 | Derek O'Brien |
123 years ago, to the day, Fusajiiro Yamauchi founded this company, which would then produce handmade hanafuda (Japanese playing cards). By 1963, the company had also experimented in running a cab company, a hotel and marketing ‘instant rice’, though unsuccessfully. Today, Nintendo is the world’s largest gaming company (by revenue) and has given us the Game Boy line of handheld consoles and more recently Wii, the seventh-generation console, which has reportedly outsold arch-rivals Playstation 3 and XBox 360, worldwide this year. What’s more, two of the highest selling and most popular video games in history, Tetris (Game Boy) and Super Mario, are developed for Nintendo consoles...enjoy your Sunday even if you are not gaming.
YOUR QUESTIONS
Xinhua News Agency is the official press agency of which country?
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Who was the first female climber to ascend the Kanchenjunga?
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In the game of scrabble, how many blank tiles are there?
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Which gaming company was founded by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Danby in 1972?
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Which national park was initially known as the Hailey National Park?
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Which writer helped author R.K. Narayan to publish Swami and Friends?
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Which character in The Mahabharata was born Devavrata?
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Who is the Indian equivalent of of the Secretary of State of the United States of America?
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Which fictional character was defeated in a duel with the Knight of the White Moon?
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KNOW & GROW WITH DEREK
The name Nintendo comes from the Japanese word Ninten, which is translated roughly as ‘leave luck to heaven’ or ‘in heaven’s hands’.
ANSWER & WIN
The name of which national park in India translates to ‘ten villages’?
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Quiz published on 9.09.12 Arpita Basu Roy, Calcutta
Which iconic cartoonist’s first true comic strip was titled The Adventures of Totor C.P. of the June Bugs?
The Answer is: Hergé
