Keep Guessing #64

Connect the following....

Keep Guessing #63

This bank is headquartered in London, which is pretty odd to its origin and its old name.

Some of its prominent acquisitions include....

and

Midland Bank

Keep Guessing #61

Why this ??

Keep Guessing #56

Initially X was started as 'Brahmanara Coffee Club' in 1924 and changed the name in 1951 to the present one. During World War II, rice was in short supply. X experimented with wheat and thus was born the enormously popular "Y."In 1976, during emergency, X started instant foods business due to the price controls imposed by the Indira Gandhi Government.
Identify this successful desi company/brand (X) and Y?

Keep Guessing #52

What is the connect.

Ans : James Wilson, India's first finance minister and the founder of the economist and standard chartered bank.

Ankush got it right.

Keep Guessing#51

In medieval times Italian moneylenders used benches in the marketplace to conduct business. Latin for bench was X, which transferred to English as Y. These lenders were required to publicly break up their benches if their businesses failed, this was termed as A, which transferred to English as B.
The Latin expression being XA-, became YB in English. What are XA, YB?

Ans: X-Banca Y-Bank A-rupta B- rupt, so XA- Bancarupta and YB-Bankrupt.

Keep Guessing #50

Since its our half century, we bring a bunch of good questions for your knowledge.

Q.1 Whats the connect.





Ans: The connect is Parle, better to stay Parle-Bisleri.


Q.2 Who is she, and whats her name?




Ans:She is the world's first sex robot Roxxy.

Q.3 Identify this logo.
( Kangroo on a staple diet)


No one got it right. It is Kangaro, the ubiquitous brand of staplers.

Q.4 i3, i5, i7....... explain?

Ans: The 2010 edition of Intel chips.


Q.5 Explain what is it?




Ans: Big Mac Index


Q.6 A revolution in itself, explain?




Ans: One more revolution from the house of tatas, TATA SWACH, low cost water purifier.

Q.7 Identify the brands.


Ans:Carrefour, soon to sign its deal with Future Group.



Ans: Vicks



Ans: Apollo Munich



Ans; Micromax

Q.8. Who is the author of this book?



Ans:Peter Cappelli, Harbir Singh, Jitendra Singh, Michael Useem of Harvard Business School.

Keep Guessing #46

Identify this man and what is he doing.
(A tough nut to crack)

Hint: he keeps books.

Ans: Lucas Pacioli, He is the father of accountancy, or double entry book keeping.

Keep Guessing #40

Identify this infamous character.Hint: a depiction of the old time Jewish money lenders of Europe.

Ans: Shylock, the merchant of Venice. Cracked by Saksham, PL and kaushik.

Keep Guessing #38

Identify the connect.

















Ans: G. D Birla
founder of all the three organisation.

Cracked by one and all.

Keep Guessing #36

X Inc. was an American computer company headquartered in Redwood City, California, that developed and manufactured a series of computer workstations intended for the higher education and business markets. X was founded in 1985 by Y's co-founder Z after his forced resignation from Y.

Identify X, Y and Z.

Identify him also.
He is the co founder of Y.











Ans: X-Next, Y- Apple computer, Z-Steve Jobs.
the person in the pic is Steve Woznaik.

Cracked by Sriram, bangalore, Kundappan, rocky, chirag and arnav.

Keep Guessing #35

Identify.













Hint: refer lPg.

Ans: C Rangarajan of rangarajan comittee (and also the ex governor of RBI)

Cracked by kapman, rocky, bangalore and sriram.

Keep Guessing#30

Beyond Boundaries.............

Identify them and find the connection.

















Ans: Muhammad ali jinnah and nusli wadia, nusli wadia is the only grandson of muhammad ali jinnah.

Cracked by Ashwini_nit, sandeep and Raklodrama.

Keep Guessing#27

X is a company founded by Y in 1989 and is based in Seattle, Washington. Y is a also the founder of one of the largest computer technology corporation of world. It sells and otherwise distributes photography and film footage and related rights. It has a collection of more than 100 million images and a footage library. Identify X and Y.

Ans: X is Corbis and Y is Bill Gates.

Cracked by Ajay.

Keep Guessing#15

Identify this magazine, which is one of the leading fashion magazine in world(it is the missing thing) and find the connect. So this question is a lead to the #14 as it wasn't cracked.

Hint : this magazine is owned by Hearst Corporation of USA and was first published in 1867.













Ans: Harper's Bazzar.
Cracked by Saurabh and Varun.

Keep Guessing#5

Identify the images and find the connect.

Ans: Bretton Woods Agreement the person in the pic is Keynes.

Keep Guessing#4

It was a project, conducted during World War II primarily by the United States, to develop X. Formally called as the Manhattan Engineer District, it refers specifically to the period of the project from 1942–1946 under the control of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, under the administration of General Leslie R. Groves. The scientific research was directed by an American physicist Y. This led to the invention of X. Identify X and Y. (the hint is in the question it self)

Ans: X is Atom Bomb
Y is Oppenheimer
It is famously referred as the Manhattan Project (the duke nukem one).