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PSYCHODELIA'99 - THE ICE-FLAMES QUIZ

1. What is Donald Duck's middlename ?

2. The Feroz Shah Kotla Pitch Digging is old hat the Shiv Sena has threatened to disrupt a match between the Pakistani and the Sri Lankan women's teams to be held where ?

3. In where would you kind the regions of Numenor, Rhovanion, Mirkwood, Rohan and Lothlorien ?

4. Which Italian car company was acquired by Volkswagen last year ?

5. What is the claim to fame Edward de Vere, a 16'th century Earl of Oxford ?

6. Where would you find the highlands of Ishtar Terra, The Maxwell Montes, Beta Regio and the Scorpions tail ?

7. What unique distinction connects rulers as diverse as Shah Jahan, Aurenzeb, Mohaamed Shah Rangeela , Nadir Shah, Ranjit Singh and Queen Victoria ?

8. How does us westernised folks better know 11 Pausa, Saka Samvat 1921 ?

9. Which famous series has a fixed fecundity rate of rabbits as its basic premise ?

10. Who or what in Japan are the Hibakusha ?

11. William Dalrymple's latest book is ' At the court of the fish eyed goddess'. Who is the fish eyed goddess?

12. JFK wrote 'Profiles in courage' who wrote 'Black Profiles in Courage' ?

13. What commonly used political term comes from the Russian for the Majority ?

14. Seems to have been a good and conscientious ruler who was magnanimous towards his enemies. He banned informers, stamped down hard on corruption, and freed slaves at every opportunity. Although he tolerated the circus, he ordered gladiators to fight with blunted points. His son , who succeeded him in a disastrous reign full of corruption and cruelty. His son was rumoured to be the son of one of the gladiators whom His wife took as a lover. It is said that he was poisoned by doctors acting on his son's wishes.

15. This was invented by Prof. Fred MacMurray in March 1961 as a substitute for rubber.

16. Aubrey Eberhardt, a member of the U.S. Army watched a film with his colleagues in 1948, after seeing this particular film they went off to have beer. An argument between him and his friends led him to do something, a first now an oft repeated incident.

17. Which cocktail mixed at Professor Moriarty's, a restaurant at Saratoga Springs, has the following ingredients - light and dark rum, banana liqueur, lemon juice, pineapple juice and grenadine, topped with 151 rum?

18. Founded in 1961, by London lawyer Peter Benenson who read about a group of students in Portugal who were arrested and jailed for raising a toast to "freedom" in a public restaurant. This incident prompted him to launch something?

19. Born on December 25, 1918, in the village of Mit Abu al-Kawm.The son of a poor hospital clerk, he was chosen for the military academy, to plot against the imperialist power occupying his country He was jailed twice for contacts with Germans in World War II. He was assassinated in Cairo by a group of the latter within his own army on October 6.

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