Monday, May 08, 2006

Test Your GK
From: Kiranmayi @ adecco (Bangalore)
1. What programming language is GOOGLE developed in?
2. Who is the only man to have written the National Anthems for two different countries?
3. From what four word ex-pression does the word `goodbye` derive?
4. How was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu better known?
5. Why was James Bond Associated with the Number 007?
6. The faces of which four Presidents are carved at Mt.Rushmore?
7. Which is the only country that is surrounded from all sides by only one country (other than Vatican)?
8. Which is the only sport which is not allowed to play left handed?

3 Comments:

Blogger Doctor Bruno said...

2. Who is the only man to have written the National Anthems for two different countries?
Tagore - Indioa and Bangladesh

3. From what four word ex-pression does the word `goodbye` derive?
God be with you

4. How was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu better known?
Mother Teresa

5. Why was James Bond Associated with the Number 007?
License to Kill

6. The faces of which four Presidents are carved at Mt.Rushmore?
Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevolt

7. Which is the only country that is surrounded from all sides by only one country (other than Vatican)?
There are TWO countries other than Vatican
The republic of San Marino, surrounded from all sides by Italy
The Kingdom of Lesotho, surrounded from all sides by South Africa

Monday, May 08, 2006 7:55:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Eager to know the answers !
Post them soon !

Monday, May 08, 2006 8:56:00 AM  
Blogger 6 - F A C E said...

Hai Bruno & Prabhu
Below were the answers from Kiranmayi
1. What programming language is GOOGLE developed in?
Google is written in Asynchronous java-script and XML, or its acronym Ajax .

2. 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)

3. From what four word ex-pression does the word `goodbye` derive?
Goodbye comes from the ex-pression: 'god be with you'.

4. How was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu better known?
Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu is none other Mother Teresa.

5. 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)

6. The faces of which four Presidents are carved at Mt.Rushmore?
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln

7. 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.

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

Monday, May 08, 2006 11:28:00 PM  

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