Young World Quiz (December 29, 2006)
V.V. RAMANAN
CHARMING: King of Bhutan. PHOTO: PTI
1. What is the full name of the new King of Bhutan?
2. What physical disability does Rudyard Kipling's Shere Khan have?
3. What is the radio frequency range for VHF?
4. In Norse mythology, who is the father of Thor?
5. In Roman history, who were the warring sides in the three Punic Wars?
6. Which band was once known as `The Rattlesnakes' and `Bluecats'?
7. Name the helicopter that flies around the Island of Sodor in Thomas the Tank Engine adventures.
8. What are the two types of African elephants?
9. In comics, who sometimes comes up with angry outbursts "Curse you, Red Baron!"?
10. Which classic poem starts: "I met a traveller from an antique land/Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone..."?
11. In Harry Potter, of which quidditch team is Gwenog Jones the captain?
12. As interpreted from Book of Genesis 5:27, how old was Methuselah?
13. Which tree is also called Peepul or Ashwattha?
14. Why is Andrew Wiles a legend in the field of mathematics?
15. Name the sister ship of Titanic that sank in 1916, after hitting a mine, with the loss of 30 lives.
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