The Strategist Quiz #023

1. Who was paid the highest salary in India for the year 2000-01? He tipped Azim Premji of Wipro by about Rs 4.5 crore.
   
   
2. What is the "46664 initiative" and what is the significance of the number?
   
   
3. In 1951, Sir Hugh Beaver, then managing director of a brewery, went on a shooting party and got involved in an argument on whether the fastest game bird in Europe was the golden plover or the grouse. He realised then that a book supplying the answers to this sort of question might prove popular. What was the outcome of this event?
   
   
4. What does the phrase "Built to Flip" denote and who coined it?
   
   
5. What is common to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, the Indian Council for Agricultural Research and the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh?
   
   
6. Over 30 years ago, five college buddies from the University of Tennessee hatched an idea that resulted in one of America's favourite casual dining restaurants. It is listed on the NYSE and has opened in Indian cities. Name it.
   
   
7. Who was given the titles "Father of containerisation" and "Man of the Century"? He has a first to his name.
   
   
8. Who's start up is called "Compu-Hyper-Global-Mega-Net"?
   
   
9. The Elfun Society is the internal management club of which company?
   
10. Name the world's oldest continuously operating family business (company) that ended its impressive run of 14 centuries last year. It was in operation under the founders' descendants since 578 AD and succumbed to excess debt and an unfavourable business climate in 2006.
    
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