The Strategist Quiz (#489)

1) It started as a movement to create an international day of giving at the beginning of the Christmas and holiday season in 2012. It was started by a voluntary organisation in New York and the United Nations Foundation as a response to commercialisation and consumerism in the post-Thanksgiving season (Black Friday and Cyber Monday). It is now a global movement and has raised more than 110 million from 700k people in 70 countries. Name it.

2) What is /dev/payments now?

3) Columbo is an American television series starring Peter Falk as Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. It ran from 1968 to 2003. His tendency to have one last parting shot before he left has influenced a business buzzword in the world of emails. What is it?

4) What is the unique distinction these two brands have in common — Titleist golf balls and Hasselblad cameras?

5) Connect RPG Phillips Carbon Black, Mcleod Russel, FACT (Fertilisers and Chemicals of Travancore), Fevicol from Pidilite and the Times of India.

6) He was one of Cartier’s main clients in India and also the first Indian to own an aeroplane. He also followed an annual ritual/tradition of parading himself in the buff along with a diamond studded breastplate. Name him.

7) What system was introduced into the rest of Europe and the world by émigré Venetian glass-blowers to protect their skills against those of local workers?

8) What was priced at $666.66 as the mark of the beast when it was introduced for the first time?

9) Which company can also be called the Octothorpe Company?

10) Identify this brand that courted controversy recently.

 

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Compiled by Gaurav Sri Krishna, www.facebook.com/gaurav.s.krishna