KNOW WORDS OF WISDOM

Q. Who said this:``Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen'' ?

A. Albert Einstien.


Q. Who said:``In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher'' ?

A. Dalai Lama.


Q. Who said this: ``Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't'' ?

A. Richard Bach.

Q. Who said:``I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day'' ?

A. EB White.

Q. Who said this:``If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves'' ?

A. Carl Jung.

Q. Who said:``Live out of your imagination, not your history'' ?

A. Stephen Covey.

Q. Who said:``There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy'' ?

A. Friedrich Nietzsche.

Q. Who said:``When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction ''?

A. Steven Wright.

Q. Who said:``Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science'' ?

A. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Q. Who said: ``Science does not know it's debt to imagination'' ?

A. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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THREE HINTS !

Q. Name the first president ever to be born in a civil hospital, a nuclear physicist and a speed reader who could read 2,000 words a minute, and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2002 ?

A. Jimmy Carter.

Q. Name the American president who has no living heirs; was a skilled wrestler and days before his death he had a dream about it ?

A. Abrahm Lincoln.

Q. Name the heavyweight boxing champion ;killed about five lakh people in his rule; would eat the meat of his enemies ?

A. Idi Amin.

Q. Name this first black billionairre who was raped at age nine, became pregnant at 14 and her name was changed because the parents couldn't pronounce it ?

A. Oprah Winfrey, Her name was picked up from Bible -- Orpah but the p and r were interchanged because of pronunciation difficulties.

BRAINTEASERS

Q. What colour is saphhire ?

A. Blue.

Q. In cookery, `FOO-YOUNG', is the Chinese-equivalent of which western dish?

A. Omelette.

Q. Name the first author to win the Booker prize twice ?

A. JM Coetzee.

Q. Which university athletics team did Jeffery Archer represent as a member?

A. Oxford.

Q. Name the only person who switched sides from the Kauravas to Pandavas just before the famous battle of Mahabharata commenced ?

A. Yuyutsu.

Q. Which Indian state has the longest coastline ?
A. Gujarat.

Q. Which baseball star has been refered to in the novel `The Old Man And The Sea' by Ernest Hemingway ?

A. Joe Dimaggio.

Q. Who won the men's gold in hockey in 2008 Beijing Olympics ?

A. Germany.

Q. Minsk is the capital city of which country ?

A. Belarus.

Q. Which country was the first to give voting right to women ?

A. New Zealand in 1883, though it was a British colony. First independent country Australia in 1902.