Wednesday, January 16, 2008

answers to quiz by me

Answers:
1. Douglas Jardine, Colin Cowdrey and Nasser Hussein. English captains born in India.
2. South Park.
3."Peanuts" characters - Linus, Lucy, Schroeder, Franklin. (Linus Torvalds, Lucy B, Gerhard Schroeder, Benjamin Franklin)
4. The picture is of Camillo Golgi. He won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1906. The Golgi Apparatus in living cells are named after him.
5. Malappropism
6. Stub
7. Bolton Wanderers. They are nicknamed TROTTERS.
8. The gate of Auschwitz, the Nazi concentration camp.
9. Auguste Piccard was the inspiration for Prof. Cuthbert Calculus in Tintin comics, St. Cuthbert and kidney stones are also known as calculus.
10. Martin Luther King jr…….."i have a dream" speech.

1 comment:

nithin said...

Hi. Let me first congratulate you on such a fine job with this blog. Even though I am, technically, not from Kerala, I enjoy quizzing.

Anyways, a small note on Ans. 10 The doodle doesn't celebrate the famous "I have a dream..." speach but Martin Luther King Day in US. MLK Day is the 3rd Monday of Jan which falls very close to Dr. King's b'day, Jan 15th. All US holidays with the exception of 4th of July and Xmas are fixed to a certain day of the month (First Monday's, Third Thrusdays etc.) than a fixed date.

Nithin