 "The Strategist Quiz (#446)")
- Which service industry's origins would you relate to a dog called Sarama in the Rig Veda and people known as Palagalas mentioned in the Atharva Veda?
- She is known as the catalog queen in the US and this is one of her statements: "Live like a miser in the beginning. Reinvest all the money you earn." Name her.
- Which company's brand guideline reads "So next time you get a cup of java to go, remember, you can't drink coffee from a ____ cup - because there is no such thing!?" Fill in the blank and mention why this statement is made.
- In the mid-1950s the Ford motor company opened a special products division which was meant to develop a car called the E-Car. Expand the E in the E-Car.
- Name the cocktail that gets its name from a beach and an iron mine near Santiago de Cuba. The drink was supposedly invented by an American mining engineer who was working for a Spanish-American iron mining company.
- Which was the first country in the world to ban plastic bags altogether?
- Name the company that is credited with the invention of the world's first double coiled bulb.
- The flagship store and the first global outlets of a very popular United States animated sitcom are opening in Beijing and Shanghai this year. Name it.
- Which brand uses a trademarked phrase called "Why Wait"? It claims, "We started connecting the phone to the Internet. Now we are connecting the Internet to everything."
- Name the brand from its logo.
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