The Strategist biz quiz

Answer to last week's quiz

1. Which was the first Indian film to be provided insurance cover?
   

Subhash Ghai's Taal, under the Cine Mukta Policy developed by United India Assurance

2. Who is called India's Johnny Appleseed, the father of the Indian apple industry?
   

Samuel Evans Stokes

3. Industrialist Nusli Wadia is the grandson of which prominent figure in the Indian subcontinent's history?
   

Mohammad Ali Jinnah

4. Through which treaty did the British annex Assam on February 26, 1826, in order to turn it into an agricultural estate of tea?
   

Yandaboo Treaty

5. Which engineering company actually built the bridge on the River Kwai for David Lean's film?
   

Larsen & Toubro

6. Which organisation commissioned Shyam Benegal to produce his television series Yatra?
   

Indian Railways

7. Which tranquiliser was nicknamed "Mother's little helper" as housewives commonly used it to cope with stress?
   

Valium

8. Where was the first factory of the British East India Company set up?
   

Surat

9. Which British mathematician designed an analytical engine, which was the forerunner of the digital computer?
   

Charles Babbage

10. Who has been officially declared the patron saint of ecology?
    

Saint Francis of Assissi

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