Here are today’s questions. Answers will be published tomorrow. The theme runs from Mon-Thu:

1. What company was founded as Precision Optical Instruments Laboratory in 1933? Their current name is a globalized version of their first prototype, named for the Buddhist goddess of mercy.
2. What company was founded as as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR), a holding company of manufacturers of record-keeping and measuring systems, in 1911? It got its current name in 1924.
3. What project / brand was originally named Phoenix in 2002, as a spiritual successor to its ‘dead’ predecessor? After trademark issues with the company Phoenix Technologies, it switched to its current name in 2004.
4. What publication was originally set to be named Stag Party, before an unrelated men’s adventure magazine called Stag threatened to sue? The new name, first seen in December 1953, was a success.
5. [Theme: 4 of 4] Which cricketer became the then most expensive overseas player in IPL history, when the Kolkata Knight Riders bought him for INR 25.2 crores in December 2025?

Here are the answers to 2026: Week 17, Quiz 3:

1. Partridge and Quail
2. Bushmeat
3. Himalayan tahr
4. Iceland
5. Theme – will be revealed on Friday