Some mind boggling Questions

I just recently came across few of these questions of which i was able to answer only 4 correctly.
So i thought why not put them up and see how others fare at them. Do try them and tell me how much you'll scored. The answers are mentioned at the end of this post itself.

So here are the Questions:

1. What programming language is GOOGLE developed in?

2. What was YAHOO initially known as till 1994?

3. What is the expansion of ADIDAS?

4. Expansion of Star as in Star TV Network?

5. What is expansion of "ICICI?"

6. What does "baker's dozen" signify?

7. The 1984-85 season. 2nd ODI between India and Pakistan at Sialkot - India 210/3 with Vengsarkar 94*. Match abandoned. Why?

8. Who is the only man to have written the National Anthems for two different countries?

9. From what four word expression does the word `goodbye` derive?

10. How was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu better known?

11. Name the only other country to have got independence on Aug 15th?

12. Why was James Bond Associated with the Number 007?

13. Who faced the first ball in the first ever One day match?

14. The faces of which four Presidents are carved at Mt.Rushmore?

15. Which is the only sport which is not allowed to play left handed?



Answers:
1. Google is written in Asynchronous java-script and XML, or its acronym Ajax ..

2. "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" after its founders name. However in 1994 they decided to rename it as YAHOO because they liked the word's general definition, which comes from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth."

3. ADIDAS is named after its founder Adolf (Adi) Dassler and is not an acronym of All Day I Dream About Sports as per the poular belief.

4. STAR stands for Satellite Television Asian Region.

5. ICICI stands for Industrial credit and Investments Corporation of India.

6. A baker's dozen consists of 13 items - 1 more than the items in a normal dozen.

7. That match was abandoned after people heard the news of Indira Gandhi being killed.

8. Rabindranath Tagore who wrote national anthem for two different countries one is Indian's National anthem and another one is for Bangladesh- (Amar Sonar* *Bangla)

9. Goodbye comes from the ex-pression: 'god be with you'.

10. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu is none other Mother Teresa.

11. South Korea ..

12. Because 007 is the ISD code for Russia (or the USSR , as it was known during the cold war)

13. Geoffrey Boycott

14. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln.

15. POLO.