The Strategist Quiz (#463)

1. Connect one of the original 12 stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 1896 with Taylor Swift and what to you arrive at?
    
2. Whose humanoid robot has landed a job at Pizza Hut in Singapore?
    
3. "Make haste slowly" is the motto of this business family. Its business was the most prosperous and most respected institutions that employed 40 people when it wound up way back in the late 1400s. Name both.
    
4. Name the actress who will teach a Master's course on "Women, Peace and Security" at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
    
5. A Twitter campaign led by American late-night talk show host on a retail chain's unwieldy receipts has led to the launch of digital receipts by this company in the US. It will roll it out selectively till it covers all its 7,000-plus stores. Name the talk show host and the retail brand.
    
6. A fervently free market economic philosophy is long associated with this institution. At times, especially when Keynesian economics was the orthodoxy in much of the world, this institution was regarded as a bastion of unworldly extremism. However, from the late 1970s it came to be regarded as mainstream by many. Twenty-eight winners of the Nobel Prize for economics have been faculty members, students or researchers there. Name it.
    
7. One of the newspapers in the late '60s in the state of Texas mentioned the following in its columns: "Don't bother spending your money on a movie or going to see a play or attending a concert. Just come over and watch _____ and the lawyers for Braniff and Texas International cut each other into little bits and pieces." What is being referred to here?
    
8. Which brand has launched a digital video campaign titled "don't be a sucker"?
    
9. Connect the German-born Hollywood actress Marlene Dietrich to a place that is considered to be London's third main central business district and what do you arrive at?
    
10. Name the brand from its logo and mention its claim to fame.

 

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