 | Derek O'Brien |
The Royal Bengal Quiz is special because it has depth and heart: this year the organisers raised Rs 27 lakh towards the education of the less privileged in our city. Here are a few questions from this ‘quiz with a cause’. 1. Bhagwandas Bagla, the first Marwari shekhawati millionaire, is credited with popularising which local sweetmeat across India? 2. The legendary Kshatriya king, Agrasena, of the Sun Dynasty, is responsible for the origin of which Indian surname? 3. American Airlines famously saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating what from each salad served in first class?
YOUR QUESTIONS
1. Who designed the QWERTY keyboard used in the first commercial typewriter?
Ahanjit Bhattacharya, Calcutta
2. Which national park in Madhya Pradesh is the only habitat of the rare hardground barasingha?
Daipayan Mitra, Jamshedhpur
3. Which Shakespearean play has the most lines with a total of 3,924?
Ranjini Sen, Durgapur
4. In the 1999 World Cup, which cricketer went in on a hat-trick, survived, and took a hat-trick later in the same match?
Siddhartha Ghosh, Birbhum
5. Who created the ‘semi-dwarf’ variety of wheat that supported a huge head of grain without falling over thus heralding the Green Revolution in India?
Sourjya Sarkar, Calcutta
6. Which was the first film in which Amitabh Bacchan sang playback?
Joydeep Guha, Calcutta
7. How do we popularly know the disease Kuru, which means ‘shiver’ in the Fore language?
Debbani Dasgupta Chatterjee, Calcutta
8. Which small village in Sweden has the distinction of having four elements in the Periodic Table (yttrium, terbium, erbium, ytterbium) named after it?
Anisha Basak, Calcutta
9. The name of which accessory has its roots in the Sanskrit word bandhan meaning ‘bond’?
Bishantak Mukherjee, Calcutta
KNOW & GROW WITH DEREK
1. Rosogolla
2. Agarwal (Literally, Agarwal means the people of Agroha, a city in ancient Kuru Panchala, near Hisar in Haryana said to be founded by Agrasena)
3. One olive
ANSWER & WIN
In 2007, which American comic-strip for the first time introduced an American-Indian character called Raj Patel?
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Winner of the Answer and Win
Quiz published on 20.02.11
Bishantak Mukherjee, Calcutta
What are Queen Elizabeth, First Red and Eiffel Tower, different varieties of?
The answer is: Rose
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 | Name this human rights activist |  |
POINT OF VIEW
1. Identify this cricketer
2. Identify this author
ANSWERS
1. Christopher Sholes
2. Kanha National Park
3. Hamlet
4. Saqlain Mushtaq
5. Norman Borlaug
6. Mr. Natwarlal
7. Laughing sickness
8. Ytterby
9. Bandana
WHO AM I ? 
Rigoberta Menchú Tum
POINT OF VIEW1 Wesley Winfield Hall
POINT OF VIEW2 Octavio Paz
