The Strategist Quiz (#537)

The Strategist Quiz, November 9, 2017

1. “Talk to __ about sex and get your act right.” Who does one talk to and also name the brand that is promoting this?

2. Recently shoppers at a fashion retailer have found unusual notes in their clothes from contract workers claiming they have not been paid for making the merchandise. This brand is worth an estimated £8.6 billion and with more than 2,200 stores worldwide. Name the country where customers experienced this.

3. Connect an installation made on the eve of the International Women’s Day in New York City this year and a nearly 400 per cent increase in the trading volume of an Index fund and what do you arrive at?

4. What is common between the Hong Kong Bank, Standard Chartered Bank and RBI buildings in Mumbai and the richest man in Ireland of 2011?

5. The payment industry is witnessing a new revolution where mobile readers that plug into a cell phone’s headset jack are replacing traditional Electronic Data Capture (EDC) machines and the manual card imprinters. What is the industry nick name for manual card imprinters and EDCs?

6. This contributor and guru to the world of management was born in Romania. A math whiz at 11, he kept books for an icehouse to support his family. His father became a bootlegger in 1919 to fund his education at the University of Minnesota. After World War II, he realised he could go no further within a corporate structure and struck out on his own. Name him.

7. Whose motto, which is also a part of its logo, reads, “Let there be bread”?

8. In which brand’s advertisements does one encounter the characters Asha and Bala, and who are they in real life?

9. Who owns the firm 84.51 degrees? The name represents the longitude of its headquarters.

10. Identify the company and mention who founded it back in the late 1920s.

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

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