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  • ninghalkaai
    Weindianvip
    • Sep 2006
    • 969

    Increase You General Knowledge

    Questions:

    1. What programming language is GOOGLE developed in?

    2. What is the expansion of YAHOO?

    3. What is the expansion of ADIDAS?

    4. Expansion of Star as in Star TV Network?

    5. What is expansion of "ICICI?"

    6. What does "baker's dozen" signify?

    7. The 1984-85 season. 2nd ODI between India and Pakistan at Sialkot - India 210/3 with Vengsarkar 94*. Match abandoned. Why?

    8. Who is the only man to have written the National Anthems for two different countries?

    9. From what four word expression does the word `goodbye` derive?

    10. How was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu better known?

    11. Name the only other country to have got independence on Aug 15th?

    12. Why was James Bond Associated with the Number 007?

    13. Who faced the first ball in the first ever One day match?

    14. Which cricketer played for South Africa before it was banned from international cricket and later represented Zimbabwe ?

    15. The faces of which four Presidents are carved at Mt.Rushmore?

    16. Which is the only country that is surrounded from all sides by only one country (other than Vatican )?

    17. Which is the only sport which is not allowed to play left handed?











    Answers:

    1. Google is written in Asynchronous java-script and XML, or its acronym Ajax.

    2. Yet Another Hierarchy of Officious Oracle

    3. ADIDAS- All Day I Dream About Sports

    4. Satellite Television Asian Region

    5. Industrial credit and Investments Corporation of India

    6. A baker's dozen consists of 13 items - 1 more than the items in a normal dozen

    7. That match was abandoned after people heard the news of Indira Gandhi being killed.

    8. Rabindranath Tagore who wrote national anthem for two different countries one is our 's National anthem and another one is for Bangladesh- (Amar Sonar* *Bangla)

    9. Goodbye comes from the ex-pression: 'god be with you'.

    10. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu is none other Mother Teresa.

    11. South Korea .

    12. Because 007 is the ISD code for Russia (or the USSR , as it was known during the cold war)

    13. Geoffrey Boycott

    14. John Traicos

    15. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln

    16. Lesotho surrounded from all sides by South Africa .

    17. Polo.
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  • don
    Banned
    • Sep 2006
    • 564

    #2
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    • aswathy123
      • Oct 2006
      • 3530

      #3
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      • reeba
        • Dec 2006
        • 9

        #4
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        • Samanthajones
          • Sep 2006
          • 5008

          #5
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          • koolspacer
            • Jan 2007
            • 33

            #6
            thx useful tips

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            • pulsar
              • Oct 2006
              • 2194

              #7
              thanks m8 for the work

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              • sparrow
                • Dec 2006
                • 3974

                #8
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                • sumith
                  • Sep 2006
                  • 2000

                  #9
                  thanks for the info

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                  • teena
                    • Nov 2006
                    • 5716

                    #10
                    Gud post ktto !!!Thanks for the information

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                    • Jessfrance
                      • Sep 2006
                      • 4440

                      #11
                      hmmm ethokke annikku already ariyavunna karyamz aa... vere vallom undenghkil para mone.... just kiddin



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                      • ruthika
                        • Nov 2006
                        • 1469

                        #12
                        really good...many thanks for the post..


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                        • tbinisht
                          • Oct 2006
                          • 127

                          #13
                          3. What is the expansion of ADIDAS?

                          3. ADIDAS- All Day I Dream About Sports
                          This is not correct - The company was named after its founder, Adolf (Adi) Dassl..
                          Last edited by tbinisht; 17 January 2007, 19:31.
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                          • sonumary
                            • Sep 2006
                            • 2085

                            #14
                            good post da....ithil chilathokke ennikariyaam...thanks for sharing...keep posting!!

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                            • habiba
                              • Feb 2007
                              • 27

                              #15
                              tankyou for giving this

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