The Strategist Quiz (#450)

1. This company founded the 1880s was in the business of luxury ship fitting, producing rail carriages, goods vans, luxury coaches and engines, trams and special truck bodies till WWII. Post WWII the company wanted to make a product for the masses. Based on what it built for the Parachutists, it created a prototype that was nicknamed Paperino, which meant Donald Duck in a popular European language. This was subsequently redesigned and branded in the mid-1940s. Name it.
    
2. Becoming "_____-proof" is an enviable position for brick and mortar retailers, as they are able to combat online dominance and need not play catch up.
    
3. Which is the brand that was renamed after the distinctive clicking sound its container makes while opening and closing?
    
4. According to the patent filed in the early 1780s it was called the Geneva System, a first of its kind. What was it?
    
5. Connect the South African philosophy which translates as "I am what I am because of who we all are" to a technology product and what do you arrive at?
    
6. Name the company that helped re-engineer the Callaway Golf XR 16 driver to maximise aerodynamics for more driving distance.
    
7. Like the European guilds during the early Mughal Period, these guilds in India also developed in the 16th century. They regulated trade and settled disputes within various trading communities such as cloth or grain merchants. They were multi-ethnic and multi-religious binding Muslims, Hindus and Jains and others into one commercial class. What were they known as?
    
8. Which brand unveiled a dedicated pizza-delivery vehicle that was crafted out of a small Chevy to include actual aids such as an integrated warming oven and a permanent lighted logo sign on top of the car a year ago?
    
9. Whose erstwhile tag line was "The Power to be your best" and which brand uses the tagline "The Power to do more" now?
    
10. Explain this ancient symbol below and connect it with a brand whose logo is based on it.
    

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