The Strategist Quiz (#345)

1. Ninety -nine per cent of mobile devices contain this company's chip. It has a trademarked baseline that reads "The Architecture for the Digital World." Name the company.
    
2. This European pop & rock band's style of dressing was influenced in part by tax laws in Europe that allowed the cost of outfits to be deducted against tax - so long as the costumes were so outrageous they could not possibly be worn on the street. This band was active from the 70s to the late 80s. One of its members said, "In my honest opinion we looked like nuts in those years. Nobody can have been as badly dressed on stage as we were." Name it.
    
3. This brand produced an award winning series of short web films during 2001-02 titled The Hire. It featured a cast of celebrity directors, such as Ang Lee, Guy Ritchie as well as stars, including Madonna and Don Cheadle, who interacted with the main James Bond-like character whose adventures always took place in one of the products manufactured by this brand. Name the brand that plans to revive the same.
    
4. Which brand has launched a solar powered mobile cooler called eKOcool for rural Indian villages that lack electricity? The appliance is a sophisticated marriage of technology and local market savvy. Apart from cooling it also helps in charging mobile phones and electric lanterns.
    
5. This brand was initially used as a mixer in the US markets and got its name from slang for the moonshine coming out of the hills in Virginia. When it was first launched it was billed as "zero proof hillbilly moonshine." Name it.
    
6. Name this internet fashion retailer, which has come up with an innovative model of the delivery boy doubling up also as a fashion adviser. The customers are allowed to try the outfits and the delivery boy waits till the customer is either satisfied or not happy with the merchandise. This firm is a leader in the CIS region, name it.
    
7. This inventor and founder set up the Blasting Oil Company in the US during the 1860s in order to defend his patent rights. After three years the factory was destroyed by explosions and it ceased to exist. Name the founder.
    
8. Generally in the offices in US what is described as a "Permanent Holiday Botanical?
    
9. Which entity uses the Trademarked baseline "Hollywood's Benchmark."
    
10. Identify the logo of this agency, which was set up in 1865 and was primarily involved in stamping out counterfeiting and financial fraud.
    

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