The Strategist Quiz (#154)

 

1. What do terms like BYB, BAY and RUB refer to? They are used by the top 10 software companies in India. 
    
2. Link the special characters #@$%*! to agitrons, squeans and briffits. Name the creator of these and the common term used to describe them. 
    
3. This company was established in 1600, and it ruled much of the world till it was dissolved in the 1870s. An NRI has bought it and is opening a high-end luxury store under the brand name. Identify it. 
    
4. Which company gave India its first ATM in 1987? 
    
5. The Scottish employees of which former company called a popular tea-growing region in India Haggistan after their favourite dish? 
    
6. Name the athletic shoe brand that claims that it is the only manufacturer still making shoes in the US. 
    
7. Which country is known to have taken the lead in making the 3D MMORPG? 
    
8. Name the company whose new packaging features consumers selected from its first global online casting call. It will be seen by 52 million consumers a day worldwide. 
    
9. This company is listed as WOW on the stock exchange of its home country, and has a joint venture with an Indian company. Name it. 
    
10. This building is the logo of a chain of outlets. Founded in the late 1970s, its owner pulled out two random names from the Manhattan phone book and got its name. Name it.

 

 

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