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« on: May 17, 2006, 05:18:01 AM »
1. What programming language is GOOGLE developed in?
---Google is written in Asynchronous java-script and XML, or its acronym

Ajax.

2. What is the expansion of YAHOO?

---Yet Another Hierarchy of Officious Oracle

3. What is the expansion of ADIDAS?

---ADIDAS- All Day I Dream About Sports

4. Expansion of Star as in Star TV Network?

---Satellite Television Asian Region

5. What is expansion of "ICICI?"

---Industrial credit and Investments Corporation of India

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

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

7. The 1984-85 season. 2nd ODI between India and Pakistan at Sialkot-

India 210/3 with Vengsarkar 94*. Match abandoned. Why?

---That match was abandoned after ppl heard the news of indira gandhi

being killed.

 

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

different countries?

---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. >From what four word ex-pression does the word `goodbye` derive?

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

10. How was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu better known?

---Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu is none other Mother Teresa.

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

---South Korea .

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

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

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

---Geoffrey Boycott

14. Which cricketer played for South Africa before it was banned from

international cricket and later represented Zimbabwe ?

---John Traicos

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

---George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and  Abraham Lincoln

16. Which is the only country that is surrounded from all sides by only

one country (other than Vatican )?

---Lesotho surrounded from all sides by South Africa .

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

---Polo


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