Question Of The Day #52: Felicitation

Weekly Theme: Print Media

Identify the event related to the picture.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

The Times of India completes 150 years. Special stamp released by Government of India to commemorate the occasion.

Question Of The Day #51: Vested Interests

Weekly Theme: Print Media

The person X in the picture was the first to achieve something very significant in pre-independent India. To support this cause, the person Y along with four lawyers founded Z which is a kind of a trendsetter these days. Identify X, Y, and Z.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

X - Sir T Muthuswamy Iyer, Y - G. Subramania Iyer, Z - The Hindu. 
Subramania Iyer founded The Hindu along with four Law students, to support the campaign of Sir T. Muthuswamy Iyer for a judgeship at the Madras High Court. Muthuswamy Iyer later became the first native Indian to be appointed as judge of the Madras High Court.

Question Of The Day #50: Identify.

The questions for this week shall be based on Print Media.

Identify the person in the pic, and what's his claim to fame?

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

James Augustus Hicky was an Irishman, who launched first printed newspaper of India, in January 1780, with the name Bengal Gazette; it also came to be known as Hicky's Bengal Gazette.

Question Of The Day #49: The Saviour

And there we go, with the week's final question on Finance.

Connect to a person, put funda.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

JP Morgan. The 1896 Broadway melodrama The War of Wealth was inspired by the Panic of 1893. The second picture is about Panic of 1907. JP Morgan's role in the economy was denounced as overpowering in this hostile political cartoon. JP Morgan  helped rescue the U.S. Treasury during the Panic of 1893. In 1907,J. Pierpont Morgan helped stave off a national financial crisis when he helped to shore up a number of banks that had seen a run on their deposits.

Question Of The Day #48: Investment Beliefs

Weekly theme: Finance

Connect to a very famous theory.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Greater Fool Theory - A theory that states it is possible to make money by buying securities, whether overvalued or not, and later selling them at a profit because there will always be someone (a bigger or greater fool) who is willing to pay the higher price. The Bitcoin Gem game is based on this theory. It is similar to Keynesian beauty contest  developed by John Maynard Keynes.

Question Of The Day #47: Divine currency!

Weekly theme: Finance

Name the currency and the country where it is issued? Put funda.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

RAAM, or Raam is a bearer bond and local currency issued by Stichting Maharishi Global Financing Research (SMDFR), a charitable foundation based in MERU, Holland. It is also the "global development currency" of the Global Country of World Peace (GCWP). It was designed to be a flexible currency for national governments to use in the development of agricultural projects with the goal of eliminating poverty in third world countries.

Question Of The Day #46: Confidence Trickster

Weekly Theme: Finance

Connect to a person,  This scheme is named after him.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Charles Ponzi, an Italian businessman and con artist in the U.S. and Canada. He promised clients a 50% profit within 45 days, or 100% profit within 90 days. This type of scheme is now known as a "Ponzi scheme".

Question Of The Day #45: Identify

Weekly Theme: Finance

Identify the company and what does the logo represent?

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

UBS AG is a Swiss global financial services company headquartered in Basel and Zürich, Switzerland. Its logo of three keys, carried over from SBC, stands for confidence, security and discretion.

Question Of The Day #44: Scoundrels!

Weekly Theme: Finance

Connect the pictures to a financial term.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Rogue Trader. A rogue trader is an authorized employee making unauthorized trades on behalf of their employer. It is most often applicable to financial trading, where professional traders make unapproved financial transactions.
Persons in the pic are:
-Kweku Adoboli was a Ghanian-born British trader at Swiss bank UBS’ Global Synthetic Equities Trading team in London and is best known for his role in the 2011 UBS rogue trader scandal.
-Nicholas "Nick" William Leeson is a former derivatives broker whose fraudulent, unauthorized speculative trading caused the collapse of Barings Bank.
-Toshihide Iguchi  is a former Japanese government bond trader at Daiwa Bank responsible for $1.1 billion in losses involving 30,000 unauthorized trades over a period of 11 years beginning in 1984.

Question Of The Day #43: Comical!

The questions for this week are based on the theme: Finance

What are these, and who is the publisher?

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

The Money Kumar Comic series, published by RBI as a financial education initiative by RBI to educate the school going children.

Question Of The Day #42: Air-borne!

Weekly Theme: Business

Connect, and put funda.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

GVK Group. CSIA-chatrapathi shivaji intl airport, bangalore intl airport, angkasapura airport in indonesia is being built by GVK Group.

Question Of The Day #41: Stars @ Starbucks

Weekly Theme: Business

What's so special about these people, which connects them beyond Starbucks?

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Avani Saglani Davda - CEO of Tata Starbucks, and R K Krishna Kumar - Director on the Tata Sons board, chairman of Tata Coffee et al. Both are products of the Tata Administrative Services (TAS) programme.

Question Of The Day #40: Connect.

Weekly Theme: Business

Connect (Exhaustive List).

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

The three final bidders when BALCO (Bharat Aluminium Corporation Ltd) was privatised. Klaus Kleinfield - CEO of Alcoa Inc., Kumar Mangalam Birla - Chairman of Hindalco Industries Ltd., Anil Agarwal - Chairman of Sterlite Industries India Ltd. 

Question Of The Day #39: The Pioneer

Weekly Theme: Business

• The entire business of brand building in India started with X's first ad for West end Watches. 
• X also advertised the now defunct gripe water brand, Ramthirth Brahmi Oil, the first ever Indian color ad. 

Identify X.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Dattaram Advertising & Co. http://www.dattaram.com/inside.html

Question Of The Day #38: You must buy!

Weekly Theme: Business

What's the link between the following personalities:

a) The person behind the clothing line ‘Rich & Infamous’ which is no more in prevalence. 

b) Lee Iacocca, the author of the famous bestseller 'Where Have All the Leaders Gone?'

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

The famous Chrysler commercial starring Snoop Dogg and Lee Iacocca -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJGWVLK6sJU

Question Of The Day #37: The Trimurthis

Weekly Theme: Business

Who's missing in the list? Connect, and put funda.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)


Famous people who lost their jobs after the recent JWT-Ford controversy. 
Vijay Simha Vellanki, Creative Director at Blue Hive, a WPP unit; Sriram Padmanabhan, Vice President – Marketing, Ford Motor Company, and the missing person is Bobby Pawar, JWT India’s Chief Creative Officer and Managing Partner.

Question Of The Day #36: Royal Identity

Weekly Theme: Business Quiz

Connect the pictures.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Bobby Kooka is the man who, as Air India's Commercial Director and Umesh Rao, an artist with J.Walter Thompson Ltd., Mumbai, together created the Maharajah, the now famous mascot of Air India. http://www.airindia.com/SBCMS/Webpages/The-Maharajah.aspx

Question Of The Day #35: It's Snack Time!

And that brings us to the week's final question on Food.


The first mention of this famous dish is said to be in the original version of the book shown below. It is a history of the Ghaznavid Empire written by Abul-Fazl Bayhaqi in Persian in the 11th century CE. Which dish is being referred to here?

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

SAMOSA 

Question Of The Day #34: The number's 74!

Weekly Theme: Food

Why is this map present in this week's quiz? Put funda.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

This map shows the 74 villages in southern Tamil Nadu, which are collectively known as the Chettinad region. It's famous for its culinary delicacies which come under the Chettinad cuisine.

Question Of The Day #33: Newsmaker

Weekly Theme: Food

Why was this place in the news earlier this year? (Attention to Details, you see :D)

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Mr. Du Xin, a die-hard fan of the TV Series FRIENDS, has opened a mini replica of the show's Central Perk café in Beijing, China in January 2013. The café serves the same snacks mentioned in the show and the menus are filled with fun facts and details from the series.

Question Of The Day #32: Royal Dish?

Weekly Theme: Food

Which dish owes its origin to the person in the image?

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Though recent research contradicts this theory, the popular Pizza Margherita is considered to be named after Queen Margherita of Savoy, Italy. 

Question Of The Day #31: Love

Weekly Theme: Food

What has been blanked out? Give full funda.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Hershey's Kisses model street lamps. Chocolate Avenue was one of the first two streets built in the town of Hershey by Milton Hershey when he built up the town for his chocolate empire; the other was Cocoa Avenue. The intersection of Chocolate Avenue and Cocoa Avenue has alternately wrapped and unwrapped Kiss street lamps.

Question Of The Day #30: Lip-smacking!

Weekly Theme: Food

Identify, and what is its world-famous contribution to Indian Cuisine? Put funda.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

The Chennai-based restaurant chain, Buhari Hotels, known to be the pioneers of ‘Chicken 65’. “Apparently, it was the 65th item on the menu and the fry was made from a 65-day-old chicken,” says its director. “But in reality we started serving chicken fry from 1965. Until then it was only available with gravy."

Question Of The Day #29: Spicy!

The central theme for this week's questions shall be Food.

This province (In the pic) is named after the existing circuit was divided into four provinces in the period of the Northern Song Dynasty. What is the province's name, and how is it connected to food and cuisine?

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Sichuan is a province located in the southwest of the People's Republic of China. The Szechwan cuisine owes its origin to this region.

Question Of The Day #28: Pioneer in Publicity

And, that brings us to the final question of the week on Music.

WHO is he, and what strange thing perhaps owes its origin to him?

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

The who, Pete Townshend, known for breaking guitar on the stage for first time.

Question Of The Day #27: No Clues Today :P

Weekly Theme: Music

Connect, and who's missing?

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

27 Club, and Amy Winehouse. The 27 Club is a term used to refer to popular musicians who have died at the age of 27, often as a result of drug and alcohol abuse.Robert Johnson, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain all died at the age of 27. Amy Winehouse was the latest addition to the list in 2011.

Question Of The Day #26: Identify.

Weekly Theme: Music

Identify, connect and put funda.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Pink Floyd. 
Storm Elvin Thorgerson was an English graphic designer, most famously known for his designs for Pink Floyd. His design of a Prism for The Dark Side of the Moon has been called one of the greatest album covers of all time.     And, Pink Floyd sang the famous song 'We dont need no education'. 

Question Of The Day #25: Endangered

Weekly Theme: Music

Connect.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Abbey Road Studios. It was established in November 1931 by the Gramophone Company. The British Government protected the site, granting it English Heritage Grade II listed status in 2010. It is most notable as being the venue in the 1960s for innovative recording techniques adopted by The Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Hollies, Badfinger and others. 

Question Of The Day #24: Put Funda.

Weekly Theme: Music

Connect the pictures to the name of a Band and the particular song. Put funda.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

"Yellow" is a song by British alternative rock band Coldplay. The band wrote the song and co-produced it with British record producer Ken Nelson for their debut album, Parachutes (2000).

Question Of The Day #23: Connect

Weekly Theme: Music

Connect to a band.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

The band, 'Indian Ocean' has composed music in all the mentioned movies. Clockwise from Top Left: Yeh Mera India, Peepli Live, Black Friday, Mumbai Cutting.