The Strategist biz quiz

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1. What is the name of the Indian in the Dilbert comic strip?
   
2. Where did Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, work? (His experiences there were the inspiration behind several Dilbert strips)
   
3. What was Jack Welch's nickname at GE? And why was he so called?
   
4. The short-listed agencies included Lintas, FCB Ulka and Rediffusion, but this agency beat them all in bagging the creative account for the "India Shining" campaign. Which is the agency?
   
5. In September 1999, for a Malaysian golf tournament, one of the sponsoring companies offered its famous product as a prize to the first two players to score a hole-in-one. Amid protests, it withdrew the prize, offering cash instead. What was the product?
   
6. Which consultancy services provider audits the votes received by Oscar nominees?
   
7. A Company founder was given the Cornell lacrosse team cap while at college by his grandfather. He lost it and had to search for it desperately. The manual of the beta version of his product had an appeal to readers to return his hat if found by anyone. Name the company he founded.
   
8. Which "Legal Investigator" at a law firm called Jones International and consultant to a firm called Cyberspace was awarded an honorary Master's degree in business communication in June 2001?
   
9. Founded by a young American entrepreneur C V Starr in Shanghai, this company was initially called American Asiatic Underwriters (AAU). How do we know this company better today?
   
10. The 92-year-old actor Zohra Sehgal endorses the Widex brand of products. What does Widex make?
    
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