Monday, May 18, 2009

Tri-via #002

After the hiatus...

This time your comments/answers are moderated they wont be visible until they're approved.. So now everyone's gotta chance to rack their brains...


Answers for #001:

1. Lakshadweepa
2. Mel Blanc
3. Slumdog millionaire

here's the next set:

1. Just before having to be shut down for good, Y received a sizeable investment from J. H. Davies, the managing director of a brewery company. Legend goes that Harry Stafford, Y's captain, was showing off his prized St. Bernard dog at a club fund-raiser, when Davies approached him to buy the dog. Stafford declined, but was able to persuade Davies to invest in Y and become club chairman. It was decided at one of the early board meetings that Y required a change of name to reflect the fresh start they had been afforded. ________ Central and _______ Celtic were among the names suggested, before Louis Rocca, a young immigrant from Italy, said "Gentlemen, why don't we call ourselves X?"

Identify X and Y :)





2. Identify the company from its original logo shown here.











3. Connect :

Dwight Eisenhower ,Richard Nixon,His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan,Morarji Desai,Dilip Kumar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani ,King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud and Hu Jintao

2 comments:

  1. 1 : Y - Newton Heath , X - Manchester United

    2 : International Light and Magic , a George Lucas enterprise (Star Wars fame???)

    3 : Foreign reciepients of the Nishan-e-Pakistan, Pakistani equivalent of the Bharat Ratna ???

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