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Answers to the Strategist quiz (#428)

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Strategist Team New Delhi
  1. The Women's Institute (WI), a community-based organisation for women, was founded in Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada, by Adelaide Hoodless in 1897. It then expanded to Britain and later to other countries. What is the first associated with this organisation which many other organisations and corporates followed.

    The first nude charity calendar was made by a group of middle aged Englishwomen, members of a local branch of the Women's Institute, who were posing nude to raise funds for Leukemia Research. The calendar was released in 1999, and became an international sensation, and also inspired the movie Calendar Girls. Following this lead, charity nude calendars proliferated in the 2000s.
     
  2. The Scottish employees of which erstwhile company called a popular tea growing region in India, Haggistan after their favourite dish?

    Munnar was called Haggistan by the employees of the Scottish company James Finlay which later become Tata Tea.
     
  3. Name the brand that goes by the following philosophy: MADE IN AMERICA MATTERS______ always has, and always will be, committed to making ____ in the US. Join us and the thousands of other American Makers who understand that making things here matters. This company was founded in Boston in the early 1900s.

    New Balance the footwear brand.
     
  4. What was called Kiva Han and what is its claim to fame?

    The world's first Coffee Shop was opened in Constantinople Turkey in 1475 and was called "Kiva Han.
     
  5. A popular watch brand in India is the code name for a new electric car to be launched by an American company. Name it.

    Project Titan is the code name for the electric car Apple plans to launch.
     
  6. In the pharmaceutical business, what is the buzzword used for a company, or product that is found to be dubious?

    Mercky. It is derived from Merck the pharma company that had numerous regulatory issues.
     
  7. This family came to prominence when they were commissioned to build carriages for the Royal Mail in 1760. By the late 19th century, they were hand-crafting the coachwork for the new 'horseless carriage'. And today, a hundred years later, this family's name still resonates with the bespoke luxury of the world's finest carriages and cars. Name the family and the cars they are associated with.

    The Mulliner family. Now called Bentley Mulliner, they form a key part of the company as the specialist personal commissioning department of Bentley Motors.
     
  8. Which alcoholic beverage gets its name because of Prince Charles Edward Louis Philip Casmir Stuart commonly known as Bonnie Prince Charlie, or the Young Pretender? He was the Jacobite pretender to the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland during mid 1700?

    The 100 pipers scotch whisky. It is named after the 100 pipers who accompanied Bonnie Prince Charlie to war.
     
  9. Name the company that received an Emmy award for its creation of the first electronic graphic creative system.

    Xerox.
     
  10. Whose logo is this?

    The Strategist Quiz (#428)
    Holland and Sherry, Scottish Clothiers, established in 1836, they are the ones who supplied the cloth for the most talked about suit of Narendra Modi, the prime minister of India with his name woven as a pattern. It has now signed a JV with Digjam suiting in India.

There was no all correct entry for quiz No.428.

 

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First Published: Oct 05 2015 | 12:02 AM IST

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