The Strategist Quiz (#359)

1. What is common to Narendra Modi, Nirbhaya, Sachin Tendulkar and Aishwarya Rai?
    
2. 'Bip Bop' the title of a song by Paul McCartney & Wings is also the abbreviation of an MNC's CSR programme. The programme aimed at improving the lives of 1.3 billion people who have no access to electricity. Name the company and expand 'Bip Bop'.
    
3. This city in the US changed its name to the title of a popular NBC radio quiz programme during the 50s. The host announced that he would air the programme from the first town that renamed itself after the show. Today this city is the headquarters of two of the world's first of its kind companies. Name the city and the companies.
    
4. Who said this: "My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other's kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of parts. That's how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they are done by a team?"
    
5. This brand was established in 1899. It was the first to introduce water-powered washing machines during the early 1900s. For a brief period after the WWI started, it manufactured motor cars under the brand K1. Today it sells coffee making machine, priced in India at about Rs 4.20 lakh. Name this brand.
    
6. At the age of eight this person was reading his father's books on the stock market. When he was 12 he moved with his father, who became a congressman, to Washington in the early 40s. There he used to deliver 500 newspapers each morning and earn $175 which was equivalent to a man's full time salary then. Name this person.
    
7. Which company's value innovation (as referred to in the Blue ocean strategy) of introducing an offering called Zapmail failed in the market?
    
8. This product introduced in India in 1870 became part of every household. Mahatma Gandhi learnt how to use this machine and took it from jail to jail calling it one of the few useful things invented. This brand also pioneered the installment payment culture in India. Name it.
    
9. Connect the Portuguese slang term for Brazilians and Forward sports, a company based in Sialkot, Pakistan, and what do you arrive at?
    
10. Name the logo and mention that brand that uses it. Also connect it with the Saudi Arabian King Abdullah ibn Abdilaziz and former French President Nicolas Sarkozy with it.

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