APRIL 27, 2007

. Which female character made famous as a doll is said to have schooled at Willows High School (Wisconsin) and Manhattan International High School (NY)?
2. Which bone supports the root of the tongue in the human body?
3. In comics, who is the "The Good Little Witch"?
4. In a sad development, in which university did the deadliest school shooting incident in the U.S. take place on April 16, 2007?
5. Of which Asian country is Dushanbe the Capital?
6. In the Hardy Boys adventures, if it is Morton for Chet and Hooper for Biff, for whom is it Gilroy?
7. In which Indian State is the World Heritage Site town of Pattadakal?
8. Which Mughal emperor's mother was the Rajput Princess Manmati?
9. Which famous clipper is now berthed at Greenwich, London?
10. According to the Svetambara Jains, what sets apart the 19th Tirthankara of the present age from the other Tirthankaras?
11. In clockwise order, which is the third compass point if the first is North?
12. How many square feet are there in an acre?
13. In Spider-Man adventures, what is Joseph "Robbie" Robertson's profession?
14. What is an "abscission" with regard to botany?
15. The monogram of a leading international car brand was inspired by a propeller. Name it.

Answers
1. Barbara Millicent Roberts or Barbie 2. The hyoid bone (lingual bone) 3. Wendy 4. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 5. Tajikistan 6. Jerry 7. Karnataka 8. Shah Jahan 9. Cutty Sark 10. They maintain that the 19th Tirthankara was a woman named Mallinath (Malli Nath) 11. North-northeast (NNE) 12. 43,560; 13. He is the Editor-inchief at the Daily Bugle 14. It's the process by which a plant intentionally drops one or more of its parts like leaves etc. 15. BMW