Monday, March 23, 2009

Trivia-2

Kudos to Mano, Brainwaves and Mindframes for getting atleast one answer right. Collectively, the team got 3 answers right..Cool...Now , for trivia-2.

Questions for Trivia-2

1. What are the three most common elements in the Universe?
2. What is the Van Allen belt?
3. Where was the name India derived from?
4. What 1982 movie had critic Janet Maslin carp: "The Oscar seemed to have been mistaken for the Nobel Peace Prize"?
5. What do you think this image represents?



Answers for Trivia-1

1. Mindframes scores one on this. Yes, comets were referred to as "hairy stars", derived from the Greek.

2.Shoelace was invented in the eighteenth century. Fairly, a new one..Tying the shoelaces right might have been found in the last century..:-)

3. Mano hits it right. Haemophilia is called the royal disease as it was featured prominently among the European royals in history...

4. 1941,December 7 : The navy was playing the "Star Spangled Banner" when Pearl Harbor was attacked. Mindframes, Wish they had been playing "Nakka mukka"..The Japs would have run away instead of attacking..:-)

5. Washington!! Both Sri and Mindframes got it right.

8 comments:

Suresh Sankaralingam said...

1) Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen?
2) Something to do with Space... Is it the ring that surrounds saturn?
3) Good question...:)
4) Yet another good question...
5) Definitely not a nuclear blast...Volcanic eruption?

BrainWaves said...

1. Stars, Dark matter, rocks
If you are asking about elements:
Hydrogen, Carbon, Nitrogen
2. Asteriod belt that lies before Jupiter I think (or Mars)
3. Indus valley?
4.
5. Nuclear bomb - Volcano?

Manohar said...

1. hydrogen, hellium and nitrogen?
2. the charged particles that surrounds the earth
5. some kind of avalanche or dust storm?

Manohar said...

5. possibly a cloud formation ?

sdpal said...

Let me try
1) oxygen, silicon, carbon ?
2) Competetion to van-huesen brand belt ? :-)
3)
4) Gandhi ?
5) Volcanic eruption in sea ?

sdpal said...

1)Oops, I didnt see "universe", I thought earth (anyhow, dont want to change it now, since I saw the answers

Mad Max said...

1) hydrogen, helium and oxygen

2) don't know

3) Indus valley civilization

4) Gandhi

5) Nuclear bomb testing under water

nourish-n-cherish said...

1) nitrogen, hydrogen and oxygen
2) the asteroid belt between earth and Mars
3) Indus valley civilization?
4)
5) Nuclean bomb over hiroshima?