The Strategist Quiz (#378)

1. This holistic product development strategy gets its name from rugby. It is a manner of restarting the game after a minor infraction. It has made a great impact on knowledge companies. Name the term.
    
2. "That's a good firm. Make a deal with them I am delighted at the opportunity of having my paintings exhibited through the medium of Christmas cards." Name the former Prime Minister of a country who made this statement and also the firm he is referring to.
    
3. This city is considered a tax haven and its airport is the only one in the world to be intersected by a highway. The lack of flat space in this city forces its airport's only runway to bisect its busiest road, the Winston Churchill Avenue. Name it.
    
4. When the brother of the famous cricketer HD Kanga died in a car accident during the 1930s, the Mumbai police implicated a top industrialist from Mumbai. The police filed a charge that the industrialist and his friend Russa Mehta in whose car the cricketer's brother was travelling, had been racing at that time. Even though the case was dismissed, the industrialist could not bear the harassment and decided to sell the car. Name the person and the car he sold off.
    
5. If it was not for providence or vagaries of Fate, these three gentlemen JP Morgan, Milton Hershey and Guglielmo Marconi (Banker, Businessman & Inventor) may have perished in one of the most tragic events that occurred in the early 1910s. Name it.
    
6. Who said this: "When you have $1 million, you're a lucky person. When you have $10 million, you have trouble, when you have more than $1 billion, you have responsibility."
    
7. When this product was first launched in the mid 1910s it was named a banana. Subsequently, several re-edited versions of the same product have been launched. One of the variants has been named in memory of the important relationship between the brand and the Czar's Empire. Name it.
    
8. Ayurvedic herbal wine recipes containing wormwood are said to be outlined in the Atharvaveda in 1500 BC. Greek physician Hippocrates is credited, around 400 BC, with infusing wormwood in white wine and creating vinum absinthianum or Hippocratic wine. By what name is this fortified wine known today in the spirits and wine industry.
    
9. What does the term greenwash mean?
    
10. Identify the logo and also mention which brand is incorporated as a prefix to its name.
     
    
    
    

 

 

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