Some GK Questions.......!!!!!

[Abhi12c4]

1. What programming language is GOOGLE developed in?

2. What is the expansion of YAHOO?

3. What is the expansion of ADIDAS?

4. Expansion of Star as in Star TV Network?

5. What is expansion of "ICICI?"

6. What does "baker's dozen" signify?

7. The 1984-85 season. 2nd ODI between India and Pakistan at
Sialkot-India 210/3 with Vengsarkar 94*. Match abandoned.
Why?

8. Who is the only man to have written the National Anthems
for two different countries?

9. From what four word ex-pression does the word 'goodbye'
derive?

10. How was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu better known?

11. Name the only other country to have got independence on
Aug 15th?

12. Why was James Bond Associated with the Number 007?

13. Who faced the first ball in the first ever One day match?

14. Which cricketer played for South Africa before it was banned from internationa cricket and later represented Zimbabwe?

15. The faces of which four Presidents are carved at
Mt.Rushmore?

16. Which is the only country that is surrounded from all
sides by only one country(other than Vatican)?

Give ur Answer's by putting Question no's???
Each correct answer will give you 10 marks....

[rsreddys]

2A) Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle

3) All Day I Dream About Sport

5) Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India

11) However,other country that celebrates independence on 15th aug is "S.Korea".but they got independence in 1945. "Republic of the Congo",a country in Central Africa got its freedom on 15th Aug,1960.

1) Asynchronous java-script and XML, or its acronym Ajax.

120 Well, in the James Bond world, a 00 is an agent in the SIS (British Secret Intelligence Service) that has a license to kill during his missions. There are only a certain number of 00 agents at any one time and they can get replaced (if 002 were to die, then a different person would be made the new 002). Bond just happens to be number 7.

16) Lesotho surrounded by all sides by south africa

[rsreddys]

6) A baker's dozen is 13 pieces instead of 12 (a dozen).

The origin of the term has to do with baker's being fined for shorting people... They threw in the extra piece to make sure the weight was over the minimum.

[Abhi12c4]

congrats....!!!U've scored 60
Keep it up.....!!!!

2A) Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle

3) All Day I Dream About Sport

5) Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India

11) However,other country that celebrates independence on 15th aug is "S.Korea".but they got independence in 1945. "Republic of the Congo",a country in Central Africa got its freedom on 15th Aug,1960.

1) Asynchronous java-script and XML, or its acronym Ajax.

120 Well, in the James Bond world, a 00 is an agent in the SIS (British Secret Intelligence Service) that has a license to kill during his missions. There are only a certain number of 00 agents at any one time and they can get replaced (if 002 were to die, then a different person would be made the new 002). Bond just happens to be number 7.

16) Lesotho surrounded by all sides by south africa

[Abhi12c4]

congrats....!!!U've again scored 10 marks
Keep it up.....!!!!

6) A baker's dozen is 13 pieces instead of 12 (a dozen).

The origin of the term has to do with baker's being fined for shorting people... They threw in the extra piece to make sure the weight was over the minimum.

[PRUDHVI499]

2a is "yet another hierarchically oriented oracle"

[Abhi12c4]

kwel,,,,,keep it up my BOY.....!!!!!!

2a is "yet another hierarchically oriented oracle"

[siva.sjdc]

Answers:


1. Google is written in Asynchronous java-script and XML, or its acronym Ajax .


2. Yet Another Hierarchy of Officious Oracle


3. ADIDAS- All Day I Dream About Sports


4. Satellite Television Asian Region


5. Industrial credit and Investments Corporation of India


6. A baker's dozen consists of 13 items - 1 more than the items in a normal dozen


7. That match was abandoned after people heard the news of Indira Gandhi being killed.


8. Rabindranath Tagore who wrote national anthem for two different countries one is our 's National anthem and another one is for Bangladesh- (Amar Sonar* *Bangla)


9. Goodbye comes from the ex-pression: 'god be with you'.


10. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu is none other Mother Teresa.


11. South Korea .


12. Because 007 is the ISD code for Russia (or the USSR , as it was known during the cold war)


13. Geoffrey Boycott


14. John Traicos


15. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln


16. Lesotho surrounded from all sides by South Africa .

[ashish2k]

I only knew one answer that of baker's dozen. Thanks for giving information on rest of the questions.