The Strategist Quiz (#454)

1. This House of ____ is a European royal house of French origin, a branch of the Capetian dynasty. The kings from this dynasty first ruled France and Navarre in the 16th century and by the 18th century, some also held thrones in Spain, Naples, Sicily, and Parma. Spain and Luxembourg now have monarchs linked to this dynasty. Connect it with America's largest selling distilled spirit.
    
2. This person was born into a Jewish family in Budapest in the 1930s and managed to survive both the Holocaust and then the Hungarian Communist Party. A childhood bout of scarlet fever left him almost deaf. He fled to America in 1956 when the Soviets invaded his homeland, anglicised his name and enrolled in the City College of New York. He graduated at the top of his class in chemical engineering, despite struggling with poor English and impairment. He once said: "I am a hotheaded 30-year-old running around like a drunken rat." Name him.
    
3. Andrew Carnegie, JP Morgan and Rockefeller are three of the many businessmen in the US labelled as ____, a term that owes its origins to what the Lords were called during the Holy Roman Empire in the Kingdom of Germany (962-1806AD).
    
4. This airline is called the Bikini Airline because for every inaugural flight to a beach destination its young and attractive attendants wear bikinis and featured similar models on its calendars. Name the airline and its founder.
    
5. Way back in 2010 who purchased a Boeing 767 from Qantas Airways for 15 million to make it their company jet?
    
6. How is a treasury secretary during the presidency of Abraham Lincoln still remembered as a financial services brand today?
    
7. Which was the first bank in India to introduce debit cards? It has the distinction of being the first to open special accounts for women back in the 1920s.
    
8. Who use these lines as their slogans or punchlines: "Consider IT done" and "Consider it Solved"?
    
9. For which brand do Sania Mirza and Shoaib Malik disagree on everything except the brand they are modelling for?
    
10. Whose logo is this?
    

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