The Strategist quiz #008

1. Identify this company whose first-of-its-kind products carried the numbers 914, 6500 and 9700 respectively.
   
   
2. Which famous Indian institution (the first of its kind) was built on the site of a former British prison camp?
   
   
3. Name the company that was formed to utilise the large amount of wood scrap that was being discarded at Ford's Model-T production lines. This company exists even today.
   
   
4. What inspired Richard Branson to announce the Virgin Earth Challenge, which offers a $25-million reward for a winning plan to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere?
   
   
5. Which company pioneered organic cotton to use it in the manufacture of its products and in the process established a whole new organic cotton industry?
   
   
6. A mineral water brand made famous by Leonardo da Vinci continues to be popular. It is named after the place where it is found. Name the brand and its current owner.
   
   
7. In which year and between which destinations was India's first superfast train, the Rajdhani Express, introduced?
   
   
8. What was the term given to men who walk down streets, carrying advertisements boards on their front and back?
   
   
9. What are Parliament, Harvest and 999,9?
   
   
10. One of Jesus Christ's Apostles who was a tax collector is regarded as a patron saint by whom?

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