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noreply@blogger.com (D L S) — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 10:02:00 +0000

Test Your Knowledge_6

QUESTIONS

01. In Mahabharata, we get the ancient names of many regions of modern India. Which modern state of India was mentioned in Mahabharata in its present day name?
02. Connect Sakuntala, Narada in the story of Savitri and Meerabai.
03. Psychoanalysis is a type of psychodynamic therapy or insight-oriented therapy, a therapeutic technique for the treatment of neuroses and some psychoses. Sigmund Freud was one of the first proponents of this method/ theory. Which Indian scientist/clinician is generally believed to be the first proponent of this theory in India?
04. This poet wrote a sathaka (anthology of 100 or more poems) on an eatable. Who is this writer and what is the name of the sathaka? What is the story of how it came to be written?
05. There is a place in India, of which it is said, that a river passes through a mountain and emerges on the other side. This is not just a river that travels underground, and emerges some time later at a lower elevation. This river is said to pass through a mountain! What is the name of the mountain? Where is it located? HINT
Hint 1: The river flows into a valley which is surrounded on all sided by mountains. According to a legend of some local inhabitants, at one time the valley was filled with water. However, a giant fish bored a hole through the mountain, allowing the valley to drain and become inhabitable.
Hint 2: An alternate legend to the giant fish, is that the drainage hole was created by Siva with his trishul.
Hint 3: The giant fish was called Hutunga.
06. There were 2 Sahadevas, one the Pandav, who was the other?
07. What term or phrase is often used in USA to differntiate Indians of India origin from Native Indians?
08. Connect James Bond and 2006 Commonwealth Games.
09. Which Indian city did Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala lay the foundation of?
10. Who is the first Indian to become a European star on television and what was the character?

ANSWERS

01. Manipur
02. All played by M. S. Subbulakshmi.
03. Girindrasekhar Bose
04. Chilakamarthi. Apart from being a famous poet, he was also a playwright with one of the popular theater troupes in which Tanguturi Prakasam was also a member. The story goes that, one day after rehearsals, some one brought hot pakoras and when Chilakamarthi wanted to have them, some one said, one pakodi (Telugu for Pakora) for one poem! Then, Chilakamarthi said, "Gone are the days of akshara lakshalu (A lakh for each alphabet in the poem) and we have the days where we get only a pakodi for a poem." and then recited several poems on the spot on the greatness of pakodi. The collection is titled pakodi satakam
05. Chingnunghut mountain, Manipur valley, and Imphal river. Its tributaries and it flows into chindwin river through 3 tunnels.
06. Sahadeva Thera, an arahant who accompanied the Thera Majjhima to the region of Himavā, who was also the son of Jarasandha.
07. "Indians of dot"(Asian Indian) as opposed to "Indians of feather" (Native Indians).
08. "Goldfinger" Samresh Jung.
09. Darjeeling
10. Kabir Bedi

Test Your Knowledge_5

noreply@blogger.com (D L S) — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 05:05:00 +0000

Test Your Knowledge_5

QUESTIONS

01. In 1991, a fire-accident burnt down "Star Theatre"—an old theatre in Calcutta. In the same year, in a separate fire-accident, the priceless historical collection of a company was gutted in Calcutta. What is the company/institution? And what sort of collection it had?
02. Considered among the most influential personalities in the Bombay film industry, this gentleman's name means "new happiness" as his year of birth also saw the conclusion of a major war. Who is being referred to?
03. What is the common characteristic between Drona, Dhristadyumna, Jarasandha and Sita?
04. Which Indian revolutionary was a founding member of the Mexican Communist Party?
05. Name the state in India that does not have a public seat at the Lok Sabha.
06. Who is the director of the Indian film that won the award for Best Film Live Action 6–12 category in the 2005 Kids for Kids festival, Naples? What is the name of the film in English and in vernacular language?
07. During World War II, Country A was under the colonial rule of Country B. Country B was at war with Country C. Faced with attack from C, B had to withdraw from A. Now, in A, there was a freedom struggle going on to free the country from B. The leader of this struggle was Person D. So when C drove B out of A, D welcomed C as its deliverer and joined his forces with C’s armies. But C treated A so badly that within a couple of years, D switched sides and allied himself with B once again. The Country A got its freedom a few years after WWII. Name A, B, C and D.
08. Once when a soldier said 'I'm proud be in the Forgotten Army', which army he was referring to.
09. Which actor turned politician was also a nominee for a Nobel prize?
10. Who was the first actor in India to get elected as a member of LokSabha, from which place and which year?

ANSWERS

01. Bourne & Shepherd Photographic studio, established by Samuel Bourne and Charles Shepherd. It contained lots of Raj era photos.
02. Naushad
03. All had unnatural births. Sita was got from a furrow when ploughing a field, daughter of earth; Drona was born a brahmin, son of sage Bharadwaja, in modern day Dehradoon (a modification of dehra-dron, a clay pot), which implies that he was not gestated in a womb, but outside the human body in a Droon (earth pot); Drupada aka Drishtadyumna was got from doing a yagnam, born out of the fire. Jarasandha was born in two halves in 2 mothers. Each half was dead and were thrown away. A rakshasi named Jara collected the 2 pieces and joined those. That's why the name: Jara sandha.
04. M. N. Roy (Manabendra Nath Roy (21 March 1887 – 26 January 1954))
05. Mizoram ("land of the hill people")
06. Sahiful Mandal, for "We are"/"Aamra".
07. A is Burma; B is British Empire; C is Japan and D is Aung San and the Burmese National Army.
08. The British Fourteenth Army
09. Jayalalitha. She is a nominee for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.
10. Kongara Jaggayya (also transliterated as Jaggaiah). He was an MP from Ongole.

Books and Authors

noreply@blogger.com (D L S) — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 13:47:00 +0000

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noreply@blogger.com (D L S) — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 13:34:00 +0000

No.	Books	Authors
141	My Truth	Indira Gandhi
142	Old Man and the Sea	Earnest Hemingway
143	The Other Side of Midnight	Sindye Sheldon
144	Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen
145	Shape of Things to Come	H.G.Wells
146	Sons and Lovers	D.H.Lawrence
147	Treasure Island	R.L.Stevenson
148	Valley of Dolls	Jacqueline Susann
149	Wealth of Nations	Adam Smith

Important Books & Authors_7

noreply@blogger.com (D L S) — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 13:26:00 +0000

No.	Books	Authors
121	Communist Manifesto	Karl Marx
122	Confessions	Jean Jacques Rousseau
123	The Court Dancer	Rabindra Nath Tagore
124	Death of a City	Amrita Pritam
125	Decline and Fall of the Roman	Edward Gibbon Empire
126	Essays of Gita	Sir Aurobindo Ghosh
127	French Revolution	Thomas Carlyle
128	Ganadevata	Tara Shankar Bandopadhyaya
129	Glimpses of World History	Jawaharlal Nehru
130	The Godfather	Mario Puzo
131	Grammar of Politics	Harold T.Laski
132	Guide	R.K.Narayan
133	Hindu View of Life	Dr.S.Radha Krishnan
134	Hungry Stones	Rabindra Nath Tagore
135	India Divided	Dr.Rajendra Prasad
136	Jurassik Park	Michael Crichton
137	Kidnapped	Robert Louis Stevenson
138	Richard Nixon	Leaders
139	Mahatma Gandhi	Romain Rolland
140	The Masters	C.P.Shaw

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noreply@blogger.com (D L S) — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 13:23:00 +0000

No.	Books	Authors
101	Faust	Goethe
102	Arabian Nights	Sir Richard Burton
103	The City of Joy	Dominique Lapierre
104	The One Day Wonders	Sunil Gavaskar
105	Silas Marner	George Eliot
106	Bachelor of Arts	R.K.Narayan
107	China Passage	John Kenneth Galbraith
108	A Suitable Boy	Vikram Seth
109	A Voice For Freedom	Nayantara Saigal
110	A Week with Gandhi	Louis Fisher
111	A Woman's Life	Guy de Maupassaut
112	Age of Reason	Jean Paul Sartre
113	Asian Drama	Gunnar Myrdal
114	The Bubble	Mulk Raj Anand
115	Ben Hur	Lewis Wallace
116	The Castle	Franz Kalka
117	Chandalika	Rabindra Nath Tagore
118	The Class	Erich Byron
119	The Clown	Heinrich Boll
120	Comedy of Errors	William Shakespeare

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noreply@blogger.com (D L S) — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 13:21:00 +0000

No.	Books	Authors
81	Othello	Shakespeare
82	Panchatantra	Vishnu Sharma
83	Paradise lost	John Milton
84	Pickwick Papers	Charles Dickens
85	Plague	Albert Camus
86	The Post Office	R.N.Tagore
87	Principia	Issac Newton
88	Ramayana	Valmiki
89	Robinson Crusoe	Daniel Defoe
90	Shah Nama	Firdausi
91	Shape of things to come	H.G.Wells
92	Three Musketeers	Alexander Dumas
93	The Tempest	Shakespeare
94	Tom Sawyer	Mark Twain
95	Treasure Island	R.L.Stevenson
96	Ulysses	James Joyce
97	Uncle Tom's Cabin	Mrs.Harriet Stowe
98	Waste Land	T.S.Eliot
99	Nineteen Eighty-four	George Orwell
100	Sunny Days	Sunil Gavaskar

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noreply@blogger.com (D L S) — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 13:17:00 +0000

No.	Books	Authors
61	Harsha Charit	Bana Bhatt
62	Hunchback of Notre Dame	Victor Hugo
63	Hungry Stones	R.N.Tagore
64	Illiad	Homer
65	Invisible Man	H.G.Wells
66	Ivanhoe	Walter Scott
67	Jungle Book	Rudyard Kipling
68	Kadambari	Bana Bhatt
69	Kidnapped	R.L.Stevenson
70	King Lear	Shakespeare
71	Kumar Sambhav	Kalidas
72	Last Days of Pompeii	Bulwar Lytton
73	Les Miserable	Victor Hugo
74	Life Divine	Shri Aurobindo
75	Mahabharata	Vyas
76	Man and Superman	G.B.Shaw
77	Meghdut	Kalidas
78	Mother	Maxim Gorky
79	Odyssey	Homer
80	Oliver Twist	Charles Dickens

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noreply@blogger.com (D L S) — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 13:15:00 +0000

No.	Books	Authors
41	Baburnama	Babur
42	Ben Hur	Lewis Wallace
43	Bhagwat Gita	Ved Vyas
44	Bisarjan	R.N.Tagore
45	Canterbury Tales	Chaucer
46	Chitra	R.N.Tagore
47	Count of Monte Cristo	Alexander Dumas
48	Crime and Punishment	Dostoevsky
49	Das Kapital	Karl Marx
50	Divine Comedy	Dante
51	Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde	Stevenson
52	Don Quixote	Cervantes
53	Dr.Zhivago	Boris Pasternak
54	For whom the Bell Tolls	Ernest Hemingway
55	Forsyte Saga	John Galsworthy
56	Freedom at Midnight	Dominique Lapierre
57	Gathering Storm	Winston Churchill
58	Geet Govind	Jaya Dev
59	Gora	R.N. Tagore
60	Hamlet	Shakespeare

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noreply@blogger.com (D L S) — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 13:13:00 +0000

No.	Books	Authors
21	Le Contract Social	Jean Jacques Rousseau
22	Avigyan Sakuntalam	Kalidas
23	Anand Math	Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay
24	Mein Kampf	Adolf Hitler
25	Ain-i-Akbari	Abul Fazal
26	Akbar-Nama	Abul Fazal
27	Shakuntala	Kalidas
28	War and peace	Leo Tolstoy
29	A Dangerous place	D.P. Moynihan
30	Raghuvamsa	Kalidas
31	Adventures of Sherlock Holmes	Arthur Conan Doyle
32	Adventures of Tom Saweyer	Mark Twain
33	Agni Veena	Kazi Nasrul Islam
34	Alice in Wonderland	Lewis Carrol
35	Ancient Mariner	Coleridge
36	Animal Farm	George Orwell
37	Anna Karenina	Tolstoy
38	Antony and Cleopatra	Shakespeare
39	Arms and the Man	G.B.Shaw
40	Around the World in eighty days	Jules Verne

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noreply@blogger.com (D L S) — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 13:06:00 +0000

No.	Books	Authors
01	My experiments with Truth	Mahatma M.K.Gandhi
02	Far from the Madding Crowd	Thomas Hardy
03	Geetanjali	Rabindra Nath Tagore
04	One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch	Alexander Solzhenitsyn
05	The Merchant of venice	William shakespeare
06	The Moon and Six pense	Somerset Maughan
07	Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come	John Bunyan
08	A Tale of Two Cities	Charles Dickens
09	Utopia	Sir Thomas Moor
10	Origin of species	charles Darwin
11	David Copperfield	Charles Dickens
12	A passage to India	E.M.Forster
13	Gulliver's Travels	Jonathan Swift
14	Discovery of India	Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
15	The Vicar of Wakefield	Oliver Goldsmith
16	The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Edward Gibbon
17	The Lady of the Last Minstrel	Sir Walter Scott
18	Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen
19	Time Machine	H.G. Wells
20	Arthashastra	Kautilya

Miscellaneous

noreply@blogger.com (D L S) — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 12:22:00 +0000

List of nicknames used in cricket

List of Greek mythological figures

Test Your Knowledge

noreply@blogger.com (D L S) — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 12:05:00 +0000

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List of Greek mythological figures

noreply@blogger.com (D L S) — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 06:03:00 +0000

The following is a list of gods, goddesses and many other divine and semi-divine figures from Ancient Greek mythologyand Ancient Greek Religion.

Immortals

The Greeks created images of their deities for many purposes. A temple would house the statue of a god or goddess, or multiple deities, and might be decorated with relief scenes depicting myths. Divine images were common on coins. Drinking cups and other vessels were painted with scenes from Greek myths.

Major gods and goddesses

Deity	Description
	Aphrodite (Ἀφροδίτη, Aphroditē) Goddess of love, beauty, desire, sex, and pleasure. Although married to Hephaestus she had many lovers, most notably Ares,Adonis, and Anchises. She was depicted as a beautiful woman and of all the goddesses most likely to appear nude or semi-nude with very large breasts. Poets praise the radiance of her smile and her laughter. Her symbols include roses and other flowers, thescallop shell, and myrtle wreath. Her sacred animals are doves and sparrows. Her Roman counterpart was Venus.
	Apollo (Ἀπόλλων, Apóllōn) God of music, arts, knowledge, healing, plague, prophecy, poetry, manly beauty, archery, and the sun. He is the son of Zeus andLeto, and the twin brother of Artemis. As brother and sister, they were identified with the sun and moon; both use a bow and arrow. In the earliest myths, Apollo contends with his half-brother Hermes. In sculpture, Apollo was depicted as a very handsome, beardless young man with long hair and an ideal physique. As the embodiment of perfectionism, he could be cruel and destructive, and his love affairs were rarely happy; One example was his fruitless pursuit of the Forest nymph Daphne, with his large ego he angered Eros (cupid), which caused Apollo to be shot with an arrow of love and Daphne with a lead arrow of hate. The nymph was turned into a laurel bush, leaving Apollo to worship its leaves. His attributes include the laurel wreath and lyre. He often appears in the company of the Muses. Animals sacred to Apollo include roe deer, swans, cicadas, hawks, ravens, crows, foxes, mice, and snakes.
	Ares (Ἄρης, Árēs) God of war, bloodshed, and violence. The son of Zeus and Hera, he was depicted as a beardless youth, either nude with a helmet and spear or sword, or as an armed warrior. Homer portrays him as moody and unreliable, and he generally represents the chaos of war in contrast to Athena, a goddess of military strategy and skill. Ares' sacred animals are the vulture, venomous snakes, dogs, and boars. His Roman counterpart Mars by contrast was regarded as the dignified ancestor of the Roman people. Brother of Hephaestus, also had an affair with his wife Aphrodite, which later Apollo revealed to Hephaestus.
	Artemis (Ἄρτεμις, Ártemis) Virgin goddess of the hunt, wilderness, animals, young girls, childbirth, plague, and the moon. In later times she became associated with bows and arrows. She is the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and twin sister of Apollo. In art she was often depicted as a young woman dressed in a short knee-length chiton and equipped with a hunting bow and a quiver of arrows. Her attributes include hunting spears, animal pelts, deer and other wild animals. Her sacred animals are deer, bears, and wild boars. Diana was her Roman counterpart.
	Athena (Ἀθηνᾶ, Athēnâ) Goddess of intelligence, skill, peace, warfare, battle strategy, handicrafts, and wisdom. According to most traditions, she was born from Zeus's head fully formed and armored. She was depicted crowned with a crested helm, armed with shield and a spear, and wearing the aegis over a long dress. Poets describe her as "grey-eyed" or having especially bright, keen eyes. She was a special patron of heroes such as Odysseus. She was also the patron of the city Athens (which was named after her) Her symbol is theolive tree. She is commonly shown accompanied by her sacred animal, the owl. The Romans identified her with Minerva.
	Demeter (Δημήτηρ, Dēmētēr) Goddess of grain, agriculture and the harvest, growth and nourishment. Demeter is a daughter of Cronus and Rhea and sister ofZeus, by whom she bore Persephone. She was one of the main deities of the Eleusinian Mysteries, in which her power over the life cycle of plants symbolized the passage of the human soul through its life course and into the afterlife. She was depicted as a mature woman, often crowned and holding sheafs of wheat and a torch. Her symbols are the cornucopia, wheat-ears, the winged serpent, and the lotus staff. Her sacred animals are pigs and snakes. Ceres was her Roman counterpart.
	Dionysus (Διόνυσος, Diónysos)/Bacchus (Βάκχος, Bákkhos) God of wine, parties and festivals, madness, chaos, drunkenness, drugs, and ecstasy. The idea was originally from ancient Chios. This was his "home". He was depicted in art as either an older bearded god or a pretty effeminate, long-haired youth. His attributes include the thyrsus (a pinecone-tipped staff), drinking cup, grape vine, and a crown of ivy. He is often in the company of his thiasos, a posse of attendants including satyrs, maenads, and his old tutor Silenus. The consort of Dionysus was Ariadne. Animals sacred to him include dolphins, serpents, tigers, and donkeys. A later addition to the Olympians, in some accounts he replaced Hestia. Bacchus was another name for him in Greek, and came into common usage among the Romans.
	Hades (ᾍδης, Hádēs)/Pluto (Πλούτων, Ploutōn) King of the underworld and the dead, and god of regret. His consort is Persephone. His attributes are the drinking horn orcornucopia, key, sceptre, and the three-headed dog Cerberus. The screech owl was sacred to him. He was one of three sons ofCronus and Rhea, and thus sovereign over one of the three realms of the universe, the underworld. As a chthonic god, however, his place among the Olympians is ambiguous. In the mystery religions and Athenian literature, Pluto (Plouton, "the Rich") was his preferred name, with Hades more common for the underworld as a place. The Romans translated Plouton as Dis Pater ("the Rich Father") or Pluto.
	Hephaestus (Ἥφαιστος, Hḗphaistos) Crippled god of fire, metalworking, and crafts. Husband to Aphrodite. Either the son of Zeus and Hera or Hera alone, he is the smith of the gods and the husband of the adulterous Aphrodite. He was usually depicted as a bearded man with hammer, tongs and anvil—the tools of a smith—and sometimes riding a donkey. His sacred animals are the donkey, the guard dog and the crane. Among his creations was the armor of Achilles. Hephaestus used the fire of the forge as a creative force, but his Roman counterpart Vulcan was feared for his destructive potential and associated with the volcanic power of the earth.
	Hera (Ἥρα, Hḗra) Queen of the gods and goddess of marriage, women, childbirth, heirs, kings, and empires. She is the wife and sister of Zeus and daughter of Cronus and Rhea. She was usually depicted as a regal woman in the prime of her life, wearing a diadem and veil and holding a lotus-tipped staff. Although she was the goddess of marriage, Zeus's many infidelities drive her to jealousy and vengefulness. One Iconic affair was one he had with Alcmene, which bore him a son, Heracles (Hercules). There are several versions with one being that she sent snakes to kill Heracles and another where she adopts him and nurses him. Her sacred animals are the heifer, the peacock, and the cuckoo. In Rome she was known as Juno.
	Hermes (Ἑρμῆς, Hērmēs) God of boundaries, travel, communication, trade, language, and writing. The son of Zeus and Maia, Hermes is the messenger of the gods, and a psychopomp who leads the souls of the dead into the afterlife. He was depicted either as a handsome and athletic beardless youth, or as an older bearded man. His attributes include the herald's wand or caduceus, winged sandals, and a traveler's cap. His sacred animals are the tortoise, the ram, and the hawk. The Roman Mercury was more closely identified with trade and commerce.
	Hestia (Ἑστία, Hestía) Virgin goddess of the hearth, home and chastity. She is a daughter of Rhea and Cronus and sister of Zeus. Not often identifiable in Greek art, she appeared as a modestly veiled woman. Her symbols are the hearth and kettle. In some accounts, she gave up her seat as one of the Twelve Olympians in favor of Dionysus, and she plays little role in Greek myths. Her counterpart Vesta, however, was a major deity of the Roman state.
	Poseidon (Ποσειδῶν, Poseidōn) God of the sea, rivers, floods, droughts, and earthquakes. He is a son of Cronus and Rhea and brother to Zeus and Hades. He rules one of the three realms of the universe as king of the sea and the waters. In classical artwork, he was depicted as a mature man of sturdy build with an often luxuriant beard, and holding a trident. The horse and the dolphin are sacred to him. His wedding with Amphitrite is often presented as a triumphal procession. There are some stories that specify an affair with Medusa which led to her giving birth to Pegasus from her neck when Perseus sliced her head. His symbols are the trident, horse, dolphin, fish and bull. His Roman counterpart was Neptune.
	Zeus (Ζεύς, Zeus) King and father of the gods, the ruler of Mount Olympus and the god of the sky, weather, thunder, lightning, law, order, and justice. He is the youngest son of Cronus and Rhea. He overthrew Cronus and gained the sovereignty of heaven for himself. In artwork, he was depicted as a regal, mature man with a sturdy figure and dark beard. His usual attributes are the royal scepter and the lightning bolt, and his sacred animals are the eagle and the bull. His counterpart Jupiter, also known as Jove, was the supreme deity of the Romans.

List of nicknames used in cricket

noreply@blogger.com (D L S) — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 03:46:00 +0000

Cricket has a rich tradition of using nicknames. This is a List of nicknames used in international cricket.

Teams

Australian national cricket team—The Baggy Greens, Kangaroos, Aussies
- 1948 tour of England—The Invincibles
Indian National Cricket Team — The Bluees
New Zealand national cricket team — The Black Caps, The Kiwis
Pakistan national cricket team — Men in Green, The Gang Green,The Green Shirts
South African national cricket team — The Proteas, The Saffas, the Saffaris
Sri Lankan national cricket team — The Lions
West Indian national cricket team — The Windies
Bangladesh national cricket team - The Tigers
Ireland Cricket team - Leprechauns

Out of all of these South African Nickname the Proteas is the most used and others are used very limited, Nowadays almost all English Reporters use the Proteas instead of South Africa making it one of the most used nicknames in entire sports journalism.

Officials, umpires and commentators

Jonathan Agnew — Spiro, Aggers
Harold Bird — Dickie Bird
Henry Blofeld — Blowers
Ian Botham — Beefy
Billy Bowden — Billy
Steve Bucknor — Slow Death Bucknor
Bill Frindall — Bearded Wonder, Bearders
Robin Jackman — Jackers
Brian Johnston — Johnners
David Lloyd — Bumble
Craig McMillan — Macca
Mpumelelo Mbangwa — Pommie
Christopher Martin-Jenkins — CMJ
Don Mosey — The Alderman
David Shepherd — Shep
Alan Wilkins — Wilko
Simon Doull — Doully
Nasser Hussain — Nas
Mark Richardson - David
Ian Bishop - Bish

Supporters

An organised group of Australian cricket team supporters — The Fanatics
An organised group of English cricket team supporters — Barmy Army
An organised group of New Zealand cricket team supporters — The Beige Brigade
An organised group of Bangladesh cricket team supporters — ক্রিকেটখোর(CricketKhor)
An organised group of India national cricket team supporters - The Bharat Army

Players

A

Shahid Afridi — Boom Boom Afridi, Lala
Ashton Agar — Bambi
Mushtaq Ahmed — Mushie
Saeed Ajmal — The Magician, Saeed Bhai
Shoaib Akhtar — Rawalpindi Express
James Anderson - The Burnley Lara
Warwick Armstrong — Big Ship
Mike Atherton — Athers, FEC, Cockroach, Dready,Iron Mike
Mohammad Ashraful — Matin

B

Brendon McCullum — Bazz
Trevor Bailey — The Boil, Barnacle
Omari Banks — Bankie
Gareth Batty — Boris, Nora
Michael Beer — Frothy
Will Beer — The Young Beer
Ian Bell — Belly, The Sherminator
Richie Benaud — Diamonds
Travis Birt — Edgar
Allan Border — AB, Captain Grumpy
Ian Botham — Beefy
Geoffrey Boycott - Fiery, Boycs, Thatch
Don Bradman — The Don
Mike Brearley — Brears, Scagg
Stuart Broad — Westlife
Mark Butcher — Butch

C

Ian Chappell — Chappelli,
Michael Clarke— Pup, Clarkey
Mark Cosgrove — Cossy, Baby-Boof
John Crawley — Creepy
Dinesh Chandimal — Chandi

D

Phillip DeFreitas — Daffy
Abraham de Villiers — AB, Mr.360, Mr. Awesome
Kapil Dev — The Haryana Hurricane,
Ted Dexter — Lord Ted
Graham Dilley — Pica, Dill
Michael Di Venuto — Diva
Basil D'Oliveira — Dolly, Bas
Allan Donald — White Lightning
Brett Dorey — Behemoth
J.W.H.T. Douglas — Johnny Won't Hit Today
Rahul Dravid — The Wall, Mr. Dependable, Jammy
Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji — Duleep, Mr Smith
Mahendra Singh Dhoni — Mahi,Captain cool
Tillakaratne Dilshan — Mr. Pallekele,the Dilscoop,Dilee
David Miller - Killer Miller

E

Matthew Elliott — Herb
Sean Ervine — Slug, Siuc
Fidel Edwards — Castro

F

Imran Farhat — Romi
Andrew Flintoff — Freddie
Peter Fulton — Two-metre Peter
Steve Finn — The Watford Wall

G

Sunil Gavaskar — Sunny, Little Master
Sourav Ganguly — Dada, The Prince of Kolkata(Calcutta)
Joel Garner — Big Bird
Adam Gilchrist — Gilly Churchy
Jason Gillespie — Dizzy
Herschelle Gibbs — Scooter
Gautam Gambhir — Gauti
Ashley Giles — Gilo, Skinny, Splash, The King of Spain', Wheelie Bin
Umar Gul - Guldozer
Asanka Gurusinha — Gura
David Gower - Stoat

Virat Kohli -Chiku

H

Mohammad Hafeez — dx,Cheena','Professor'
Brad Haddin — BJ, Hadds
Richard Hadlee — Paddles
Stephen Harmison — Harmy
Chris Harris — Lugs
Ryan Harris — Ryano
Chris Hartley — Hannibal
Ian Harvey — Harvs, The Freak
Shane Harwood — Stickers
Nathan Hauritz — Ritzy
Matthew Hayden — Haydos, Big Fish
George Headley — Black Bradman
Hunter Hendry — Stork
Ben Hilfenhaus — Hilfy
Jack Hobbs — The Master
Brad Hodge — Hodgey, Dodgeball
Brad Hogg— Docker, George
Matthew Hoggard — Oggie
Michael Holding — Whispering Death
A N Hornby — Monkey, The Boss
James Hopes — Catfish
Merv Hughes — Fruitfly
Nasser Hussain — Nashwan
David Hussey — Huss, Bomber,Junior Mr. Cricket
Michael Hussey — Mr Cricket, Huss

I

Bert Ironmonger — Dainty

J

Sanath Jayasuriya — Sana, Master blaster
Mitchell Johnson — Midge, Notch
Mahela Jayawardene — Mayya
Ravindra Jadeja — Sir

K

Romesh Kaluwitharana — Little Kalu
Danish Kaneria — Nani-Danny
Michael Kasprowicz — Kasper
Simon Katich — Kat
Justin Kemp — Kempie
Robert Key — Keysy
Michael Klinger — Maxy
Jason Krejza — Krazy
Nuwan Kulasekara — Kule
Anil Kumble — Jumbo
Chamara Kapugedera — Kapu
Zaheer Khan - Zak

L

Justin Langer— Alfie, JL
Gavin Larsen — The Postman
V V S Laxman — Very Very Special
Bill Lawry — Phantom
Darren Lehmann — Boof
Brett Lee — Bing,Binga,The Speedster
Shane Lee — Meadow
Dennis Lillee — FOT
Clive Lloyd — Super Cat
David Lloyd — Bumble

M

Charles Macartney — Governor-General
Stuart MacGill — Mac
Ken Mackay — Slasher
Jimmy Maher — Mahbo
Sajid Mahmood — Saj, King, Big Saj,
Lasith Malinga — The Pocket Rocket, Malinga The Slinga
Chris Martin — The Phantom
Angelo Mathews — Angie,Superman,Jocka
Ashley Mallett — Rowdy
Vic Marks — Skid, Speedy
Charles Marriott — Father Marriott
Rod Marsh — Iron Gloves, Bacchus
Shaun Marsh— SOS
Frederick Martin — Nutty
Damien Martyn — Marto
Lloyd Mash — Bangers
Khaled Mashud — Pilot
Greg Matthews — Mo
Glenn Maxwell — Big Show,Maxi
Mpumelelo Mbangwa — Pommie
Nathan McCullum — Mattress, Matt-I
Craig McMillan — Macca
Glenn McGrath — Pigeon, Millard
Graham McKenzie — Garth
Brian McMillan — Big Mac
Colin Miller — Funky
Keith Miller — Nugget
Dave Mohammed — Tadpole
John Morrison — Mystery
Mashrafe Mortaza — Koushik
Muttiah Muralitharan — Murali
Tim Murtagh — Dial M
Phil Mustard — (The) Colonel
Farveez Maharoof — Fara

N

André Nel — Nella; Gunther
Mfuneko Ngam — Chew
Paul Nixon — Badger, Nico
Monty Noble — Mary Ann
Ashley Noffke — Noffers
Marcus North — Snork
Makhaya Ntini — George

O

Iain O'Brien — Ober
Chris Old — Chilly
Kerry O'Keeffe — Skull
Bill O'Reilly — Tiger

P

Milford Page — Curly
Monty Panesar — The Mont-ster, Python, The Beard to be Feared,^]The Sikh of Tweak
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi — Tiger
Jeetan Patel — Dave
Kevin Pietersen — K.P., Kelvin, Kelv, Kapes
Liam Plunkett — Pudsy
Graeme Pollock — The Little Dog
Peter Pollock — Pooch,The Big Dog
Ricky Ponting — Punter
Matthew Prior — The Cheese
Cheteshwar Pujara - Chintu

R

Mark Ramprakash — Ramps
Arjuna Ranatunga — Captain Cool
Arjuna Ranatunga — Captain Cool
Vivian Richards — Smokin Joe, Smokey, King Viv, The Emperor, The Master Blaster
Greg Ritchie — Fat Cat
Suresh Raina — Chota Sachin

S

Kumar Sangakkara - Sanga
Virender Sehwag — Viru, Nawab of Najafgarh, Sultan of Multan
Sandeep Sharma — Sandu
Harbhajan Singh — Bhajji, Turbanator
Mandeep Singh — Mandy
Steve Smith — Smudge
Andrew Strauss — Lord Brocket, Straussy, Levi, Muppet, Johann, Mare Man
Alec Stewart — The Gaffer
Rohit Sharma — Hit-Man
Shakib Al Hasan - Moina
Scott Styris - THE PIG,Styris the Virus

T

Mark Taylor — Tubby
Sachin Tendulkar — Little Master,
Jeff Thomson — Thommo
Phil Tufnell - The Cat

U

Inzamam-ul-Haq — Inzi
Misbah-ul-Haq - Mr Tuk Tuk, tuk tuk
Robin Uthappa - The Walking Assassin

W

Max Walker - Tangles
Mark Waugh — Afghanistan, Junior
Shane Warne - Warnie, Warney, The King of Spin, Spin King, Hollywood
Steve Waugh - Tugga
Cameron White - Bear
Wasim Akram - King of Swing,WAZ
Waqar Younis - Burewala Express, Wiki, The Two W's (with Wasim Akram),Sultan of Swing, The Toe crusher
Kane Williamson - Steady The Ship

Y

Bruce Yardley - Roo
Yuvraj Singh —Yuvi

Test Your Knowledge_4

noreply@blogger.com (D L S) — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 01:02:00 +0000

Test Your Knowledge_4

01. Which Indian temple is so located that there is no piece of land between it and the South Pole?
02. Legend has it that this actor on landing at the Gateway of India in 1928, offered the following prayer to the almighty: "Mr. God, if you don't make me an actor and a star here, I will swim the seven seas and go to Hollywood". Who is being talked about?
03. This Indian cricketer of the yesteryears was nicknamed "Rhubarb" by his western counterparts as his real name was difficult to pronounce. Who is being referred to?
04 His name is Prem Behari Narain Raizada (Saxena), son of Brij Behari Narain Raizada and hails from Delhi. Although he is not himself well-known, he wrote something in his own hand, using a flowing italic style in the best calligraphic traditions. What did he write?
05. 2 Indians, under the supervision of a British, worked to build up the world's first fingerprint bureau during the British Raj. Name the British. Name the 2 Indians. Name the location where the fingerprint bureau was situated. (the exact building, not only the city).
06. A place falling undisputedly under the dominion of India was "formally" annexed by India more than five years after the Independence of India due to an "unusual" reason. Name the place. Give the year in which we annexed it. State the reason for the delay
07. In his hey days, Kapil Dev was called the 'Haryana Hurricane'. Who gave him the nickname?
08. What was the village that survived the tsunami largely undamaged and why?
09. What's unique about the North Bengal Lok Sabha constituency in 1952?
10. Which famous place in India gets its name from the local name for "mangrove trees"

ANSWERS

01. The temple at Somnath.
02. Prithviraj Kapoor
03. Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan
04. Constitution of India
05. 1) Sir William Herschel and later Sir Edward Henry. 2) Azizul Haque & Hemchandra Bose 3) New Scotland Yard.
06. Minicoy island in 1956. The reason was that the information about the Independence of India had not reached them. Nehru noticed the Union Jack flying on a lighthouse during his visit. The Union Jack was formally unhoisted by a representative of the UK.
07. The Guinness Book of World Records
08. Naluvedapathy village. They made a Guinness record planting 80,244 saplings on December 2, 2002. That helped them avoid disaster.
09. It was a 3 member seat. (i.e 3 MPs were to be elected from the constituency)
10. Sundarban. It's from "Sundari"— the local name of a particular kind of mangrove tree.

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Test Your Knowledge _ 3

noreply@blogger.com (D L S) — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 15:31:00 +0000

Test Your Knowledge _ 3

01.The twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad in India are divided by a lake. The famous stone embankment across the lake is known by a pretty simple name. There are two theories associated with how it got its name. State both of them.
02. a) What are the earliest Christians in India known as? (The Caste's name). b) Who is attributed to have travelled from the west and performed the first baptisms ? (The person's name or how he is popularly know as). c) When? (Which year). d) Where? (The exact place name).
03. Paraphrasing a great man's saying - "You are first ignored, later laughed at. Then they fight you, but you win." Connect this with a term in software jargon, its usage, the great man whose saying have paraphrased and the person who coined the term.
04. What word for a strong cotton working cloth or overalls, comes from a low lying village near Bombay where it was first manufactured?
05. In August 2003, J Jayalalithaa, chief minister of Tamil Nadu issued orders to enforce a law that had been passed 53 years earlier, but not enforced. What law was that?
06. What was British's first trading post in India? What was the year?
07. Which state of India gets its name from the fact that 5 tributaries run through it. Name the state, each of the five tributaries, and the river the tributaries belong to.
08. Name the Indian who discovered a law related to supernova? He also had an asteroid named after him.
09. Who was the ruler of Magadha at the time of Siddhartha Gautama's death?
10. This is the only country to have supported India in all its foreign policies in the last 50 years. However, it rarely gets praised for it and hardly gets any media coverage as India's strategic partner. Which country is being talked about and what is the reason behind its perpetual support to India's foreign policy.

ANSWERS

01. The first theory is that its called Tank bund because over the years the size of the 22 km² lake has reduced dramatically and people started referring to it as a really big 'tank' (a small enclosed water body). Also, there's an old M48 Patton Tank on display next to rotary park on the Bund. Thus another theory behind the name Tank Bund. The tank is one of 100s captured during the Battle of Assal Uttar in the Indo-Pak 1965 war.
02. a) Mar Thoma Khristianis/ Nasrani people b) St Thomas the Apostle c) 52 A.D. d) Palayoor
03. The term is GandhiCon. And the person is Eric S. Raymond. GandhiCon describes levels of recognition and perceived threat from open/free competitors to established commercial products. The "-Con" suffix is a nod to the military term "DEFCON."
04. Dungarees from Dongari Kapar named after fort Dongari Killa.
05. The law was "Tamil Nadu Prevention of Cruelties to Animals Act, 1950". It was used to clamp down on religious offerings (sacrifice of 500 buffaloes) made in the temple near the town of Trichy in August 2003. The practice continued even after that. 200 buffaloes were offered in temple in Karur district in June 2004.
06. Machilipatnam in 1611
07. River is Indus. Famous five tributaries - the Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas, and Sutlej - that give Punjab its name (land of the five rivers).
08. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar with the Chandrashekar Limit law. Asteroid 1958 Chandra was named after him and so was the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
09. Ajatashatru
10. Bhutan - The defence and foreign policy of Bhutan are the responsibility of India.

Test Your Knowledge_2

noreply@blogger.com (D L S) — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 14:31:00 +0000

Test Your Knowledge - 2

01. Name the Indian athlete who lost a medal in an Olympic event by 100th of a second?
02. Who was the first Non-Congress Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, and what party did he represent?
03. When was the practice of pre-censoring movies introduced in India and by which act?
04. He is supposed to be a prophet who migrated to Kashmir around 2000 years ago and is believed to be the fifth advent of Buddha in some accounts. Who is being talking about?
05. Which university is regarded (at least by some) to be the oldest in the world?
06. Who can be regarded as India's first rap singer and what is the song?
07. Who is the most famous child of Prakash and Prem Peshawaria?
08. P.T.Usha is probably most famous for losing out an Olympic track and field Gold medal by a whisker in 1984. Lesser known is the fact that two other athletes from Kerala had also competed in the finals of a track and field event in the same Olympics. Who all?
09. Which film comedian is widely regarded as the first film comedian to receive the Padma Shri from the Government of India? Also mention the year.
10. At what location is it said that Lord Vishnu made an offering to Lord Siva of an eye?

ANSWERS

01. Pilavullakandi Thekkeparambil Usha (P.T. Usha), in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.
02. Choudhary Charan Singh, Bharatiya Lok Dal in 1967
03. In 1918, with the cinematograph act.
04. Yuz Asaf
05. Takshashila
06. Ashok Kumar's Railgadi
07. Kiran Bedi
08. 4X400m women's relay - M. D. Valsamma and Shiny Abraham (now Wilson) were the two other athletes from Kerala in the team. Vandana Rao, a non-Keralite completes the quartet.
09. Relangi Venkata Ramaiah
10. Kashi

Test Your Knowledge_1

noreply@blogger.com (D L S) — Sun, 26 Apr 2015 13:16:00 +0000

Test Your Knowledge - 1

1: She was a national swimming champion, a jockey, a Miss India, an actress, and now, a social activist. Who is being talking about?
2: Which Indian was considered the "father of surgery?"
3: During the British rule of India there were a number of princely families. The grandson of one of these Princes is now a popular Bollywood actor. Name the Prince in question (the actor's grandfather).
4: Which India city got its name because of the presence of a large number of banyan trees in that area?
5: This person paid the highest individual income tax in the mid-1990s — apart from also featuring in advertisements that exhorted people to pay income taxes. Who?
6: Which character, according to the Hindu mythology is said to have offered herself/himself as food to a lion in order to prevent it from attacking a cow?
7: Which district can claim to have produced the maximum number of Bharat Ratnas, how many of them and who are they?
8: Which Indian politician was acting PM twice but never became the a Prime Minister?
9: How many Indians have won the Junior Singles' Event at Wimbledon? Name them.
10: What connects M. S. Swaminathan, Verghese Kurien and Raja Ramanna, the men behind the green, white and nuclear revolutions of India?

ANSWERS

1: Nafisa Ali
2: Sushruta
3: Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi
4: Vadodara
5: Mithun Chakraborty
6: Dileepa, ancestor of Rama, as recounted in Kalidasa's Raghuvamsa.
7: Ratnagiri District, with the following awardees : Dhondo Keshav Karve, Pandurang Vaman Kane, B. R. Ambedkar
8: Gulzarilal Nanda
9: Three Indians: Ramanathan Krishnan in 1954, his son Ramesh Krishnan in 1979, and Leander Paes in 1990
10: All three of them have won Padma Shri, Padma Vibhushan and Padma Bhushan awards.