Wednesday, April 23, 2008

A Greedy Gaming God...

1. Cars change, from a Benz to a Fransisco Motors to Land Rover and back to Mercedes - Benz. And no matter what the country is , the registration number is always SCV - 1 . For whom is this number reserved ?

Ans: The car is the POPEMOBILe, and the person is , of course, the POPE.


2. What is this a list of ?

Wal-Mart Stores
Exxon Mobil
General Motors
Chevron
ConocoPhillips
General Electric
Ford Motor
Citigroup
Bank of America Corp.
American Intl. Group

Ans: THE TEN LARGEST COMPANIES OF THE WORLd, according to FORTUNE.


3. Started by Simon King, a researcher at the University of Minnesota, this website, one of the largest in the world, saw an investment by Satyam Computers. Later on, it was taken over by Sir Paul Getty's company, becoming the flagship site of that group , displacing its original one. It is now owned by ESPN. Which site?

Ans: CRICINFO.COM

6 comments:

Mayur said...

1. The Pope.
3. Cricinfo ??

Anonymous said...

I GOOGLED THE FIRST ONE ...HAHA...COULDNT RESIST THE TEMPTATION...GOOD QUESTION...2ND ONE...HMM... THE LIST OF COMPANIES WHICH HAD FUNDED US PRESIDENT GEORGE "jACKASS" BUSH'S ELECTION CAMPAIGN ??...I have no clue about the third one

jollyrover said...

third one is Sportsline i gues...

nice set of q's man...
my link is http://quizzingatnitw.blogspot.com

put up the link on ur site and ill reciprocate

/peace\
Pranav

Anonymous said...

1)the pope... came in news recently also.. the pic had him in his caar with that number... ha ha ha...

Unknown said...

first one should be the pope n the third one wisden.com

Anand Shankar said...

1)Pope
2)Top ten companies in the world?(top of fortune 500 companies?
3)Cricinfo?

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