 | Derek O'Brien |
Today is the 183rd day of the year, and there are exactly 183 more days to go in 2012, making midnight tonight the half-way point of this year. For those of you who are still bleary-eyed after watching the Euro Cup finals early this morning, there is much more sport in store this month, what with the Wimbledon finals next weekend, the India-Sri Lanka ODI series from the 22nd, and the London Olympics commencing on the 27th. Celebration time for all sports lovers and couch potatoes. In all this sporting mania don’t forget to give your family doc a call today. Wondering why? Today (Dr BC Roy’s birthday) is celebrated as National Doctor’s Day. Bravo!
YOUR QUESTIONS
1. Who is the first-ever serving cabinet minister to get a Padma Award?
Amrusha Jain, Calcutta
2. In which Indian city is the country’s first museum on explosives located?
Souparna Mondal, Calcutta
3. In 1970, which Grand Slam tournament became the first to use a tie-break at the end of a set?
Durjoy Chatterjee, Calcutta
4. Who is the youngest recipient to have been honoured with an honorary doctorate from the Aligarh Muslim University?
Rahul Ghosh, Calcutta
5. If Superman works for the newspaper The Daily Planet, which newspaper does Spiderman work for?
Srirupa Dey, Calcutta
6. Which religious leader was bestowed a title which literally means the ‘Ford Maker’, since the completion of the spiritual journey of life was compared to the crossing of a river?
Goutam Das, Guwahati
7. The name of which South Amercian capital literally means ‘good air’ or ‘fair winds’?
Manish Sharma, Calcutta
8. Against which country did Sunil Gavaskar make his only ODI century?
Nilanjana Gupta, Calcutta
9. 2011 was declared the International Year of Chemistry to commemorate 100 years of whose Nobel Prize win in Chemistry?
Bijit Roy, Calcutta
KNOW & GROW WITH DEREK
National Doctor’s Day is celebrated every year on July 1 to honour the memory of legendary physician and our second chief minister, Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy, whose birth and death anniversary is today.
ANSWER & WIN
The Canada Post Office uses the post code HOH OHO for letters sent to which fictional character?
For Answer and Win, send a quiz question of your own along with the answer. The prize will go to the reader with the correct answer and the best question. Send in answers with your full name and address to: graphitiquiz@gmail.com
Winner of the Answer and Win
Quiz published on 17.06.12
Bijit Roy, Calcutta
The Aztecs called it Xocoatl meaning ‘Bitter Water’, by what name do we know it today?
The Answer is: Chocolate
For queries about Answer and Win, please contact 22804093
 | Name this economist |  |
POINT OF VIEW
1. Identify the actor
2. Identify this composer
ANSWERS
1. Pranab Mukherjee
2. Guwahati
3. US Open
4. A.R. Rahman
5. The Daily Bugle
6. Mahavira
7. Buenos Aires
8. New Zealand
9. Marie Curie
WHO AM I ? 
Antonis Samaras
POINT OF VIEW 1 Chris Hemsworth
POINT OF VIEW 2 Ram Sampath
