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1. What programming language is GOOGLE developed in?

Ans: Ajax

2. What is the expansion of YAHOO?

Ans: Yet Another Hierarchy of Officious Oracle

3. What is the expansion of ADIDAS?

Ans: All Day I Dream About Sports

4. Expansion of Star as in Star TV Network?

Ans: Satellite Television Asia Region

5. What is expansion of "ICICI?"

Ans: Industrial credit and Investments 

Corporation of India

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

Ans: A baker's dozen consists of 13 items - 

1 more than the items in a normal dozen

7. The 1984-85 season. 2nd ODI between India and Pakistan 

at Sialkot - India 210/3 with Vengsarkar 94*. 

Match abandoned. Why?

Ans: That match was abandoned after people 

heard the news of Indira Gandhi being killed.

8. Who is the only man to have written the 

National Anthems for two different countries?

Ans: Rabindranath Tagore

9. From what four word expression does the 

word `goodbye` derive?

Ans: God be With You!

10. How was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu better known?

Ans: Mother Teresa

11. Name the only other country to have got 

independence on Aug 15th?

Ans: South Korea

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

Ans: ISD Code for Russia

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

Ans: Geoffrey Boycott

14. Which cricketer played for South Africa before 

it was banned from international Cricket and later

represented Zimbabwe ?

Ans: John Traicot

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

Ans: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, 

Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln

16. Which is the only country that is surrounded from 

all sides by only one country (other than Vatican )?

Ans: Lesotho surrounded from all sides by South Africa
 

17. Which is the only sport which is not allowed 

to play left handed?

Ans: Polo