Daily Question 71

This island was discovered in 1574. Its claim to fame came in the years 1704-1709.

It was given its current name by the Chile government in 1966.

Put fundaes



Robinson Crusoe island

Cracked by Arbit, Ajay parasuraman and anon

Daily Question 70

Connect





The Beverly Hilton Hotel has hosted the Golden Globe Awards since 1961

Anon got it right, and yes, it was an arbit question

Daily Question 69

All text. Sent in by Aravind

The Knights Hospitaller was a Christian organization that began as an Amalfitan hospital founded in Jerusalem in 1080 to provide care for poor, sick or injured pilgrims to the Holy Land.

Charles V of Spain, as King of Sicily, gave them ___ , Gozo and the North African port of Tripoli in perpetual fiefdom in exchange for an annual fee of a single ________ , which they were to send on All Souls Day to the King's representative, the Viceroy of Sicily. This fact was used Dashiell Hammett as a narrative hook in his hit novel.
Fill in __

Malta and Maltese Falcon

Cracked by Peregrine, Mathew, Vijay Shankar, Chander, Abstract randomness

Daily Question 68

What it is?



Special Haj notes which were issued by RBI for the use in Saudi Arabia

cracked by Priyananda

Daily Question 67

Game released as an ad for?



Burger King

Cracked by Vignesh, Ajay Parasuraman and Peregrine

Daily Question 66

And we're back folks.... after a great Saarang

Connect these two people




Nicholas "Nick" Leeson whose unsupervised and unauthorized speculative trading on Singapore's Singapore International Monetary Exchange (SIMEX) caused the spectacular collapse of Barings Bank, the United Kingdom's oldest investment bank.

Jérôme Kerviel is a French trader who has been charged in the January 2008 Société Générale trading loss incident, resulting in losses valued at approximately €4.9 billion.

Cracked by Vijay Shankar and Kaballah

Announcement

Dear Quizzers,

Due to a combination of an insanely slow internet connection, and Saarang 2009, this blog will be down until the 25th of january.

We will resume the daily question series on Monday, January 26th.

Have a great week.

-Srivats