The Strategist Quiz (#388)

1. Connect the first American woman to fly as a passenger in an airplane, a French fashion designer whose contributions to his field have been likened to Picasso's legacy in 20th-century art and the description of the distinctive packaging of a global brand that set its apart from its many imitators. What do you arrive at.
    
2. Which brand shot in to prominence and became all the more popular after Marlon Brando was dressed in it for the movies The Wild One and A Streetcar Named Desire and Marilyn Monroe for the movie The Misfits?
    
3. The CEO of which company has been quoted as follows: "It was in the ____store in 1979, a French press of Sumatra changed my life, I still have a French press 3-4 times a day"? Fill in the blank too.
    
4. In the early 1800s the owner of a failing vineyard in Reims, France, was felled by typhoid. His wife who was 27 then invested her own inheritance in her husband's business and took over. Though the product they were selling was not yet widely popular in France, she shrewdly courted the palate of Tsar Nicholas I and opened up Russia as a market. She invented a device called a riddling table to remove dead yeast from the bottles, an improvement that gave the world _____ clear _____. Name the lady and fill in the blanks.
    
5. Whose brands Naughty Boy and Ballerina that created a buzz in the early 1950s are still available?
    
6. Name the founder and the brand that uses this trademarked line "Where Awesome Parents Go".
    
7. In the mid 70s an economist sketched a doodle on a dinner napkin in the company of a Wall Street Journal writer,Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney who were part of the Ford administration then. What did it culminate into?
    
8. In which country would one find the most number of Jingle trucks and what are they?
    
9. Which management guru coined the term 'Ba' and what does it mean?
    
10. These four dots were part of this company's logo and it discarded them early in this year. Name the company and the logic behind the four dots.
    

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