The Strategist Quiz #657

The Strategist Quiz #657

1. Forty-six years ago, this person who was a nursing student from Bakersfield, California, made a discovery that years later has proven to be life saving to people across the globe. After learning that her idea had a lot of potential commercially, she called an inventions’ hotline to find out more information about the process and produced the first ___. Name the person and the invention.

2. Connect John W Thomson, former CEO of Symantec; Reid Hoffman, co-founder LinkedIN; Arne Sorenson, CEO of Marriott International; Emma Walmsley, CEO of GlaxoSmithKline; Padmashree Warrior, CEO of Fable group; and what do you arrive at?

3. Samarangana Sutradhara, a Sanskrit treatise of 11th century, included a chapter about the construction of mechanical contrivances (automata), including mechanical bees and birds, fountains shaped like humans and animals, and male and female dolls that refilled oil lamps, danced, played instruments, and re-enacted scenes from Hindu mythology. Who was its author?

4. Who operates an online platform called Community for buying and selling consumer-centric digital advertising?

5. Sonoma, Devil’s Shine, Milk Can, Archer’s Blend, Ole Smokey, Popcorn Sutton, Tim Smith’s Climax and King’s County are all US brands in the business of a particular commodity. Their products carry a particular word as a suffix, which arose in the United States during the depression in the 1930s. It was related to the illicit production of a particular commodity. State it.   

6. Whose ad campaign reads “Make Potato Great” and name the brand’s choice for this campaign?

7. Name the CEO who said, “Intelligent people need a fool to lead them”?

8. What is the term used to define a word or words that one uses in order to make an electronic device or a feature on it ready to work? 

9. Name the brand whose old campaign carried this line in Hindi “Bunty, tera sabun slow hai kya”.

10. Connect this bird with the oil and gas industry and what do you arrive at?

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Compiled by Gaurav Sri Krishna, www.facebook.com/gaurav.s.krishna

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