The Strategist Quiz (#311)

1. This brand has come up with a special edition vacuum cleaner that plays music while it cleans. It is a special model with sensors inside its nozzle, which detect dusts as it vacuums, and plays notes as it rhythmically sucks up the particles. Name the brand and the model that was introduced in Japan.
    
2. Which is the first airline in the world to have chef service aboard its flights? Now it has become popular and airlines are calling it a flying chef service.
    
3. This businessman's lively autobiography, titled Struggles and Triumphs, reveals the power of the man's entrepreneurial mind. This classic book was first published in the 1850s and revised and enlarged numerous times. It sold over a million copies. Name the person.
    
4. The first store of this company was set up by a lady in the 70s with £12,000 to her credit in order support her family. Her husband, meanwhile, pursued a life-long passion to ride a horse from Brazil to New York. Fortunate to have travelled much of the world, she researched the practices of Santa Ana Pueblo Indians, Polynesians, Amazons and other far reaching peoples around the globe to manufacture her companies products. Name her and the brand she established.
    
5. It debuted in a restaurant in Pennsylvania during the late 60s. The first name given to it was "Aristocrat", which consumers found difficult to pronounce and understand. The second name was "Blue Ribbon", which failed to catch on with any meaningful sales either. What is the name by which it is known today?
    
6. This car maker is trying to create a synthetic material for the interiors of its luxury automobiles that would feel like the skin on a human finger. Name it.
    
7. Whose brands are Hawaiian Tropic, Banana Boat and Playtex?
    
8. If Samsung Galaxy phones use this baseline - Designed for humans, which brand uses this line - "Made for Mankind"?
    
9. Which brand has launched a campaign: "Wimbledon Wiggle"? A wiggle is defined as a move based on "the cheeky shake players make before receiving a serve.
    
10. Name the company from its logo.
    
    

 

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