The Strategist Quiz (#368)

1. What was branded as Hassan Nasarallah after the leader of Lebanon's Hizballah in 2006, president Obama in 2009 and martyrs of the revolution & Tahrir square in 2014?
    
2. In the 1960s, the founder of this management consultancy divided his firm into three minifirms called the red, blue and green after reading books on Darwinian Anthropology. He set them to compete with each other. Virtually his blue unit by far most successfully decamped to set up another firm. Name the founder and his firm and also the present name of his runaway blue unit.
    
3. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute is famous for its top 100 listings. What are these listings?
    
4. Pepper can respond to emotions and Jimmy can tweet. Who are they and who introduced them?
    
5. Which company and its logo draw inspiration from a modernising and enterprising naval trading company founded in Nagasaki in 1865. It operated during the last days of the Tokugawa Shogunate in Japan. It had capabilities of gathering advanced information and knowledge and served as a catalyst for Japan's transformation into a modern, free-thinking & boldly decisive state. Name the company and also the present day company that adopted its logo.
    
6. This college professor of Chemistry is known as the plastic man and his college holds a patent for his technique but often licenses it for free. So far 5,000 kms in 11 states in India have been covered using his technique. Name him and his innovation.
    
7. Which company is spearheading an effort to develop a chat tool called "Babble"? It is an internal messaging service for its bankers and traders to keep in touch with their customers at pension funds, hedge funds and asset managers.
    
8. This event originated in the early 1900s in France as a circulation booster for a newspaper. A Yellow jersey handed out in this event was instituted probably to reflect the distinctive yellow newsprint on which it was published.
    
9. What is microwaiting? It is a buzzword generally used in offices.
    
10. Who uses this logo?
    

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