Quiz questions with cryptic crossword type clues

I did a Cryptic Quiz through @kweezzz on Twitter. Given below are the questions. For answers, see the comments. This is a combination of a quiz question and a cryptic crossword kind of clue. The number of brackets give the number of letters in the answer. Enjoy!

  1. Tirunellai Narayana went behind Ms. Universe 1994. That’s great news (9)
  2. Greek Island in Charles Boss’ territory (6)
  3. The bow and arrow guy was crowned king and became the quizmaster! (7)
  4. Foreign intelligence agency turned around and observed  a capital (6)
  5. Tail-less rabbit singing a religious song of praise after two hundreds! (9)
  6. The States have poles around them for the lazy woman (5)
  7. Female undergarments are sick in this country (6)
  8. This german beauty loved the kiss from a rose (5,4)
  9. African country was cut to make this african country (5)
  10. It should not be colder, i hear for this animal (5)
  11. The “One” which Joseph Alois flies on, Baa Baa heard (8)
  12. First name buddies with Lightyear, he was the second to step on his mom’s last name (4,6)
  13. The original chocolate crisp was in my bag with the feline (3,3)
  14. The beach ohm goes to, on Pogo (6, 5)
  15. I travelled 12.875 kilometres to watch the movie (1,4)
  16. Beijing has got 2 Lings and a Qi (5,4)
  17. if you get the first rub on the back on “this”, you are extremely popular (6)
  18. The black one amongst the “little, black and many” in South Pacific (9)
  19. Collision without warning in this movie  (6,6)
  20. Though he cannot make the first move, he comes first in the dictionary (6)

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    4 Responses

    1. Munish gupta says:

      plz sir give me 1 chance hamein bhut lorh hai

    2. EX SUBEDAR MAJOR KULWANT KHATRI says:

      THERE IS NO END OF KNOWLEDGE. MORE YOU LEARN, MORE YOU BECOME CONFIDENT,LEARN AS YOU CAN. PRACTICE MAKES A MAN PERFECT,IT IS ONLY THE WAY TO YOUR SUCCESS.. WORK YOU HARD,MORE THE CHANCES TO VICTORY.WORK HARD, EASY GET YOUR AI. EX SUBEDAR MAJOR KULQWANT KHATRI BARNALA, PUNJAB.

    3. ayush pandey says:

      what an intelligent this rajaram is really a quiz master.

    4. Rajaram S says:

      Answers

      Tirunellai Narayana is T.N.Seshan. Ms.Universe 1994 is Susmita Sen. So seshal goes behind Sen to create “sensation”

      “Lesbos” is charLES BOSs

      Bow and Arrow guy – Ram , King – Raja becomes Rajaram, that’s me the quizmaster!

      Foreign int. agency of India – RAW. Observed = SAW, so capital is “WARSAW”

      Hare – tail = har, religious song – Bhajan , So “Harbhajan” who recently hit 2 hundreds

      States = USA, poles =S & N, becomes “SUSAN”. Lazy susan is the round rotating thing kept on a dinner table

      Female undergarments = BRAS , sick = ILL, country is “Brazil”

      Kiss from a rose – song of SEAL, Heidi Klum is from germany and is the wife of SEAL

      Nigeria cut to make NIGER

      Not colder = hotter which rhymes with OTTER

      Josepg Alios is the Pope, Baa Baa heard = Sheep Heard = Shepherd , his plane is called Shepherd One

      Buzz Lightyear. Buzz Aldrin was second on the moon. His mom’s last name was moon.

      Bag = Kit, Feline = Cat. “Kit Kat” was originally called Chocolate Crisp

      Anagram of “the beach ohm” gives Chhota Bheem

      12.875 kms = 8 Mile

      Ling Ling Qi = 0 0 7 = James Bond

      BackRub was the original name of “Google”

      South Pacific group of islands. Micronesia – small, Melanesia – black, Polynesia – Many

      Sudden Impact

      Bishop comes alphabetically first in the dictionary.

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