13 interesting General Awareness Questions.

1. What is the full form of YAHOO?
2. What is the full form of ADIDAS?
3. Expansion of Star as in Star TV Network?
4. What is full form of “ICICI?”
5. The 1984-85 season. 2nd ODI between India and Pakistan at Sialkot – INDIA 210/3 with Vengsarkar 94*. Match abandoned. Why?
6. Who is the only man to have written the National Anthems for two different countries?
7. From what four word expression does the word ‘goodbye’ derive?
8. How was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu better known?
9. Name the only other country to have got independence on Aug 15th?
10. Why was James Bond Associated with the Number 007?
11. Who faced the first ball in the first ever One day match?
12. Which cricketer played for South Africa before it was banned from international cricket and later represented Zimbabwe ?
13. Which is the only country that is surrounded from all sides by only one country (other than Vatican )?

Answers ::

1. Yet Another Hierarchy of Officious Oracle
2. All Day I Dream About Sports
3. Satellite Television Asian Region
4. Industrial credit and Investments Corporation of India
5. That match was abandoned after people heard The news of Indira Gandhi being killed
6. Rabindranath Tagore who wrote national anthem for two different Countries one is our National anthem and another one is for Bangladesh (Amar Sonar Bangla)
7. Goodbye comes from the expression: ‘god be with you’.
8. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu is none other Mother Teresa
9. South Korea
10. Because 007 is the ISD code for Russia
11. Geoffrey Boycott
12. John Traicos