Answers to the Strategist quiz 625

Answers to the Strategist quiz 625

1. Connect the names of these products that were available during the mid-1930s onwards and what do you arrive at: Finance, Inflation, Big Business and New York?

All Board games that were similar to or competing with Monopoly. Some were bought out and some were forced to shut down by the Parker Brothers Company

2. Budweis or Budweiser variety of beer which originated in the city of Bud?jovice now in Czech Republic. This city is the setting and was the working title for the play "The Misunderstanding" by Albert Camus

Budweis or Budweiser variety of beer which originated in the city of Bud?jovice now in Czech Republic. This city is the setting and was the working title for the play "The Misunderstanding" by Albert Camus

3. The Chinese term "benfen" which means one's duty or willing to take responsibility. A popular brand that sells its products in India has included this as one of its values. Name it.

Oppo the cell phone brand

4. Some time back this brand challenged its competing ice cream brands advertisements by asking them if they were using vegetable oils or milk based cream. Now it is challenging cookie companies with a similar advertisement asking its competition if their butter cookies sold in the Indian market contain real butter or vegetable oil. Name this brand that has recently launched cookies as a new product line.

Amul butter cookies

5. This company's first product was launched at the St. Louis World Fair in 1904. It was served along with hot dogs and from then on it has become an essential condiment for dressing hot dogs. This week the same company has launched an ice cream made out of the same ingredient which is a part of its flagship product.

Name the brand and the ice cream flavour.

French's Mustard flavoured ice cream 

6. Name this global brand that created a seismographic reading caused by a bite of its product. It wanted to communicate its product's crispiness to its customers.

KFC

7. Apart from the US flag, which other flag was carried by John Glenn on the first US orbital space flight in 1962 and taken to the moon by Apollo 11 astronauts in 1969?

The Flag of the National Geographic Society

8. The Great Fire of 1835 razed nearly seventeen blocks in the business district of New York City. The most fortunate were the policy holders of the Aetna Fire Insurance Company. The company made good on each and every claim and its founder went on to build a great reputation. Who was its founder?

Junius Spencer Morgan I, American banker and financier as well as the father of John Pierpont "J.P." Morgan

9. Whose baseline found under its logo reads "Efficient, Transparent, Inclusive?

GeM. The Government owned e-marketplace

10. Connect the images and arrive at the name of an entrepreneur?

Captain Leela Nair, the founder of the Leela Hotels brand, was an aide to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose when he was 14 years old. He was responsible for coining the term "Bleeding Madras Checks" when he used to export Madras checks fabric to shirt makers in the United States through his company Leela Scottish Lace.

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