The Strategist Quiz #018

1. The trident-shaped emblem of this car company is based on the statue of Neptune, one of the civic symbols of the city in which the company was founded. Name the company.
   
   
2. Link the clothing material patented in 1888 and worn by Polar explorers Roald Amundsen (1911) and Ernest Shackleton (1914), and George Mallory (1924), who attempted to climb Mt Everest, with a luxury fashion house known for its distinctive trademarked check pattern. Name the fashion house and the clothing material.
   
   
3. The founder of this Delhi-based public limited company named his firm after his neighbour's dog. His company was responsible for establishing the fourth Sunday of September as "Daughter's Day". Identify it.
   
   
4. "Come to me all whose stomachs cry out and I will restore you." What is the historical significance of this inscription in Paris?
   
   
5. Who said: "I didn't fight to get women out from behind the vacuum cleaner to get them onto the board of Hoover"? ( Hoover is a vacuum cleaner manufacturing company.)
   
   
6. For which brand did Lorraine Collet Petersen model in 1915? Her image has been seen on millions and millions of packages and has been taken into homes throughout the world.
   
   
7. Who is credited with introducing the term and concept of "knowledge workers" in 1954?
   
   
8. Where and during what ceremony was the first official copy of J K Rowling's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows released?
   
   
9. The founder of this business group in the early 1900s was a trained technical draughtsman who started his own company because he was denied a promotion at Bombay's prestigious Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute. His first product was a better variety of plough that replaced the traditional implements used by farmers. Name him.
   
   
10. What was the "Bogota group"?
    
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