THE STRATEGIST QUIZ

1. Identify this recently-launched product in the above picture.
   
   
2. It was founded in 1945 as Bachraj Trading Corporation Private Ltd. What is this company known as today?
   
   
3. This whistle-blower told CBS Broadcasting's 60 Minutes that his employer, Brown & Williamson, manipulated the nicotine fix in cigarettes "" not by adding nicotine, but by enhancing its effect by putting dangerous additives like ammonia. Name him.
   
   
4. What is the hobby of collecting stock and bond certificates called?
   
   
5. MGM studio chief Samuel Goldwyn once attempted to purchase the film rights to several of this playwright's plays. After protracted bargaining over the terms, the playwright elected not to sell. "The trouble is, Mr Goldwyn," he said, "you are interested only in art and I am interested only in money." Name the playwright.
   
   
6. A takeover strategy in which a third party places a friendly bid to gain trust, but then turns around and joins unfriendly bidders. The strategy shares its name with a well-known Shakespearean character.
   
   
7. Which P&G brand did Marico Industries acquire in July 1999?
   
   
8. Name the Internet-telephone company with about 225 million users that was acquired recently by an online retailer for $2.6 billion?
   
   
9. Who said: "It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate."
   
   
10. This Internet entrepreneur left the University of Massachusetts after five-and-a-half years without earning a degree, and spent much of his time working as a disc jockey in Boston night clubs before starting a recruiting agency in 1989. Name him.
    
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