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Young World Quiz (November 2, 2007)

V.V. RAMANAN

Photo: R.V. Moorthy

Pelicans: Time to party.

1. Which Asian country’s largest airline and flag carrier is called “El Al”?

2. In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, to which prison was Gellert Grindelwald sent in 1945?

3. What is the “Fujita scale” used for?

4. Which big lake is located on the border of Peru and Bolivia?

5. What is the collective noun for pelicans?

6. In which Indian city is Fort William?

7. What is the nationality of the two-time Grand Slam winner in tennis, Rod Laver?

8. What is the constellation Cetus commonly called in English?

9. Which essential part of a car was invented by Mary Anderson?

10. Who was India’s first deputy Prime Minister?

11. Which U.S. President had the middle name Milhous?

12. What is the outermost layer of the human skin called?

13. Which of the five New York City boroughs comes last alphabetically?

14. In which region of our Solar System is the dwarf planet Ceres?

15. If Guinea pigs are not pigs then what are they?

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