The Strategist Quiz (#390)

Gaurav Sri Krishna New Delhi
Last Updated : Jan 05 2015 | 12:04 AM IST
  1. If Amul was responsible for the white revolution in India, which company was responsible for the Pink Revolution?
     
  2. What is term used to describe the re-incorporation of a company overseas in order to reduce the tax burden on income earned abroad?
     
  3. What vehicle would you be using if each of its tires are hand-studded with around 400 Tungsten Carbide studs? Also name the vehicle.
     
  4. Who set up #WishesDelivered a crowd-sourced donation based promotion that's tied to making the wishes of a few of their customers come true in the US this Holiday season?
     
  5. The founder of this company is an American statistician, author, editor and publisher. As a Baseball card hound, he began polling traders on the prices they had seen or paid for particular cards. In 1979, he put together the first edition of what would become a guide. Today he runs a media and publication company. Name him.
     
  6. After which company is the chemical compound Carbaryl named? It is used chiefly as an insecticide.
     
  7. This brand gets its name from an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois and became an American legend while still alive due to his kind, generous ways, his leadership in conservation, and the symbolic importance he attributed to apples and an Oldsmobile car model. Name it.
     
  8. Which brand uses this baseline: "Widen your World"?
     
  9. Which Indian business group donated Rs 3 lakh for social uplift of harijans way back in 1926? This was its first donation and is said to have earned the appreciation of Mahatma Gandhi.
     
  10. Identify the brand from its futuristic baseline.

 


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First Published: Jan 05 2015 | 12:04 AM IST

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