The Strategist Quiz (#436)

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1. From which country are cosmetic products being made using ingredients like Donkey's milk, Snail mucus, Starfish extract, Bee venom, Pig collagen and fermented soybeans?
    
2. If you have heard of the Boston Tea party what is then the Boston Fee Party?
    
3. Name the taxi brand that launched a boat service to rescue people during the recent floods witnessed in Chennai?
    
4. This term or position very much in use in the corporate world is thought to have first come into being around 1917. It is generally attributed to two trends: 1. Henry Ford's decision to increase his workers' wages while reducing their workday shocked the business community. Back then, the founder/owner of a company was like an absolute monarch, and Ford's decree appeared to pass power to the people. 2. Taylorism (the scientific management system created by Frederick Taylor) had brought management science to the factory floor-and owners had become obsessed with raising productivity. Name it.
    
5. This invention was conceptualised in the popular periodicals of the day in the 1870s. It was also sketched in various cartoons by George du Maurier as a fictional invention of Thomas Edison. One such sketch was published in the Punch magazine then. Name it.
    
6. Connect these buildings Pompidou Centre in Paris, the Lloyd's building and Millennium Dome in London with The Gherkin, Wembley Stadium in London and the Hearst building in New York and then link it to a 1993 Sunday Times advertisement announcing a competition for designs to mark the millennium in London. Name the outcome and also the people behind it.
    
7. At the age of 17 this person's three black and white sketches of a coat, a dress and a suit won him the 3rd prize in a prestigious contest organised by the International Wool Secretariat in Paris. Rest they say is history. Name the person and the brand he set up.
    
8. For whom is the buzzword empty suit generally used in business?
    
9. The Evolution of Mobility is the base line of which brand?
    
10. Identify this Indian company from its logo.
    

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