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The footwear brand Keds. It was first introduced in 1916 by US Rubber, one of the original 12 stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 1896. In 2012, Keds announced a partnership with singer Taylor Swift that included product collaborations. Their slogan reads "Ladies first since 1916" SoftBank's robot pepper The Medici family that started the Medici bank in Florence, Italy. Angelina Jolie, who is currently the special envoy to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Jimmy Kimmel and CVS Health The Chicago School - University of Chicago The series of lawsuits Southwest Airlines had to fight as one of the first low-fare airlines with its competitors. Herb Kelleher, its co-founder, was a trained lawyer Canned juice maker Del Monte The Croydon facelift was popularised by her. In English slang a Croydon facelift or in Northern Ireland a Millie facelift is a hairstyle worn by some women where the hair is pulled back tightly and tied in a bun or ponytail at the back. Croydon, now a busin

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Forever 21. It was founded in 1984 by Do Don Wan Chang in LA in 1984. It was first called Fashion 21 Paul Allen co-founder of Microsoft. Microsoft was trying to buy AOL before it launched MSN Maersk Shipping. A.P. Møller formally adopted the Maersk name for its shipping operations in 1928.The name "Maersk" had been Peter Møller's mother's maiden name, and itself was thought to stem from the Danish word "marsk" (marsh). Edward Knabusch and Edwin Shoemaker, ("the two Eds") who founded the La-Z-Boy furniture company which is listed on NYSE JMahindra & Mahindra The CFA Institute Lab 126 set up by Amazon to design the kindle. The number 1 represents the first alphabet A and 26 represents Z Flanker Brand Velcro Inc LATAM Airlines Group which is the holding company resulting from the merger of LAN and TAM airlines, the largest carriers of Chile and Brazil, respectively. And combined, the two make the biggest carrier in Latin America. The LATAM Airlines Group has a fleet of 300 aircraft

The Strategist Quiz (#468)

The digital media company Mashable founded by Pete Cashmore in 20015. It gets its name from the term mashups used for compiling digital content. The Social Media Day celebrated on June 30th was launched by Mashable in 2010, when it found that often its fans going to real life meetups. Waddington's Monopoly. It was a British company that was the official printer and distributor of Parker Brothers Monopoly in the UK. It was taken over by Hasbro in the 1990s It is called Hotelling's Law. The observation was made by Harold Hotelling (1895-1973) in the article "Stability in Competition" in Economic Journal in 1929 Finolex Fans KFC India. The limited-edition boxes, featuring detachable 6,100mAh Lithium-ion battery, USB cable and Apple lightning cable, are being offered in a week-long contest in select cities in India The incorporation of ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers Work Spasm Usha, makers of fans Brand associations for Superstar Rajnikant's next film "Kaba

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James L Kraft the founder of Kraft cheese. His brother Norman Kraft invented the Cheese Single. He wore the Nike Gold shoes which was a light-weight pair of racing spikes given to him by Nike. Millions of TV viewers saw those Nike shoes on their screens and millions of Americans saw the same shoes slung around Johnson's neck a few days later on the cover of Time magazine SS Ancon was an American cargo and passenger ship that became the first ship to officially transit the Panama Canal in 1914. Longhand Awards. It is probably the only award show in the world that's trying to resurrect the dying art of writing. Started in 2012, the show has had the giants of copywriting judging it - Neil French, Indra Sinha, Satbir Singh, Ed McCabe, Tony Brignull and Chris d'Rozario to name a few. Longhand is self-managed, self-funded and well, self-advertised by Bodhisatwa Dasgupta. Disney Inc Olympian Bob Beamon soared 8.9 metres in the Mexico Olympics in 1968. He is advertising for AB InBev Erstwhile

The first-ever refugee team, also known as Team Visa. To be on the Rio 2016 #TeamRefugees, the athletes must have official refugee status from the United Nations High Commission on Refugees, and the IOC approving their use in Visa's Olympics marketing Alexander Graham Bell Kuznets swing or curve. Nobel laureate Simon Kuznets connected these waves with demographic processes, mainly immigrant inflows/outflows and the changes in construction intensity that they caused, hence "demographic" or "building" cycles/swings Huawei founded by Ren Zhengfei in 1987. It means action-oriented Slimming pills industry. Amphetamine was first synthesised in 1887 in Germany by chemist Lazar Edeleanu. It was found that pilots who were administered the drug had a side effect of suppressed appetites Marion Donavon was the inventor of disposable diapers and actress Jamie Lee Curtis invented a disposable baby diaper with pockets containing one or more removable clean-up wipers It's called Castoreum Jasper. It

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Bata's Skyscraper, also known as Building No. 21 in Zlín Czech Republic. Built in 1938 by Jan Antonin Bata, it houses a government department Names of Red Bull's famous cartoon characters, generally used by the brand for its advertising Pranay Chulet, founder of Quickr, had made a US-India sci-fi interactive movie called Latent Lava Domino's Pizza Infosys. This initiative eliminates the distance and friction associated with mired processes, silos and red tape of organisations. A way of ensuring all of its employees, from developers and architects to project managers and analysts, have a direct line to the end user, the underlying technology and, ultimately, the value proposition Egghead.com. The company filed for bankruptcy in August 2001. After a deal to sell the company to Fry's Electronics for $10 million fell through, its assets were acquired by Amazon.com for $6.1 million Tea industry The recent US Open men's finals. Stan Wawrinka is the brand ambassador for Yonex and Djokovic s

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The Strategist Quiz (#462)

Cisco. It bought these companies that were competing with its routers by selling switch technology Tantalum from Tantalus, who was a Greek mythological figure, most famous for his eternal punishment in Tartarus Kishore Biyani in the 1980s, before he started his first standalone store called Patloon and not Pantaloons Google. A platform for high-quality mobile virtual reality JRD Tata to Naresh Goyal of Jet Airways when he was invited to receive the airline's first two aircraft Meerut A Parsi gentleman by the name of Wadia set up Raymond's in 1925 and was known as Wadia Woollen Mills. Later it changed its name when ED Sassoon bought it over Pillows George Eastman. He wrote these lines on a yellow lined piece of paper and committed suicide in March 1932 Tayto Potato crisps/chips from Ireland. Founded by Joe "Spud" Murphy, the company produced the world's first flavoured chips: cheese and onion, barbecue, and salt and vinegarThere were 4 correct entries to quiz No 462. Bhawana Sharma fro

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Chanel Macintosh. Steve Jobs said this during an interview with PBS in 1996 Samuel Ryder and the Ryder Cup, a golf tournament played between Europe and the US. Initially it was the UK vs the US. He was the first sponsor who donated the golden trophy for the tournament that began in 1927 American outdoor product company The North Face The Amul Girl topical campaigns began in March 1966. The phrase used here was Thoroughbread The island of Curaçao and the Blue Curaçao liqueur. The liqueur is extracted from the peel of the laraha citrus fruit developed from the Valencia orange transplanted and grown by Spanish explorers. It is understood that the Portuguese sailors cured themselves after eating this fruit and hence called it ilha da Curaçao (Island of Healing) A Taser or conducted electrical weapon is an electroshock weapon sold by Taser International Silver bullet MRF Limited. It has touched Rs 53,000 in the recent past The Russian oil company Rosneft which recently bought Essar OilT

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Hippalus, a Greek navigator and merchant credited with discovering the direct route from the Red Sea to India over the Indian Ocean by plotting the sea's scheme and the location of trade ports along India's coast. He discovered the south-west monsoon wind, also called Hippalus. A crater on the moon is named after him Cigarettes Countline Flying cash. The Tang (dynasty) government, considering the trouble of shipping cash to distant areas where government purchases were made, paid local merchants with money certificates made in paper and prone to fly away Nikola Tesla Maria Sharapova (Homestead) and Zinedine Zidane (Kanakia Builders) Males are generally called empty suits and female execs hollow bunnies Swarovski Victor Mills - a chemical engineer for Procter & Gamble Co credited with creating modern disposable diapers and the Pampers brand, production improvements for Ivory soap and Duncan Hines cake mix, and the production concept for Pringles Authentic Brands Group. It owns cons

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Johannes George Pasold established a knitting and weaving business in Fleissen, Czechoslovakia, in the late 18th Century. The name "Ladybird" was bought by his son Adolf Pasold for £5 from the Klinger Manufacturing Co, UK. According to legend, the founder had seen a ladybird in a dream when first starting the family firm. In 1938, they invented the Ruderleibchen, which became famous under the English name, the "T" Shirt. Ladybird is now owned by Shop Direct UK Amazon's Prime Now French perfumer François Coty.The perfume was named La Rose Jacqueminot. The company he founded in 1904 is now Coty, Inc. Burner. The application's name is a reference to so-called "burner phones", prepaid mobile phones that are replaced frequently DarkComet The Foster Grant sunglasses. Inexpensive mass-produced sunglasses made from celluloid by Sam Foster in 1929 The isotype method shows social, technological, biological, historical connections in pictorial form Pankaj and Radhika Oswal Louis Philippe from

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They all used chronometers and watches made by John Arnold who set up his watch business in 1764. The brand is now known as Arnold & Son Alexander Newell and bottled beer Essel (Zee) Group's WION. It stands for "World is One News", inspired by the motto, vasudhaiva kutumbakam The Armed Forces Special Powers Ordinance of 1942 was promulgated by the British on August 15, 1942, to suppress the Quit India Movement. It is now called the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Acts (AFSPA), ratified by Parliament that grant special powers to the armed forces in what each Act terms "disturbed areas" Employees of Indian Oil Corporation The airport in Columbus Ohio is named after astronaut John Glenn. Blue Origin's rocket is also named after Glenn. It is called the New Glenn Different kind of taxes levied in the history of Great Britain Death from over working, due to heart attack, stroke, stress and starvation Danone. Daniel was the son of Isaac Carasso, the founder  The United Nations Virtual Real

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Owen Maclaren. In 1965 inspired by the birth of his granddaughter, Maclaren changed modern parenting by inventing the first umbrella-fold baby buggy The rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars. After nearly a year of the lawsuit battle it had with Virgin Records the case had been settled based on a contract case involving actress Olivia de Havilland Amadeo Pietro Giannini, founder of the Bank of Italy in San Francisco. It went on to become Bank of America Avocados. Guacamole is the most popular dip that is made during the week leading to the Big Game during the Super Bowl All are subjects being covered by Kraken Opus, the premium outsized Luxury book publishing firm owned by an ex-Goldman Sachs banker. Sachin's book created a furore Bisleri in Mumbai The pop corn industry Beer brand Carling has launched a connected device promising a one-touch solution for online shopping, enabling drinkers to order drinks from their fridge with a 'Beer Button' Both went public in 1947 Arch Motorcycle compan

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The Strategist Quiz (#471)

The Peggy Guggenheim collection from Mont Blanc. Her spectacles are engraved on the golden nib of the special edition pen. She championed the art of abstract expressionists like Jackson Pollock Harley Davidson Stewart Brand, an American writer, best known as editor of the Whole Earth Catalog. He, along with Larry Brilliant in 1985, founded The Whole Earth Lectronic Link (The WELL), one of the first virtual communities. In the 60s he was the lead campaigner to force NASA to release satellite images of earth John Whitmore The Post-it Note invented by Spencer Silver (responsible for the adhesive) and Arthur Fry for 3M The tyre manufacturer brand Ceat Unilever, it acquired these brands from Dollar Shave Club in a $ 1-billion deal recently Footwear brands designed by British fashion designer Paul Smith Cigars. Churchill and Rothschild are types of Parejo cigars. The Gurkha is a cigar brand The The BBC Microcomputer System, or BBC Micro, a series of microcomputers and associated peripherals

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This digital media company gets its name from the act of people combining pieces of the web in interesting ways. For example plotting photos from your Flickr account on Google Maps or picking up a video from You tube and posting it on a blog. It is also responsible for creating a day that commemorates a global phenomenon in the month of June. Name the company and the day that is celebrated. This company worked with a related branch of British Secret Service MI6 called MI9 whose mission was providing aid for escapes from prisons during WW-II. Since it had developed capabilities to print on silk and tissue paper it created a special edition of __ for World War II prisoners of war held by the Germans. Hidden inside the __ box were maps, compasses, real money and other objects useful for escaping. They were distributed to prisoners by charities and the International Red Cross. Name the product and the company. It is a law that stems out of an observation in economics that in many markets

The Strategist Quiz (#467)

Actress Sunny Leone GE's founding headquarters and building in Schenectady in the state of New York has the ZIP code 12345 SAP was founded by Dietmar Hopp, Klaus Tschira, Hans-Werner Hector, Hasso Plattner and Claus Wellenreuther, all from Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg Steve Jobs, during the product event for the first Macintosh computer in 1984 The Buick Motor Company that was started in 1903 by David Dunbar Buick. It subsequently became a part of General Motors Kurkure from PepsiCo India Dr. Sridhar Mitta, known as one of the foremost gurus of Indian IT. He was part of the ECIL team that built India's first computer based on an 8-bit microprocessor The spice pepper Verizon Wireless in the US Nike, the Greek goddess of victoryThere were 5 correct entries to quiz No 467. Sai Subramanian from New Delhi wins Rs 2,000. The winner is based on the first correct entry received.

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The Strategist Quiz (#466)

The fashion brand Emilio Pucci Giovanni da Verrazzano, the navigator and discoverer of the bay of New York and of the majority of the East coast of today in the US. The bridge was named after him in 1964. He was from the Chianti region in Florence, where Amerigo Vespucci also hails from. The wine is made from the estate that was owned by his family since the 7th Century The Spirit of Ecstasy hood ornament on the front of every Rolls was modelled by sculptor Charles Sykes after Eleanor Thornton, a British model from the early 1900s. Gawker Crystallised sugar Johnston is the typeface that has been the typographic voice of London Philippines All these are the Baltic exchange indices. The Baltic exchange is the provider of information on maritime transportation markets, used for the trading and settlement of physical and derivative contracts Marco Polo. The Venice airport is named after him and Cathay Pacific runs a frequent flyer programme branded Marco Polo Salvatore Ferragamo, SpAThere

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The Strategist Quiz (#465)

M&Ms in Sweden. It resembles m of the local Swedish brand Marabou Gucci Led by Ray Weishaar on their Harley Davidson bikes they were called the Hog Boys. Based on this, the company eventually created a HOG (Harvey Owners Group) club for its customers and also changed its stock symbol to HOG The LVMH store was designed by Gustav Eiffel - the engineer, whose company designed and built the Eiffel tower British soft drink Vimto manufactured by Nichols The Hoverboard invented by Shane Chen Adam is a tablet PC made by a Bengaluru-based company called Notion Ink The family referred here is the Parsee family of Pestanji Merji Charles Schwab Google's DaydreamThere were 2 correct entries to quiz No 465. Ankit Banthia from Kolkata wins Rs 2,000. The winner is based on the first correct entry received.

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Connect one of the original 12 stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 1896 with Taylor Swift and what to you arrive at? Whose humanoid robot has landed a job at Pizza Hut in Singapore? "Make haste slowly" is the motto of this business family. Its business was the most prosperous and most respected institutions that employed 40 people when it wound up way back in the late 1400s. Name both. Name the actress who will teach a Master's course on "Women, Peace and Security" at the London School of Economics and Political Science. A Twitter campaign led by American late-night talk show host on a retail chain's unwieldy receipts has led to the launch of digital receipts by this company in the US. It will roll it out selectively till it covers all its 7,000-plus stores. Name the talk show host and the retail brand. A fervently free market economic philosophy is long associated with this institution. At times, especially when Keynesian economics was the orthodoxy in much of the world, th

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Yajnarayana Maiya, founder of MTR (Mavalli Tiffin Room) in Bengaluru substituted rice with semolina or rava and his new creation was called the Rava Idli Mahindra's XUV 500 Jeff Immelt of GE on moving his headquarters to Boston Revolving Dining Room/Restaurant. The 36-year-old Tex Palazzo Hotel in Surat prides itself in having "Kandeel", a multi-cuisine and first revolving restaurant in Asia Georges Doriot is considered the father of the venture capital industry. His investment in Digital Equipment Corporation in 1957 is considered the first VC success story The Fruit of the Loom guys Bentley's Bentayga. From Bentley+ Taiga, the world's largest transcontinental snow forest, and the rugged peak of the Roque Bentayga in the subtropical Canary Islands "The Knowledge" is the in-depth study of a number of pre-set London street routes and places of interest that cab drivers must complete to obtain a licence to operate a black cab. The exam requires taxi drivers to learn 25,000 street names

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