Which country ??

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Question 

Axolotls is an amphibian found in which country  ??

Cameron 

Sri Lanka 

Mexico 

Bangladesh 

Answer 

I never heard of this amphibian  !!!

Its a Mexican walking fish belongs to salamander family.

As they age, salamanders lose their gills and go on land.

But Axolotls lives in water its whole life  !!!

It looks as if it is smiling always because of mouth shape....

It can regrow anything, thus it don't have a scar on its body   !!!

It is almost extinct in wild.  But millions in labs  !!!

Correct answer      MEXICO    !!!

Oxford of East !!!

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In India, Oxford of East is 

              PUNE    !!!!

Pune has    ----

        

         1.  Savitri bai Phule University  (  Oxford like campus   )

        2.  Many top research institutes.

        3.  Thousands of students from all over India and the world come here to study.

         4.  In 1950s, Nehru himself called Pune as Oxford of East   !!!

          5.  Pune has 1400 +  colleges and 23 universities.

Just like Oxford is  a famous education city in UK, PUNE is famous education city in India   !!!

Which currency to which country ??

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Question 

Question was picture based.

A photo having the flags of 3 nations was shown.

They were the flags of

South Africa            Russia            Iran 

Currencies of these countries start with which letter of English alphabet ?

  R         D         S           P

Answer 

On the program, only country flags were shown.

I identified the flag of South Africa  !!!

The remaining two, I checked on web.

Even their currencies I didn't know  !!!

South Africa    =    Rand   =  R

Russia   =  Ruble  =   Rub

Iran  =  Rial  =   R

As we can make out, the currencies of all the above countries atart with  English alphabet    "   R   "   !!!

In Iran, they use Toman in daily life.

Iran is planning to change officially to Toman soon.

But at present, it is  Rial   !!!

Correct answer    R   !!!

Which country ??

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The question was asked for 1crore rupees  !!!!

Contestant didn't have any life line.  Unknowing the answer, she had quit the game  .....

Question 

In which country, President   Prime Minister and Speaker all are ladies  ??

1.  Italy 

2.  Iceland 

3.  Latvia

4.  Malta

Answer 

We will look at the options one by one   ----

Italy

       Only Prime Minister is a lady.

Latvia

       Prime Minister and Speaker are ladies. Not the President  !!!

Malta

       Only President is a lady .

Iceland 

         As for now, Iceland has ladies as President  Prime Minister and Speaker

Correct answer   ICELAND    !!! 

What was the capital of USSR ??

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Question 

What was the capital of USSR ??

Answer 

This question was not having any options.

Contestant replied    MOSCOW  !!!

It was correct answer.

But my father disagreed with the answer ....

He said  it was LENINGRAD   !!!

I searched the web.

Before 1918, capital of Russian empire was St.  Petersburg ....

Which later became Leningrad  !!!!

In 1918, Lenin moved capital to Moscow because St Petersburg was too close to enemy border.

After USSR was formed in 1922, Moscow was its capital.

Later in 1991, Leningrad was renamed as St Petersburg ......