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Chit-Chat / Your Interests Talk about your interests, ambitions, obsessions. Make friends over common interests - soccer, poetry or rock bands. It's time to lay back and relax, you don't have to make sense.

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24-08-2005, 12:03 AM

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7. Which country has the highest Christian population in the world? (In terms of no. of people and not percentage or anything else)
A. No one seemed to have got this one rite...Well, the country with the max Christian population happens to the densely populated 'Brazil' with 153.3 million ppl practising Christianity...Next in line is Mexico, then Phillipines, THEN THE US n fifth place mein Italy.

great answer man!! too cool!!
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HIGHER THE DENOMINATOR LOWER THE FRACTION....
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24-08-2005, 12:25 AM

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Hi there,

So many quizzes being posted now...Lets hope that all this works to our advantage n that v increase our appetite 4 GK even more...Aft all, a lot is at stake, haina?...

Rite then, here r the qstns 4 2nyt...


Brij.
yup..i m sure it will do the cause!!

well..my answers( nd guesses) :
1.the great Lincon?? Andrew Jackson ws first democrate..hai na!!
2. by any chance apna "bharat" kya!!
3.Andman& nicobar??
5.well wife of my company's mentor.. sudha murthi
6. ( pluto!! )
7.char minar ( going by ur hint..bt confused..with bhagmati trailors in TV )
8 australia was winner..dat i know..runner was newzeland or india i guess!!
9.something to do with maths !! random variables sequesnce??
10. oh my fav..tom nd jerry!!


rrdg


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Answers... - 24-08-2005, 01:13 AM

[QUOTE=Phooka]ok this shud not be too tough -

1. Who / What is Feluda (its not falooda ) ?
Its the fictional detective that featured in S.Ray's stories...Bong by nature, it kinda represented the avrg middle class Bong's characteristics...It was actually even reprsntd on TV in the early 90's by actor Shashi Kapor.

2. From Which college did MA Jinnah graduate ??
M.A. Jinnah graduated frm this coll by the name Lincolns Inn...In fact he was the youngest Indian then to graduate frm that coll, yr being 1896...
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Vexillologist is.... - 24-08-2005, 01:34 AM

[QUOTE=Christy] Hey al!!!!

Wokay gues al d previous '?' s have been answrd....chalo bachchon nw sum frm moi ..as usual vry simmmmble!


4.] Temme wats a vexillologist interested in :whatthat: &


Studying of flags...Thats what a vexillologist does...
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Ans by tomm pls... - 24-08-2005, 01:41 AM

Mate, pls do provide the ans of these by tomm atlst...

N keep posting such 'challenging' questions...

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ok...sorry//was just confused ..with chiranjeevi nd rajnikant!!

well..now..my turn to get into active quizzing..something i lost in all dese past years//
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try these:
1.in 1987,veerappan made a public proposal for marriage through his emissaries.
it was not reciprocated tough.whome did he propose to?

2.who were MANDAVI nd STRUTAKRITI in hindu myth?( ok..i will give a hint; ramayana )

3.who introduced Macaroni nd Spaghetti inti Italian cuisine?

4.Who is supposed to b the first cartoonist of Tinkle comics?

5.which indian PM suffered from NAcrolexy? ( google out nacrolexy..u may get the answer!!)


well..5 questions to satrt with is Ok i guess!!


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24-08-2005, 06:31 AM

1. Aitareya, Kausitaki, Kena, Chandogya, Isa, Taittitiya,Brrhadaranyaka, Prasna,
Mundaka.

What am I talking about?

2. Samkhya, Nyaya, Vaisheshika,-------------, Purva Mimamsa, Uttara Mimamsa,


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24-08-2005, 08:33 AM

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1. Aitareya, Kausitaki, Kena, Chandogya, Isa, Taittitiya,Brrhadaranyaka, Prasna,
Mundaka.

What am I talking about?

2. Samkhya, Nyaya, Vaisheshika,-------------, Purva Mimamsa, Uttara Mimamsa,
Sanskrit, if you ask me

Which is as good as Greek for me

cheers!!!


To absent friends, lost loves, old gods and the season of mists; may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.

Madness anyone?

Done anything about it lately?
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24-08-2005, 11:05 AM

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1. Aitareya, Kausitaki, Kena, Chandogya, Isa, Taittitiya,Brrhadaranyaka, Prasna,
Mundaka.

What am I talking about?
Upanishads???


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24-08-2005, 12:48 PM

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2. Samkhya, Nyaya, Vaisheshika,-------------, Purva Mimamsa, Uttara Mimamsa,
Hmmm...i think u r referring to the hindu philosophy,the six different schools of thoughts


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24-08-2005, 12:58 PM

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1. Aitareya, Kausitaki, Kena, Chandogya, Isa, Taittitiya,Brrhadaranyaka, Prasna,
Mundaka.

What am I talking about?



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i feel undertaker got it right..


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