General Knowledge

1. What is the expansion ( Full Form ) of YAHOO?

Yet Another Hierarchy of Officious Oracle

2. What is the expansion ( Full Form ) of ADIDAS?

ADIDAS- All Day I Dream About Sports

3. Expansion of Star as in Star TV Network?

Satellite Television Asian Region

4. What is expansion of “ICICI?”

Industrial credit and Investments Corporation of India

5. The 1984-85 season. 2nd ODI between India and Pakistan at Sialkot -

INDIA 210/3 with Vengsarkar 94*. Match abandoned. Why?

That match was abandoned after people heard

The news of Indira Gandhi being killed.

6. Who is the only man to have written the National Anthems  

For two different countries?

Rabindranath Tagore who wrote national anthem for two different  

Countries one is our ’s National anthem and another one is for  

BANGLADESH-(Amar Sonar* *Bangla )

7. From what four word ex-pression does the word `goodbye` derive?

Goodbye comes from the ex-pression: ‘god be with you’.

8. How was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu better known?

Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu is none other Mother Teresa

9. Name the only other country to have got independence on Aug 15th?

South Korea

10. Why was James Bond Associated with the Number 007?

Because 007 is the ISD code for Russia (or the USSR ,

As it was known during the cold war)

11. Who faced the first ball in the first ever One day match?

Geoffrey Boycott

12. Which cricketer played for South Africa before it was banned  

From international cricket and later represented Zimbabwe ?

John Traicos

13. Which is the only country that is surrounded from all sides by  

Only one country (other than Vatican )?

LESOTHO Surrounded from all sides by South Africa ..

14. Which is the only sport which is not allowed to play left handed?