Derek O'Brien

The new season of the Bournvita Quiz Contest starts next Sunday (January 29) at 10.30am on Colors. Here is a preview of the questions asked on the show: 1) How many Indian Prime Ministers were born in Independent India? 2) What is the colour of an octopus’s blood? 3) Which left-handed batsman has scored the most Test runs for India? 4) In 1896, who gave up German citizenship and was not a citizen of any country until 1901? 5) Who played the role of the young Sunny Deol in the 1983 film Betaab? 6) Who went to Natal in 1893 to serve a merchant named Dada Abdulla?

YOUR QUESTIONS

1. From 1954 to 1956, which author was a broadcaster for the BBC’s Caribbean Voices?

Amit Nandi, Calcutta

2. Which actor is the famous father of Aditya Raj and Kanchan?

Apurva Biswas, Calcutta

3. According to Forbes Magazine, which city is home to 40 per cent of India’s 40 richest people?

Milan Sen Gupta, Siliguri

4. Samarkand was resurrected as the imperial capital of which emperor?

Ravi Iyer, Jamshedpur

5. Which is usually the heaviest of all monkeys when fully grown?

Abhijeet Dutta, Calcutta

6. Which commonly used herb is called Sabje in Gujarati?

Sangeeta Gupta, email

7. Between 1911 and 1916, almost 4,000 acres of land were cleared in Raisina and Malcha villages to build which edifice?

Aditya Sarkar, Dibrugarh

8. What did Leonardo Da Vinci refer to as the ‘ultimate machine’?

Antara Sen, Durgapur

9. What constitutes 75 per cent of the weight of a banana?

Paromita Thakur, Asansol

KNOW & GROW WITH DEREK

Answers:

1) None 2) Blue 3) Sourav Ganguly

4) Albert Einstein 5) Sonu Nigam

6) Mahatma Gandhi

ANSWER & WIN

In India, for the protection of which animal did scientists use a technique called the ‘pugmark method’?

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 8.01.11

Paromita Thakur, Asansol

Which American president gave the White House its official name?

The answer is: Theodore Roosevelt

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Name this Miss World

POINT OF VIEW

1. Identify this sportsperson

 

 

 

2. Identify this filmmaker

 

 

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ANSWERS

1. V.S. Naipaul
2. Shammi Kapoor
3. Mumbai
4. Tamerlane
5. Baboon
6. Basil
7. Rashtrapati Bhavan
8. Human body
9. Water

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