QUIZ

Try this one,

1. Whose autobiography is 'In Line with Fire' which is going to hit the market within few months?
2. Madhu Koda, Kamalesh Singh, Enos Ekka and Harinarayan Rai were in the news for some reason. Tell the reason??
3. His name is 'Lakshmi Narsimha Vijaya Rajagopala Sheshadri Rajesh Raman'. He is better known as ---- for Tamil music loving audiences?? (Clue: He is a singer who has worked with ARR, Yuvan Shankar Raja and Coco Lee.)
4. The day of Mahatma Gandhiji's return(Jan 12) to India from South Africa is celebrated as a special day. What is that day?
5. What is the name of the Conch ('Sangu' in Tamil) in Lord Vishnu's hand? (It has a special name just like the Divine Disc in His hand is called 'Sudarsana Chakra')
6. Everyone knows that 'Makkal TV' is PMK's. But PMK has started to publish a Tamil Daily. Name it??
7. Shane Warne has been awarded an honorary Doctorate for service to cricket by an university last week. Name the varsity?
8. A Zimbabwean cricketer is banned from English first-class and league cricket for 10 year after a violent confrontation with fans recently? Who is that unlucky cricketer?
9. Who is the class footballer who announced his international retirement recently? He played in the recently concluded WC.
10. For all EPL fans out there, who is currently topping the league table in EPL league after 5 matches??

Answer :

1. Pervez Musharraf
2. The four MLAs who had withdrawn support from Munda Gov. Koda is CM of Jharkhand.
3. Blaze
4. NRI Day
5. Panchajanyam
6. Thamizh Osai
7. Southampton Solent University
8. Mark Vermeulen
9. Riquelme, Makelele
10. Portsmouth

General Trivia

1. Only one country in the whole has it's national flag in non rectangular shape. Name that country?
Answer : Nepal

2. A very popular website has only 50 words in it's main page or home page.
Answer : Google.com

3. Picture A shows one of the famous, infact an infamous, execution of a personality. (Clue: This incident happened after 1900 AD).
Answer : Execution of Mussolini.

4. Identify the cricket ground shown in the pictures (B & C)
Answer : Capetown ground and Galle.

5. An anology. Cigar: Cuba :: Coffe : ?
Answer : Ethopia (Relation is the item and the country which has invented it.)

6. Only two countries have participated in all the modern Olympic Games. One is Greece and other is ?
Answer : Australia.

7. What connect these four renound Kings King David, Alexander, Charlemagne, Julius ceasar.
Answer : Represent four kings in playing cards.

8. A R Rahman has composed a single for the violin child prodigy Vanessa Mae. Name the album?
Answer : Choreography. Song is Raga Dance

9. Identify the personalities hidden in the following two jumbled words
a. glibaeslt (Clue : IT tycoon)
Answer : Bill gates.
b. plroolasdyadvaaa (Clue : For this person next four day is very cricial. Butterflies will be flying in his stomach)
Answer : Laloo Prasad Yadav.

10. Two former crickters have challenged each other as who is going to wear specks. Till now they haven't wore any specks and both of them were considered as one of the best in the respective filed. Who are they?
Answer : Sunil Gavaskar and Ian Chappell

Sports Trivia

1. Identify this sport?
Ans : Bobsleigh Skeleton.

2. 'An Umpire remembers' is the autobiography of which umpire?
Ans : Pillo Reporter.

3. In ice hockey, what is the name of the hard rubber disk which the players hit so as to score goals?
Ans : Puck.

4. In which sports do you find a Loppy pop man?
Ans : In Formula-1. Near every pit stop, a person with round hoarding (which looks like a lolly pop) will be waiting for the respectiver driver. He is known lollypop man.

5. Click on the following link and tell who is the batsman and the bowler. Obviously the fielder is Sachin and why that catch is so special
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAoecpEF7bw
Ans : Batman is Inzamam. Bowler is Murali Karthik. It is the 100th catch of Sachin.

6. In cricket, who is referred as PO(H)MS. What is the actual meaning?
Ans : PO(H)MS means Prisoners Of Her Majesty's Services.

This in cricket refers to England player.
If you go by history, Aussies are PO(H)MS. They were the prisoners who were moved or deported to Australian Continent from England. During 15th century, all the English people who were commited mistakes or who spoke against Queen were framed as prisoners and were put in the jail. At one point, number of prisoners started to exceed beyond a limit and there was no space to accomodate them in the jail. So they were moved to Australia as prisoners and they were asked to work for Queen in Australia. At one point these prisoners started to fight for their freedom and demanded a separate land for them and infact drove English people out of Australia. Then they started to dominate the local aborigins of Australia. That is how the current Australia society was formed.

But English got this name because of overusing this term to abuse Aussies.
Even in our country, if a person repeatedly uses a particular word, we associate that word with that person. Eg. 'Ennathey' Kanniah, 'Adadae' Manohar.

7. Tees, Putter club, Wooden club, Iron club. all refers to what sports?
Ans : Golf.

8. Who is the first acknowledged Aboriginal Test cricketer in Australia. Currently he is playing?
Ans : Jason Gillespie.

Some Interesting Informations

1. Thomas Alva Edison's auttobiography is 'Baa Baa Black Sheep'

2. Ruth Handler is the inventor of Barbie Doll.

3. Dancing MahaRaja is the japanese version of the Tamil feature film Muthu and it's second part is Dancing Maharaja 2 which is the dubbing of Yejamaan. Both the movies are Rajinikanth's.

4. George W Bush's party symbol is Elephant and Kerry's is Donkey.

5. George W Bush and Mayawathi of BSP share the same party symbol 'Elephant'.

6. The first dog of US is Miss Beazley

7. Name of Four queens in Playing Cards are Juno, Judith, Rachel and Pallas Anthena

8. The series is 1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221, 312211,13112221. Description of previous number in the series (....one occurence of 3,one occurence of one)

9. Saurav Ganguly and Greg Blewett were dismissed for 99 at the same time in different test matche held in differnet part of the world

10. Sir Richard Hadlee is the only cricketer to be knighted when I was playing itself.

Some Questions

1) Analogy
a) Hockey : Hockey stick :: Fencing : ?
Answer : E-PEE

b) 12 : dozen :: 20 : ?
Answer : Score

2) Who holds the record for recording maximum number of film songs in a single day?
Answer : Lata Mangeshkar (29 songs). For male singer it is Kumar Sanu (27 Songs). In tamil movies it is Mano (21 songs).

3) Who is known as father of Bangladesh? (clue: something related to Bangladesh cricket)
Answer : Bangabandhu

4) Hrithik Roshan has acted with Superstar Rajnikanth in one Tamil film(Dubbed from Hindi). Name that movie?
Answer : Bhagwan Dada. ... Rajni did the role of Dada who saves HR... It was dubbed as " Agni Karankal" in Tamil. ..

5) Dinesh Kaneria is unique in a way in the current Pakistan team. What is that?
Answer : He is the only Hindu playing for pakistan

6) Expansion of a) STAR (in Star TV) b) ESPN
Answer :
STAR - Satellite Television for Asian Region
ESPN - Entertainment Sports Private Network

7) Can you remember who was the first Crorepathi in Kaun banega Crorepathi? (a show conducted by Big B)
Answer : Harsha Vardan

8 ) What is common between England cricket team, Manchester United, Ferrari ?
Answer : Their sponsor is Vodafone

9) In which language did Lord Buddha preached his disciples?
Answer : Bali

10) Who am I?
"I scored my first double hundred in Sydney Cricket Ground. I consider that one as my best. Many former cricketers has commented that it was one of the greatest hundred. Now I have named my child as 'Sydney' just as a remembrance of that hundred."
Answer : B C Lara

Some more Trivia

1) Mac&Jack, a short lived pop band comprised of two greats. Who are they?
Michael Jackson and Sir Paul McCartney

2) Spain : Pesetas :: Norway : ?
Kroner

3) What does 'War of Roses' means (in cricket)?
Any clash, not just in cricket, between Lancashire and Yorkshire

4) Which is the first theater in chennai to be Air Conditioned fully?
Shanthi

5) If the nickname for New York is 'The Empire State' what is the nickname for California?
Golden State

6) Java Question
a) What is the original name for Java?
Oak
b) What is the specialty about java Object class
Class Object is the root of the class hierarchy. Every class has Object as a superclass. All objects, including arrays, implement the methods of this class.

7) "Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you" is a very very popular message Why?
First message through Telephone from Bell to his assistant Watson.

8 ) Nova Scotia, Smith, 2207 people, New-York, Southampton. How these things are related to each other.
Titanic.
Nova Scotia -- Place were Titanic sunk
Smith -- Captain of Titanic
2207 people travelled from Southampton to New-York in Titanic

9) Name the animal which has tusk other than Elephant?
Walrus

10) MGR has never smoke in any of his movie except one. What is that movie's name. (clue: That movie has another unique specialty)
Koondukili

Try this one

1) Ken : ? :: Samson and Delilah
Barbie

2) Who is the first mayor of chennai?
Dr Rajah, Sir MA Muthiah Chettiar

3) Name the animal whose defense is a very strong smelling spray. It has glands which hold about a tablespoon of musky smelling methyl mercaptan.
Skunk

4) What is the relation bet RD Burman and S D Burman.
Father-Son Relation. I thought there is no relation between them. But yesterday after seeing your posts, I just verified with my friends. R D Burman is son of S D Burman. Infact Aradhana was an unofficial composition of R D Burman as S D Burman fell sick during the recording of that film.

5) This question should be answered by chennaites. If you see a phone number or number plate of a vehicle which contains 7755, It represent which establishment?
Hotel Saravana Bhavan

6) RIngo Starr belongs to which famous pop boy band.
Beatles

7) If you were the Vice President of India, which is the other post you will automatically hold.
Speaker of Rajya Sabha

8 ) Who is Ray Tomlinson? What was his contribution to the IT field? (clue : He has something to do with the sequence 'QWERTYUIOP')
Inventor of E-Mail. 'QWERTYUIOP' was the first E-mail to be sent

9) Expansion of
VIRUS -- Vital Information Resource Under Siege
QUIZ -- Quest for Universal Intelligence and Zeal

10) Bow in Lord Ram (in Ramayan) and Arjun (in Mahabharat) has a special names? What is that?
Kothandam and Kandeevam

Cricket Informations

1) Chamida Vaas has the biggest name in the cricketing world. His name starts like this 'Warnakulasuriya Patabendige Ushantha Joseph Chamida Vaas'. His desire is to become a priest in a church after his cricketing career.

2) Sandeep Patel once hit Bob Willis for six fours in an over in a test match.

3) Gavin Larsen is known as 'Postman' of NewZealand Cricket as he has always delivered whenever it mattered the most
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4) Know your field postions
a) Straight hit - Field position near the boundary directly behind the bowler
b) Long stop - One who is set to stop balls which pass the wicket keeper.

5) Sachin was the first victim of third umpire. No prizes for guessing the fielder. It was none other than Jonty Rhodes.

6) On 2001 December, Michael Vaughan was given out for Handling the ball. That was the last time a batsman was given out for Handling the ball

7) In 130 years of cricket no batsmen has got out by Hitting the ball twice & Timeout.

8 ) Sunil Gavaskar's autobiography is 'Sunny Days' while Kapil's is 'Straight from the Heart'.

9) When Sachin scored a hundred in the match against kenya in 1999 world cup played in England, it was his first hundred as a non opener.

10) MA Chidambaram Cricket ground aka 'Chepauk' in Chennai and Gabba in Brisbane has hosted the two tied test matches.

Timepass Trivia

1) Mohammed Ali Jinnah's grand son owns one of the largest textile group in india. Name that textile group?
Answer : Bombay Dyeing

2) Who is the author of 'Jungle Book' ?
Answer : Rudyard Kipling

3) Who is known as Father of java?
Answer : James Gosling

4) A small riddle. There is a bridge which can withstand a weight of 120KG. An apple vendor 'A' who weighs 60 KG wants to cross the bridge along with his apple basket which weighs 10 KG. At the same time another vendor 'B' whose weight is 50 KG tries to cross the bridge with an apple basket of same weight, size, quality, number of apples as that of vendor 'A'. They want to cross the bridge at the same time. How will they achieve that?
Answer : Ask both men to leave their apple basket behind, cross the bridge, pick the other basket(since both basket are of same weight, size, quality, number of apples)

5) 'He can act like me but I can't act like him.' Who said this?
Answer : Marlon Brando on Sivaji Ganesan.

6) Find the missing one(s) from the following series.
Prudential Insurance Company, Prudential Insurance Company, Prudential Insurance Company, Reliance company, ___, Wills, ___, ___
Answer : Benson and Hedges, ICC, ICC

7) White bird releases have been documented since the beginning of time for all occasions and ceremonies as a symbol of freedom, love, and peace.Whose idea is that?
Answer : Renowned painter Picasso

8 ) What does 'Ikabana' means?
Answer : Japanese flower arrangement

9) What is HP's version of java known as?
Answer : Chai (Java means a kind of coffee. So HP called their version as CHAI which means Tea)

10)What is the unit for measuring movements of the mouse on the computer screen?
Answer : Mickeys

General Trivia

Find the Analogy

A) 7.3 : Valhalla :: 9.0 : ??
Shrike. Analogy here is Valhalla is the name of Red Hat Linux 7.3 and Shrike is the name of Red Hat Linux 9.0

B) Barathiraja : Karuthamma :: Actress Srividhya (Apoorva Ragangal heroin) : ??
M L VasanthaKumari. Mother son/daughter relation

C) Popeye : ? :: Donald duck : Diasy Duck
Olive oyl. Diasy Duck is considered as female counterpart of Donald Duck. Olive Oyl is the female counterpart of Popeye.

Celebrity sharing same birthday

A) M Karunanidhi and who?
Illayaraja

B) A R Rehman and who?
Kapil Dev

C) Ganguly and who?
Jothi Basu

D) Kamal and who?
Sir C V Raman

3) Tropicana the 100% fruit juice is a subsidiary of which company?
Pepsi Cola

4) What does the term 'Little Boy and Fat Man' means?
Bombs dropped at Hiroshima and Nagasaki

5) Which is the oldest college, which then become an university, in India?
Roorkee

Cricket and Mannerisms

Who are they???

1) When a Nelson appears in the scores board, he does his odd habit of balancing on one foot. Who is he?
David Shepherd

2 ) When ever he comes out to play or when ever he reaches a personal landmark (like 50 or 100), he will look at the sun.(He himself told in an interview that he is thanking Sun God for that good performance) . Who is he?
Kris Srikanth

3 ) He is an umpire. He places the 2 bails, one on the leg stump and another on off stump whenever there is a break (like Lunch break or Tea break) Who is he?
A V Jayaprakash. (He was umpiring when Anil Kumble picked all ten wickets in an innings of a test match against Pakistan in Ferozeshah Kotla, Delhi)

4 ) All Aussie team, starting from 19th century, in the first hour of a test match, will do something in common.They consider that as a prestigious one. What is that?
For the first one hour all Aussie players have to wear Baggy Green cap, if they are fielding

5 ) Red handkerchief is related with two person. Who are they ?
Steve Waugh and Mohinder Amarnath

6 ) Whenever the cricket match ends in their favor, they will burn all the paper and produce flame. Who are they?
Eden Garden crowd

7 ) Lara and Bradman shares a same mannerism. What is that?
Whenever they complete a century, they will go for a new guard just to remind themselves that they should have the same level of concentration when they were in zero and not to be complacent and should aim for big score. They showed that in their performance. Sir Donald Bradman -- 12 Double centuries and 2 Triple centuries. Lara -- 7 Double centuries, 1 Triple century and 1 quadruple century.

8 ) When ever he plays cricket, whether it is a practice session or a real match, he will wear his left pad first and then the right pad. Who is he?
Sachin Tendulkar

9 ) He is considered as the most superstitious player in the world. Some of them are,
* All toilet seats in the dressing room had to be down when he went out to bat.
* He also keeps his shoes together, and ensures a peculiar neatness all around him to the point where cricket bats have been known to be taped to ceilings.
* After re-packing his bag on countless occasions and making sure the room was spotless, he proceeded to get in and out of bed 3 times before he was happy to turn the lights out.
Who is he?
Neil McKenzie

10) Before the start of every match, he will sit on the pitch and do some meditation so as to get the feel of that pitch. Who is he?
Mat Hayden

Politics QUIZ

1. Who challenged ABJ Abdul Kalam in the president election?
Laxmi Sehgal (Captain of Women wing of INA)

2. Who was the speaker in Lok sabha during Congress 1991 government.
Shivraj Patel

3. Find the analogy ? Rajeev Gandhi : Jawaharlal Nehru :: EVKS Elangovan : ?
EV Periyar. Here analogy is Grand Son : Grand Father

4 What is common between Abraham Lincoln, John Kennedy, Indra Gandhi, Rajeev Gandhi and Mahatma Gandhi.
All were assassigned

5. Which president dismissed 1989 Karunanidhi government?
R Venkatraman

6. Who was our Second PM after Jawaharlal Nehru?
Lal Bahadur Shastri. He was the second person after J Nehru to be elected by people.

7. Who is the odd man out here . Abraham Lincoln, John Kennedy, Indra Gandhi, Rajeev Gandhi , Ronald Reagon and Mahatma Gandhi. Why?
Ronald Reagon. He was the only one to survive after he was tried to assassign in 1980

8. Who is known as father of Green Revolution?
C Subramaniam

9. Here I am giving the first two name of our former PM? Pamulaparthi Venkata Trace him?
P V Narasimha Rao

10. Find the analogy USA : White House :: ? : Blue House
South Korea. Here the analogy is Country : Chief Executive department of their country.

Kandupidi (Find it out)

Find some film trivia here...

1. The famous song in the movie Nayakan 'Naan sirithaal deepavali' was sung by whom.
Jamuna Rani (One of the oldest and successful Female playback singer of Tamil cinema)

2. Name the first song for which Karthik Raja composed completely.
Pandiyanin Rajyathil Uyyalala - Pandian

3. Who has sung the song 'venmathi venmathi' in the movie Minnale along with
Tippu.
Roopkumar Rathode

4. Our CM J Jayalalitha has sung a song. Name the song and the movie?
Amma endrl anbu in Adimai Penn

5. Now a Pakistani singer is making a foray into tamil film music who is he?
Adnan Sami

6. Who wrote the song 'Signore Signore' in the movie Kannathil Muthamitall
B H Abdul Hammed

7. Who was the music director for the Sarath kumar starrer movie 'Ragasiya Police'
Lakshmikant Pyarelal

8. The song 'Sandai bazaaru mama konjam usharu' in the movie Amaran was sung by which female singer.
Srividhya

9. Name the couple who had sung more than 8000 song between them. Even they have composed many songs.
Jikki - A M Raja

10. Who has sung the song 'Pon Maane Kobam Eno' in the movie Oru Kaithiyin Diary.
Unni Menon. Now he rechristined his name as Vijay then on the advice of Illayaraja.

Pop - Rock - R&B Time

1) Identify the legendary Indian playback singer who sung for a British Boy Band in 1999?
Asha Bhonsle with Code Red, a British Boy band, in 1999

2) Who is unofficially known as 'Baby Madonna'?
Britney Spears

3) These two are the most popular and successful 'Father-in-law'-'Son-in-law' combination in music industry.They are considered as kings in their decades.Who are they?
Elvis and MJ

4) Who scored the music for the movie 'Titanic'?
James Horner

5) Which member from Beatle learnt to play sitar from the sitar maestro Pandit Ravishankar?
George Harrisson

6) Jennifer Lopez got married to a pop icon just few days ago. Who is he?
Marc Antony

7) 'Saturday Night Fever' is one of the hits of John Travolta. Who scored the original sound track for that movie?
Bee Gees

8 ) Who sung the famous song 'Hotel California'? (Name the person not the band)
Don Henley.

9) Which is the maximum sold out album in pop history? (guinness book of world record) Who is the singer of that album?
MJ's Thriller

10) Grammy award questions
a) How many awards did Norah Jones got in 45th grammy awards.
Five
b) Who holds the record for getting maximum number of grammy awards in a single year.
8 grammies by MJ for Thriller and Carlos Santana for Supernatural

Cinema Quiz

Identify this female dancers who did an item number with popular heroes

a) With Superstar in the movie 'Dhalapathy' for the song 'Rakamma Kaiya thattu'.
Answer : Sonu Wallia
b) With Nagendra prasad in the movie 'Bombay' for the song 'Anda Arabic kadaloram'.
Answer : Sonali Bendre

Similarities between

a) Rajnikanth and old hindi famous comedian Johnny Walker.
Answer : Both were Bus conductors
b) Film 'Mella Thiranthadhu Kadhavu' and Film 'Senthamizh Pattu'.
Answer : music by MSV and Illayaraja

Identify these famous cine personality whose profession before their entry into the cine world was mentioned. (Clue : One is a famous comedian and another is a famous director.)

a) Postman
Answer : Nagesh
b) Clerk in AG's (Account General's ) office
Answer : K Balachander

4) Tough Questions

a) Name the movie in which Sivaji and MGR acted together.
Answer : Koondu Killi
b) Who acted as the judge in the famous cour t cine in the movie 'Parasakthi' also mention Sivaji's character name.
Answer : Kannadasan, Gunasekharan
c) In the movie 'Avargal' Kamal was doing an art with a doll. What is that art? What was the doll's name in that movie.
Answer : Ventraloquisom, Junior
d) What is the speciality about the song 'Ninaivo oru paravai' in the movie Sigappu Rojakkal?
Answer : First song sung by Kamalhassan
e) He saved the most famous actress of India Nargis from a fire accident while shooting for the movie 'Mother India'. He then went on to marry Nargis. Now he is acting as Minister for sports. Who is he ?
Answer : Sunil Dutt

'Two in One' cricketers

Do you know...

Jonty Rhodes was selected to represent his country for olympics as an hockey player.

Steve Buckner has represented his country in international football matches as well as in international cricket matches.

Similarly Dennis Compton represented Arsenal in Football and Middlesex in cricket

Jack Russel, known for his work behind the stumps, is also a great artist cum painter. One of his famous painting is depicting Lords grounds

Justin Langer hold a black belt in karate.

Aussie players Brett Lee, Shane Lee, Gavin Robertson along with other New South Wales players Richard Chee Quee and Brad McNamara has formed a renowned rock band Six&Out in Down under.

Mike Whitney is well known compere appears in HBO for Who Dares Wins program.

Herschelle Gibbs was selected as the best athlete in his country. He is one of the best fielders in the game.

Curtly Ambrose had the opportunity to play either cricket for his motherland or to play basket ball for USA. A good decision for cricket fans.

Boeta Dippenaar is a classical shooter and was selected for the same sport to represent his country.

Lord Ted Dextor was a successful English caption. He contested in the British election in conservative party ticket. If he had won the election he would have become the PM of England.

Bill Lawry is a trained and qualified plumber.

Kiwi speed merchant Shane Bond has completed police training in Chirstchurch.

Springbok Charlie Langeveldt was working as a jailor before he represented South African team.

Future ambition of Chamida Vaas is to become a Father in a Srilankan church.

Eddo Brandes is a famous chicken farmer.

Tennis Quiz

1) Tennis Jargon

a) Alley - The area on each side of the singles court that enlarges the surface area for doubles play.

b) Golden Grand Slam - Aus, French, Wim, US + Olympics

2) Nick Name

a) Pistol - Pete Sampras
b) Rocket - Rod Laver

3) Relation

a) He was the quater finalist of 1981 and 1987 US Open. His father was also a great tennis player. Who are they? - The Krishnans

b) Grounds and Grand Slams : If Roland Garros represent French Open, what represent US and Aus Opens.(Current name also mention the old name.)

Aus Open - Now it is Melbourne park. Earlier it was Flinders park. Before that it was known as Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club
US Open - Flushing Meadows. Earlier some West Tennis Club.

4) Who am I

a) We played the longest Wimbledon finals. Between us we have won 8 Wimbledon titles. Who are we ? - Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe

b) I have won all Grand slam except wimbledon. I have won 94 men's singles titles.(A record) I was world number one for 270 weeks a record then.Who am I? - Ivan Lendl

5) Tough ones

a) Why we consider Aus Open, French Open, Wimbledon and US Open as grand slam and why not other opens?
These four nations won the first four davis cup titles. That is the reason

b) Who held the record for most number of wimbledon titles before sampras? - William Renshaw won 7 titles

Cricket Trivia

1) Following cricketers named their respective sons after their favorite cricketers.Who are their favorite cricketers?
a) Sunil Gavaskar - Rohan Kanhai
b) Bishen Singh Bedi - Sunil Gavaskar

2) Nicknames :
Tubby - Mark Taylor
Unit - Mathew Hayden

3) Who am I?
a) I scored 256 in a test match but was dropped for the next test match.Who am I?
- Geoff Boycott. The reason for being dropped was that he batted too slow.
b) My highest score in my career was 299 and that was against against SL. Even my brother has played for my country. My cousin is making waves in holly wood. Who am I? - Martin Crowe

4) Relation :
a) Brothers : Three brothers representing the same country. (Hint: One is the 'Real' little master of cricket, another made debut at the age of 15(a record, then), another is an successful opener). Who are they? - R they the Mohamed brothers from Pakistan. Hanif, Mustaq and Sadiq

b) Cousins : Both are from Down Under. Both represented different countries. One has acted as International cricket match referee . Another person has helped the Indian left arm fast bowlers in the recently concluded Australian series. Who are they? - John Reid and Bruce Reid

5) Bradman Questions :
a) Who is known as Black Bradman? - George Headley
b) What was Sir Don Bradman's average in 'Bodyline Series'? Name the famous english caption and the english bowler. - Avg was somewhere in the 50s. Captain - Douglas Jardine, Bowler : Harold Larwood

Rajni Trivia

This trivia is related only to 'Padma Bhushan' Rajinikanth who turns 58 today.

Rajni and Numbers:

1. In the film Thee, SS wore a metal plate which had the number 786. What was the number he wore in Uzhaipaali?
2. Whats the connection between the number 4995 and SS (Clue: related to a movie released in mid 90s)
3, Whats the connection between the number 7465 and SS (Clue: related to a movie released in early 80s. Latha Rajnikanth will not forget this movie)

Rajni and Character Names

4. What is Rajini's father's name in in the movie 'Velaikarran'?
5. In two movies, Rajni's character name is his original name ie.. 'Rajini'. What are those movies?
6. What is Rajni's character name in the movie Sri Ragavendra before He (Sri Ragavendra) adopted an extreme ascetic life?

Rajni and Colleagues

7. Which actress has paired with SS most number of times?
8. In how many movies did Rajni and Sivaji had acted together?

Rajni and Kamal

9. Which actress has shared the screen with Rajni as heroin has never shared the screen with Kamal as heroin or as character artist (no dubbing movies)
10. Which actress has shared the screen with Kamal as heroin has never shared the screen with Rajni as heroin or as character artist (no dubbing movies)

Special thanks to Yahoo Rajni groups for lending me some interesting questions.