The Strategist Quiz #025

1. This car-manufacturing company gets its name from its founding family, whose name in English translates to "Abundant Rice Field". Name it.
   
   
2. Name the Bollywood film whose producers were paid by Western Union, the money transfer company, for a scene in which a Western Union wire transfer helps rescue the heroine.
   
   
3. Name the new acquisition of this business family that owns Wockhardt, Akbarallys and Monginis.
   
   
4. This company will add Raw to its brand portfolio which consists of Propel, SoBe, Starbucks Doubleshot and MDX, among others. Name the company.
   
   
5. Which company's first advertising slogan read: "You press the button. We do the rest"?
   
   
6. Identify this person who began his business career in marketing at Shell International. He co-founded a business school in 1967 and contributed the terms 'portfolio worker' and the 'Shamrock organisation'?
   
   
7. Whom did the inventor of the modern bottle cap, William Painter, challenge to invent something that could be used, thrown away and bought again?
   
   
8. Name the anise-flavoured European drink that is making a comeback in the US after it was banned in 1899. It is renowned for its hallucinogenic effects that led Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh to cut off his ear.
   
   
9. Who in January 1989, when addressing the Global Forum for Survival of Humanity, mentioned an idea of an organisation, which would apply the medical emergency response model of the Red Cross International to ecological issues and expedite solutions to environmental problems that transcend national boundaries? Also name the organisation.
   
   
10. Name the first five-speed gearbox motorcycle to be manufactured in India.

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