The Strategist Quiz #611

The Strategist Quiz #611

1 Connect the following: 1630s, A Spanish viceroy of a South American country who got his title from a Spanish county which is a town and municipality now 50 km from Madrid and the introduction of a particular South American plant in the mountains of Nilgiris& Darjeeling in the 1850s and what do you arrive at?
 

2 Connect these dates with a company and state its significance. January 28, 2019, January 27, 2020, January 25, 2021, January 24, 2022,January 30, 2023, so on and so forth.
 

3 Way back in the late 1890s, this Indian businessman established the practice of calculating the managing agents' remuneration on the basis of profits and not sales or production. He also made an attempt to export mangoes to Europe in cold storage steamers and tried his hand at frozen food and built an ice house for that purpose.Name him.
 

4 Who has taken over Juhi Chawla, Parineeti Chopra and Taapsee Pannu as this brand's spokesperson or ambassador?
 

5 What term is used to describe service providers like Amazon Video, Hulu, Netflix, etc. who live stream video /film content over public Internet, rather than a closed, private network with proprietary equipment such as set-top boxes.
 

6 Name the two companies that were involved in launching the very first smartwatch much ahead of its time about 15 years ago. Also name the brand.
 

7 In which country is the acronym BATs used in connection with Internet based businesses?
 

8 Name the brand that has launched a new category of jeans for the gym in India?
 

9 Which brand’s promise is a “brighter everyday”, for its customers?

10 Identify the breed of the dog from the images below and connect it with a luxury brand that was named after a dog from the same breed. This dog was owned by the founder of the said brand. 

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 April 30 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.

There was one correct entriy to Quiz no. 610. The winner is Deepa Ananthakrishnan from Bengaluru.