Congratulations Abhishek Bachhan and Aishwaria Rai! (Answers)

Simple Answers
1. Eric Schmidt, Google CEO
2. David Filo of Yahoo!
3. Sergey Brin Google C0-Founder
4. Jerry Yang of Yahoo

Happy Quizzing, BTW please go through the comments, Amit Saberwal of MakeMyTrip.com has put some amazing questions in comments. Let me see how many can you answer!!!

Congratulations Abhishek Bachhan and Aishwaria Rai!

Simple visuals questions for today. Identify following gentlemen who have been stalwarts in their fields

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Answers tomorrow!

Answers to Monday afternoon dose

1) Paul Wolfowitz
2) Angela Merkel, 1st woman Chancellor of Germany
3) New Infosys CEO Kris Subramanyam
4) Corus Steel

Monday afternoon dose

1. Identify the gentleman above - has been in the news on and off; and lots recently.






2. Identify the lady above whose middle name is Dorothea.





3. Who is the gentleman above-in the news recently.




4. Identify the company by it's logo above. In the news recently.

Thursday Adventure

1. Bergamot is the essential oil used for Black earl grey tea. It is also used in Colognes, aromatherapy and Candymaking.

2. Buskins and Robbins (BR and the colour pink are hints)

3. Dr Mukesh Batra of Dr.Batra Clinic

Did you see the Google logo today? They are celebrating Yuri Gagarin's conquest of Space.

Thursday Adventure

1. Taj Mahal has launched a new variant- Taj Mahal Bergamot, Cardamom & Cinnamon. What is Bergamot?


2. Identify the logo

3. Identify the gentleman and his organisation

Answers by today evening! Should be very easy right ;)

Sleepy Wednesday

Guys check out this site http://www.charlesinspace.com/ , it gives Dr. Charles Simonyi's daily travel details.

Answers to 2 more for Tuesday - All about books

1. Who is the author of 'Audacity of Hope'. (Think US politics)
Ans: Barack Obama

2. Which TV personality is the author of 'America - A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction' ?
Hint: One of the funniest men in America-related to American television currently and past Oscars.
Ans: Jon Stewart

3. Who is the 'famous' author of the book ' If I Did It'
Ans: Dushyant got it - OJ Simpson

Answers to Final Five for Tuesday

1) Frugal Technology - Now a famous term conceived by Renault CEO
2) Adnan Sami
3) Brahma
4) Spencer Johnson
5) I thought this was fairly easy - Ted Turner

3 reasons to celebrate Tuesday

1. Pantaloon
2. BBC Worldwide and Times of India
3. EasyGroup (Probably Diwakar would have also got it right if he answered)

Happy Tuesday! Guys you haven't posted any comment about the New MakeMyTrip TVC....

Final Five for Tuesday

1) Name the technology which is very much in news because of Mahindra-Renault J.V.

2) Was featured on the BBC at the age of nine due to his piano-playing histrionics, and is today the fastest piano player in the world. With albums like Abstract, Ecstasy, Raag Time, Live in Karachi and Sargam he is one of the most popular Pakistani artists. Who?

3) In Hindu mythology whose son carried the rather unfortunate name Adharma?

4) Name the author of the book, "Who Moved My Cheese?"

5) He took over his father's billboard business and in 1970 bought a TV station in Atlanta, Georgia. Also owns the Atlanta Hawks basketball team and the Atlanta Braves baseball team, raises bison in Montana and has pledged a billion dollars of his money to the United Nations.Who?

2 more for Tuesday - all about books

1. Who is the author of 'Audacity of Hope'. (Think US politics)

2. Which TV personality is the author of 'America - A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction' ?
Hint: One of the funniest men in America-related to American television currently and past Oscars.

3. Who is the 'famous' author of the book ' If I Did It'

3 reasons to celebrate Tuesday

1. Miss India concluded yesterday and it was also made into a 7 part reality show aired on Zoom. Who is the title sponsor for the whole event?

2. Another related to the Miss India Contest- who owns Femina?

3. This group is planning foray in India's hottest sector- telecom and has a unique model. The local calls will be free, but the subscriber will have to listen to ads. Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the man behind this group is know for his low cost business model's in Europe. Name this group.

Answers by evening!
Happy quizzing

April 8th, after the long weekend

Much easy Quiz
1. Kimi Raikonnen
2. Charles Simonyi
3. Robert Kiyosaki (Cashflow game quadrants and adjacent to that was his picture)

Hey have you checked out the new MakeMyTrip TVC? Happy quizzing

1. Raikka just gave it away - Kimi Raikkonan
2. Bill Gates
3. He is the author of the book Rich Dad Poor Dad and advocates the philosophy of getting out of the rat race and work for yourself.

April 8th, After the long weekend

1. Nicknamed "the ICEMAN", Kimppa, Raikka, and was found sleeping before his first qualifier, F1 GP. He entered the racing circuit with Sauber and had a solid debut year, achieveing 4 points scoring finishes and 8 finishes in top 8. He along with his team Nick Hiefeld, scored Sauber highest ever total- 4th in constructors championship. This question is only an ode his prowess in the F1 racing circuit, name the driver.

2. He is a computer software executive, who was the head of microsoft office application products and was responsible for MS WORD. Two days earlier he became the fifth Space Tourist. Name this hungarian.

3. Connect the two






Answers Monday Evening

Check out http://www.bjp.org: For the first time an Indian political party has made an effort to connect with netizens.

Answers to "Ode to the long weekend."

1. Sanjaya Malakar (of American Idol 07 brouhaha)

2. Wiki.

3. Leander Paes - partners of his in grand slam mixed doubles wins.

4. Debut match of Javagal Srinath as match referee

5. Raghuvir Yadav - both companies have used his voice for television commercial
Pepsi: remember the 90's ad of small village kids wearing Sachin Tendulkar masks?
MakeMyTrip: The recently released 'Har Hotel ki Best Deal Trip" ad

Ode to the long weekend...

1. Identify this gentleman

2. Easy one...Fill in the blanks. (Hint: the same word will fill in all the blanks)

__post, __source,__versity,__books,Meta__

3. What connects:

a) Martina Navratilova 1999

b)Martina Navratilova 2003
c)Lisa Raymond 2003.

4. What was unique about the match of the ongoing Cricket World Cup on 14 March 07 when Australia played against Scotland in St Kitts and Nevis. (hint: Nothing to do with individual or team scores)

5. Connect Pepsi India and MakeMyTrip.com

Answers to 29 March questions

1) Reliance

2) Ghulam Mohammed had just started a partnership with Mahindra ( Mahindra and Mohammed).

3) Subramanayam Swamy - Janta Party

4) Motorola

5) Vietnam

Wednesday 29 March

1) Name the first Indian company to be rated by Standard and Poor as well as Moody’s. (It is also the first Indian company to show a profit of Rs.1000 cr).

2) Connect the first Governor General of independent Pakistan with an Indian company.

3) Which party promises that it will abolish Income Tax

4) The first product made by this company was a car record player. They gave themselves a name similar to the name of the market leader in record players in those days. Name the company.

5) This country introduced cheques only in 1997. Cheques must be purchased at the Central Bank and filled up carefully (Cheques can be rejected if the first word is not in capitals). The payee has 15 days to cash the cheque. Which country?

Tuesday Mania- 20th

1. Connect the two....
a.Coca Cola's Indian Brand

b.An action sequence in the James Bond film, Casino Royale, is a construction site roof-top chase. Sébastien Foucan, the founder of the similar sport free running, plays a small-time terrorist after whom James Bond is chasing. The scene was filmed in Nassau, Bahamas...

ParKourThe New Thumps Up Commercial has Akshay Kumar using Parkour Technique to get to his Thumps up. It's called Yamagasi in Japanese. Read the Trivia...
After including parkour moves in a chase sequence in the film Taxi 2 (2000), in 2001 French filmmaker Luc Besson made a feature film, Yamakasi—Les samouraï des temps modernes (Yamakasi—the modern-day Samurai), featuring members of the original Yamakasi. The film tells the (fictional) tale of a group of young friends who use their parkour skills to evade capture, while stealing money to fund the healthcare of a child that was injured copying their parkour training. In 2004, Besson wrote Banlieue 13, another feature film involving parkour, starring David Belle and Cyril Raffaelli; English-dubbed and -subtitled versions were released in 2006 as District B-13 in North America, and the U.K.

2. For Cricket Fans
What is common to Deepak Shodhan, Lala Amarnath,Hanumant Singh, Abbas Ali Baig, Surinder Amarnath and Pravin Amre?

All of these men scored an century on their Debut, but nothing after that :)

3. On 7 Jan 2004 , Toyota Canada announced the name of a new car, calling it "the new wave of bold style." This Special Edition Celica is a high-performance car, and is available in two colours - red and thundercloud. The original name was dumped when the car was released in January 2005. It is now called the Celica Sports Package. What was the dropped name?

TSunami, the name was dropped for obvious reasons, Jan 2005 was the clue here

4. Bomis was a porn search engine started by this person. This didn't take off, but what he did next ushered in the era of Web 2.0. Avaialbe in 10 languages, this website hosts information contributes through it's subscribers. Name the person and the webiste.

Jimmy Wales and WikiPedia

5. April 1999, at the age of 28, he created "Hautel Couture by __________ ______" which is an independent hotel group of 9 luxury hotels in 5 cities, with the flagship Dream Hotel. He has attended the United Nations International School in New York City, has a Bachelors Degree from Wharton Business School and has worked with Morgan Stanley. His recent performances include Ek Ajnabee, One Dollar Curry and Honeymoon Travels Pvt Limited.

Vikram Chatwal, plays the role of Gay NRI in the movie HoneyMoon Travel Pvt Limited

Tuesday Mania, 20th March

1. Connect the two....
a.Coca Cola's Indian Brand

b.An action sequence in the James Bond film, Casino Royale, is a construction site roof-top chase. Sébastien Foucan, the founder of the similar sport free running, plays a small-time terrorist after whom James Bond is chasing. The scene was filmed in Nassau, Bahamas...

2. For Cricket Fans
What is common to Deepak Shodhan, Lala Amarnath,Hanumant Singh, Abbas Ali Baig, Surinder Amarnath and Pravin Amre?

3. On 7 Jan 2004 , Toyota Canada announced the name of a new car, calling it "the new wave of bold style." This Special Edition Celica is a high-performance car, and is available in two colours - red and thundercloud. The original name was dumped when the car was released in January 2005. It is now called the Celica Sports Package. What was the dropped name?

4. Bomis was a porn search engine started by this person. This didn't take off, but what he did next ushered in the era of Web 2.0. Avaialbe in 10 languages, this website hosts information contributes through it's subscribers. Name the person and the webiste.

5. April 1999, at the age of 28, he created "Hautel Couture by __________ ______" which is an independent hotel group of 9 luxury hotels in 5 cities, with the flagship Dream Hotel. He has attended the United Nations International School in New York City, has a Bachelors Degree from Wharton Business School and has worked with Morgan Stanley. His recent performances include Ek Ajnabee, One Dollar Curry and Honeymoon Travels Pvt Limited.