Young World Quiz (September 22, 2001)

V.V. RAMANAN

1. If you were standing on a diamond, what sport would you be playing?

2. What was the real name of the Duke of Wellington who beat Napoleon?

3. Which Indian has won the Ramon Magsaysay Award this year?

4. A butterfly pupa usually is protected by a tough skin called the..?

5. What is unique about the 'mandible' as regards the 22 bones in the human skull?

6. This is a first line from which children's classic, also made into a Disney film: "All children, except one, grow up"?

7. What is the significance of December 11, 1936 in the history of British monarchy?

8. What is the general term for the Japanese dish made of raw fish and wrapped in rice shell or seaweed?

9. Which stationery item was first made from bread and leather?

10. Which car company's logo is made up of three ovals?

11. Which is the southernmost peninsula of Asia?

12. What is the Althing?

13. What is Pablo Picasso's famous painting, on the horrors of the Spanish Civil War, called?

14. The normal content of salt in seawater is about 35,000 ppm. Expand 'ppm'

15. Harry Potter. Name the captains of the Gryffindor and Slytherin team in Quidditch.

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