are based here

8 Name the company and the magazine it publishes in connection with its famous brand that is named after the patron saint for travellers.

8. Porsche Christophorus

9 This person was a scholar and a successful businessman. In 1912, he invented and patented a card-indexing system, which he turned into a successful business. Unfortunately, after the stock market crash of 1929, his fortune was gone, and he spent the rest of his life in poverty. Name him.

9. American economist Irving Fisher

10 Name the brand that is using these two old and popular ads for promotion during the Covid-19 times.

10. Dunzo

 

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