Friday, March 7, 2008

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1) Formed by the fusion of the Aryan language Marathi and the Dravidian languages Kannada and Telugu and whose base is Punjabi, though now a dialect this was once an accepted language. What language?

2) A lion and a tiger’s roar were recorded and played backwards.What did this result in?

3) Connect
and Till , Cardamom, Coriander, Turmeric, Chilli, Saffron, Fennel, Cinnamon!!!














4)
In September 2007, the RAF and BSF were called to quell riots in Siliguri, West Bengal. The trouble started when supporters of Y attacked supporters of X.(X had just beaten Y to something). The violence was later exacerbated by a Delhi radio DJ who made allegedly “insulting” comments about X. Identify X, or what X&Y did.

5) Take up the _______________--
Send forth the best ye breed--
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild--
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half-devil and half-child.

6) There was only one vote against Mother Teresa in the election of Superior General in the Missionaries of Charity in 1989. Who cast the vote against her?

7) When Ram was in exile with Sita and Laxman, the local woman cast aspersions on Sita for living with two men. Sita in return cursed the women that they will have multiple husbands. Which place (according to one of the versions) gets its name from this?

8)
What are these (Be specific)

* 1990: bushlips (similar to "bullshit" – stemming from President George H.W. Bush's 1988 "Read my lips: no new taxes" broken promise)
* 1991: mother of all (as in Saddam Hussein's foretold "Mother of all battles")
* 1992: Not! (meaning "just kidding")
* 1993: information superhighway
* 1994: cyber, morph (to change form)
* 1995: Web and (to) newt (to act aggressively as a newcomer)
* 1996: mom (as in "soccer mom")
* 1997: millennium bug
* 1998: e- (as in "e-mail")
* 1999: Y2K
* 2000: chad (from the 2000 Presidential Election controversy in Florida)
* 2001: 9-11
* 2002: weapons of mass destruction (WMDs)
* 2003: metrosexual
* 2004: red state, blue state, purple state (from the 2004 presidential election)
* 2005: truthiness, popularized on The Colbert Report
* 2006: plutoed (demoted or devalued, as happened to the former planet Pluto)

9) One of the biggest revenue earners for the island country of Tuvalu is it's - (think internet and stuff....), which it leased for $50 million in royalties

10) Connect
1. Cedric Pioline (Cedric comes from the Welsh Godric)
2. Hagar's wife
3. Rowena, from Ivanhoe (also Lady Ivanhoe)
4. Antonio Salazar

1 comment:

Arkantos said...

1. tulu
2. the mgm lion roar...lol
3. SPICE JET..hahahahahah
6. the Pope!
8. they are the newly created words that entered the oxford dictionary in the specified yrs..
9. tuvalu offers websites with the suffix .tv so sites who wish to register with a .tv domain have to pay the island nation

10. harry potter
All are used for the naming of the four founders of Hogwarts
Godric Griffindor
Helga (hagar's wife) Hufflepuff
Rowena Ravenclaw
Salazar Slytherin