BRAIN TEASERS

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 - 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 season, 2nd ODI between India and Pakistan at Sialkot - India 210/3 with Vengsarkar 94*. The match was abandoned. Why?
   That match was abandoned after people heard the news of Ms. Indira Gandhi being killed.
8. Who is the only man to have written the National Anthems for two different countries?
   Rabindranath Tagore wrote National Anthems for two different countries. One is the National Anthem of India - (Jan Man Gan) and the other one is of Bangladesh - (Amar Sonar Bangla).
9. From what four word ex-pression does the word 'Goodbye' derive?
   Goodbye comes from the expression: '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?
    Because 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 Lincoln.
16. Which is the only country that is surrounded from all sides by only one country (other than Vatican)?
    Lesotho surrounded from all sides by South Africa.
17. Which is the only sport which is not allowed to play left handed?
    Polo.