The Strategist Quiz (#469)

1. Who is responsible for the launch of the Dipper brand of condoms and why?
    
2. In the mid-1990s IBM, Compaq, Oracle and Cisco were willing to invest in a $100 million fund collectively to create the ____fund to support start-ups who would use _____to challenge ______hegemony. Fill in the blanks.
    
3. Connect the famous Botticelli painting "The Adoration of the Magi" to the popular concept of Double entry Book keeping in Accountancy and what do you arrive at?
    
4. The late Mrs Mary Lea Johnson Richards, a founder and partner of the Producer Circle, a New York film and theatrical production company, won 22 Tony Awards. It produced Broadway such as ''On the Twentieth Century,'' ''Sweeney Todd,'' ''La Cage aux Folles,'' ''Crimes of the Heart,'' which won a Pulitzer Prize etc., has a first to her credit. What is it?
    
5. The founder of this company as a 9 year old bred earthworms in his backyard. When he was in High School he was hired as a video game tester for Lucasfilm and got paid $6 an hour to test the Indian Jones and the last crusade video game. At Harvard University he sold pizzas. Name him.
    
6. 1890 this person invented and patented the unpickable tumbler lock. Several years later, he took out a newspaper ad challenging the magician Harry Houdini to try to escape from his secure luggage that had this lock. Name the person.
    
7. This brand that has been recently launched gets its name from the character created by Robert Southey who was an English poet of the Romantic school and also one of the so-called "Lake Poets".
    
8. This tribe's name means "those who germinate more seeds from one seed". Basically tillers. They are are largely found in the state of Maharashtra but also exist in Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala and Goa. Sant Tukaram, one of the most revered Varkari saints of the Bhakti tradition belonged to this community. Their art of weaving is now being revived by a famous fashion designer. Name him and the community.
    
9. This brand's base line is "Free your skin". Name the brand and its website address?
    
10. Identify the brands and establish a connection between them.
    
    

 





           

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