 "The Strategist Quiz (#534)")
1. Thanks to the e-commerce world we can buy just about anything online and get it delivered to your doorstep in a snap. Not only has that been insanely convenient for us, but it’s also created a giant window of opportunity for so-called __. They are experts at stealing the packages kept at people's doorsteps. What are they called?
2. Connect actors Prabhas, Rana Daggubati (Bahubali fame) and shuttlers
P V Sindhu and her coach P Gopichand and what do you arrive at?
3. This person quit his job as a copywriter for Esquire magazine in the US when he was denied a small raise. He started his own venture by raising USD 8,000 from 45 investors. Who and what did he create?
4. Who conceived these three laws in the 1940s well before robots made an appearance: Robots should not harm a human through action or inaction, they must obey human orders and they must protect only themselves?
5. The first chapter of whose book is titled “How Karl Marx, a Sanskrit scholar and a cricket hero shaped my boyhood”?
6. Connect Tony the Tiger and a brand that has the lines “No B.S” as one of the ingredients in its products.
7. Its roots can be traced to ancient Greece, India and China. Its current form has been derived directly from “Poona”. A certain produce from Portugal and China are the key elements in the manufacture of its most critical component. It owes its origins to a Gloucestershire country house. Name it.
8. Livestrong was connected with Lance Armstrong. Who is the public service announcement “Be Strong” connected to and what is it about?
9. This member of the royalty was given this city as a part of his dowry in the 1660s. He was not able to realise any revenue from it and found maintaining a garrison too expensive. So he leased it to the East India Company for an annual rent of Pound Sterling 10. Name him and the city.
10. Who is this person and on which currency is this image found?
2. Connect actors Prabhas, Rana Daggubati (Bahubali fame) and shuttlers
P V Sindhu and her coach P Gopichand and what do you arrive at?
3. This person quit his job as a copywriter for Esquire magazine in the US when he was denied a small raise. He started his own venture by raising USD 8,000 from 45 investors. Who and what did he create?
4. Who conceived these three laws in the 1940s well before robots made an appearance: Robots should not harm a human through action or inaction, they must obey human orders and they must protect only themselves?
5. The first chapter of whose book is titled “How Karl Marx, a Sanskrit scholar and a cricket hero shaped my boyhood”?
6. Connect Tony the Tiger and a brand that has the lines “No B.S” as one of the ingredients in its products.
7. Its roots can be traced to ancient Greece, India and China. Its current form has been derived directly from “Poona”. A certain produce from Portugal and China are the key elements in the manufacture of its most critical component. It owes its origins to a Gloucestershire country house. Name it.
8. Livestrong was connected with Lance Armstrong. Who is the public service announcement “Be Strong” connected to and what is it about?
9. This member of the royalty was given this city as a part of his dowry in the 1660s. He was not able to realise any revenue from it and found maintaining a garrison too expensive. So he leased it to the East India Company for an annual rent of Pound Sterling 10. Name him and the city.
10. Who is this person and on which currency is this image found?
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