The Strategist Quiz (#288)

 

1. Name the person who was responsible for coining this slogan ‘Roti, Kapda, Makan, Bijli aur Bandwidth’ ? 
    
2. In 1974 a co-founder of this company got excited by a feature on the Altair 8800 computer published in the December edition of the Popular Electronics magazine. He took this to his best friend who was then a Harvard undergrad and had the skills to code a programming language for this machine. What this incident lead to? 
    
3. Name the commodity that is named in honour of the 6th Duke of Devonshire, who acquired an early specimen of this commodity and from whose hothouses the cultivars were developed for commercial exploitation worldwide. India is the largest producer of this commodity in the world. 
    
4. How did the charity Ekocycle get its name? 
    
5. Connect the calling sign 2LO and a building that was originally built as the Gaiety Restaurant in London during the early 1900s and what do you arrive at? 
    
6. An employee of a company sent his CEO a note that read “ Herb I finally get it. You are making work fun and home is work”. Identify the CEO and the company 
    
7. What is common to a Japanese professor at the Tokyo Merchant Marine College during the early 1900s, and a telegraph teacher from Wisconsin during 1888? 
    
8. What is the term used to describe a technique used by a company to support its wholesaler or distributor’s sales force by deputing one of its employees with them? 
    
9. Whose baseline reads “The Power to Surprise”? 
    
10. Identify both the logos and establish the connection 
    

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