The Strategist Quiz (#490)

1) Why was a Russian made SUV called the Hunter that served in armies of most Eastern bloc countries and continues to do so in the news recently? It is said to be made with un-destroyable Russian steel and repairable by hammer.

2) Connect Paavo Nurmi, the Finnish who won nine Olympic gold medals in 1920, the brand of shoes he was wearing, $2,081.52 and two bottles of Whiskey and what do you arrive at?

3) In the late 1910s this 16-year-old high school dropout from Brooklyn walked into a brokerage house asking for a job as a janitor’s assistant. His main duties were to polish the partners’ shoes and to brush their hats and coats. He became the CEO of the firm by 1930 and was dubbed Mr. Wall Street with whom most of the American CEOs were friends. Name him and his firm.

4) This term is attributed to the 1983 visit Howard Schultz of Starbucks made to Italy when he got captivated with Italian coffee bars and the romance of the coffee experience. He had a vision to bring the Italian coffeehouse tradition back to the US. It is a place for conversation and a sense of community. The same term was also used by an American urban sociologist in a book in 1989. Name it.

5) Connect The Delhi and London Bank established in 1844 with the business family which owned the first car and telephone in Delhi.

6) Private leagues in sports got a boost with the IPL for cricket, and then it was followed by football and kabaddi. What is next?

7) Who has launched an apparel brand powered by artificial intelligence? Computer vision was used for the machine to get to know fashion and its attributes and had a few design specialists who helped the machine to learn. Based on peoples’ likes and dislikes it puts across a basic skeletal framework together for their in-house designers, who would then tweak the designs according to the demand.

8) Who owns the brand Junglee Music?

9) Which Tata group company uses the base line “Conquering Frontiers”?

10) Identify the companies from these similar looking logos.

 

 

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

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