The Strategist Quiz (#193)

 

1. When and where was the first online legal notice served that was held tenable by the judge?
2. This commodity was discovered by the time of the Guptas, around 5th century AD. Buddhist Monks carried it to the Far East and Arab entrepreneurs took it to west Asia and Europe. India is its second-largest producer and consumer in the world. Name it. 
    
3. The name of the mascot Uncle Pennybags was changed in the late 1990s after its founders conducted research and found that it was not a memorable name. By what name is it now known today? 
    
4. Which bank note has the record of having the most number of zeros? 
    
5. To whom did Ramakrishna Dalmia, once the third richest person in the country, after DN Tata and GD Birla, sell the Old Lady of Boribander in order to recover his monies? 
    
6. Which law is also known as the Bikeshedding or Bike shed effect?
7. Where and when was a squash tournament held in a shopping mall for the first time in the world? 
    
8. Where would you find the world’s most southerly-located ATM machines and which bank manages them? 
    
9. What term was coined in January 1999 by a consultant on electronic information design (information architecture) in her article, “Fragmented Future”? 
    
10. Identify both the logo and the image and establish a connection between the trademark’s famous model and a bank whose logo is a black horse.
    

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