    Name the fictional couple who appeared in ads run by the insurance industry in the US to block the government&rsquo;s health care plan.

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    This board game created by an Indian is probably the world&rsquo;s first on intellectual property rights. Name it.

Answers to last week's quiz (#098)

I want to purchase either a Maruti 800 or a Maruti Omni five-seater with LPG.

Gas pedal

Why lug around a heavy laptop when you can tuck in a slick little netbook in your handbag? Priyanka Joshi advises you to travel smart.

Slip it in your pocket

With the Commonwealth Games on the anvil, the focus is on Delhi learning some valuable lessons from other mega cities of the world. Bharati Motwani comes back from Melbourne charmed by its sophisticated sensibilities.

Public art and an evolved city

It comes as no surprise when LATIKA KHANEJA, director, Collage Sports Management, lists her golf set as one of her most prized possessions. She says that her love for golf has grown over the years and golf sets from Ping are her favourite. The set in question is &ldquo;something which I bought a couple of years back, and is extremely lucky for me&rdquo;, she says.

Playing the field

Gallerists in India &mdash; and elsewhere &mdash;have been waiting out the low season for several months now. However, many are still marching on bravely, putting up planned exhibitions, knowing that very little will sell. Galleries, on the other hand, are still ensuring that they remain visible at the usual art fairs around the world, enduring the status quo &mdash; mostly selling nothing. Of these, one gallery finds that it might be lucking out, thanks to its attempt to make art affordable.

Braving the lows

The Sofia MTel Super GM has Carlsen and Shirov tied at the top with 4.5 points from 7 games. Veselin Topalov is 4. Both leaders are unbeaten. There are five rounds to go so, plenty of time for the standings to change.

CHESS #589

A new volume of essays brings together disparate Indian and Pakistani voices, on themes ranging from politics and economy to cricket and art.

Them against Us or them and us?

So, after a month of notably low public discourse, it&rsquo;s all over. The ink applied in nearly 8,35,000 polling booths is fading on something like 41,30,00,000 fingernails; the 46,90,575 polling personnel have gone home, and the election commission has gathered its well-deserved bouquets.

Belgian Conga

Ogyen Trinley Dorje hopes to get a university education, but will the government allow it? Anand Sankar wonders.

The Karmapa breaks his silence

One of my favourite columnists, David Brooks of the New York Times, this week wrote that CEOs need not bother to read novels. In the column, titled &ldquo;In Praise of Dullness&rdquo;, Brooks cited a study according to which, he says, successful CEOs are &ldquo;humble, self-effacing, diligent and resolute souls&rdquo; &mdash; dependable plodders. The readerly advantages of &ldquo;greater psychological insight, a feel for human relationships, a greater sensitivity toward their own emotional chords&rdquo; are useless for CEOs.

Humble soul

The first gay wedding to be conducted under Hindu rites took place in Durban, South Africa, recently (no, it wasn&rsquo;t at an IPL match venue) and what I found most interesting about the event was the ingenious nod it made to tradition. The happy couple, Joe Singh and Wesley Nolan, employed a Tamil priest to conduct the rites, did a hawan prayer and even used a Lord Ganesha pendant to &ldquo;ward off evil and remove obstacles from their path&rdquo;. (They drew the line at kumkum dots.

Gay jo hai zindagi

Cinepolis, the world's fifth largest multiplex chain, is set to come to India.

Coming soon...

The rulers now increasingly look and behave like the ruled. Rrishi Raote on the emergence of decency in politics and the rise of the metrosexual politician.

'Bhadralok' politicians

Think of summer in the Mediterranean and images of a cold gazpacho soup over lunch automatically float into your mind. In India too, there has been a long tradition of summer foods. The mango panna, for instance &mdash; tart, spicy and aromatic with mint &mdash; has long been favoured to ward off the heat. Similarly, there is little to beat the lightness and wholesomeness of a meal of curd-rice.

New summer foods

Skoda finally launches the Laura 1.8 TSI petrol.

Club Skoda

REAMS of newsprint have already been expended on how the globe is now merely a village, how we carry our world in shaving blade-thin mobile phones, how the moon is just a flight away and how we will soon have our very own private soap-bubbles for personal transport.

Tata Sky&#39;s delectable solution

ICICI Bank&rsquo;s market cap, growing at breakneck speed until last year, hit a speed breaker on October 10, 2008, when its share plunged 20 per cent in a single day. The fall, which the bank executives attributed to &ldquo;malicious rumour-mongering&rdquo; in their complaint to the police two days later, has become a precursor to a series of image makeovers for the bank in the last few months.

Soft makeover for ICICI

The amiable M G Parameswaran aka Ambi, CEO of Draft FCB Ulka, is one of a kind in the crazy world of advertising. A chemical engineer, he&rsquo;s an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, who later studied management at IIM-Kolkata. He received the Distinguished Alumnus Award &mdash; 2009 from IIT-Chennai for &ldquo;professional accomplishments, outstanding leadership qualities and contribution to the advertising industry&rdquo;. The author of three books on branding and advertising told Sapna Agarwal that a slowdown is the best time to launch new products and create excitement.

'This is the best time to launch new products'

If you are looking for clothes for extreme cold weather conditions and don&rsquo;t know where to go, you could visit the National Geographic Channel (NGC) merchandise store in Singapore (or London). Customers can even test the suit in a special room at the store where the temperature can be adjusted to minus 50 degrees centigrade. The store also stocks other NGC merchandise such as stationery, calendars and bed-sheets with trademark NGC images.

Television brands turn tangible

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