 | Derek O'Brien |
C U @ 9” — this was the text I received from a friend the other day, inviting me for dinner at her place. I was neither surprised nor dismayed at the use of the language. It made perfect sense to me. But how about reading Hamlet in that language? Aren’t we stretching it a bit too far? Imagine reading ‘2 b /r nt 2 b tht s da ?’, what do you make of it? Now, one can download the entire King Lear on one’s iPhone. But reading it even on a maxi-screen? Tch, tch.
YOUR QUESTIONS
1. In India, ‘Operation Flood’ is related to the production of what?
Shib SenChaudhury, Burdwan
2. If you were awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, which country would you be in?
Debarati Dey, Kharagpur
3. Which Spanish food gets its name from the pan in which it is cooked and served?
Sarfaraj Anowar, Barasat
4. The river Brahmaputra is called Tsangpo in Tibet. What does the word ‘tsangpo’ mean?
Vinay Shreshtha, Salkia
5. Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck became the world’s youngest reigning monarch of which Asian country?
Niranjan Dutta, Jamshedpur
6. Bobble, Beanie, Trilby, Hard, Beret, are types of which accessory?
Debraj Paul, Calcutta
7. Australia produces 95 percent of which gemstone?
Santanu Ganguly, Calcutta
8. Till date, which Nobel Prize has no female laureates?
Basudev Chakrabarty, Calcutta
9. Which Scandinavian country’s first botanical garden is called the Linnaeus Garden?
Ananya Sarkar, Jhargram
KNOW & GROW WITH DEREK
The first short message sent commercially was by Airwide Solution’s Neil Papworth, on
December 3, 1992. It was sent from a personal computer to Vodafone’s Richard Jarvis on the Vodafone GSM network located in the United Kingdom. The message was short and simple — ‘Merry Christmas’.
ANSWER & WIN
Which Indian author’s autobiographical work of fiction is titled Seven Ages of Man?
Send in your answers with your full name and address to: graphitiquiz@gmail.com
Winner of the Answer and Win
Quiz published on 18.1.2009
Ananya Sarkar, Jhargram.
Who is the author of the book Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance?
The answer was Barack Obama.
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POINT OF VIEW
1. Identify this cricketer
2. Name this actor
ANSWERS
1 Milk
2 Japan
3 Paella
4 Purifier
5 Bhutan
6 Hat
7 Opal
8 Economics
9 Sweden
WHO AM I ? 
Prem Chand Gupta
POINT OF VIEW 1 Jean Paul Duminy
POINT OF VIEW 2 Dev Patel
