Getting quizzical
THE FOLLOWING are the winners of Inquizitive dated November 8. This week we received only 5 correct entries for the quiz No.5. The five winners are Sandhya Rani, K. Aditya, K. Sasank, M. Vamsi Krishna and M.P.K. Venkatesh. You can collect prizes from The Hindu office.
Answers for Quiz No.5:
1) The Boston Red Sox won the World Series for the first time since 1918 with a 3-0 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals.
2) Mughal-e-Azam, directed by K. Asif.
3) John Kerry wrote `The New War: The Web of Crime that Threatens America's Security' in 1997.
4) Pakistan's Mudassar Nazar, at Lahore against England in 1977-78, he took 9 hours and 17 minutes to crawl to 114.
5) The web was conceived in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee and colleagues at CERN, a particle physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, as a way for scientists to share documents and data.
6) It was against the Australians again, by an innings and 219 runs in the 2nd Test of the Gavaskar-Border Test Series at Kolkata, March 1998.
7) The Vatican, for outsourcing prayers to India
8) All are brand names of beedis
9) Polo
10) Mandarin Chinese
Questions for Quiz No. 6:
1. What is the chain of shoals between Mannar in Sri Lanka and Rameswaram in India called?
2.Which are the oldest fossil insects that have remained unchanged for more than 320 million years?
3. With whom did Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat share the Nobel Peace Prize?
4. Who is a Myrmidon?
5. Name the final Tin Tin adventure?
6. What is Indiana Jones' real name?
7. Which is the prequel to the best seller, The Da Vinci Code?
8. Which English film features Bollywood music director, Anu Malik's popular `Chamma chamma' number?
9. Who was Guru Dutt's regular cinematographer for several films, including `Sahib Bibi aur Ghulam', known for his imaginative lighting?
10. Where was golf's world no. 1, Vijay Singh, born?
Send your answers to vizagedu@thehindu.co.in. First five correct entries will get prizes from
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