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QC#36

1. In 2002 FIFA World Cup, Argentinian squad's list was returned back by FIFA as the list didn't have a player with no.10 jersey. They gave numbers 1 to 24 for their 23 men squad. FIFA president Sepp Blatter then proposed to give the number to X. But finally the number was given to Y.
Id X & Y ?

2. Which legendary goal keeper was named "Black Panther" ?

3. The South American tour of Budapest Honved FC in 1957 marked a major turn in the club's fate after which they were declared invalid. This caused a major transfer in the European transfer market that took a team to its "goalden" age. What are we talking about ?

4.The no.3 jersey is currently not given to any A C Milan player in honor of their legendary defender Paolo Maldini. But he agreed to revoke this if something happens. What is it ?

5. Keith Peacock was the first to ________?


Answers ::
1. X - Batistuta, Y -  Ariel Ortega
2. Eusebio
3.  Ferenc Puskás was signed for Real Madrid
4. If one of his son want to play that jersy.
5. substitute ever to be used in football league.

QC#35

This happens rarely in a football match where the participating team goes to the ground wearing suits.
Id the situation, teams and why they wore this ?

Liverpool was drawn to wear the away kit in the F.A. Cup Final 1996.  Some people with superstitious mind said that it's an unlucky draw of kit as Liverpool was also defeated to Manchester United in F.A. Cup Final 1977 with the away kit worn then. That is why the white Armani suits were worn prior to the match.

Sports quiz @ Malappuram

QC#34

1. Engineers Federico Faggin, Ted Hoff, and Stan Mazor are associated with which invention ?


2. This term was first used by Edward Cave, on the analogy of a military storehouse of varied              material, originally derived from Arabic makazin "storehouses". Id the word ?







3. In 1826, French scientist Joseph Niepce took this photo which was the world's first    photograph. It was taken at his family house through a window which captures the view of a courtyard and outside buildings. What was the name given to this photo ?

4. The album "Smash song hits" was the first album to introduce what ??

5. This term means the consumption of all or part of another individual by an individual of same species. Korowai is one of the tribe which still believes in this by eating human flesh. Identify the term ???????

Answers
1. World's first Microprocessor
2. Magazine
3. Veiw from Window at Le Gras
4. First album to introduce a cover
5. Cannibalism

QC#33

This is world's first X-ray...

Whose hand's X-ray is this ????

ANS : Roentgent's Wife's hand

QC#32

Name the invention and the inventors???

The inventors are the prime name is this field

World's first motorcycle by Daimler

QC#31

Quiz 4 U

1. Which seven-a-side ball game is played in a swimming pool ?


2. Which strait separates the North and South islands of New Zealand?


3. Which New Zealand golfer won the 2000 Australian Masters in Melbourne?


4. What name is given to the art of preparing, stuffing and mounting the skins of animals to make lifelike models?


5. The name of which Roman god means ‘shining father'in Latin ?

Answers
1. Water polo
2. Cook strait
3. Michael Campbell
4. Taxicermy
5. Jupiter

SIB Lions quiz Review

SIB Lions quiz was conducted in 6 centers in Kerala.

The prelims consist of 40 questions, 30 minutes.

I am posting some of them which i remembers....

1. Who is the founder of Lions club ?

2. When was South Indian Bank started?

3. Whos is a South paw?

4. Paulo Coelho belongs to which country?

5. Who won the inaugral Hockey World cup ?

6. Who wrote the book "runs and ruins" ?

7. Which sportman is the father of the twins, Myla Rose and Charlene Riva ?

8. Who is the lyrisict of films Nakashatangal, Vaishali, Madanotsavam etc ?

9. Whose philosophical statement is Cogito ergo sum ?

10. In whic US sate is Harvard university situated?

11. Garuda is the official airlines of which country ?

12. Allium cepa is commonly known as _____?

13. Jenny Shipley,Helen Clark were th PMs of which country ?

14. Which place is known as "Scotland of east" ?

15. Which day is celebrated as national Mathematics day ?

16. Sardar Vallabhai Patel airport is in which Indian city ?

17. Which country's flag has Menorah in it? 

18. Where can you find Zam Zam well ?

19. Which PM of India was also known as Raja Bahadur of Manda ?

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QC#31

One of the rarest incidents....

What has been blanked out ?

Luxor Massacre : Eygpt

Killing of 62 people, mostly tourists, that took place on 17 November 1997, at Deir el-Bahri. Deir el-Bahri is a tourist attraction of Egypt acrosss river Nile from Luxor.
The Egyptian Islamist organization Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya is said to be bhind the attack to devastate the Eygyptian economy and lead the country to a major crisis.


Deir el-Bahri is famous for the mortuary temples which houses the mummies of  Mentuhotep II of the Eleventh dynasty,18th-dynasty female pharaoh Hatshepsut and Amenhotep I.
The temple of Hatshepsut is more spectacular and is known by the name Djeser-
Djeseru.

Djeser-Djeseru

With the tourists trapped inside the temple, the killing went on systematically for 45 minutes and killed 62 people from various countries. The police and military tried to capture them in a shootout but they fled into the hills and all their bodies were found dead in a cave excpet one who was injured in the shootout. They might have committed suicide.

QC#31, Do you know him ???

The ______________massacre was a shooting attack in October 1985 on Israeli vacationers in ____________, a beach resort area in the Sinai peninsula, in which seven Israelis were killed. Egyptian authorities countered that the Israelis bled to death "because this crazy soldier refused to let anyone near the area that some of the victims lay".The gunman killed one of the Egyptian policeman who tried to arrest him.


Fill in the blank and name the crazy gunman in whose memory Iran issued a stamp...

QC#30

The lady in the center was a world champion in free stand gymnastics. Her husband(divorced) was a great USSR football player and 2 time Ukranian parliamentarian. 

Id the lady and her husband?

Lady is Irina Deriguina and her famous husband was Oleh Blokin, the legendary USSR footballer and current Ukranian national coach