The Strategist biz quiz

Check your business intelligence quotient and win a prize

•  Back in the 1930s in Boston, Massachusetts, an English immigrant committed himself to helping people with problem feet by making arch supports and prescription footwear to improve shoe fit. Today the company he created is a leader in the footwear industry. Name the company.
•  This company made a popular pocket watch. During World War I it retooled the watch and converted it into a wrist watch. Name the company and the pocket watch.
• A box roll-film camera introduced in 1900 for just $ 1 allowed everyone to take photographs, not just professional photographers. Name the camera and the popular slogan associated with the company that introduced it.
• This engineering student invented a clipper with the drive motor in the hand, rather than connected to a separate motor through a flexible shaft. Within a year of the invention his company sold thousand of clippers to barbers all over the United Stated. Name the inventor and his company.
• This "apparatus", which was invented in 1902 and patented in 1906, can be found in places as diverse as goldmines and submarines. Name the brand.
• Polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride was invented in 1909. What is it better known as?
• It's the latest in extreme sports: the horizontal equivalent of bungy-jumping, but without the bungy. You hurtle downwind at up to 50 km an hour inside a ball called.... Fill in the blank and tell us what this sport is called.
• Legend has it that two horses couldn't tear this apart. What product are we talking about?
• Who created the pun-loving Amul girl? With which ad agency was he at the time?
• Tomas, Antonin and Anna formed this well-known company in 1894. The company started its Indian operations in 1931. Name it.

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