Answers to The Strategist biz quiz

1. Which city has more private helicopters than any place else in the world?
   Sao Paulo, Brazil

2. "At 60 miles an hour, the loudest noise in this new Rolls Royce comes from..." Complete this popular ad line.
   The electric clock

3. The first wholly Indian-made commercial was for Dalda Vanaspati. Who sang the jingle?
   Talat Mehmood

4. "The future is now" is a slogan used by Microsoft. Which Indian coined this phrase?
   Jiddu Krishnamurti

5. The cigarette brand "555" was supposedly named to commemorate an achievement. What was it?
   Herbert Sutcliffe and Percy Holmes' opening world-record stand of 555 runs for Yorkshire in 1932

6. During a lockout at Hindustan Lever's Sewri plant, the worker's union thumbed its nose at the management by producing and marketing a detergent of it own. What brand name did this detergent carry?
   Lock Out

7. Which commodity, when first introduced in France, was dubbed "dubious dung" by the French?
   Tea

8. This brand's name is derived from the Urdu for "enlightenment to the soul". Name it.
   Rooh (soul) Afza (enlightenment)

9. Two of Henry Ford's last possessions were a test tube and a theatre seat. What is unique about the two?
   The test tube supposedly preserves the last breath of Thomas Alva Edison, and the theatre seat was the one on which Abraham Lincoln was sitting when he was shot.

10. Bill Gates took a team of reporters into a submarine during a product launch. What was the product and why did Gates do this?
    To show what it was like to live in a "windowless world". The product was Windows 95.

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