The Strategist Quiz (#458)

1. These vessels in the mid-19th century got their names from a word English poet John Dryden used to describe the swift flight of a falcon. They were owned by merchants and would compete in The Great __ Race, which were informal races between the coast of China and England. Name the vessel and fill in the blank.
    
2. It was first instituted by the mineral water brand Perrier and it is now being sponsored by Foster's beer. What is it?
    
3. This business group uses the baseline "Connecting __ East & West". It's currently planning to reduce its business in the West though. Its name, when translated in English, means "a village in wilderness or a village full of fields". Name it.
    
4. Which businessman considers himself the "wrong man at the right time" in his autobiography?
    
5. The founder of this business group was an unsuccessful lawyer who returned from Zanzibar in the late 1890s. After joining a pharmacy as an assistant he wanted to make surgical equipment with a Swadeshi stamp, but he read a newspaper article on the rising crime rate in the city he was living in and decided to manufacture __. Name him and the business group he founded.
    
6. Who has launched a brand called 1893 and why?
    
7. This brand's name, when translated into English, means "skid". It is a revolutionary since for the first time in the world it uses an oil-free and corrosion-resistant drive belt rather than a metal chain as one of its key mechanisms.
    
8. Establish the connect between Sunil Bharti Mittal and a water company named Compagnie Generale des Eaux (CGE) that was created by an imperial decree of Napoleon III in 1853.
    
9. __ is the name economist Keynes gave to one of the essential ingredients of economic prosperity: confidence. It is a particular sort of confidence or "naive optimism", he said. Attempts by politicians and others to talk up confidence by making optimistic noises about economic prospects is an example.
    
10. What is common to both these brands?
    

 

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