 "The Strategist Quiz (#541)")
1. Which company would you be working for if your boss held the title of Karma commando and you would join the team as a do gooder?
2. Connect the insurance company Lloyds with teeth-whitening product Aquafresh manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).
3. The Random Access Memory (RAM) replaced punched cards when IBM introduced its model 350 Disk Storage Unit in 1956. Who was its first customer?
4. Strategy and __ are the Himalayas of marketing and everything else is the Catskills. Fill in the blank and name who said this.
5. A reduction in the price of this brand’s main product resulted in a fall in the share prices of consumer product companies like Coca-Cola and Heinz. Its own stock fell by 26 per cent. One magazine termed it “the day the __ Man fell off his horse”. Identify the brand.
6. Connect the Star Wars character Poe Dameron’s X-wing and Kylo Ren’s TIE silencer with a brand and what do you arrive at?
7. While he was the technical advisor to UN in India, he conceived the mechanism to strip away unwanted tape recording noise. He patented this invention on his return to London. Identify him and the technology he invented.
8. When this global brand started operations, it had a rule that only men could work in its outlets. It was forced to hire women in the mid-1960s when the US military draft made it hard to find male employees. Name this company which tops in diversity now.
9. According to __, it takes just over 2.55 million cups of coffee to create enough biofuel to run one London bus for a year with the hybrid coffee oil. Name the company.
2. Connect the insurance company Lloyds with teeth-whitening product Aquafresh manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).
3. The Random Access Memory (RAM) replaced punched cards when IBM introduced its model 350 Disk Storage Unit in 1956. Who was its first customer?
4. Strategy and __ are the Himalayas of marketing and everything else is the Catskills. Fill in the blank and name who said this.
5. A reduction in the price of this brand’s main product resulted in a fall in the share prices of consumer product companies like Coca-Cola and Heinz. Its own stock fell by 26 per cent. One magazine termed it “the day the __ Man fell off his horse”. Identify the brand.
6. Connect the Star Wars character Poe Dameron’s X-wing and Kylo Ren’s TIE silencer with a brand and what do you arrive at?
7. While he was the technical advisor to UN in India, he conceived the mechanism to strip away unwanted tape recording noise. He patented this invention on his return to London. Identify him and the technology he invented.
8. When this global brand started operations, it had a rule that only men could work in its outlets. It was forced to hire women in the mid-1960s when the US military draft made it hard to find male employees. Name this company which tops in diversity now.
9. According to __, it takes just over 2.55 million cups of coffee to create enough biofuel to run one London bus for a year with the hybrid coffee oil. Name the company.
10. With which brand is this breed of dogs associated with?
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