The Strategist quiz

1. What is the term to describe the practice by brokers of creating artificial transactions to give the appearance of activity and interest in a particular security?
   
   
2. What is AMD's initiative to develop technology to make Internet accessible to 50 per cent of the world's population by 2015 called?
   
   
3. Name the CEO who was charged with looting $600 million from his company to fund his extravagant lifestyle "" which included the "famous birthday party" he threw for his second wife.
   
   
4. Which bank introduced Internet banking in India?
   
   
5. Which was the first Procter & Gamble toothpaste to contain fluoride?
   
   
6. The brand Amrutanjan was launched by a social reformer, freedom fighter and journalist. Name him.
   
   
7. Which organisation established the Le Meridien hotel group?
   
   
8. What's the practice of sending un-requested items to customers and sending them an invoice for the items in the hope that they will buy it called?
   
   
9. Who produced all the Beatles records between 1962 and 1969?
   
   
10. Name the industrialist who acquired the Kissan brand name in 1950.

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