Qpedia - "Who, what, why etc etc"

We, the quizzers @ at an "esteemed" IT company, Calcutta, meet for half an hour every thursday to take a break from monotony of our daily job. This meeting known as "Thursday Thriller" (popular version: "TT") is an occasion, where one of us conducts a quiz( a lone-wolf type) and as for the rest of us, we simply have fun. This blog will bring those "fun-filled moments" to the rest of universe. Enjoy The Qpedia ?!

Monday, October 16, 2006

Answers to "The Fifth Entry"

Here are the answers to the fifth one:

1. Shuffling of playing cards.
2. "Swaha" is the name of Agni's wife, and also the goddess of indigestion so she helps agni digest everything he eats.
3. Barbareek (grandson of Bhim).
4. Thompson and Thomson (Detectives from Tintin).
5. Degree of "hotness" of chillies or spices.
6. Two wickets in two consecutive balls (just one short of hattrick).
7. Pythagorus.
8. Swastika.
9. Dasharatha .
10. Mother India (India), all the films nominated for Best foreign language film at oscars in the same year.
11. The game of snake and ladders.
12. Garuda.
13. Shiva appeared and cursed Brahma that he won't be worshipped in any temple.
14. The oragnisation formed by all the rebel cricket player, who played in South Africa during apartheid.
15. Sunil Gavaskar and Dicky Bird
16. Indian Airways is the name of company mentioned in Tintin and obviosly Indian Airlines objected to it.
17. Capoeira.
18. Adolf Sax (the inventor of Saxophone).
19. Rabindra Nath Tagore.
20. Saddam Hussein
21. Indian tricolour.
22. Adolf Hitler.

And as usual, all doubts, arguments and counter-arguments are welcome.

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home