Jimmy: Who’s the current Vice President of India?
Me: Umm…. I know its not Prativa Patil.
Jimmy: I’ll give you one slap if you say Bhairav Singh Shekhawat! Look it up. Next question – who’s the winner of Magsaysay award?
Me: Whats a Magsaysay award?
Jimmy: Uff. Who won the first Bharat Ratna award?
Me: I dont know.
Jimmy: You’re never going to pass the GK exam this way. Ok next, where’s the Commonwealth Games 2010 going to be held?
Me: I know this one – India!!! (Had recently read an article that said Delhi government’s spending lakhs of rupees to teach Delhi taxi drivers to speak in English in preparation of Commonwealth Games 2010!)
Jimmy: Blind fire hit the target this time allright. Haha.
Me: Shut up. Let me now ask you a question, seeing that you’re oh so prepared and all. Where is the Beijing Olympics going to be held this year?
Jimmy: Very funny. Just remember, I’ll pass and you’ll fail.
Me: *Beep*
laaaaa…. you will slap me for this, but i happen to know most of the answers.
Next CWG Pune ma pani hundai cha hai btw.
ok girl chuck all the novels you might be reading and hunt for manorama. btw i am not talking about that brilliant film called manorama – six feet under here! for all i know you go looking for that murder mystery CD.
i dont know if they still publish it but that’s the book i used to read up while preparing for inter-school quiz competitions. good luck!
ROFL “Where is the Beijing Olympics going to be held this year?” — that was too much..
This takes back my thought to a famous question by a guy in my NITC batch..The question goes like this ..” Da..whats the name of Girish in Production batch ?”
LMAO…
What is the name of the person you see when you look in the mirror?
Shaliya – I know that Manorama you’re talking about. Thick book with all GK questions, right? Used to own a copy back in 1996, have to read it back to back for sure.
Ajith – Quite a famous question, yes
although undoubtably at the risk of sounding like a perfect idiot (if the other person does not know you’re kidding)
Whoa! PP is our new president. Didn’t know that. Gulp!
But then, what’s the sense in knowing a bunch of stuff like this anyway? Is there any use other than to give answers when someone shoots the questions down your way? Isn’t the ultimate purpose in life to get away from it all, forget it all and achieve Nirvana?
Deepak – would that be in the morning or the evening?
(I was in the middle of answering this Q yesterday when I got dc-ed and had to leave)
Priya – That, is the right question (like how the hologram of the dead scientist says in I, Robot)
Whats the use of knowing a bunch of things like that? I’ll mug up everything & spew it in the exam. Then proceed to forget all about it, pronto.
And Shaliya, *SLAP* for knowing all the answers as a result of which I feel pretty stupid by now.