The Strategist Quiz (#324)

1. Name the consumer products company that has named one of its product packaging strategies "The Hand to Mouth Platform" and give the reason for it.
    
2. This person was known as an inventor, businessman and engineer. At the age of 17, he devised a counterfeit -proof embossed stamp for title deeds. Another notable invention was a hydraulic machine for extracting juice from sugarcane. His invention patented in 1855 had a dramatic affect on the price and quantity of a commodity that had an impact on the industrial revolution. Three cities in the US are named after him. Who is he?
    
3. Connect the Nazi minister of propaganda Joseph Goebbels, Margaret Thatcher, Lyndon B Johnson and Vladimir Putin with a phrase used by all of them. This phrase represents the classic macroeconomic production possibility curve. It demonstrates the relationship between a nation's investment in defense and civilian goods. Name it.
    
4. Which business school is the first one in the world to have six Nobel Prize winners in Economics?
    
5. This person's competitiveness earned him a college football scholarship, a degree in communications and a job as a Xerox salesman. During the 1980s, while he was working for a plastic products company he noticed one of his customers was ordering for an inordinate number of drip cones. This led him to set up one of the world's most popular brands. Name him and the company.
    
6. Connect the Ritz-Carlton Kapalua, Hawaii, 50% stake of Talgo, a Spanish train manufacturer, 12% stake in the Formula One racing organisation and the Martha's Vineyard Hotel. What do you arrive at?
    
7. By joining the Thunderclap, what would one be supporting?
    
8. Who uses the baseline "For a better you"?
    
9. This Scotsman born in the mid 1700s pursued a variety of careers with great ambition, industry and optimism. He was an engineer, draftsman, accountant, silversmith, translator, publicist, investment broker, economist, statistician, convict and journalist. Some of his business activities were questionable and was also known to be a rogue and scoundrel. Amongst all his inventions he is noted for something he introduced in the 1780s and early 1800s, which is being used even today. Businesses, Mathematicians, Economists and Statisticians benefit the most though. Name him and his invention.
    
10. Name the character and also the brand that plans to use him as a mascot.
    
    

 

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