 | Derek O'Brien |
Sepang International Circuit will be hosting the second race of this year’s F1 season, later this afternoon. Will Vettel and Red Bull pull it off again in 2012? Let’s wait and watch. Tomorrow, Tagore’s other National Anthem, Amar Shonar Bangla will be on the lips of all our friends in Bangladesh, as they celebrate their National Day. Written and composed by Tagore in 1905, the poem first appeared in the September issues of Bongodorshon and Baul, the same year. The first ten lines of the poem were formally adopted in 1972 as the Bangladeshi National Anthem. The English translation was done by Syed Ali Ahsan.
YOUR QUESTIONS
1. Who was the first person to awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously?
Prashant P Kalbende, Jamshedpur
2. The legislative body of which country is called the People’s Majlis?
Nupur Biswas, Calcutta
3. Who was the first cricketer to wear a helmet in Test cricket?
Goutam Das, Calcutta
4. For which invention did Ernest Lawrence win the Nobel Prize in Physics, in 1939?
Biswaroop Mukherjee, Calcutta
5. Who is the first person on Twitter to have 20 million followers?
Sayantika Ghosh, Calcutta
6. Which physicist quoted from the Bhagvad Gita, ‘Now I am become Death. The destroyer of worlds’, after the first time his invention was used?
Soham Ghosh, Calcutta
7. In which Indian state would you find Asia’s largest telescope?
Atriz Roy, Purulia
8. In what is the Collier Trophy awarded in the US to the highest achievers of that field?
Sourjya Sarkar, Calcutta
9. Which Angelina Jolie film shares its name with a common condiment?
Arko Sen, Calcutta
KNOW & GROW WITH DEREK
In 1905, Rabindranath Tagore had founded the Kaligram Krishi Bank, in Patishar, to provide small loans to rural farmers, which followed the principle of micro credit.
ANSWER & WIN
Which tennis player had an asteroid named after him, after he ended Federer’s five year reign as Wimbledon champion?
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 11.03.12
Arko Sen, Calcutta
Who was the first Indian born writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
The answer is: Rudyard Kipling
For queries about Answer and Win, please contact 22804093
 | Name this actor |  |
POINT OF VIEW
1. Identify this author
2. Identify this politician
ANSWERS
1. Lal Bahadur Shastri
2. Maldives
3. Graham Yallop
4. Cyclotron atom-smasher
5. Lady Gaga
6. J. Robert Oppenheimer
7. Tamil Nadu
8. Aeronautics
9. Salt
WHO AM I ? 
Joy Mukherjee
POINT OF VIEW 1 Amrita Pritam
POINT OF VIEW 2 Manohar Parrikar
