The Strategist Quiz (#139)

 

1. Name the tea brand that was used for the largest tea party ever held in the world? 
    
2. The birth of this brand is attributed to its founder having used the extract of the witch hazel plant, widely used by American Indians, to produce a cream that could heal small cuts and other ailments. Identify the brand. 
    
3. As a part of its CSR initiative, this brand celebrated the anniversary of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Bed-In Peace by re-enacting the event and also named a product’s flavour after one of Lennon’s creations. Name the brand and the flavour. 
    
4. India’s National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF) is known to have the subcontinent’s largest and most powerful numerical weather prediction (NWP) system. What supercomputer did it buy for this purpose? 
    
5. Which brand’s website provides the user with a “Boss Key” and what is it used for? 
    
6. Identify this Harvard graduate and visionary who preached about computersation in the 1950s. He was hired by a New York-based consultancy firm and was fired three times for insisting that clients consider computerisation. 
    
7. Who postulated in the early 1960s that Asian economies will take off one by one, move in a cluster just like the migrating geese and Japan would be at the head of the formation? 
    
8. Connect the following: A character in Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses, direct descendants of Chatrapathi Shivaji’s caste and Six Sigma. 
    
9. During which Union Budget in India was the first disclosure scheme for black money introduced? 
    
10. Identify the logo.

 

 

 

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