The Strategist Quiz (#472)

1. Which Indian company is the first to get a nod to sell a follow-on biologic or subsequent entry biologic in a developed country?
    
2. The Dissolution of the Monasteries in the late 1530s was one of the most revolutionary events in English history. It was the set of administrative and legal processes by which Henry VIII disbanded Catholic monasteries, priories, convents and friaries in England, Wales and Ireland, appropriated their income, disposed of assets, and reassigned or dismissed their former members and functions. What method was used to value the assets?
    
3. Connect the king of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia, who was also emperor of Austria, with a German, who was the surgeon general to the armies of Simon Bolivar, and a product that continues to have an oversized label.
    
4. How have the Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia and Italian hero Giuseppe Garibaldi been immortalised as products/brands still in use?
    
5. What word came into the English language when 19th Century English textile workers or self-employed weavers who feared the end of their trade and protested against newly developed labour economising technologies?
    
6. Where and why are these brands seen together: Coca Cola, McDonalds, P&G, Bridgestone, Dow Chemicals, GE, Panasonic, Samsung, Visa, Atos Computers and Omega?
    
7. This Nobel Prize winner for economics is noted for a paper he wrote whose title had an American slang for a car that is found to be defective after it has been bought. Who is he?
    
8. Why was the Sprite Boy character introduced by Coca Cola in 1942?
    
9. If Aristotle is to General Motors, Harry Potter is to __? Fill in the blank and identify the books and its author.
    
10. Identify the brand from its logo. It has opened its first city cafe recently

 

 

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