The Strategist Quiz (#066)

 

1. Why was “Dunnington” in news recently? 
    
2. What does “R” in Maruti Suzuki’s small car Wagon R stand for? 
    
3. What happened for the first time on August 5, 1891 at Hotel Hauffe in Leipzig, Germany? 
    
4. What term was supposedly coined after a moth found its way into a computer called Mk1 at the Harvard University in 1945 and caused its malfunction? 
    
5. Which country imposed a ban on beer for 74 years from 1915 to 1989? It is home to the oldest parliament in the world. 
    
6. Which brand, in order to commemorate its historic relationship with the Olympic games, launched a special limited-edition pocket watch in 2006, using components from the unassembled movement kits, which had been originally kept to manufacture pocket watch chronographs for the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics? 
7. Which founder of one of the world’s most famous Fortune 500 companies said: “Most everything I have done I’ve copied from someone else”? 
    
8. What technology tools were named after the comic characters Archie, Veronica and Jughead? 
    
9. He was born on July 7 and he is designing a fashion range called D7 for a sportswear company. Name him. 
    
10. This is the logo for which company and what’s its historical significance?  

 

 

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