2. QUESTION 1.
The _____ River is a river in southern Victoria,
Australia to the east of Melbourne.
The _____ River starts below Mount Beenak
at an elevation of 477m and ends at an
elevation of 40.1m merging with the Tarago
River.
The river owes its name to a mythical
Aboriginal creature alternatively called
kianpraty, said to lurk in swamps, billabongs,
creeks, riverbeds, and waterholes.
4. QUESTION 2.
Its origin has been dated back to ancient
times. In the 1st-century Mediterranean
world, it was one of many methods used to
divert the ever-present threat of the evil eye.
It probably came to the US in the 1890s via
Italian immigrants.
Old Hoss Radbourn, a baseball pitcher for the
Boston Beaneaters, gave it to a member of
New York Giants – thus marking its first
documented appearance in modern times.
6. QUESTION 3.
Godrej veg. toilet soap, sweets from Jalajoga
confectioners, ghee manufacturer Sri
Ghrita, Radium Cream, ink manufacturer
Kajal Kali, Napier Paint Works.
These are some of the hundreds in a list.
What connects them?
7.
8. QUESTION 4.
'The ______, a poem from India' is a nonsense
poem by Edward Lear, where it refers to the
titular article of clothing as a ferocious
woman-eating beast.
It was first adopted by British officers in
colonial India as an alternative to a
waistcoat, and later spread to civilian use.
14. QUESTION 7.
An Italian mathematician – considered by
some “the most talented western
mathematician of the Middle Ages” – who
was instrumental in spreading the HinduArabic numeral system in the Western world
is most famous today for something he did
not discover. Who/what?
16. QUESTION 8.
What was launched on February 9, 2004 – the
first of its kind – aboard a ferry belonging to
the Kerala Shipping and Inland Navigation
Corporation plying between Ernakulam and
Vypeen?
Reliance Infocomm enabled the development
of this with their CDMA technology.