Question of the day #30: Risk & Reward

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Question of the day #129: Emerging

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X, a Member of the Red Knights recently(2013) retired as the chairman of  the asset management division of an American multinational investment bank. He is responsible for coining two of the widely used terms to refer to a set of countries.

Identify X, and the two terms?

 

Question Of The Day #128: Debutant

 

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Question Of The Day #127: Pound foolish

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Question Of The Day #126: Returns..

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What is special about this novel ?

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

The novel 'House of Silk' marks the official return of Sherlock Holmes in print.

Question Of The Day #125: Alternative History

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This is the theme of a novel written in 2011.Id the novel.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Stephen King’s novel 11/22/63 (the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated) tells an alternative history of JFK surviving the attempt

Question Of The Day #124: Project

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This painting was the code name for a project by a  technology company.How do we better know the project ?

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Code name of Google + was Emerald Sea

Question Of The Day #123: Team

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Id the group

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

The group is Rat Pack and members are Humphrey Bogart,Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop

Question Of The Day #122: Social Media

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Connect him to this week's theme.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Larry Joe Bird is an American former NBA basketball player and coach.Twitter's logo is named Larry in honor of Larry Bird.

Question Of The Day #121: Merger

Weekly Theme: Media

Id the new entity

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

  Penguin Random House.

Question Of The Day #120: Lingo

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Connect 22-22-22 to this week's theme.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

It means a 22-year-old willing to work 22-hour days for $22,000 a year.

Question Of The Day #119: For the foodies!

Weekly Theme: ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Identify X. Also establish the link between X and naukri.com

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

  Zomato.com founded by Mr. Deepinder Goyal. Zomato is funded by the Info Edge, which owns naukri.com.

Question Of The Day #118: Connect

Weekly Theme: ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Connect to a start-up venture.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Instagram.The first photo is that of Instagram's user interface which is being acquired by Facebook.

Question Of The Day #117: French Connection!

Weekly Theme: ENTREPRENEURSHIP

A leading French chef once told Mr. X: "Creativity is not copying." Mr. X took that prophetic advice to heart and set out to be truly different. Adrià and his team concoct dishes closer to an artist's process than mere cooking, in what has become known as "Y," all based on the premise of exploring the unexplored. Identify the resturant Mr. X is associated with and also name Y.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

 Mr X: Ferran Adria, Resturant: El bulli, Y- Technique concept cuisine.

Question Of The Day #116: Fundraiser!

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Connect & Put funda.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

From left clockwise: Torment tides of Numera video game, Veronica Mars Movie Project, Pebble-e papers, Ouya video consoles.All the above projects are funded by crowdfunding, where money was gathered on kickstarter.com

Question Of The Day #115: Rising up the ranks!

Weekly Theme: ENTREPRENEURSHIP

The startup X is the 35 th entry in the e-commerce business and having a marketplace model (2^nd only after snapdeal). Founded in 2011 the company gained the 5^th position in the market . It was also awarded as the ‘Best E-Commerce Site of the Year’ by Global Youth Marketing Forum under Social Media Summit & Awards. Identify the startup and founder. Identify X.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Shopclues.com and  Mr. Sandeep Aggarwal

Question Of The Day #114: Why Red Bull?

Weekly Theme: ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Identify the energy drink shown in the picture. Also name it’s founder.

Question Of The Day #113: Happy Journey!

Weekly Theme: ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Identify the group having X &Y companies in their portfolio. Also name the founder of X and the founder of the group that took it over recently.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Ibibo group - X- Redbus.in & Y- Gaadi.com; Founder of X- Phanindra Sama, Founder of ibibo group- Ashish Kashyap

Question Of The Day #112: Achievers...err...not Enough!

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Connect the exhaustive list.

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Kathleen McKane Godfree, Cilly Aussem, Karen Hantze Susman, Ann Haydon-Jones, Virginia Wade, Conchita Martínez, Jana Novotná, Petra Kvitová are the only seven women tennis players to have won the Wimbledon title but never reached the No.1 spot in WTA rankings in their career till date. (Add Marion Bartoli to the list this time, provided she never reaches the top spot)

Question Of The Day #111: Respect!

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The practice was in place ever since the origin of the Wimbledon Championships. But, in 2003, HRH the Duke of Kent, the President of the All England Club decided to do away with this. What is being referred to here?

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Previously, players bowed or curtsied to members of the Royal Family seated in the Royal Box upon entering or leaving Centre Court. In 2003, however, the President of the All England Club, His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, decided to discontinue the tradition.

Question Of The Day #110: In memoriam!

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Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Aorangi Terrace is named after the Aorangi Park, the London New Zealand Rugby Club's grounds, which takes its name from Aoraki, the highest mountain in New Zealand. It is more famously known as Murray Mound, Rusedski Ridge or the most famous of all, HENMAN HILL. It is an area in the grounds of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club where, during the annual Wimbledon tennis championship, crowds of people without showcourt tickets can watch the tennis matches live on a giant television screen at the side of No. 1 Court.

Question Of The Day #109: Precious commodity!

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The reason for this is not very certain, but the Wimbledon museum sources say that there is a myth that this could probably have had its origins from a particular practice of the captains in British Navy back in the 17th century when they came back from sea to their homes. What is being referred here, and how is it related to the weekly theme? 

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Pineapple on top of the Wimbledon men's champion trophy. The pineapple design adorns the top of the lid. The explanation that it could date back to the tradition where captains in the British navy coming back from sea put a pineapple on the gateposts of their home.

Question Of The Day #108: After an Eternity!

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This particular thing has occurred for the first time in this year's Wimbledon Championships, after a gap of 86 years. What is being referred to here?

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

This year is the first time since 1927 in which both men and women's defending champions were eliminated before the quarter-finals.  Roger Federer was eliminated in the second round by Sergiy Stakhovsky and Serena Williams lost in the fourth round to Sabine Lisicki.

Question Of The Day #107: Painful Memories!

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What is the significance of this incident in the history of Wimbledon? Put funda.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

The British doubles pair, Jeremy Bates and Tim Henman, became the first players to be disqualified at Wimbledon in the Open era when they were defaulted in 1995 after Henman accidentally fired a ball into the head of a ball-girl. The full video is present at www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaU36uLT_jE