The Strategist Quiz #012

1. Which product was accidentally discovered in 1953, when the co-worker of a chemist by the name Patsy Sherman, dropped a glass bottle on the floor that contained the fluorochemicals with which she was experimenting? The mixture that fell on her co-worker's shoes could not be cleaned or removed at all.
   
   
2. Which company's founders in the early 1980s were the exclusive agents for Suzuki's electric power generators? A policy to allow the manufacture of portable gensets by large industrial houses and a ban on importing such equipment brought their flourishing business to a close.
   
   
3. In what context are the terms Purge, Push, Pull and Pure used?
   
   
4. Name the first industrialist to manufacture scooters in India.
   
   
5. With which brand are George Washington, Leo Tolstoy, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Nicolas Sarkozy, the current French President, associated?
   
   
6. Who owns and what is sold under the brand name i-gen?
   
   
7. Connect the colours yellow, orange and brown and the suicide of a CEO, which appeared in China's state-run People's Daily last month, with a brand.
   
   
8. Which airline has ovens on board its aircraft to bake fresh cookies for all passengers as a part of its exclusive on-board service?
   
   
9. This company was first founded by the Wadias in the late 1890s, then subsequently owned by the nephew of Walchand Hirachand until 1951. Identify the company and its present owner.
   
   
10. The government of which country is extending an invitation for economic investments by running an ad that reads: "Ten years ago, Dubai was just another oil exporter in the Middle East. We are next."

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