The Strategist Quiz (#194)

 

1. This company has been a rumoured takeover target 21 times and its name in Hawaiian means ‘intelligent’. Name it. 
    
2. What is common to these brands: Ferrari, Ford Mustang and Porsche? 
    
3. She is India’s first female brew-master who incorporated her company in the late 1970s. Her 3,000 sqft garage was her first office and her first employee was a car mechanic. Identify this person and the company she founded. 
    
4. What kind of branded styles are Hillbilly, Circus, Snowga and Acro? 
    
5. The first airport hotel was built in the US 30 years before Hilton Hotels established one at the San Francisco Airport in 1959. Who built this hotel and at which airport? 
    
6. This person beat a heart attack, advanced stage cancer and a stroke all in three years and introduced the concept of disruptive innovation to the business world. Name him. 
    
7. Fill in the blank and name the person who said this: “One could buy two ____ for the price of one Banni buffalo.” 
    
8. What did the Kumar Mangalam Birla Committee, Narayana Murthy Committee and JJ Irani Committee review? 
    
9. During the internet boom years (1998-2000) who was called the Queen of the Net? 
    
10. Identify the brand that makes this promise. 
    

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