The Strategist Quiz (#382)

1. The former CEO of which company said: " The internet is the Viagra of big business"
    
2. At 10:00 pm on October 21, 1931 the lights all across New York were asked to be dimmed for a few minutes by the then US President Herbert Hoover. Why?
    
3. This person studied at the University of Paris, did construction work in Morocco, worked for the US Army as a secret code clerk and also taught at a University in Indonesia. He is a PhD in Economics who created _____ in the early 1970s to demonstrate how harmful monopolies could be to a free-enterprise system, and how antitrust laws work to curtail them in the real world. Name the person and his creation.
    
4. This concept, which is gaining controversy now, was first proposed by an entomologist from New Zealand in the 1890s. It gave him leisure time to collect insects and led him to value the after-hours since he had a shift-work job. Most countries around the world follow it to conserve energy and help reduce the need for electric lights. Name the person and the concept.
    
5. Connect the families of Ray Kroc, co-founder of McDonalds, Elvis Presley and Andrew Jergens, makers of the Jergens cosmetic products and what do you arrive at.
    
6. This Russian business group, which owns retail store chain called West Telekom, an employee psychological testing company, an advertising agency by the name Moroshka and a realtor agency called Alfa was in the news recently. Why?
    
7. Which famous American retailer will be opening its first overseas store in Saudi Arabia in 2018?
    
8. This fast food restaurant chain claims to have crowd sourced the world's first pocket a cut of the sales programme. It has launched a mobile app that allows customers to design their own pizzas and market them on social media. The customers get a percentage of the sales as a commission. Name the pizza brand and the country where it has launched it.
    
9. Which company's baseline reads: "The Name is Enough"?
    
10. Name the equipment in the photograph and its inventor.
    

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