The Strategist biz quiz

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1. What is the connection between Finding Nemo and Steve Jobs?
   
   
2. The first Indian-built car (not fully indigenous) hit the roads in 1946. What was it called?
   
   
3. When he was 19, this the future business tycoon got a job as a used car salesman. After enrolling at the University of British Columbia, he developed a novel means of selling cars: each morning, he would drive a sample to school, sell it to a fellow student during the day, and return home by public transport. Who was he?
   
   
4. What did Peter Minuit buy from the local Indians 60 guilders, the equivalent of $ 24?
   
   
5. US President John F Kennedy is said to have ordered 1,000 Havana cigars "for tomorrow". What did he mean?
   
   
6. In B-school lingo, who are "poets"?
   
   
7. His tryst with IT started way back in the 1960s. As a student of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, he punched cards on a computer "as big as a room". In the 1970s, he was remote-sensing data at the Indian Space Research Organisation, and in the 1980s he came up with the idea of CLASS "" "computer literacy and studies at school". Who is he?
   
   
8. Which 19th century American classic was the first book to sell a million copies?
   
   
9. Which famous Indian once remarked, "Consumer is King"?
   
   
10. In 1969, after being rejected by no fewer than 20 publishers, he finally saw his first book roll off the presses and into the book stores. Within a year, the hard-bound version was being printed for the 15th time. Ironically, the publishers who had rejected the book might have done well to study its contents. It stated: "In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence." Name this person.

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