The Strategist quiz #638

The Strategist quiz #638

1. Based on a survey for Halloween 2019 in the US, what is common to the states of California, Washington, Florida and Hawaii? (trick or treat). 

2. This company’s name was derived by turning the letters of the holding company's logo upside down. Its name was changed a few years later to avoid a trademark lawsuit and it was folded back into its flagship company before 1960. Name it.

3. What is common to the books Leaving Microsoft To Change the World by John Wood and Fluid concepts and creative analogies by Douglas Hoffstadter.

4. Connect a Trakehnerstallion, which is a light warmblood breed of horse, to a public limited company founded in the mid-1760s, which is still in existence.

5. Amul in one of its recent topical ads asks customers to increase their adrenaline, connect this with the publisher Hachette and what do you arrive at?

6. Under the legal terminology of Ancient Rome, the names "Numerius Negidius" and "Aulus Agerius" were used in relation to hypothetical defendants and plaintiffs. Similarly, what name is used in the US, especially in the Panama papers whistle blower's case. 

7. This Scotsman born in the mid-1700s was an engineer, a draftsman, an accountant, an economist, a statistician, a convict, a journalist and a spy for Great Britain. He introduced in the 1780s and early 1800s, which is being used even today. Name him and his invention.

8. The toponym for this French town comes from the two Gaulishwords combined into meaning "market or field, of the confluence". It has an unrelated similarity with an English word. Taking advantage of this, the Mayor of this town had opened a museum in relation to this product category in the mid-1990s which subsequently got closed. Name the product.

9. What do you arrive at when you combine the names of the chairman of the Financial Times from 1945 to 1958, and the managing director of McKinsey from 1950 to 1967? 

10. Many brands display this logo as a part of their credentials. What does it signify?

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