The Strategist Quiz (#295)

1. When this person was the warden of the royal mint in the late 1690s one in four coins was a fake since their bits were being clipped of gold coins. In order to curb this, he designed and installed new minting machines that were 8 times faster and produced coins that were hard to forge or clip. Name this person.
    
2. The CEO of this MNC created a new strategy and vision for his company when he took over and called it Purpose-inspired Growth. Today he is under fire since his company is not performing well. Name the person and the company.
    
3. Name the Indian actor who has agreed to lend his Facebook and Twitter pages to a brand. Also name the brand?
    
4. Which Indian industrialist owns speed boats named after James Bond movie titles: Moonraker, Octopussy and Goldeneye?
    
5. This brand was introduced to the world in 1947 by an Italian immigrant in the US. India will be the first market where a powdered variant of this brand is being introduced. Name it.
    
6. There is hypothesis in the field ofroboticsand3Dcomputer animationwhich holds that when human replicas look and act almost, but not perfectly, like actual human beings, it causes a response ofrevulsionamong human observers. What is the term used to describe this hypothesis?
    
7. Before the government of India licensed private companies to provide telephone services in Chennai, Mumbai and Kolkata in 1881, which princely state was already using a telephone to connect the Maharajas palaces to the government offices?
    
8. Apart from being awards given in the film and television industry what is common to the Oscar, Emmy and the Britannia awards?
    
9. What is the term used to describe seed money or capital given by family or friends to an entrepreneur to start a business?
    
10. Name the owner of this brand and also the reason for naming it so.
    

 

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