Answer to Strategist Quiz #643

Here are the answers to the strategist quiz #643

1. Which company pronounces that when you buy a ___, you buy more than a phone, you buy a declaration that change is possible, and that it’s here, change is in your hands today?

Answer: Fairphone, the cell phone brand that calls itself a sustainable smartphone

2. Who in the technology industry earned a moniker as the "Trillion Dollar Coach"?

Answer: Bill Campbell, responsible for building companies like Google, Apple and Intuit

3. Connect Charlie Chaplin, Coco Chanel, Duke and Duchess of Windsor, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Chopin, Marcel Proust and Ernest Hemingway and what do you arrive at?

Answer: The Ritz Hotel in Paris has named its suites after its celebrated guests. In fact, Coco Chanel stayed in this Hotel for 34 years

4. Connect the Greek words when translated mean green and smart with the hummingbird and what do you arrive at?

Answer: Exynos, from the Greek words exypnos meaning smart and prasinos meaning green, is a series of ARM-based System-on-Chips launched by Samsung with their first Galaxy S phones. This product was codenamed Hummingbird 

5. This start-up's name is derived from this reference "Zillions of artisans in South Asia". It was founded by a lady. Name her and the company.

Answer: Zilingo, a direct to consumer marketplace founded by Ankiti Bose

6. The rapper Nicki Minaj ensures that this product is included her list of demands for every tour or performance of hers. Beyonce has a special membership card that allows her a free supply of this product for her lifetime. The brand is related to a very famous comic character. Name it

Answer: Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen Inc. They are famous for their buttermilk fried chicken

7. Which technology company has 40,000 plants, 800 different species from more than 30 countries open to general public through guided tours to take a look at them? 

Answer: Amazon. It houses them in what it calls "Amazon Spheres"

8. Connect ITC Limited, Sahara India, Star India, Oppo and Byju’s and what do you arrive at?

Answer: The erstwhile sponsors and the current sponsor (Byjus) of the Indian team 

9. Whose lines in their recent advertisements read "The Power to grow everywhere you are?” 

Answer: Bank of America 

10. Connect all three images and arrive at the of a company that was established in the early 1960s. 

Answer: Kurl On was founded in 1962 by Mr. Sudhakar Pai after a visit to Germany where he found car manufacturers were importing coir from Sri Lanka and rubberising it and using it for making car seats

One lucky winner will receive a cheque for Rs 2,000. Send your entries to strategist@bsmail.in. All entries must carry the postal address of the contestant. Last date for receiving entries is December 17 till 8 pm. Previous winners and employees of Business Standard and their families are not eligible to participate. The winner is chosen on the basis of the first correct entry received.
 

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