QUIZZING1.On this date in 1884, reckoning of time was standardised in a way. How?
2. Name the great Australian swimmer nicknamed ‘Thorpedo’ born on this date in 1982.
3. Apart from India, which two other Asian Annex 2 States are yet to sign and ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty?
4. Generally which part of the body is affected by lumbago?
5. Who has been India’s longest-serving Prime Minister?
6. United Plankton Pictures Inc. produces which popular cartoon series on Nick?
7. Why did Barbie and Ken split up in 2004?
8. Who wrote The Old Curiosity Shop?
9. Whose horse was Shadowfax?
10. Expand ISDN as used in computing.
11. In which decade of the 20th Century did the Titanic sink?
12. How many pairs of ribs among three normal humans?
13. How does one commonly refer to the Italian cookie ‘savoiardi’?
14. What are ‘carcinogens’?
15. Name the parents of Zeus.

Answers

1. Greenwich was established as the universal time meridian of longitude
2. Ian Thorpe
3. North Korea and Pakistan
4. Back
5. Jawaharlal Nehru
6. SpongeBob SquarePants
7. To spend ‘quality time’ away from each other
8. Charles Dickens
9. Gandalf
10. Integrated Services Digital Network
11. Second (1912)
12. 36
13. Lady finger biscuits
14. An agent that causes cancer or in the increase of its propagation
15. Cronus and Rhea.

Courtesy: V V Ramanan,
The Hindu Young World Quiz ,
Questions

1. What is Microsoft’s proposed booklet-shaped, dual-screen tablet-like-device called?
2. What is Intel’s first discrete or standalone graphics processor in about 10 years called?
3. Elisa Steele is the Chief Marketing Officer of which cyber-giant?
4. Which processor was codenamed ‘Waternoose’ by IBM and ‘XCPU’ by Microsoft?
5. Which popular Google software application was originally created by Idealab?
6. MINIX is a portmanteau word made from which two words?
7. Name the new mapping platform for the indoor world, which according to the maker is “in a sense Google Maps inside a building.”
8. Which of its co-founders is the CTO of YouTube?
9. The highest ranked computer company at No. 2 in Interbrand’s ‘Best Global Brands 2009’ report is …?
10. Which very popular portal was launched by Dr Simon King, a British researcher, at the University of Minnesota in 1993?

Answers 1. Courier

2. Larrabee
3. Yahoo!
4. Xenon, used in Xbox 360.
5. Picasa
6. Minimal and Unix
7. Micello
8. Steven Chen
9. IBM. Microsoft is 3rd and Google 7th.
10. Cricinfo

Courtesy: V V Ramanan, Business Line