Ad-Vantage Quiz Wk 21: Metaverse & Wordle’s origins, The Riddler’s cookies

Adgully is back with Week 21 of the Ad-Vantage Quiz with Rajiv Gopinath. Last week, participants engaged with questions related to gaming, anime, Wordle, Uber, controversial advertisements, Spider-Man comic news and soft drink brands.

Being at the forefront of advertising and media news coverage for over a decade, Adgully has launched an engaging quiz contest to reward readers who closely follow developments in the Advertising and Marketing domain. Our quizmaster, Rajiv Gopinath, Chief Client Officer, Starcom, will share 10 topical questions every week on the latest developments in Business, Advertising and Brands.

To win, participants need to answer all the questions correctly and at the earliest. The quiz is live from 11 am on Tuesday (February 01, 2021) to 11 pm on Saturday (February 05, 2021). Here’s what you need to do to participate:

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Naina Thakur got all the answers correct for this quiz. So, she is the winner for last week’s quiz.

Here are the correct answers to Week 20 Quiz:

Connect the photo to a cookie.

Oreo Batman limited-edition sandwich cookies with clues, which plays on The Riddler’s defining trait of taunting Batman with vexing clues.

The game, which started as a tiny project meant for developer Josh Wardle’s friends and family, now boasts approximately 2 million players. Which game?

Wordle

Uber’s CEO Dara Khosrowshahi recently issued an apology to whom after causing them to be a bit overexcited?

Pet Dogs

Which term first made its appearance in Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash?

Metaverse

Who recently vandalised their own billboards in India and why?

Netflix

‘Think Fresh’ is which brand’s proposition?

7UP

Which company changed its name to Capital A to reflect its growing portfolio of businesses?

Air Asia

Connect the nail polish to a book.

‘I’m not really a waitress’ – which is the book about how Suzi Weiss-Fischmann transformed OPI, and also the name for a specific nail polish by OPI.

Why was this page in the news?

The $3.4 million sale of an original drawing from a 1984 Spider-Man comic has set a new record for the most-expensive piece of interior comic art.

The three-panel Spider-Man drawing is page 25 from Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars No. 8, which explains how the superhero had gotten his cool new black suit some months earlier, in Amazing Spider-Man #252 – which, as comic book fans know, becomes a pivotal moment for the character.

The Symbiote costume, as it is now known, was eventually revealed to be a symbiotic life-form that ultimately moved on to a new host, Eddie Brock, to become the villain Venom.

What was unboxing by husband all about?

A recent social media trend in Malaysia – the couples can be witnessed in their bridal outfits on their wedding night in front of a mirror and the groom removes the bride’s head accessories.