Quiz of the Day - 15 June 2012

The "famous quotation" theme continues for the daily quiz.

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This famous quotation was mentioned by Oriana Fallaci in The New York Review of Books, while describing the profile of a political leader. The quotation goes,

"My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not."

Identify the famous leader.

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Answer: Its none other than our "Iron Lady" Mrs. Indira Gandhi.

Congratulations to Anshuman and Prithviraj Sarkar for getting the answer right.

Quiz of the Day - 11 June 2012

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Let's take up a "visual connect" question for today's daily quiz.
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Identify the logo displayed in the picture on the right hand side. And, connect this with the original "Iron Lady", Margaret Thatcher, the Tory Prime Minister of Britain.
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The answer, along with the names of the persons with the right answer, will be published tomorrow.

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Answer: The logo is that of the Dakar Car Rally.
The connection is Mark Thatcher.
In 1982, Mark Thatcher, son of the then British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, along with his French co-driver Charlotte Verney and their mechanic, disappeared for six days. On January 9, the trio became separated from a convoy of vehicles after they stopped to make repairs to a faulty steering arm. They were declared missing on January 12; after a large-scale search, a Lockheed L100 search plane from the Algerian military spotted their white Peugeot 504 some 50 km (30 mi) off course. Thatcher, Verney and the mechanic were all unharmed.
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