This is the stuff legends are made of

To,
The Contributors of
A Quiz for a Cause blog,

Dear Sir/Madam,

All cultures have their own legends about the origins of this. In ancient Persia, it was taken from the heart of rock by a hunter’s misdirected arrow. For the Dakota Indians, it was struck from the Earth by the claws of a jaguar-god. For the Aztecs, it originated from the Sun. In Polynesia, Maui is said to have brought it up from the bowels of the Earth. According to some Australian tribes, it was discovered by women while the men were away hunting-they then hid it within their bodies when the men returned.** According to the Greeks, it was brought down by somebody who chose not to ally with the Olympians. What are we talking about here?





Tell, tell?







Think, no?





No, we are not looking for an incendiary answer. (Or are we?)






Alright, give up?




Answer: Sex. :D

This was an answer given by one of the participants at an internal quiz conducted by Asha volunteers (Yamini, Siddharth, Ludwig and Pavan), at a company recently, for selecting teams to the final edition of ACE 2008. The answer, Fire, is workable even if one has not heard the legends. Extremely creative responses were dished out to the twenty questions set. But this one was unarguably the most hilarious! We sat in Yamini’s car cackling and hooting with laughter for at least five minutes. Alas, we don’t have the original copy with us. It would have made for a good souvenir.:) However, the absence of evidence does make this incident a Legend. “Long, long ago, when our forefathers were young, four volunteers conducted an internal quiz at…”:p

** We read this line out in the car after the quiz and truly went bonkers this time around.:)