The Strategist Quiz (#187)

 

1. Name the company that got started when its founder’s friend, a glassmaker based in San Francisco, failed to sell one of his pieces on the street simply because he couldn’t accept credit cards. The same person founded a successful online company with projected revenue of $150 million. 
2. If Karsanbhai Patel founded the brand Nirma, what did Tribhovandas Patel establish?    
3. Which brand managed to innovate for the Indian market by instituting a usability lab with an IIT and introduce for the first time features like “sari wash course” and “memory restart” in its washing machines?    
4. Apart from being actresses, what is common to Leela Chitnis and Hollywood’s Ginger Rogers?    
5. Connect the X-ray tube, audio tape, VCR, audio CD and DVD and what do you get?    
6. What happened to the erstwhile Bank of Behar, National Bank of Lahore and Bank of Cochin?    
7. What is common to the terms Thirsty Bird, Nodding Donkey, Grasshopper and Horsehead?  
8. With which brand is the Striding Man Society associated?    
9. Who said: “If contact between people is based on trust and absolute integrity, then it is of benefit for both sides.” The entity he founded was in the news recently.    
10. The companies identified by these two logos were involved in an acquisition. Which one? 

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