The Strategist Quiz (# 570)

The Strategist Quiz (# 570)

1. The harp is the official national emblem of the Republic of Ireland and can be found on the Republic's coinage. Why is its harp always shown with its straight edge to the right? 

2. Connect the Founder of a company, the derogatory word for Blacks in the USA and the centre for economic research at Purdue university and what do you arrive at?

3. “___ was a way for capitalism to keep the working man from thinking too much. With an automatic movement of the hand the people extract from these automats pieces of __, and they grind it with the automatic chewing of their jaws. It looks like a religious rite, like some silent prayer to God-Capital”.Whose lines are these and what was he referring to?

4. This brand’s using babies in its ads has been incredibly successful since it debuted 9 years ago winning awards, generating millions of views and even setting a Guinness World Record for most viral video ad of all time. Despite the ad’s success its sales dropped by 25 per cent and it lost market share in the year it launched it. It has now decided to do away with the babies. Name the brand.

5. This was first made by the Chammar community in the state of Maharashtra during the mid-1970s for themselves and other poor tanners of the area from scraps of discarded leather salvaged from the factories. Today it is a category and industry in itself. Name it.

6. What is named after Georg Joseph Kamel, a Moravian missionary who was in Philippines in the mid-1600s?

7. During the early years of this US University, established in the 1630s, tuition fees could be bartered for with lumber, livestock or construction stones. Name the university.

8. What is the term used to describe the design and sale of hardware devices and semiconductor chips while outsourcing the making of the devices to a specialised manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry?

9. Who uses the base line “We Invent the tech the world loves”?

10. Whose logo is this?

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