The Strategist Quiz (#201)

 

1. Name this brand which describes itself in this manner: “After 5 burglaries, 1 office dog, 9 Christmas quizzes, 12 nights spent in the warehouse, 1 consignment of refugees arriving with a clothes delivery, 4 office moves, 2 venture capitalists, 6 awards, about 20 fantastically annoying customers, a couple of crooks, a great team spirit, bucket loads of sweat and even more laughs, we’re still here.nbsp;
    
2. What is common to Pakistan’s Lt General Ahmed Shuja Pasha, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Wael Ghonim, Hillary Clinton and Larry Page? 
    
3. Which 2011 model car has door handles that are invisible?nbsp;
    
4. What is the term used to describe a group of penetration testers that assess the security of an organisation, which is often unaware of the existence of the team or the exact assignment? 
    
5. Which company invited a board of sports fans to brainstorm how it might enter the sports business and eventually launched a product called Stadium Vision? 
    
6. Who has written about how we can use ancient Hindu and Chinese frameworks for change to become more effective innovators by navigating five phases of change? The five phases being metal, water, wood, fire and earth.nbsp;
    
7. This company is credited with five major inventions in the financial world and is known to have forgone a particular line of business over a patent dispute in the late 1800s. It said that it saw no future for a toy product that would require two users. Name the company and the line of business it moved out of. 
    
8. Name the child model who was part of the Boost advertisement with Kapil Dev and later went on to become a member of the Indian cricket team. 
    
9. Which Indian state has the distinction of setting up the country’s first education board? 
    
10. Identify the brand from its logo.

 

 

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