The Strategist Quiz 253 & 254 for Wed & Thurs

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Charpiece,

The starategist quiz 254 posted two days ago:

When and which company coined the acronym for Office Automation — OA?
It recently unveiled a new global brand tagline.

During the early years of this US university, established in the
1630s, tuition fees could be bartered for with lumber, livestock or
construction stones. Name the university.

This company was very popular for its chain of tea shops it
established during the 1890s in the UK which unfortunately closed in
the early 1980s. In the information technology world, not known to
many, it is credited with one of the industry’s firsts. Name the
company and its pioneering achievement.

This business book published last year is about a famous personality
and is titled____Invests Like a Girl. The author feels that the
subject of the book is a great investor because he activates
deliberative “feminine” wisdom when making investment choices. Name
the person on whom this book is written and its author.

Who introduced the concept of the 3 Horizons for growth to the
management world?

Whose quote is this “I don’t think of work as work and play as play.
It is all living”?

A Danish telephone engineer and inventor patented what he called a
telegraphone in the 1890s. By what name is his invention better known
as today?

Which brand of fuel and lubricants did the Wright brothers use for
their first historic flight at Kitty Hawk?

Which technology product company’s mascot is called Redhead or simply, Rex?

starategist quiz 253


What name is given to a new type of company/corporation which uses the
power of business to solve social and environmental problems?

B Corporations. B Lab, a non-profit organisation, certifies B
Corporations, the same way TransFair certifies Fair Trade coffee or
USGBC certifies LEED buildings.

Which company’s new baseline is Go Further?
Ford

In this era where social networks are beginning to dominate the
internet space, what have been named after actresses Aishwarya Rai,
Dia Mirza, Celina Jaitley and Bipasha Basu?
Slideshare’s servers from where the portal delivers the slides to
users across the world. LinkedIn has now bought slideshare for $119
million

In 1916, when this brand started its creators wanted to use the line
“the first ‘feel-like-everyday’s-a-Saturday’ shoe”. Since it was too
long for a tag, they called it Champion. Name the brand and give the
two words that are its contribution to the footwear industry and are
used generically.
Keds. It was the first to introduce rubber-soled shoes which became
known as sneakers because the rubber soles allowed sneaking around
silently

This symbol was first incorporated on at least one 1889 model of the
Underwood typewriter and subsequently from 1905 all its successful
typewriters carried it. In 1971 this person made a breakthrough
invention and said to his colleague “Don’t tell anyone! This isn’t
what we’re supposed to be working on”. Name the person, his invention
and the symbol.
Ray Tomlinson inventor of email and the adopter of @ symbol which he
used to introduce an email address with

The advertisements of which brand in the mid 2000s featured Manoj
Night Shyamalan, Tiger Woods, Kate Winslet, Robert De Niro, Venus
Williams and Beyonce Knowles?
American Express

The family member of which famous business group published a book of
essays titled “Buried Stories”?
Lee Maeng-hee, older brother of the current Chairman of Samsung

Despite this iconic brand’s founder passing away way back in 1888, the
company has opened a twitter account in his name which has more than
79,000 followers. Name the twitter account and the brand.
The Coca Cola Company operates a twitter account by the name Doc Pemberton

What is common to the sale of the library of a British politician Sir
John Stanley and the sale of the library Napoleon took with him into
exile on St Helena?
The auction house Sotheby’s, founded by London bookseller Samuel
Baker, in 1744, was responsible for the sale of British politician Sir
John Stanley’s library and the one Napoleon took with him into exile
on St Helena

Best

Shirani