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The Strategist Quiz #010

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Gaurav Sri Krishna New Delhi
Last Updated : Feb 05 2013 | 2:06 AM IST
  1. Which company was the first among the foreign subsidiaries to go pubic in India and when?

  2. Which car is exempted from parking fees as well as congestion and road taxes in the UK and Norway?

  3. After spending seven years in public school, this inventor and founder of a worldwide corporation worked as an office boy for an insurance firm at $3 a week in 1868. Before he patented his invention and started his own company, his last job was with a savings bank near New York. Identify him.

  4. Who are Proctoids?

  5. Which airline pioneered the concept of a premium economy class?

  6. Which is the world's first pizza home delivery chain?

  7. What is common to Essar House, the corporate HQ of the Essar group, and the Taj Wellington Mews located in Mumbai?

  8. Name the Indian company that recently acquired a mountain in the heart of the Swiss Alps on a long-term lease to boost outbound tourist traffic from India. The mountain has been renamed after the company.

  9. The founder of this advertising agency started his career as a translator of English to Gujarati in 1940. Identify him and the agency he went on to set up.

  10. Connect Archive, Quill, Easel and Abacus.

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Ten all-correct entries will receive a copy of Philip Kotler's Marketing Insights from A to Z, published by Wiley India (books courtesy: Wiley India). One lucky winner will also receive a cheque for Rs 2,000. Please send your entries to strategist@bsmail.in. All entries must carry the full postal address of the contestant. Last date for receiving entries: 5 September. Previous winners, employees of Business Standard Limited and Wiley India and their families are not eligible to participate.

 

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