The Strategist Quiz (#417)

1. Which brand is making sneakers whose upper portion of the shoe is made from materials reclaimed from illegal deep-sea fishing nets and other waste pulled from the ocean by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which collected materials during a 110-day expedition tracking an illegal poaching vessel off the coast of West Africa?
    
2. The _____ may be as James Bond's favourite luxury car, but it's going big in its next venture. The 102-year-old British car manufacturer has decided to get into the ______ business. Fill in both the blanks.
    
3. Whose subsidiaries are these brands: Boucheron, Girard-Perregaux, Gucci, Dodo, Stella McCartney and Ulysse Nardin?  
    
4. In order to support the world in its fight for equality and tolerance, this brand has launched a new campaign in the West Asia for the Ramzan season where it is not labeling its products. It's message is "labeling ___ is fine, but people is not". Name the brand.
    
5. This new business book written by an Australian professor and consultant talks about an invisible force that is driving the development of the economy in the age of the internet. Name him and the term he coined which is also the title of his book.
    
6. Every year on a particular day in February this state in India celebrates the bus day. EG Salter was responsible for it 77 years ago. Name state and mention the reason.
    
7. Who is introducing a selfie pay? The company plans to add a layer of biometric security to its credit cards and all the user will need to do is simply take a selfie. The system will create a digitised map of your face and check with the image on its servers.
    
8. Whose famous quote is this: "The Hot line which used to connect the Kremlin with the white House, has been replaced by the Help line, which connects everyone in America to call centres in Bangalore?"
    
9. This American corporation first began mass production in 1904, a full nine years before Henry Ford put the automobile on an assembly line. In 1914, it created the first employee profit sharing programme. Name this company.
    
10. Identify the logo of this company. It was founded in the early 1900s.
    
    

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