Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Daily Quiz: 131












Identify the logo.

Ans: United Nations University. Jaiprabhu got it correct.

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Daily Quiz: 130












Identify.

Ans: Charles F Dolan, founder of Cablevision and HBO.

Monday, September 27, 2010

Daily Quiz: 129

Identify the logo.

Ans: Abbott Laboratories.

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Daily Quiz: 128

















Connect.

Ans: African Banking Corporation (ABC). In 1890 Lloyds Bank, National Provincial, Westminster, and Standard Bank of South Africa established the African Banking Corporation (ABC). In 1920 the bank was bought out and merged with Standard Bank of South Africa. Standard Bank later became Standard Chartered on merger with Chartered Bank. Jaiprabhu got it correct.

Saturday, September 25, 2010

Daily Quiz: 127














Identify this Hungarian inventor. Clue: His invention celebrates its 30th anniversary this year.

Ans:  Ernő Rubik, inventor of Rubik's Cube.

Friday, September 24, 2010

Daily Quiz: 126














Headquarters of which British organization?

Ans: Headquarters of Secret Intelligence Service or M16.

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Daily Quiz: 125
















Connect.

Ans: Mahesh Bhupathi. Mahesh owns the celebrity management company Globosport. He is also an alumnus of The University of Missisippi and a receipent of Padma Shri. Asif & Jaiprabhu got it correct.

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Daily Quiz: 124













Connect.

Ans: LLoyds Banking Group. Logos of Lloyds Bank, Bank of Scotland, TSB Bank and Halifax. All are part of Lloyds Banking Group. Asif & Jaiprabhu got it correct.

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Daily Quiz: 123












Identify.

Ans: Flag of the Commonwealth of Nations. Asif got it correct.

Monday, September 20, 2010

Daily Quiz: 122













Connect.

Ans: Stephen Elop, the incomin CEO of Nokia Corporation. He has worked with Microsoft, Juniper Networks and Adobe Systems. He is also the first non-Finn to be named CEO of Nokia. Sathish got it correct.

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Daily Quiz: 121












Connect.

Ans: Mortimer Durand, Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee and Jawaharlal Nehru. The connect is football. All three have football tournaments named after them; Durand Cup, Subroto Cup and Nehru Cup.

Saturday, September 18, 2010

Daily Quiz: 120











Connect.

Ans: All are exchanges in India but the connect I was looking for is 'Financial Technologies India Limited', the firm which operates 10 exchanges around the world including Indian Energy Exchange, National Spot Exchange and MCX.

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Daily Quiz: 119












Identify this founder of an Indian conglomerate.

Ans: Pirojsha Godrej, founder of Godrej Group.

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Daily Quiz: 118















Identify the logo.

Ans: Competition Commission of India (CCI). Asif & Jaiprabhu got it correct.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Daily Quiz: 117




















Headquarters of which organization? Clue: The organization turns 50 today.

Ans: Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) headquarters in Vienna. Jaiprabhu got it correct.

Monday, September 13, 2010

Daily Quiz: 116








Connect.

Ans: Al Gore. He is a senior advisor to google, a member of the Board of Director of Applc Inc and is also a partner in the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

Sunday, September 12, 2010

Daily Quiz: 115



















Identify this new CEO.

Ans: Daniel F Akerson of General Motors.

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Daily Quiz: 114













Connect. Clue: All are in Oil & Gas business.

Ans: Logos of Saudi Aramco, Gazprom, China National Petroleum Corporation, National Iranian Oil Company,  Petróleos de Venezuela, Petrobras & Petronas, famously known as the  "New Seven Sisters", the most influential and mainly state-owned national oil and gas companies from countries outside the OECD. All these companies are state owned corporations as mentioned by Asif.

Friday, September 10, 2010

Daily Quiz: 113











Connect.

Ans: Trinity College, University of Cambridge. Ramanujan, Amartya Sen and Jawaharlal Nehru are the alumnus of Trinity College of University of Cambridge.Asif, Magesh and Red Devil got it correct.

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Daily Quiz: 112









Identify this logo.

Ans: Logo of the French Republic. Arvinth got it correct.

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Daily Quiz: 111

Identify this new CEO of a global bank.

Robert Diamond, popularly known as Bod Diamond, new CEO of Barclay's Bank. Asif got it correct.



Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Daily Quiz: 110














Identify the logo.

Ans: Bank for International Settlements. Arvinth & Jaiprabhu got it correct.

Monday, September 6, 2010

Daily Quiz: 109















Identify.

Ans: George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States.

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Daily Quiz: 108















Identify the logo.

Ans: Bank of New York Mellon. Arvinth & Jaiprabhu got it correct.

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Daily Quiz: 107



















Connect.

Ans: O P Bhatt, Chairman of SBI.  He is also in the boards of EXIM Bank and XLRI. Jaiprabhu and Asif got it correct.