The Strategist Quiz (#268)

 

1. What is common to Carl Lewis, Jeff Bezos, Jay Leno, Sharon Stone and Paul Ryan - Republican VP candidate? 
    
2. Which airline created aviation history when they started to serve passengers with re-useable cookie tins? 
    
3. Who won a Nobel Prize in Economics for demonstrating the fact that when sellers have information about the quality of a product that buyers don’t have, the sellers are the primary losers, as suspicious buyers drive down prices or abandon the market altogether? 
    
4. This company is celebrating its Platinum Jubilee this year. It was established by Lingam Brothers and Vijendra Rao in a spirit of Swedishi-ism, to be owned, controlled and managed only by Indians. Name the company. 
    
5. DoCoMo when translated in English means “Everywhere”, but which company’s baseline is Everywhere? 
    
6. What is the term used to describe a kind of shareware program that keeps reminding the user to register, purchase or take some other action through one or more popup windows? 
    
7. This invention replaced a church key that was required for opening metal containers. In the late 1950s the inventor/engineer and tool manufacturer, was forced to use the bumper of his car to open cans of beer because he forgot the church key. Name him and his invention. 
    
8. When this list was first launched by a famous business journal IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Johnson & Johnson, Eastman Kodak and Merck were ranked in the top five. Name the listing and the year of publication. 
    
9. What is common to Steve Jobs and Edwin Land, the inventor and founder of the company Polaroid? 
    
10. Identify the brand from its logo in the visual? 
    

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