The Strategist Quiz (#397)

1. Which brand has launched a recent ad campaign inspired by the following lines of President Roosevelt: "It is not the critic who counts, credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena who errs, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming who at best knows of triumph of high achievement or fails while daring greatly"?
    
2. Connect the IPOs of Google, DreamWorks Animation, Yelp, Facebook, 1-800-Flowers.com, and what do you arrive at?
    
3. This person during the 1870s was called up for military service in Vienna but was declared unfit and, therefore, he resumed his diplomatic career as Austrian vice-consul in Algeria. He also began trading Algerian grown tobacco to Europe. He was a car dealer and racing enthusiast too. He specified an engine design to Wilhelm Maybach and Gottlieb Daimler for the first modern car and named it after a member of his family. Who is he?
    
4. This company was first set up as a division of a large Indian manufacturing company in 1986, later in the mid-1990s it was spun off as an Independent company. It was given its current name because the founders thought that information technology was an art and not science and as difficult as composing music. Name the company.
    
5. This brand was bought by its MIT educated owner for Rs 4 lakhs in 1966 to help out a friend of his father who was in dire financial straits. This brand initially was sold in two versions- bubbly and still. It is aiming to cross Rs 1,000 crores in turnover this year. Name the brand."
    
6. In which retail chain would you find minute clinics?
    
7. The number of licks it takes to get to the centre of an average-size ____ is approximately 1,000, according to an actual scientific study recently conducted by researchers at New York University and published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics. Fill in the blank.
    
8. Which luxury water brand uses these trademarked lines "Earths finest water, bottled at source, untouched by man"?
    
9. This company was founded in 1839 and had people like Dwarakanath Tagore, Richard Twinings and William Duncan on its board. Today it is into oil exploration and infrastructure development also. Name the company.
    
10. Whose logo is this?

 

 

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