The Strategist Quiz (#294)

1. This brand’s story is forged by work and driven by life. It urges its customers and followers to become earthmovers — who are bold and confident enough to transform status quo into extraordinary. Name the brand.
    
2. What is common to these brands — Golf, Polo and Derby, and identify the odd one out?
    
3. Which company’s employees refer to one of the buildings at their headquarters as the ‘washing machine building’?
    
4. Soon after this library was inaugurated, it placed an order with Cambridge University Press for about 35,000 books, a move that resulted in the publisher issuing its longest invoice ever which was 2,794 pages-long. Name this library.
    
5. Connect the following: jet, car, hotel, bus, van, office, pizza, gym, mobile and money with a brand owner who has been knighted by the queen. One of its brand values is to taken on the big boys.
    
6. This company was founded in 1925 in a small principality of Gujarat.The company adopted the horseshoe as its corporate logo, which stands till today, and is widely recognised as a symbol of excellence for the company. Name it.
    
7. What is the term that describes an economic policy through which one country attempts to remedy its economic problems by worsening the economic problems of other countries? This is done by devaluing currencies, imposing import bans/quotas and high customs duties.
    
8. This country’s official newspaper gets its name from the yacht that carried its revolutionary leader who was the prime minster and president for 40 years. Name the newspaper and the country.
    
9. In order to tackle inflation, this country’s president announced a two-month price freeze on supermarket products in the first week of February 2013. Name the country.
    
10. Identify and establish the connection between these two brands.

Ten all-correct entries will receive a copy of Deborah M Kolb and Judith Williams’ Everyday Negotiation published by Wiley India (books courtesy: Wiley India). One lucky winner will also receive a cheque for Rs 2,000. Send your entries to strategist@bsmail.in. All entries must carry the postal address of the contestant. Last date for receiving entries: 10 March. Previous winners, employees of Business Standard and Wiley India and their families are not eligible to participate.

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