The Strategist Quiz (#347)

1. In the early 90s, which publication played a leading role in exposing Jordan Belfort, the crooked Long Island stockbroker depicted by Leonardo Di Caprio in The Wolf of Wall Street?
    
2. Name the Indian businessman who has written a book On a Prayer? Ironically his group is doing not so well.
    
3. This brand's luxury collection gets its inspiration from the Katana, a single-sided curved blade sword developed 800 years ago in Japan. These swords were weapons of choice of the Shoguns. The Katana's precision, artistry, parabolic curves and sharpness are all mirrored in the product. Name the brand and its collection.
    
4. This product was designed by an engineer of a car manufacturing company in the UK. It was used in the World War II bombers between 1939-1944. Four decades later, an American team searching for the Loch Ness Monster salvaged a Wellington bomber submerged in the mud that had this product. Remarkably the product invented and patented in 1933 still worked. The plane, complete with this product, is exhibited at the Brooklands Museum in Surrey, UK. Name the product and the person who invented it.
    
5. Which brand's philosophy is captured by the phrase Disruptive by Design? It is about having the guts to start from scratch, charge through challenges. It's a mindset that seeks to collapse the conventional, dismantle the accepted, shatter expectations and embrace the unknown.
    
6. Name this global crowdsourcing company that connects some of the world s biggest brands with its community of 50,000 filmmakers in more than 140 countries around the world. Many of the world s biggest brands use it to provide them with breakthrough content that can be used online, or to create memorable advertising campaigns that can be broadcast during occasions such as the Super Bowl.
    
7. This lady invented a board game and patented it in 1903. The game was designed to demonstrate the economic ill effects of land monopolism and the use of land value tax as a remedy for them. She was a follower of the economist Henry George, who inspired the economic philosophy known as Georgism, whose main tenet is that people should own what they create, but that everything found in nature, most importantly the value of land, belongs equally to all humanity. Name the lady and the board game.
    
8. This company launched perfumes co developed with L'Oreal and gave it names like Black Fire, Destiny and Hot Road. It is known as one of the famous brand failures. Name the brand.
    
9. The City of Manchester Stadium in Manchester, England, is also known as _____stadium for sponsorship reasons. It is the home ground of Manchester City Football Club, the fifth-largest stadium in the Premier League. Name the sponsor.
    
10. This is an award that is named after an inventor who founded his company in 1903 that changed hands and was finally taken over by Ericson in 2005. Name the only 2 Indians who have got this award.

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