Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Monday, September 27, 2010
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
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
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
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
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
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
Monday, September 6, 2010
Thursday, September 2, 2010
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.
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