Daily Quiz: 106

Identify this famous hotelier.

Ans: Conard Nicholson Hilton, founder of Hilton Hotels Chain. Arvinth got it correct.

Daily Quiz: 105

Identify the logo.

Ans: Bank of England. Arvinth & Jaiprabhu got it correct.

Daily Quiz: 104

Identify.

Kaavya Jayram, 12 year old girl of Indian origin, the youngest person at the Internatinoal confernece of Women Mathmaticians. Kaavya presented a paper on her results in the area of integer partitioning.

Daily Quiz: 103

Logo of which city?

Ans: Logo of Karachi, Pakista. Arvinth, Asif & Jaiprabu got it correct.

Daily Quiz: 102

Identify. Clue: Founders of a company which is a household name in PC industry.

Ans: Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce, founders of Intel. Moore and Noyce initially thought of naming their company Moore Noyce but dropped the idea because it sounds similar to 'more noice'. They used the name NM Electronics for almost a year, before deciding to call their company Integrated Electronics or Intel for short. Jaiprabu got it correct.

Daily Quiz: 101

Entrance to which famous building? Clue is in the name of the picture file.

Ans: Taipei 101, one of the tallest buildings in the world. It was the tallest building in the world until the opening of Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Asif and Magesh got it correct.

Daily Quiz: 100

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Identify.

Ans: The Flag of the President of India, also known as The Presidential Standard. Goes uncracked.

Daily Quiz: 99

Identify the logo.

Ans: Wikileaks, an international organization founded by Julian Assange that publishes anonymous submissions and leaks of otherwise unavailable documents while preserving the anonymity of sources. http://www.wikileaks.org/ Julian Assange recently ran into trouble by publishing thousands of classified Afghan war documents and is threatening to release more documents. Arvinth & Magesh got it correct.

Daily Quiz: 98

Connect.

Ans: BSE. These are the foreign entities who hold significant stake in BSE. Dubai Holding recently sold its 4% stake to billionaire investor George Soros. US-based philanthropist George Kaiser also holds a 4% stake in BSE. Magesh got it correct.

Daily Quiz: 97

Connect.

Ans: Legacy Effects, previously known as Stan Winston Studios.  Stan Winston Studios handled the special effects of all these films. Arvinth & Pratheep got it correct. Welcome back Pratheep.. :)

Daily Quiz: 96

Connect.

Ans: Wal-mart. Wal-Mart operates in United Kingdom as Asda, in Japan as Seiyu, and in India as Best Price.  It also operates as Walmex in Mexico.  Arvinth, Asif & Magesh got it correct.

Daily Quiz: 95

Identify the logo.

Ans: Carrefour, the world's second largest retailer. Arvinth, Jaiprabu and Magesh got it correct.

Daily Quiz: 94

Connect.

Ans: Wachovia. All the companies were acquired by Wachovia. Wachovia itself was acquired by Wells Fargo in 2008.

Daily Quiz: 93

Identify this famous investor.

Ans: George Soros. Arvinth got it correct.

Daily Quiz: 92

Print ad for which company?

Ans: Audi. Jaiprabu got it correct.

Daily Quiz: 91

Connect.

Ans: Volkswagen. Audi, Bugatti & Bentley, all are from the Volkswagen stable. Arvinth & Jaiprabu got it correct.

Daily Quiz: 90

Identify.

Ans: The London 2012 Summer Game Olympic mascots, Wenlock and Mandeville. Arvinth and Jaiprabu got it correct.

Daily Quiz: 89

Connect.

Ans: Vijay Mallya. He owns the Formula One racing team Force India, IPL team Bangalore Royal Challengers and the I-League team East Bengal FC. Arvinth got it correct.

Daily Quiz: 88

Connect.

Ans: BAE Systems. It was formed by the merger of two British companies, Marconi Electronic Systems (MES), the defence electronics and naval shipbuilding subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc (GEC), and aircraft, munitions and naval systems manufacturer British Aerospace (BAe). Magesh got it correct.

Daily Quiz: 87

Identify and find the connect.

Ans: Lakshmi Venu, daughter of TVS Motor Company Chairman Venu Srinivasan and NR Rohan Murthy, son of Infosys Technologies Ltd chairman NR Narayana Murthy. They are getting married soon. Asif and Arvinth got it correct. Question contributed by Magesh. Contributors please send your questions to ernest.kirubakaran@gmail.com

Daily Quiz: 86

Connect.

Ans: HP. The person in the middle is Mark Hurd, CEO of HP who resigned on Friday following sexual harassment charges. The person on the right is his predecessor Clary Fiorina who also resigned after a controversy. The third person is Particia Dunn, former chairwoman of HP who departed after spying charges.

Daily Quiz: 85

Find the connect.

Ans: Reliance Marcellus II, the US arm of Reliance Industries Limited. Recently Reliance Marcellus II acquired stakes of Carrizo, Avista Capital and Atlas Energy in Marcellus Shale acreage, one of the USA's most promising natural gas resources. Magesh got it correct.

Daily Quiz: 84

Identify the logo.

Ans: Blue Origin, a privately-funded aerospace company set up by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos. Asif and Jaiprabu got it correct.

Daily Quiz: 83

Identify the duo and the famous magazine they founded.

Ans: Briton Hadden and Henry Luce, founders of TIME magazine. Arvinth got it correct.

Daily Quiz: 82

Find the connect.

Ans: Booz & Company. The firm coined the terms and developed the concepts of supply chain, supply chain management, product life cycle and the PERT chart. Time Magazine dubbed the firm "the world's largest, most prestigious management consulting firm. Goes uncracked.

Daily Quiz: 81

Find the connect.

Ans: Madras Christian College. Actor Gemini Ganesan, Dr. Pratap C Reddy of Apollo Hospitals and Mammen Mappilai of MRF are all alumni of MCC. Also in the list are Dr. Radhakrishnan, First Vice-President of India and Indra Nooyi, CEO of Pepsico. Question contributed by Magesh.