The Strategist Quiz (#332)

1. What is the connection between a city in the state of Florida in the US, a rock band formed in the late 60s and the first modern assembly line used for manufacturing during the early 1900s in the US?
    
2. Name the airline which is named after a Russian cruiser on which the first incidents of the October Revolution took place in 1900?
    
3. Which hotel chain is considered to be the world's first global chain to have announced a signature scent for its Hotels in 2005
    
4. This brand's label, which originated in 1880s, was redesigned in 1930 with a prominent red star. After the Second World War in 1951 in many countries the red star - due to its association with communism - was changed from red to white with only a small red border. It became completely red again in the early 1990s after Perestroika. Name the brand
    
5. Name the first company that eliminated hourly wages for employees in the United States and became the first major American industrial company with an all-salaried workforce. The decision strengthened its culture of equality at a time when labor-management disputes were common at other industrial companies.
    
6. What is a one banana problem?
    
7. This product was accidentally invented by DuPont in the 1930s. Later a French engineer used this to prevent his fishing gear from tangling. Subsequently, when his wife asked him if she could use it for her cooking pans, he immediately used it on the pans and succeeded. This got him a patent and also helped him start a new business. He made the pans in the kitchen and his wife sold them on the street. Name the person and the product.
    
8. Name an erstwhile company that was set up during the 1920s and ran these marketing slogans: You're going to like us, We're Up To Something Good, One Mission: Yours..
    
9. Which company has recalled its ice cream cones after pain relief tablets were found inside two separate cornets recently. The pills were found by customers in four chocolate and nut ice cream cones. All best before dated boxes up to and including July 2014 are being recalled.
    
10. Connect both the images to arrive at a world's first of its kind facility.

 

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