CLUE 1: After taking out a law degree, he went to the Paris School of Art, where he studied painting under Bouguereau. Seemingly destined to a career in the arts, he was soon called on to manage the small family business in Clermont-Ferrand.
CLUE 2: He held the post for 51 years, during which time he transformed a modest factory into an international group. At the time of his death the company had 25000 employees.
CLUE 3:
Answer: Edouard Michelin
QUESTION 2
CLUE 1: He overcame Dyslexia, struggled his way through Stanford, did odd jobs like bagging walnuts, caddying, tractor driving, and so forth throughout his school years. At the age of 12, he started raising chickens, and sold everything except feathers – the eggs, the droppings as fertiliser, and the bird itself at the end of its life cycle.
CLUE 2: His company bought US Trust, a private banking specialist, in 2002 for $2.7bn. Later, his company also acquired CyberTrade.com, a day-trade firm. Before he hit big time in 1975, he put money into a lot of unsuccessful ventures like Congoland USA, a drive-through zoo, and the Music Expo of 1972, a concert featuring Chuck Berry.
CLUE 3:
Answer: Charles Schwab
CLUE 1: He was born in Auckland, New Zealand, and was greatly influenced by his garage proprietor father who raced both cars and motor cycles. His first 'real' racing car was a 1929 'Ulster' Austin Seven in which he competed in local hillclimbs.
CLUE 2: He became the youngest-ever Grand Prix race winner at the US Grand Prix in 1959 and Founded his own company in partnership with Teddy Mayer and Tyler Alexander in 1964.
CLUE 3: 
Answer: Bruce McLaren
QUESTION 4
CLUE 1: He was the sixth of 16 children, and a Virginia native. He knew virtually every employee of his company by their name. He was instrumental in getting roads built in the town, helped establish a savings bank, and served as a city commissioner.
CLUE 2: He and his wife supported numerous educational and human-service efforts in the community. He founded a famous company in 1875 when he was 25 yrs old.
CLUE 3:
Answer: R.J.Reynolds CLUE 1: He was raised in Delhi by a bureaucrat father and a schoolteacher mom. He Studied engineering at the University of Delhi and later moved to the States to get a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Northwestern University with only a $4,000 loan from his dad.
CLUE 2: Norwest Venture Partners
CLUE 3:
Answer: Pramod Haque
QUESTION 6
CLUE 1: He was born in India in the year 1954 in an army family. After his studies, he started working as a Management consultant. In 1984, he joined the Pacific Telesis Group in San Francisco.
CLUE 2: In 2000, he became the CEO of InfoSpace Inc., a small Internet software and content organization in the US.
CLUE 3:
QUESTION 7
CLUE 1: His net worth is $15bn. A onetime Communist Youth League activist, he made a fortune in the early 1990s in banking and commodities.
CLUE 2: In 1995, he bought a huge company from his country’s Govt. at a fraction of its market value.
CLUE 3:
Answer: Mikhail Khodorkovsky
QUESTION 8
CLUE 1: Born in London, he worked as a programmer, tried his hand at typesetting software and an operating system and, in 1980, came up with the idea of a project based on 'hypertext' while working at CERN -- the European Organization for Particle Physics Research.
CLUE 2: Time magazine cited him as one of the 100 greatest minds of the twentieth century. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society, an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Fellow of the Royal Society.
CLUE 3:
Answer: Sir Timothy Berners-Lee
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This Quiz is open till Wednesday 9th July, 2008.
