Friday, March 8, 2013

Quiz #1 for Lesson #1 (അ ആ)

As a fun exercise, let's try to guess the following names that start with these letters (i.e. person / place associated with the name written in Malayalam but with some English clues included):

1. A K
ന്തോണി (central minister, as pronounced in Thamizh and not English)

2.
ദം & ഹവ്വ (First man & woman, Biblical)

3.
ടൽ ബിഹാരി വാജ്‌പേയി (first name of former PM, BJP)

4. ഫ്രിക്ക (dark continent, "இருண்ட கண்டம்")

5.
മേരിക്ക (U.S. of)

6.
ഡ്‌ലൈഡ് (Oval, Cricket)

7.
ദി ഭഗവന് (Thiruvalluvar - Ameer connection)

8.
ച്ചുവിന്റെ മ്മ (Sathyan AnthikkAd - Meera Jasmine -Oorvashi -IR)

9.
ലപ്പുഴ (Kerala town / district of famous snake boat race)

10.
ലുവ (Another Kerala town near Ernakulam, famous for Sivarathri, on the banks of Periyar river)

Hopefully these are easy to crack!