Young World Quiz (June 16, 2006)
V.V. RAMANAN
PHOTO: REUTERS.
FREEZING: At the South Pole.
1. Édouard Kodjovi Kodjo is the Prime Minister of which African nation playing in the FIFA World Cup in Germany?
2. Which place in Delhi was once called "Dinpanah", or the "refuge of the faithful"?
3. Give me the missing first name in this popular Colombian pop singer's full name: ________ Isabel Mebarak Ripoll.
4. Who led the Antarctic expedition that became the first to reach the South Pole?
5. What is the name of the fictional town in Pixar's new movie "Cars" where Lightning McQueen lands up?
6. In The Merchant of Venice, to which place does Bassanio go to woo and marry Portia?
7. What is the chemical name for vitamin B2 or vitamin G?
8. Agarics, boletes or puffballs are all types of which fruiting body?
9. In Hank Ketcham's Dennis the Menace comic strip, what are the first names of the Wilsons?
10. In Norse mythology, what is the Hliðskjálf or Hlidskjalf?
11. Who succeeded Muhammad bin Tughluq?
12. Which item that most of us handle on a daily basis usually has the dimensions 600 x 380mm (23 1/2 x 15 inches)?
13. What would one keep in a "Formicarium"?
14. In Japanese, what would one get if a "kami hikoki" was made using origami?
15. Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel created the name for which type of `educational institution'?
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