The Strategist Quiz (#445)

1. What is termed as the 4th Industrial revolution and who has chosen it as its main theme for its annual conference?
    
2. This person's first career was as a conductor on a brand new, sometimes dangerous, conveyance: the railroad during the 1850s. And in 1873, Pennsylvania voted an annuity of $1,500 to the "crazy" man whose determination founded an industry. Name this person and the industry he founded.
    
3. Way back in 2011 Maruti Suzuki planned to launch the brands Palette and Wagon to compete with a particular brand. Name it. (Though Palette has not been launched in India)
    
4. Wasted heat generated by servers in data centres is beginning to be distributed to neighbouring homes and commercial buildings. What name has been given to this novel recycling method?
    
5. Name the first company to be founded by a woman to be listed on the Fortune 500.
    
6. In project management what is the term used to describe the number of team members whose loss would endanger a project?
    
7. In 1890 this brand changed its nomenclature from XX to _____ which is still in use all over the world today.
    
8. What is the term used to describe a situation in financial markets when it is felt a company reveals bad news to the public, but may have many more related negative events that are yet to be revealed?
    
9. Which brand's erstwhile baseline was "Red White and You"?
    
10. Whose logo is this?

 

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