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The Strategist Quiz (#432)

Connect this colour which is dark cyan and is a representation of the colouring on the neck of a particular kind of a duck, organisations or companies that refer to themselves as living organisms or living systems

The Strategist Quiz (#432)

Gaurav Sri Krishna New Delhi
  1. Connect this colour which is dark cyan and is a representation of the colouring on the neck of a particular kind of a duck, organisations or companies that refer to themselves as living organisms or living systems, which focus on its members' abilities to self-organise and self-manage to achieve the purpose and one of the world's largest online shoes store and what do you arrive at?
     
  2. Name this entity that was founded in the late 1920s to carry mail between the US and Cuba?
     
  3. What was the Kobo E reader app originally known as?
     
  4. What is the term used to describe a website with no meaningful content of its own, but with links to other websites? Generally they exist to legitimise affiliate advertising banners.
     
  5. The founder of this famous business group was born in the 1870s. He started his initial career as a lawyer and as per his father's wishes, then moved to work for the Indian Railways and later in a bank. Today the business group he founded is a $6.5-billion conglomerate. Name him.
     
  6. This company's name in its native means auspicious or lucky. The founder of this company started with a photo studio with equipment he made himself. Subsequently in the mid-1980s, he started a refrigerator manufacturing company. In the late 90s, this company acquired a European brand, which Ford motors failed to revive. Name this company.
     
  7. According to Poseidonius, a Greek philosopher, politician, geographer and astronomer, a shipwrecked sailor from India, who was rescued in the Red Sea and taken to Ptolemy VIII in Alexandria, guided Greek navigators to India. Ptolemy had appointed a person who made two voyages from Egypt to India. After this person returned with a cargo of aromatics and precious stones, a second voyage was undertaken in 116 BC. What was discovered during these voyages and also name the discoverer.
     
  8. Who has bought social media brand Hello Giggles to expand its audience reach?
     
  9. Which company's R&D lab is called the Digital Pumpkin?
     
  10. Whose logo is this?

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First Published: Oct 26 2015 | 12:03 AM IST

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