The Strategist quiz

1. A celebrity fragrance brand "White Diamonds" became the most successful fragrance with more than $1 billion sales after it was launched. Who is the famous Hollywood actress after whom it was named?
   
   
2. He insured Chicago's Sears Tower, the 2002 Winter Olympics after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and a sweepstakes by Purchase "" in which a contestant had a chance to win $1 billion offered by PepsiCo. He is a potential candidate to become the CEO of the company he is working for. Name the person and the company.
   
   
3. Which aerated soft drink brand stunned most consumers in the US this year, with its claim of being "100 per cent natural"?
   
   
4. MRF was founded by the late Mammen Mapillai, who is regarded as the father of the tyre industry in India. What was MRF's original business before it became what it is today?
   
   
5. When they were young, brothers David and Tom Gardner learned about stocks and money from their father at the supermarket. What did they eventually set up and continue to manage even today?
   
   
6. A highly acclaimed business advisor, speaker and author, who began his career as a teenager working in the family shoe shop in India. He went on to earn an engineering degree, an MBA and a doctorate from Harvard Business School. Later, he became a faculty member at Harvard Business School. Name him.
   
   
7. In 1843, James Wilson, a hat maker from Hawick, a small Scottish town, started a newspaper. He believed in free trade, internationalism and minimal government interference. Today, it's a renowned international publication. Name it.
   
   
8. American corporation agreed to pay a fine of $50 million to the SEC this year for a practice known as channel stuffing that served to inflate their revenue to their investors?
   
   
9. Which company took over Britain's car maker MG Rover after its collapse last year?
   
   
10. This Fortune 500 company is the nineth largest defence contractor in the world. It derives its named from a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and one of the Seven Sages of Greece. Name the company.
    
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