The Strategist Quiz (#482)

1. Connect the name of a crater on the moon and the monsoon winds. The discovery of the monsoon winds boosted the Indian Ocean trade.
    
2. In 1990 Mikhail Gorbachev dismissed an official by the name of Vladilen Nikitin, blaming him for an acute shortage of __ that caused demonstrations in Moscow. Eventually the commodity was imported from Bulgaria. Name it.
    
3. What is the term used to describe small confectionery like gum, mints, candy and chocolate bars that are kept near the billing counters?
    
4. This dynasty ruled China during 618-907 AD. Due to the inconvenience of transferring large amounts of the standard copper cash coins, where government purchases were made, it started to pay merchants in certificates called __.
    
5. Who said this in an interview in 1926, "When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain. We shall be able to communicate with each other instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face and the instruments through which we shall be able to do this will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket."
    
6. Name the sportspersons who are brand ambassadors of two Indian real estate brands Homestead Infrastructure Pvt Ltd and Kanakia Builders.
    
7. What is the term used to describe an executive in upper management who lacks the knowledge and skills to hold the position? There is one for men and another for women, too. Mention both of them.
    
8. This flower gets its name from the German word "Edelweiss". It's also called Cat's paw, Wool Flower and lion's paw. Which 120-year-old brand used it as its logo till the late 80s?
    
9. Connect potato chips, soap, cake mixes, peanut butter, synthetic rubber, diapers to a chemical engineer who fought World War I for the US Navy and died at the age of 100.
    
10. Whose logo is this? It has a connection with golfer Bobby Jones, Muhammad Ali, Shaquille'O'Neal, Elvis Priestley and Marilyn Monroe.

 

 

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