The Strategist Quiz #055

 

1. Which company first manufactured calculators under the brand name Televista?.
2. Which airline is known for imprinting the line "Without you we'd just be flying a bunch of TVs around the country" on the seatbacks and below the DirecTV monitors in its aircraft?
3. Which company has a unique business model and firm culture called "20 per cent time"?
4. Identify this company founded in 1952, which has set up an organic exchange focused on the expansion of an organic culture. It has developed new ways of using organic cotton for its products and prints its annual reports with soy ink on recycled paper.
5. Which multinational had launched a soap called Cucumber in India?
6. What is common to the brands Bigboy, Miss Mary, Contura and Ventura?
7. Name the brand for which one of the first and last men who walked on the moon were its ambassadors?
8. Which worldwide publicly listed company is ironically headquartered out of a hamlet called Purchase in New York?
9. Only this item that is tailor-made at the Dharwad Taluk Garg Ketriya Seva Sangh, in Karnataka, qualify for official government use. Name it.
10. Which brand gets its name from the Latin word for snow white? 

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