The Strategist Quiz #038

1. If Koffee with Karan was a popular talk show on television, what is "Coffee with Kumar"?
   
   
2. If you are under "total control" and are using products named Brute, Zephyr, Ultima and Rally, which brand would you be using?
   
   
3. Whose invention of using a ball as the delivery mechanism for liquid later inspired the first roll-on deodorant?
   
   
4. In 2006, which brand commemorated an outstanding achievement of 111 years in China and invited Nicole Kidman, apparently on her first trip to China, as the event ambassador?
   
   
5. What was the significance of a call made by a Mrs Beard, as a result of which Thomas Duffy was arrested for attempted burglary in 1937?
   
   
6. An NRI who claims to run the single-largest private hotel group in New York, with a stock of 3,000 rooms in Manhattan alone, is planning to open his first hotel in India. Name the entrepreneur and the city where the hotel is planned.
   
   
7. The first words uttered by the talking version of the Barbie doll created a furore and protests by women's groups in the US. Mattel had to withdraw these words. What was the phrase?
   
   
8. What are Morland specials?
   
   
9. Which organisation runs an environmental internship programme that gives its employees up to eight weeks of paid leave to volunteer for an environmental organisation of their choice?
   
   
10. Name that brand that was founded by a beedi salesman in 1973? He took a formula for making this product from his land lord in Kanpur.
    
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