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From: Iftikar, Ahamath (IE10)
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Subject: [quiznet] Answers of the Quiz

Scores:
Viswanathan Sukumaran - 5
Abhirami Arumbakkam

Shivakumar B.K - 4

Sanjay Pamurthy - 3
Anirban Gongopadhyay
Suresh Ramasubramanian
Gaurav Sabnis
Arun Krishnaswamy Simha

Siddhartha Roychowdhury - 2
Ramacharan Sundararaman
Laxindco
Nirav Shah

Mihir Jayaraman - 1
Jose Augusto De Abreu
George Thom@s
Karthik Gopalan M Abhirami Arumbakkam

Answers:
1) Who was the member of a teen pop group called Menudo?
Ricky Martin

2)Davina Duckworth Chad (19,blonde, society beauty) is the daughter of wealthy Norfolk landowner Anthony Duckworth (56). She won an army of upper class male fans when she appeared as "Deb of the web" for the society magazine Country Life's internet site. Who recently invited her to join him on a cruise in the Aegean Sea?
Prince William

3)Whose answering machine once had the following: "Halo...halo awaaj nahin aa rahe hai jore se bolo. Ghabara gaye kya? Ansaring macine hai, desh kitna pargati kar liya hai, (breaks into a song) Kitna badal gaya hai ensaan . Abhi ek kaam karo. Apna naam namber aur massage hamir bidwa bhains ka awaaj ka baad jod do phir hum dekte hai kaa kama hai"
Javed Jafferi

4)The fish Dicrotendipes Thanogratus is named after whom/what?
Grateful Dead...Thanogratus --- Grateful. Workable ;-)

5)Only 5 players in the Open Era have more victories than Pete Sampras, who has 60. Jimmy Connors - 109, Ivan Lendl - 94, John McEnroe - 77, Bjorn Borg and ? - 62
Guillermo Vilas

6)"...we decided that "trivial" means "proved". So we joked with the mathematicians: "We have a new theorem - that mathematicians can prove only trivial theorems because every theorem that's proved is trivial." Whose words?
Richard Feynman

7)He directed Sudhakar Bokade's "Mera Joota Hai Japani", starring Jackie, Sanjay, Tabu and Sushmita Sen. But the movie got shelved. He has a twin brother (whose photo I have been desperately trying to get...only for quizzical reasons.) Who?
Rahul Roy

8)It was introduced 41 years ago, when it was dismissed as an impractical luxury item, coz at 10 cents a pack, the dehydrated meal cost 6 times as much as the fresh, steaming bowl. 43 billion servings of this are consumed each year. Either name the inventor or the company. The meal will not do. Company: Nissin Food Products, Founder: Momofuku Ando, Product: Ramen Noodles.

9)It costed US $352 million, 10 years and 5609 workers dead due to disease or accident. It changes hands begining Dec 31 this year as agreed in the 1977 treaties. What are we talking about?
Panama Canal

10)Rajini Ramanujam received Arjuna Award - 98 along with Rahul Dravid (Cricket), Shobha Narayana Rao(Kho Kho), S D Eashan (Athletics) and Satish Rai ( weightlifting). For which category did she receive the award on Sept 1.
Category: Physically Handicapped...World #2 Badminton for Hearing impared.

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