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Young World Quiz (December 14, 2007)
V.V. RAMANAN
Photo: Mohammed Yousuf
Blue skies: And a static line.
1. On this date in 1911, whose team became the first to reach the South Pole?
2. On this date in 1962, NASA’s Mariner 2 became the first spacecraft to fly by which planet of our Solar System?
3. The eldest son of Raj Kapoor and the father of Kareena Kapoor is also an actor. Name him
4. In parachuting, what is a “static line”?
5. What would a proper combination of bay leaves, cumin and coriander seeds, cardamom, pepper, cloves and ground mace give us?
6. Which Indian king had a galaxy of luminaries called the “Ashta Diggajas”?
7. Which colour light has the longest wavelength?
8. The nearest spiral galaxy to our own Milky Way is …?
9. Brummie or Brummy is a colloquial term for the inhabitant of which English city?
10. If Peter Parker is Spiderman, then who is Dr. Robert Bruce Banner?
11. What is the name of the underground city in the Matrix films?
12. Who played Chandler Muriel Bing in the sitcom “Friends”?
13. On which river is the huge Hoover Dam in the U.S.?
14. In Moby Dick, Ahab was the captain of which vessel?
15. Which German commander was called “The Desert Fox”?
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