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The Strategist Quiz #022

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Gaurav Sri Krishna New Delhi
Last Updated : Jun 14 2013 | 6:20 PM IST
  1. Name the first software company in the world to reach $1 billion in revenue.

  2. A former gardener and a former postman filed a suit against which company for being responsible for starvation in the Third World, of destroying vast areas of Central American rainforest, of serving unhealthy food, of cruelty in the rearing and slaughter of its animals, of treating its workers badly and of exploiting children? They eventually lost the 314-day trial spread over two and a half years "" the longest trial in English legal history.

  3. Which company revealed its plan of working in unregulated markets to its executives in a meeting that became to be known as the "Come to Jesus" meeting?

  4. Whose name has been derived from the German sports car Porsche, except that the "P" has been replaced by "F"?

  5. Name the managing director of a large business group who studied to be a filmmaker before he graduated from Harvard Business School. He has produced a short film on the Kumbh Mela and his business group is currently planning a foray into the media and entertainment sector.

  6. Which brand is linked to the baseline "Freedom Wear"?

  7. Identify this aerospace engineer who founded an investment management firm in 1972 in Santa Monica, California. It serves an international clientele representing assets of $12.5 trillion and relies on the field of quantitative analytics, which uses mathematical tools to analyse market risks. He used the same techniques to determine a spacecraft's path at the Jet Propulsion Labs.

  8. Which is the world's first registered dotcom domain name?

  9. Name this standout performer on Wall Street since it went public in July 2007, which makes high-priced yoga and other workout clothes with unusual materials, including bamboo, silver, charcoal, coconut, soybeans and seaweed.

  10. What is common to the movie star Catherine Deneuve, tennis players Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi, and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev?
 

Ten all-correct entries will receive a copy of Mick Bennett and Andrew Bell's Leadership Talent in Asia, 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: 28 November. Previous winners, employees of Business Standard Limited and Wiley India and their families are not eligible to participate.

 

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