Answer to Strategist Quiz #646

Here are the answers to Strategist Quiz #646

1. In 2010, taking out the iconic orange straw caused this brand’s sales to drop close to 20 per cent in the US markets. Name it.

Answer: Tropicana
 

2. Connect The Philippines, Pakistan, Indonesia, Tunisia and arrive at an event that happened nine years ago which triggered a Werther effect across some countries and brought down the global oil prices. 

Answer: The Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia which started in Dec 2010 spread across the Arab world like wildfire

3. Connect Hong Kong, BBC and Microsoft’s newly acquired entity GitHub and what do you arrived at?

Answer: They were subjected to one of the largest Distribuited Denial of Service Attacks in the last decade. 

4. Ten years ago, this company known for its innovativeness inserted chips with an audio message in newspapers and used Heli-banners in Mumbai to attract people’s attention. Name it

Answer: Volkswagen

5. Ten years ago, this brand moved from “Your potential our passion”€ to “What’s next”. It seems to have abandoned this line too. Name it.

Answer: Microsoft Corporation

6. Connect Alibaba, Facebook, General Motors and Uber technologies and rank them in the ascending order and what do arrive at looking back at the last 10 years?  

Answer: The top four largest IPOs of the Decade starting from 2010

7. This airlines’ call sign in French means “Red”. Name it and its owner.

Answer: Rouge Airlines that was founded in 2013 by Air Canada as a low cost airline

8. Connect consumer tech brands Vertu, Jawbone, Pebble and Palm and what do you arrive at?

Answer: All these are tech consumer brands that shutdown in the last 10 years 

9. Which company uses this phrase on its website while selling its services “Don’he business without it?

Answer: American Express 

10. Connect the two logos and arrive at one of the most revolutionary companies to have been founded in the last 10 years.

Answer: StumbleUpon was a discovery and advertisement engine (a form of web search engine) that pushed web content recommendations to its users. It co founded by Garett Camp and Red Swoosh was founded by Travis Kalanick and sold to Akamai, both went on to found Uber.
Compiled by Gaurav Sri Krishna, www.facebook.com/gaurav.s.krishna

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There were three correct entries to Quiz number 646 (Special). The winner is AR Srinivasan from Chennai