The Strategist Quiz (#316)

1. Who said this and where will you find this line "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading"?
    
2. Taking a cue from Bill Gates perhaps, who has named their social media platform 'Khidki' (meaning window in Hindi)?
    
3. After Perestroika and Glasnost, Gorbhachev dismissed a high ranking official Vladeilen Nikitin in 1990 because of an acute shortage of a particular item of mass consumption. Since the country witnessed large scale demonstrations in Moscow and other cities, as a stop gap measure the Soviet authorities resorted to imports from Bulgaria. Name the item.
    
4. Whose captive advertising and branding agency is Spark44?
    
5. The chairman of this company is an Arjuna Award winner who captained the Indian Table Tennis team for four years, won 4 national championship titles. Name the company and the person.
    
6. This startup gets its name from German meaning "above", "over" or "across. Jeff Bezos and Goldman Sachs are its investors. It makes a mobile application that connects passengers with drivers of luxury vehicles for hire.
    
7. One of Winston Churchill's paintings completed in 1915 is a homage to one of his favourite brands. Till this day it hangs in the dining room of the country estate of the family that created this brand in Chartwell UK. Name the painting and the brand.
    
8. If 'Just Do it' was Nike's catchphrase, which brand's philosophy is 'Do:More'?
    
9. Whose uses this baseline: Now everyone can fly?
    
10. Identify the Logos and mention what is common to them.
     
    
    

 

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