30 June 2013

Question Of The Day #106: The Royal Battle!

Weekly Theme: WIMBLEDON

How is this uniquely connected to the All England Lawn Tennis Championships?



Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

King George the Sixth (of The King’s Speech fame) became the only member of the Royal family to compete at Wimbledon when he partnered Louis Greig to lose in the first round.

29 June 2013

Question of The Day#105: Man of Controversy

Weekly theme: Leaders

This famous leader once said that the his style of holding the state is at times referred to as authoritarian. His started of his career by working for the main security agency of his country. His interests include judo & swimming in ice cold water. Identify.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Vladimir Putin

28 June 2013

Question Of The Day#104: Identify

Weekly Theme: Leaders


Identify.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Jack Ma- the owner of Alibaba group, which is the worlds largest online retailer.

27 June 2013

Question Of The Day #103: Controversial Demise

Weekly Theme: Leaders


After the death of one of the two founders of a large private bank of India, a court case is going on over a seat on the board of the company. Identify the company and the also name the cause of the persons death.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Yes Bank; Non-executive chairman Ashok Kapur was killed by terrorists in the Trident-Oberoi hotel complex in Mumbai 26/11 attacks.

26 June 2013

Question Of The Day #102: The Hero of the Thames

Weekly Theme: Leaders

Connect battle of Morvian town & William Henry Harrison. Give another interesting facet of this person.


Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

William Henry Harrison led US in battle of morvian town. He holds the record for shortest term for a US president (only 32 days) before he died of pneumonia.

25 June 2013

Question Of The Day #101: The Guruji

Weekly Theme: Leaders


Connect. Also the person was referred to as a guru by a famous CEO. 


Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Vivek Ranadive, who was referred to as Guru by Steve Jobs.

24 June 2013

Question Of The Day #100: Great Father!

Weekly Theme: Leaders

Identify this famous dictator who is hardly seen in public appearances. He happens to be the reason for the house arrest of a famous peace leader for over a decade.



Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Than Shwe, Dictator of myanmar. Leader under house arrest : Aung San Suu Kyi.

23 June 2013

Question The Day #99: Survivor

Weekly Theme: Leaders

The actual number of assassination attempts against him is unknown. Not a single assassination plan is known to have come close to succeeding.CIA has made multiple assasination attempts among this to kill this leader. Some of these methods are depicted in a documentary tiltled "______ways to kill _____".Name the leader.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Leader - Fidel Castro; Documentary: 638 Ways to kill Castro.

14 June 2013

Question Of The Day #97: The Concealed Truth!

Weekly Theme: BOLLYWOOD

What's so special about the song sequences in the movie shown in the video?


13 June 2013

Question Of The Day #96: Anonymous!

Weekly Theme: BOLLYWOOD

Why was this company recently in the news in the field of showbiz? Put funda.



Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri Limited (TBZ) denied the Special 26 director Neeraj Pandey shooting of the fake raid shot of its jewellery store on request to evoke the memories of the real incident. The incident in reference is that of a day light robbery when 26 men along with the mastermind Ajay Singh raided the store and walked away with all cash and jewellery.

12 June 2013

Question Of The Day #95: The Hollywood Connection!

Weekly Theme: BOLLYWOOD


Connect, and identify the missing person. (Hint: Think of the weekly theme again)


Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

The missing person is Dillip Kumar.. Horst Buchholz ,Alain Delon ,Maurice Ronet and Dilip Kumar declined the role of Sherif Ali ibn el Kharish in the famous movie Lawrence of Arabia.

11 June 2013

Question Of The Day #94: Filmy Factor!

Weekly Theme: BOLLYWOOD

The movie shown in the image was filmed in a peculiar manner. Why? Put funda.




Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

The movie Rockstar - the film was shot in reverse way as the crew didn't want to break the continuity of Ranbir's hairstyle. Thus, the climax with long hair was shot first.

10 June 2013

Question Of The Day #93: The Philanthropist!

Theme of the week: BOLLYWOOD

The person in the picture, along with her husband has been working with NGOs in southern Tamil Nadu, post the Tsunami on Boxer Day. They're currently working with Relief Projects India towards mainly the welfare of female children in southern Tamil Nadu, in and around Madurai.



How are they connected to this week's theme, through which we know her better?

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Suzanna Joseph (in the pic) and her husband, Jesse Joseph are the parents of Bollywood superstar Katrina Kaif.

9 June 2013

Question Of The Day #92: Kismat Connect!

This week's theme is the mother of all, BOLLYWOOD!!!

Connect, and give full funda.



Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

The Vidya Balan jinx. She was set to debut in the Malayalam movie Chakram opposite Mohanlal, but it got shelved due to unknown reasons, and was later made with Prithviraj and Meera Jasmine. Her second movie Kalari Vikraman with Mukesh was never released. Then she was signed up for the tamil movies 'Run' and 'Manasellam' from which she was dropped after the start of shooting. She came back strongly to make her debut in the bengali movie Bhalo Theko, and there's no looking back ever since.

8 June 2013

Question Of The Day #91: Power of Women

And this question ends our weekly theme on Business Women.

Who are the duo? And why were they in the news earlier this year?



Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Vanitha Narayanan, MD, IBM India and Kumud Srinvasan President Intel India - became heads of large multinational technology firms in the country in January 2013.

7 June 2013

Question of The Day #90: Timeline

Weekly Theme: Business Women

Connect to this week's theme and put funda.



Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Kirthiga Reddy - currently the Director of Online Operations and Head of Office India at Facebook. She was the first employee to join Facebook India, in July 2010. Her career timeline is given in the picture.

6 June 2013

Question Of The Day #89: Identify

Weekly Theme: Business Women


The lady X working in banking sector for 29 years was a CEO contender but finally gave in to the person Y, an alumnus of JBIMS. Now X is the CEO of third largest bank in private sector in India. Both ladies have featured in 100 most powerful women list. Identify X and Y.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

X- Shikha Sharma, CEO & MD of Axis Bank Y- Chanda Kochhar, CEO of ICICI Bank

5 June 2013

Question Of The Day #88: The blessing in disguise!

Weekly Theme: Business Women

The women X was one of the first women entrepreneurs in the world making her fortunes by selling cosmetics. The business expanded, and she eventually opened stores in London , Paris and New York in early 20th century. She once sold her firm to Lehman Brothers in 1920 to save her marriage to buy it back for pennies in the era of Great Depression. Identify the woman X and the company founded by her.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Helena Rubinstein & Helena Rubinstein Inc.

4 June 2013

Question Of The Day #87: Fashionista!

Weekly Theme: Business Women

X recently received a Padma Shree for her exceptional work in field of textiles. She is credited with first Indian woman to bring in the ‘boutique culture’ under a certain brand name. She is also associated with the femina Miss India. Identify X and the brand.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

X-Ritu Kumar, Brand - Ritu

3 June 2013

Question Of The Day #86: Empowerment in Education!

Weekly Theme: Business Women


The woman X from Italy is best known for the educational philosophy bearing her name which encourage children to be self-directed learners. It is practiced in around 30000 schools around the world. The woman was nominated twice for the Nobel peace prize. She opened the first classroom by the name of Y in the 20th century. Identify X & Y.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

X - Dr. Maria Montessori Y - Casa dei Bambini 

2 June 2013

Question Of The Day #85: Show of Strength!

Weekly Theme: Business Women

This is an all women driven cooperative came into existence with the effort of 7 ladies in 1950’s with a mere seed capital of Rs 80.  It soon became a symbol of women strength and is now headed by the person X who is the president of the organisation. Rabbit has been an eternal part of the product packaging of the cooperative.  Identify the person X and the cooperative being talked about.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Cooperative - Shri Mahila Griha Udyog Lijjat Papad President - Ms. Swati Paradkar

1 June 2013

Question Of The Day #84: Team

Weekly Theme: IPO


A temporary group of financial services formed during an IPO to manage large transactions which individually would be very difficult or impossible to manage. This group is known as ?

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Syndicate.