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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Some Unknown Facts...

1. What programming language is GOOGLE developed in??????

Google is written in Asynchronous java-script and XML, or its acronym
Ajax,


2. What is the expansion of YAHOO?
Yet another Hierarchy of Officious Oracle


3. What is the expansion of ADIDAS?
ADIDAS- Always Do I Dream About Sports

"ADIDAS" is All Day I Dream about Sports.



4. Expansion of Star as in Star TV Network?
Satellite Television Asian Region



5. What is expansion of "ICICI?"

Industrial credit and Investments Corporation of India"



6. What does "baker's dozen" signify?
A baker's dozen consists of 13 items - 1 more than the items in a normal
Dozen



7. The 1984-85 seasons. 2nd ODI between India and Pakistan at Sialkot-
India 210/3 with Vengsarkar 94*. Match abandoned. Why?

That match was abandoned after the ppl heard the news of indira Gandhi
Being killed..?



8. Who is the only man to have written the National Anthems for two different countries?
Rabindranath Tagore who wrote national anthem for two different countries one is India's National anthem and another one is for
Bangladesh-(Amar Sonar Bangla)



9. From what four word ex-pression does the word `goodbye` derive?
Goodbye comes from the ex-pression: 'god be with you',



10. How was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu better known?
Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu is none other Mother Teresa



11. Name the only other country to have got independence on Aug 15th??
South Korea



12. Why was James Bond Associated with the Number 007???
'cause 007 is the ISD code for Russia (or the USSR, as it was known
During the cold war)??



13. Who faced the first ball in the first ever One day match?
Geoffrey Boycott



14. Which cricketer played for South Africa before it was banned from
International cricket and later represented Zimbabwe?

John Traicos



15. The faces of which four Presidents are carved at Mt.Rushmore?
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham
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