The Strategist Quiz (#177)

 

1. What is common to ICICI Bank, DuPont, Reynolds, American Tobacco, New York Times and Yahoo? 
    
2. Which is India’s first farmer-owned private cotton marketing company? 
    
3. Whose brands are Livon and Zatak? 
    
4. In the mid-1890s, a mechanic and a bookseller, both bicycle enthusiasts, started manufacturing bicycles of their own design, patriotically named after their country. A few years later, they began producing motorcycles, and at the turn of the century, the production of motorcycles was gradually replaced by automobiles. By what name is the company known now. 
    
5. What is Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart better known as? Also name the person who coined it. 
    
6. This person was a Bible salesman before he became a mechanical engineer. He left a course at Harvard Business School three months before graduating to join Westinghouse. His first article during the 1960s in Harvard Business Review put forward a game theory view of business. Name the person and the business he founded. 
    
7. This company has products named as Bang and Bam, and has an online presence called IdeaLink for consumers to contribute innovative ideas for its products. Name it. 
    
8. This business group has invested in a company involved in manufacturing of precision equipments for oil exploration, wind energy and aviation sector and it also received a certificate of excellence from the Tobacco Board for best performance in export of chewing tobacco. Name the business group and the first brand it launched. 
    
9. What is common to Rahul Dravid, Roger Federer, Shoaib Malik and Tiger Woods? 
    
10. Identify the company by its new logo. Why did it changed its logo?  

 

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