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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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The Strategist Quiz (#468)

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 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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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

The Strategist Quiz (#459)

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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