The Strategist Quiz (#175)

 

1. Which TV show host gave away more than 250 Pontiac sedans to the studio audience who were part of a particular episode?
    
2. What is common to online ventures Jumo, Quora and PlayHopper? 
    
3. An aggressive corporate acquisition of an entity called TomorrowNow has become TomorrowNever. Name the owner and the reason for its closure. 
    
4. Which brand has an online game for its customers to explore the ingredients that make its products and help discover its supply chain to earn reward points? In India it runs the Happiness Hotline. 
    
5. A Harvard graduate and former Oracle employee sold one of the companies he founded to Microsoft for over $200 million and went on to build a company that runs on the business philosophy of “delivering happiness”. Name the person and the company. 
    
6. What is common to the brands Davidoff, Godrej and Boots? 
    
7. Name the businessman who was dubbed by the media as “the British Bill Gates” till he went bankrupt in 2007. 
    
8. What system was made available for civilian use after the accidental shooting of Korean Airlines flight 007 over the Soviet airspace in 1983? 
    
9. When it was launched in the 1950s, it was called “The Clares”. By what name is it known today? It has completed 56 years of existence. 
    
10. Connect both the logos and establish a historic moment in corporate India.
    

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