The Strategist Quiz #043

1. Name the first Japanese automaker to participate and win in the Sprint Cup series.
   
   
2. What are "loan brides" and with which country are they associated?
   
   
3. Whose famous ad line was "We are the dot in .com"?
   
   
4. What is Project 1012 associated with?
   
   
5. What is the name given to a tool that is used to automatically monitor and analyse Internet traffic when it moves in and out of federal computer networks in the US? It filters packets at the perimeter and anomalies that may represent unauthorised access or other hacker activity, which are reported to the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT).
   
   
6. Who said this to whom on August 16, 1939: "I would be very happy to see the youngest country help one of the oldest countries in establishing an automobile industry"?
   
   
7. Michael Nesmith, member of the famous music group of the 1960s, Monkees, inherited $25 million when his mother sold the product she invented to Gillette. Name the product.
   
   
8. Identify this brand that has an enigmatic history and originated as a fragrance for nosegays at the court of King Charles I. Nosegays were scented flower petals and fragrances held in small kerchiefs and held to the nose to swamp the odour of unwashed bodies.
   
   
9. It was originally called the Bib-label and was launched just two weeks before the 1929 stock market crash. By what name is this popular brand known today?
   
   
10. In the 1980s, what management concept was launched in Japan when it found that the concept of TQM (Total Quality Management) was being abused by mainly western companies?

Ten all-correct entries will receive a copy of Geoff Burch's The Way of the Dog, published by Wiley India (books courtesy: Wiley India). One lucky winner will also receive a cheque for Rs 2,000. Please send your entries to strategist@bsmail.in. All entries must carry the full postal address of the contestant. Last date for receiving entries: 23 April. Previous winners, employees of Business Standard and Wiley India and their families are not eligible to participate.