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Wednesday, August 6, 2008

QUIZ 2



Q1
The first specimens were found for sale as meat at a market in
Thakhek, Khammmouan in Laos in 1996. Remains of three additional
animals were obtained in 1998 from villagers and in an owl pellet.
Several more animals were trapped in the region. What is so
significant about this?

Q2
Madonna and her partners, Guy Oseary and Ronnie Dashev, teamed up with
Warners in the late 1990s to form a recording label. Name it.

Q3
About which politician did one senator remark: If ignorance goes to
40 dollars a barrel, I want drilling rights to his head?

Q4
Its home base is the neighborhood of La Boca. The other football
team's home base is the neighborhood of Nuñez. Which city are they in?

Q5
It is a biological agent that can cause disease to its host. It's name
literally means "birth of pain". What is it?

Q6
In this country they celebrate Christmas on January 7. Where?

Q7
Calvin (yes, that six year old with the tiger) loves to don his mask
and cape and become superhero for the day. Our man (I can't think of
him as a boy somehow) has changed into his favourite hero to take a
history test and to run his babysitter around the yard. Who is the
alter-ego superhero of Calvin?

Q8
A popular saying which did the rounds during this inventors days was:
"God made all Men,______(inventor)made them Equal."

Q9
It has 1.2 million members in 165 countries. The Indian department of
Posts issued a special commemorative stamp of the occasion of its
centenary. Which organization is this?

Q10
He arrived in Hyderabad in 1795 as a cocky young imperialist
intending to conquer India. Instead he was 'conquered' by the Nawab's
teenage daughter and in spite of General Wellesley's wrath, converted
secretly to Islam and married her. He was adopted by the Nizam as a
son and was given the name 'Hashmat Jung'. He eventually became a
secret agent for the Nizam against the British. What was his name?

Q11
Identify the above image.

ANSWERS

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