NOVEMBER 04, 2005

1.Name the Portuguese 2001 FIFA World Player of the Year ,who has played for both Real Madrid and FC Barcelona , and celebrating his 33rd birthday today .(nov 4 2005)

2.What is situated on the Schirmacher Oasis in the South Pole?

3.In the Mahabharata , who was also called "Annapoorna" ?

4.What is the common term used for violent explosions in the sun's atmosphere with an energy equivalent to
millions of H-bombs ?

5.Which is the largest passenger airliner in service ?

6.Who wrote the seminal work The Interpretation of Dreams

7.Of the three primary centres of the global diamond industry , name the one in Europe.

8.Hong Kong is a SAR of China.What is a SAR?

9.If it is Rashtrapathi for India ,what is it for PAkistan?

10.Which oscar nominated film with a colourful title ,had Tom Hanks playing a prison Guard?

11.Who won the baseball World Series after a last triumph in 1917 ?

12.Which 19th Century US President had the nicknames "Rail Splitter" and "Great Emancipator"?

13.Which Historic city named as an honorific reference to its founder ,was christened "Nova Roma" by him?

14.With respect ot fluids what is commonly perceived as "thickness" or the resistance to pouring ?

15.Name the largest Volcano in the world called locally as Mongibello.

Answers

1.Luis Filipe Madeira Caeiro Figo
2.India's Maitri station
3.Draupadi
4.Solar Flares
5.Boeing 747
6.Sigmund Freud
7.Antwerp ,Belgium
8.Special Administrative Region
9."Sadr-e-Mamliqat"
10.The Green Mile
11.Chicago White Sox
12.Abraham Lincoln
13.Constantinople
14.Viscosity
15.Mount Etna