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The Strategist Quiz (#413)

Gaurav Sri Krishna New Delhi

  1. In which company's recent annual shareholder meeting in the US did the actor Reese Witherspoon participate and why?
     
  2. During the 1890s, it was sold for $60-$65 and was called Van Cleve in honour of the great-great-grandmother from the father's side of the founders of this company. She was the first white woman to have settled in Dayton Ohio. Name the product, company and its founders.
     
  3. What is the Pike's place roast and why was it launched?
     
  4. Name the business book and its author that gets its title from a term used in Silicon Valley for the most important innovations that reset everything following them. The term is supposedly to have originated in 1961 during the John F Kennedy days.
     
  5. What is JOLTS and who releases reports related to it on a periodic basis?
     
  6. The founder of which newage company said this: "I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognise or not"?
     
  7. Which company's biggest project undertaken by its research labs is called 'The Machine'?
     
  8. Why is Pullmantur Cruises, the cruise provider which is headquartered in Madrid, and acquired by Royal Caribbean in the news recently in India?
     
  9. Connect Falcon Heavy and Dragon, and what do you arrive at?
     
  10. Name the brand which also uses this Katakana logo.

 

 


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First Published: Jun 15 2015 | 12:10 AM IST

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