The Strategist Quiz Answers

1. The Singer Company. Issac Merrit Singer patented a new kind of sewing machine in 1851. He started the installment plan when consumers balked at its initial price of $75.
   
   
2. Wal-Mart's move to slash the prices of the 42-inch flat panel TV, one of the hottest electronics items for the holidays, to $988, which caused a free fall in prices of flat TVs and triggered a financial meltdown among other consumer electronics retailers.
   
   
3. Coffee seeds. Baba Budhan, the Sufi saint, is credited with starting a coffee plantation in Karnataka.
   
   
4. The Mumbai-based Saha Computers & Communications. It produced the first indigenous laptop in 1991. Zenith Computers was the next to do so.
   
   
5. The Empire State Building. It was built by Johan Raskob, a financial executive and businessman for DuPont and General Motors.
   
   
6. The first time a credit card was used to pay the bill. In February 1950, McNamara, the founder of the credit card (Diners Club card), made the first payment after he had dinner at Major's Cabin Grill, a restaurant in New York .
   
   
7. Crowdsourcing
   
   
8. Bausch & Lomb
   
   
9. The first motorbikes produced by Yamaha Motor Corporation
   
   
10. Titan Watches

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The winner is Sweta P Gantayat from Bangalore Congratulations!

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