The Strategist Quiz #027

1. Name the database company whose powerful technology is capable of tracking potential terrorists and criminals and is backed by a US presidential candidate?
   
   
2. Which business school received a donation of 23 million pounds from a Syrian businessman and was subsequently named after him 6 years ago? This person is known to be an armaments and infrastructure projects contractor.
   
   
3. Complete the list with the names of two Indians and identify the brand they advertise for: Steve McQueen, Fernando Alonso, Tiger Woods, Kimi Raikkonen, _______ and ______ .
   
   
4. What is the Cloud of Promise?
   
   
5. Which company's CEO sent a letter to his employees on Valentine's Day in 2000, asking them to save $5 a day in their operations, hoping it would translate into huge savings and signed off by saying: "You are my valentine"? An annual tradition sees employees getting gifts on this day every year.
   
   
6. Which company's sponsored event is said to have influenced the International Olympic Committee to add a women's marathon to the Olympic Games in 1984?
   
   
7. Name the company whose founders during the mid-70s borrowed the name of the recording label used by their favourite musicians and established their company on April Fools' day.
   
   
8. This popular business book is named after a pattern in statistics. An article with the same title was published in the Wired magazine in 1984. Name the book and the author.
   
   
9. What is the distinction of these three Indian restaurants "" Amaya, Tamarind and Rasoi "" in the UK?
   
   
10. Which product or brand was the first to be published on the cover of the Time magazine?
    
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