The Strategist Quiz (#293)

1. By what term are these ladies known in the corporate world: Susan Jacques, Doris Christopher, Rose Blumkin, Beryl Raff, Charlotte Guyman and Susan Decker.
    
2. A region in India gets its name from an ancient Indian tribe, which derives its name from a Sanskrit term meaning “part of the abode of Goddess Lakshmi”. A commodity grown in this region resulted in close connections between the economies of the Western Indian ports and China, bringing international capital to the region in the 18th and 19th centuries. The commodity also challenged the monopoly of the British East India Company. Name the region and the commodity.
    
3. What is the connection between an American comic science fiction animated TV series, created for Cartoon Network, and a TV series based on a blood spatter pattern analyst for the fictional Miami Metro Police Department and the recent spurt in credit card skimming?
    
4. Where in the world of financial trading is the word Hundo used as slang? What does it mean?
    
5. This industry report, created in 1999, is an annual compilation of the top advertising networks, advertisers and campaigns who have been winners at the ad industry award shows around the world. For the first time an Indian is editing this report. Name the person and the report.
    
6. This company was involved in a failed corporate merger with Indian Aluminum in the early 80s. Had the merger gone through, it would have become the 3rd largest company in the Indian private sector and the merger would have been billed as a Super Mega merger. Name it
    
7. Which brand’s base line reads “Journeys of Inspiration”?
    
8. The online contest to change the tokens in an 80-year-old game, based on the streets of Atlantic City, is taking place in the second week of February on Facebook. Name it.
    
9. This iconic brand, which was founded in the early 1900s, has only one café in the world at Las Vegas. It plans to open its second one in an Indian city. Name the brand and the city?
    
10. Identify the brands from their logos. The second image looks like a slightly pressed down version of the first one.
    
    
    

 

 

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