Wednesday, April 9, 2008

I Did not Know that ?

Some common things but some of know that ?

1. What is the expansion of YAHOO?
2. What is the expansion of ADIDAS?
3. Expansion of Star as in Star TV Network?
4. What is expansion of "ICICI?"
5. What does "baker's dozen" signify?
6. The 1984-85 season. 2nd ODI between India and Pakistan at Sialkot - India 210/3 with
Vengsarkar 94*. Match abandoned. Why?
7. Who is the only man to have written the National Anthems for two different countries?
8. How was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu better known?
9. Name the only other country to have got independence on Aug 15th?
10. Why was James Bond Associated with the Number 007?
11. Who faced the first ball in the first ever One day match?
12. The faces of which four Presidents are carved at Mt.Rushmore?
13. Which is the only sport which is not allowed to play left handed?


HERE ARE THE ANSWERS :-

1. Yet Another Hierarchy of Officious Oracle
2. ADIDAS- All Day I Dream About Sports
3. Satellite Television Asian Region
4. Industrial credit and Investments Corporation of India
5. A baker's dozen consists of 13 items - 1 more than the items in a normal dozen
6. That match was abandoned after people heard the news of Indira Gandhi being killed.
7. Rabindranath Tagore who wrote national anthem for two different countries one is Indian
's National anthem and another one is for Bangladesh- (Amar Sonar* *Bangla)
8. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu is none other Mother Teresa.
9. South Korea ..
10. Because 007 is the ISD code for Russia (or the USSR , as it was known during the cold war)
11. Geoffrey Boycott
12. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln
13. Polo.

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