The Strategist Quiz (#068)

 

1. Which car company’s subsidiary produced a series of commercials featuring comic character Batman using its branded service? 
    
2. Which industry is governed by the 10 freedoms? These are agreed conventions that are followed worldwide. 
    
3. What is common to the following founders of companies whose names are now famous brands: Milton Hershey, Walt Disney, Donald Trump and Henry John Heinz? 
    
4. What was sold by a British Quaker and Temperance Society member in the 1830s as an alternative to alcohol? 
    
5. Who recently has been advertising with its new brand ambassador and trademarked base line: Make it Happen? 
    
6. Which coffee chain has one of its biggest coffee stores in Dubai? It can seat more than 300 people at a time. 
    
7. The first AGM of which organisation was held at the Pachiappa’s College, Chennai in 1927? 
    
8. Name the restaurant and the Indian curry served there that is named after a British prime minister? 
    
9. The founder of which technology company named every conference room in his headquarters after a customer? He also had a strict code that his sales people wear suites only. 
    
10. This logo belongs to a company which is known for a first of its kind study that covered the entire population of its country of origin. Identify it.

 

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