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TEST YOUR GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
1. What is the expansion ( Full Form ) of YAHOO?
2. What is the expansion ( Full Form ) of ADIDAS?
3. Expansion of Star as in Star TV Network?
4. What is expansion of "ICICI?"
5. The 1984-85 season. 2nd ODI between India and Pakistan at Sialkot - India 210/3 with Vengsarkar 94*. Match abandoned. Why?
6. Who is the only man to have written the National Anthems for two different countries?
7. From what four word expression does the word `goodbye` derive?
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. Which cricketer played for South Africa before it was banned from international cricket and later represented Zimbabwe ?
13. Which is the only country that is surrounded from all sides by only one country (other than Vatican )?
14. Which is the only sport which is not allowed to play left handed?
Pls find below the answers which i feel as rite, Correct me if i'm wrong
1. Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle
2.
3. Satelite television for asian region
4. Industrial Credit & Investment Corporation of India
5. Indira Gandhi was assasinated
6. New zealand poet, forgot the name, I also heard as Rabindranath tagore wrote 2 national anthems but not sure. Let me know the ans
7. God be with you
8. Mother Therasa
9. Congo republic
10. 00 represents agents who has the right to kill as per britain intelligence dept, no idea y 7 might be in random :)
11. Jefferson
12.
13.
14. Polo
Pls find below the answers
1. What is the expansion ( Full Form ) of YAHOO?
Ans: Yet Another Hierarchy of Officious Oracle
2. What is the expansion ( Full Form ) of ADIDAS?
Ans: ADIDAS- All Day I Dream About Sports
3. Expansion of Star as in Star TV Network?
Ans: Satellite Television Asian Region
4. What is expansion of "ICICI?"
Ans: Industrial credit and Investments Corporation of India
5. The 1984-85 season. 2nd ODI between India and Pakistan at Sialkot - India 210/3 with Vengsarkar 94*. Match abandoned. Why?
Ans: Indian Prime Minister Ms. Indira Gandhi was assassinated.
6. Who is the only man to have written the National Anthems for two different countries?
Ans. Rabindranath Tagore
1) India - Jana Gana Mana
2) Bangladesh - Amaar Shonaar Bangla
7. From what four word expression does the word `goodbye` derive?
Goodbye comes from the ex-pression: 'god be with you'
8. How was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu better known?
Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu is none other than Mother Teresa
9. Name the only other country to have got independence on Aug 15th?
Ans: However,other country that celebrates independence on 15th aug is "South Korea", but they got independence in 1945. "Republic of the Congo",a country in Central Africa got its freedom on 15th Aug,1960.
10.Why was James Bond Associated with the Number 007?
Ans: -
11. Who faced the first ball in the first ever One day match?
Ans: Geoffrey Boycott
12. Which cricketer played for South Africa before it was banned from international cricket and later represented Zimbabwe ?
Ans: John Traicos
13. Which is the only country that is surrounded from all sides by only one country (other than Vatican )?
Ans: Lesotho surrounded from all sides by South Africa
14. Which is the only sport which is not allowed to play left handed?
Ans: Polo
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Kartheka
1. Yet Another Hierarchy of Officious Oracle .
2. ADIDAS- All Day I Dream About Sports & also from founder Adi Dassler
3. Satellite Television Asian Region
4.Industrial credit and Investments Corporation of India
5.That match was abandoned after people heard the news of Indira Gandhi being killed.
6.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 )
7 Goodbye comes from the ex-pression: 'god be with you'.
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.John Traicos
13 . Lesotho surrounded from all sides by South Africa ..
14.Polo