MARCH 30, 2007

1. The writer, whose only publication was the acclaimed classic Black Beauty, was born on this date in 1820. Name her.
2.Who created the fictional detective Byomkesh Bakshi?
3. How is The Religious Society of Friends commonly referred to?
4. Whose career took off with the highly successful album Come Away with Me in 2002?
5. Why did one John Warnock Hinckley, Jr. make news on this date in 1981?
6. What was the nationality of the famous painter Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes?
7. Who directed the first two X-Men movies?
8. Which element was discovered in 1789 by German pharmacist Martin Heinrich Klaproth?
9. In which Asian islands have a new species of a big cat been discovered?
10. What is the official DVD region code for the Indian sub-continent?
11. Which Formula 1 team has its base in Enstone, U.K.?
12. In Harry Potter adventures, which charm makes the victim's teeth grow rapidly?
13. Who are the actor-parents of Esha Deol?
14. Which Australian cricketer is known to his mates as Sarfraz?
15. In which German city is the Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion?

Answers:
1.Anna Sewell 2.Saradindu Bandyopadhyay 3.Quakers 4.Norah Jones 5.He tried to assassinate the then U.S. President Ronald Reagan 6.He was Spanish 7.Bryan Singer 8.Uranium 9.Borneo and Sumatra and it has been named Bornean Clouded Leopard ( Neofelis diardi) 10.Five (5) 11.Renault 12.Densaugeo 13.Dharmendra and Hema Malini 14.Stuart Clark 15.Stuttgart