Which company's new logo is this?
Ans: PwC
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Friday, September 23, 2011
Daily Quiz: 193
Connect.
Ans: Rajit Kapur, Darshan Jariwala and Ben Kingsly. All three have played the role of Mahatma Gandhi. the movies are Rajit Kapur - The Making of the Mahatma, Darshan Jariwala - Gandhi, My Father and Ben Kingsly - Gandhi. Viru got it correct.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Daily Quiz: 192
Identify.
Ans: French aviator Roland Garros. The tennis centre which he attended religiously when he was studying in Paris, was named after him. The stadium accommodates the French Open. Consequently, the tournament is officially called Roland Garros.
Monday, September 5, 2011
Daily Quiz: 191
Identify.
Ans:
Circuit outline of Buddh International Circuit, Greater Noida, which will host the inagural Formula One Indian Grand Prix. Viru got it correct again.
Monday, August 29, 2011
Daily Quiz: 190
Identify.
Clue: Brownie Wise, who invented the 'party-plan' concept of marketing, developed it for the company founded by this person.
Ans: Earl Silas Tupper, inventor of Tupperware. Party-plan concept of marketing was pioneered by Tupperware.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Daily Quiz: 189
Connect these to a personality.
Ans: The personality I had in mind was Kavitark Ram Shriram, founding board member of Google and one of its first investors. He earlier worked with amazon.com. He was also an member of the Netscape executive team. Viru came up with one more connect John Doerr, venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, who has directed captil funding to some of the most successful technology companies including google, amazon and netscape.
Friday, August 19, 2011
Daily Quiz: 188
Connect.
Ans: C V Raman, S Radhakrishnan and C Rajagopalachari. These three are the first three recipients of Bharat Ratna in 1954. Incidentally, all three are from TamilNadu. Viru got it correct
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Daily Quiz: 187
Identify this compound.
Ans: Cyclotrimethylene-trinitramine, popularly known as RDX.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Daily Quiz: 185
Connect. Clue: Something of national importance for India.
Ans: All are national symbols: The Lotus - National Flower The Tiger (Royal Bengal Tiger) - National Animal The Gangetic River Dolphin - National Aquatic Animal. Viru got it correct.
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Daily Quiz: 184
Connect.
Clue: Nobel Peace Prize nominee, accomplished Kuchipudi and Bharatanatyam dancer.
Ans: Mallika Sarabhai, alumni of IIMA, Padma Bhushan awardee and winner of Theatre Pasta Theatre Award.
Monday, August 1, 2011
Daily Quiz: 183
Connect.
Ans: Mathematicians John Charles Fields, Niels Henrik Abel and Shiing-Shen Chern. All three have mathematics prizes named after them: Fields Medal, Abel Pize and Chern Medal.
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Daily Quiz: 182
Identify.
Ans: William Edward Boeing, founder of The Boeing Company. Pratheep got it correct. Good guess Viru.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Daily Quiz: 181
Identify this gentleman.
Ans: Ernesto "Che" Guevara in 1951. Viru & Partheep got it correct.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Daily Quiz: 180
Connect. Clue: Famous comic strip
Ans: Calvin and Hobbes. In picture are John Calvin, a 16th century French reformation theologian, Thomas Hobbes, a 17th century English political philosopher and Bill Watterson, creater of Calvin & Hobbes. Calvin and Hobbes are named after John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes. Viru got it correct again.
Monday, June 13, 2011
Daily Quiz: 179
Identify this gentleman. His face appears on a famous logo.
Ans: Colonel Sanders, founder of KFC. His face appears on KFC's logo. Viru got it correct.
Daily Quiz: 178
Identify the logo.
Ans: Logo of The Baltic Exchange is the world's only independent source of maritime market information for the trading and settlement of physical and derivative contracts.
Friday, May 6, 2011
Daily Quiz: 177
Connect.
Ans: Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation, world's largest shirt company. Designers Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein and logo of Arrow Shirts. Phillips-Van Heusen owns all the three brands. Viru got it correct.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Daily Quiz: 176
Idenfity.
Ans: Salil Shetty, Secretary General of Amnesty International. He is the first Indian to hold this post.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Daily Quiz: 175
Connect.
Ans: Cricket World Cup. Logos of Prudential, Gallaher Group, Reliance & ITC. Gallaher Group owns the Benson & Hedges Brand. Wills is the brand of ITC. Prudential, Benson & Hedges, Reliance and Wills sponsored cricket wrold cups prior to 1999.
Monday, April 25, 2011
Daily Quiz: 174
Identify the logo.
Clue: The oldest surviving institution of its kind
Ans: Monte dei Paschi di Siena, the oldest surviving bank in the world. The bank was founded in 1472. Viru got it correct.
Monday, April 18, 2011
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