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QUESTION BANK: 515 questions
Q1: He received Padmashri in the year 2008
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He started out by directing and starring in his own venture 'Praying
with Anger
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" He was also involved with the project Stuart Little
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As a part of
Western Ghats it is a part of the UNESCO world heritage site
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His real name Mir
Muhammad Jafar
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Name the
poet
Ans: Zatalli
Q6: Name the accomplished eldest daughter of Emperor Shah Jahan under whose
instruction Chandni Chowk was constructed?
Ans: Jahanara Begum
Q7: Emomali Rakhmonov-the president of Tajikistan's visit to this tomb opposite Purana
Quila is commemorated in a tablet
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How do we know him better?
Ans: Bedil

Q8: Which Indian's debut novel made it to the final shortlist for the Man Booker prize 2012?
Ans: Jeet Thayil, Narcopolis
Q9: The British companies invested nearly 100 million pounds in this business by 1875
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Under the system investors got around 5 per cent of fixed interest on their
investment
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Which business are we discussing?
Ans: Railways
Q10: Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo and Bishwanath Das led two coalition governments
between March 8, 1967-January 9, 1971 and April 3, 1971 to June 14, 1972 respectively
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This historic Shaiva pilgrimage dates back to 7th to 9th century and is in the
Kaliashahar sub-division of Tripura, Name the place
Ans: Unakoti
Q12: The Lushai hills would be a part of which mountain range in Mizomram?
Ans: Patkai
Q13: Williamnagar, the headquarter-complex of which district of Meghalaya, was
christened after Captain Williamson Sangma, the founding Chief Minister of the State of
Meghalaya?
Ans: East Garo Hills
Q14: The Ficus elastica produces a series of secondary roots from higher up its trunk and
can comfortably perch atop huge boulders along the riverbanks, or even in the middle of the
rivers
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" Which area are we talking about?
Ans: Cherrapunjee

Q15: This picturesque town circled by the majestic Myntdu River and serves as the
headquarters of the district
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Name the headquarter town
Ans: Jowai

Q16: Near to this town is the Eaglesnest Wildlife Sanctuary
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He was the first Arjuna Award winner from the region
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He
had a nine-year career as a professional footballer with Mohun Bagan
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Name the legend?
Ans: Dr Talimaran Ao (January 28, 1918 — September 13, 1998)
Q19: In 2005 he was a winner of a Whiteley Award for outstanding leadership in nature
conservation
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Can you name this living legend?
Ans: Romulus Whitaker
Q20: With which legendary Bollywood personality's film Hum Naujawan did Tabu make his
debut in Bollywood in 1985?
Ans: Dev Anand
Q21: We often buy CTC tea? What does CTC stand for?
Ans: Cutting, Tearing Curling

Q22: MCX and India Post has joined hands to set up Gramin Suvidha Kendras at village level
post offices to facilitate a farmer to know all crop-related information
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Her life partially inspired a Hindi film
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Who is this personality to be referred to the annals of Indian mafiosi?
Ans: Santokben Jadeja
Q24: Which Hindustani classical vocalist of Rampur Sahaswan gharana has set up trust
dedicated to her mother's memory and promotion of classical music called Shakhri Begum
Memorial Trust?
Ans: Ustad Rashid Khan
Q25: Which general won the Battle of Imphal in 1944?
Ans: General Slim
Q26: The party was formed by former state water resources minister T
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Name the
party
Ans: Kerala Congress (Jacob)
Q27: Politically this region would constitute areas spanning three states including the
Jalpaiguri district, the plains of Darjeeling, upper Cooch Behar, Alipurduar, Mainaguri,
Malbazar and Birpara from West Bengal, districts of Kokrajhar, Dhubri, Barpeta, Goalpara
and Bongaigaon in Assam and foothills of Arunachal Praesh
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Can you name the region which is also the gateway of Bhutan to India?
Ans: Dooars
Q28: We have heard of G8, NATO, Asean, OPEC, and Saarc
...
Which five countries
make a loosely held collective called O5?
Ans: India, China, Brazil, Mexico and South Africa

Q29: An imposing marble statue of Lord Cornwallis (1738-1805) greets the visitors
...
In the Reserve Collection there
are a number antiquities among which mention may be made of the First Marriage Register
of the St
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Name the
museum
Ans: Fort St George
Q30: His book published as More Tramps Abroad in England and Following the Equator in
the USA talks about his time spent in India
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Located near Gangtok in Sikkim, name the monastery
Ans: Rumtek
Q34: The country currently has 829 nomadic and semi-nomadic which tribes that roughly
comprise of 13
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Expand NTCA
Ans: National Tiger Conservation Authority
Q38: Which two banks along with Legal and General of United Kingdom (26 per cent) forms
the threesome that owns India First Life Insurance?
Ans: Bank of Baroda (44 per cent) and Andhra Bank (30 per cent )respectively
Q39: In which city would you find National Research Centre for Grapes?
Ans: Pune
Q40: This ashram was built in 1921 by Satish Chandra Dasgupta
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In 1939, after the Tripuri Congress ashram played host to a
hisotric meeting between Mahatma Gandhi, Subhash Chandra Bose and Jawaharlal Nehru
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It was from here, on
November 6, 1946, he left for Noakhali
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Name the top-up
Ans: GAGAN (GPS Aided Geo-Augmented Navigation)
Q43: Roshanlal Vishwakarma is a founder of Bud Chipper
...

Akash emerged as the youngest winner in the five decade history
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Recently, passed away, his first novel is called Atmo Prakash
(Self-Revealation)
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Khurshid Ganai (1982), Asghar Samoon (1992), Shah Faisal (2009), seven more in 2010 and
11 successes in 2011?
Ans: Kashmiris in the merit list of All India Civil Services Examination
Q48: Which Sikh Guru founded the Tarn Taran Sahib?
Ans: Guru Arjun Dev-fifth Guru (1563-1606)
Q49: Tina Modotti, the Italian actress and the subject of a Pablo Neruda poem travelled to
Mexico and met Indian agronomy professor Pandurang Khankoje and they together
collaborated on a remarkable set of photographs on rural conditions
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These were inherited by the Mughals from Timur who in turn
got them them from Sultan Bayazid Yaldaram from Turkey
...
which is the
handwritten Quran of Hazrat Ali, son-in-law of the Prophet and excerpts of Quran Sharif
translated by Imam Hasan-grandson of the Prophet
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Consisting of teachings that are covered by 29 principles,
120 shabads and sandhya mantra, this sect is one of the finest examples of people making
bio-diversity as one of the cornerstones of their existence
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Name the original work from which it
has been adapted from

Ans : The Iliad
Q62 Which Kolkata speciality was invented by Annapurna Das and that was named after the
nickname that Ms Das got from her locality?
Ans : Chocolate Bomb (Burima or the old mother)
Q63: His most recent book is called The Freethinker's Prayer Book and Some Words tom Live
By
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It is a survey conducted by French consulting firm Emerging and
German Institute Tredence across 20 countries involving 2,500 recruiters and active
employers in 10 nations?
Ans: Indian Institute of Science-Bangalore
Q68: Catlanchimauli is the highest mountain peak in which Indian state?
Ans: Goa
Q69: Which famous villain character of Indian film appeared as himself in Brittania Glucose
D biscuit advertisment of the 1970s?
Ans: Gabbar Singh of Sholay as played by Amjad Khan
Q70: ISRO has launched a series of Earth observation spacecraft (1, 2, 2A and 2B) for the use
of mapping some specifics
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For the better part of the nineties MKSS began and continued a movement to bring
a level of transparency in village accounts,
...
K
...
The cave is set in a sacred grove which is an offering to the village god U Ryngkew U
Basa
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This is a
story of government employee who wins a role in the television show because of his
resemblance to Gandhi?
Ans: Girish Kasaravalli
Q77: Which museum in Bycalla East locality in Mumbai as a part of it's name is called
Mumbai City Museum-An institution of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai
...
He
claimed that Bonnet monkey, which is the common macaque of the South could be the
identity of the divine Hanuman species
...
Krishnan
Q79: This institution is housed in 445 acre campus
...
G
...
The institute occupied the building in 1929 and
was inaugurated by Lord Irwin
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Name the institute
Ans: Forest Research Institute in Dehradun

Q80: Which yoga asana in English would be called Cobra Stretch?
Ans: Bhujangasana
Q81: Where in Andaman and Nicobar is India's only live volcano?
Ans: Barren Island
Q82: Which Kolkata-based jazz legend (born in Bangalore and studied amongst other places
in St Germain High School) is a subject of a documentary by Susheel
...
Kurien (the film's tagline is Uncovering the story of jazz in India)?
Ans: Carlton Kitto
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This machine automates the process of spreading 10
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5 hours (as opposed to
the manual process of moving one's hand 9,000 times to make one piece)?
Ans: Pochampally
Q86: Sachin Tendulkar will be awarded one of the six grades of membership in the Order of
Australia
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The first one is a legal luminiary
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Two of her trusted lieutenants namely Gurusidappa and Sangolli Rayanna played a
stellar role in the battle
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Name the agency
Ans: Da Cunha Associates
Q90: He decisively defeated the Marathas at the 1761 Battle of Panipat
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His mausolem is located at Kandahar
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Can you name the king?
Ans: Ahmed Shah Abdali
Q91: Which mounment erected nine-years after the death of the king was designed by the
Persian architect Mirak Mirza Ghiyas?
Ans: Humayun's Tomb
Q92: The Constitution Act in 1991 declared the Union Territory of Delhi as what?
Ans: National Capital Territory of Delhi comprising of 9 districts, 27 tehsils, 3 statutory
towns, 59 census towns and 165 villages
Q93: Buddhism talks about the eight-fold path of Right action, right belief, right effort, right
means of livelihood, right meditation, right memory, right speech and right thought
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He asked many questions to Nagasena about Buddhism
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Which district will it be in
Karnataka?
Ans: Bijapur

Q98: The three wings of village panchayat are: Gram Sabha, Gram Panchayat and what?
Ans: Nyaya Panchayat
Q99: Who wrote the plays: Ratnavali, Priyadarshika and Nagananda?
Ans: Harshavardhana
Q100: In his fascinating account called Bhoja Prabandha, the poet immortalises Raja Bhoja
with an account of his heroics
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Name the poet
Ans: Ballala
Q101: Which parliamentarian belongs to the Dogra dynasty , an ardent devotee of Lord
Shiva also belongs to the royal family of Jammu and Kashmir?

Ans : Karan Singh
Q102: Which popular figure that tragically passed away recently founded the "Hawala
Party" and got it registered with the Election Commission
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Who
was the vocalist and music composer for the song on that occasion?
Ans : Rabindranath Tagore
Q104: The initial surname of Jawaharlal Nehru's family was was Kaul
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He got a jagir near
Allahabad by a canal (Nahar)
...

Q105: Only two Indian batsmen have batted on all five days of a Test match
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Who is the other?
Ans : M
...
Jaisimha
Q106: In 1955, at the New York Museum of Modern Art, a showcase of Indian culture which
featured performances by Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, a Bharatanatyam recital by Shanta Rao and
also a premiere
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What are we referring to ?
Ans : Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali

Q107: In Myanmar, if you are using the term Yama Zatdaw
...
One of them is the author Deepak
Chopra, can you name the other?
Ans: Shekhar Kapur
Q109: This is also called “the robe of wool yardage” came from 15 th century Persia
...

Patterns include rega buta (little flowers), kirk butis (large flowers) and jaldars (patterns
created using net)
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Name the
shawl
Ans: Jamawar
Q110: Connect the type of saree with the following clues: 18 th century letters of Madhavrao
Peshwa; Begum Nilofer-daughter of Nizam of Hyderabad added motifs that were weaved
into the borders and pallu of the saree; Maharashtra, popular mix: silken gold emobroidery
Ans: Paithani saree
Q111: Which Indian city means land that does not flood?
Ans: Panaji or Panjim
Q112: D
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It was awarded on February 26, 2011 for her efforts to rescue her
colleagues from attack on Indian embassy in 2010
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S
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Name the national brand
name/logo we are referring to
Ans: Aadhaar
Q115: Which Vikram Seth novel is completely in verse?

Ans : The Golden Gate
Q116: The Oz Fest of Australia spanning October to February 2012-2013, lays out a series of
programmes including a tribute to Australia’s first Bollywood star
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Shot in 14 days, no script, six
flashlights and three actors
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Fill the blank
Ans: Sikkimese
Q119: Yet-to-be- released 28 volume report compiled by Lieutenant General Henderson
Brooks and Brigadier Prem Bhagat in 1963 details which historical happening concerning
India?
Ans: India-China War of 1962
Q120: In which city of India would you find the Hall Bazaar, Gandhi Gate, Guru Bazaar,
Kapda Bazaar and Katra Jaimal Singh market?
Ans: Amritsar
Q121: Father's name Siddhartha, Mother's name:Trishala
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Passed away at the age of 72 at Pavapuri near
Rajgir
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The powerful of them were Kosala, Magadha
(Bimbsara, Ajatshatru, Mahapadmananda), Vatsa and Avanti (Chandrapradyota)
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Two of the most
famous kings were Nedumjeral Adan and Senguttuvan (immortalised in Silappadikaram)
...
Vanji was the capital, Name the
dynasty
Ans: Cheras
Q124: Dantidurga
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Amoghavarsha, Krishna III
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Mankhed near Sholapur was their capital
...

Ans: Rashtrakutas
Q125: He set up Empress Mill in Nagpur in 1874
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Alumnus of Elphinstone College, he
passed away in 1904
...
O
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Clues: His reign was form 1018-1048 CE
...

Ans: Rajendra Chola
Q129: Which legend wrote a poem which read forward told the story of Ramayana and read
backward told the story of Mahabharata?
Ans: Dandin

Q130: What does the word Mohenjodaro mean?
Ans: Mound of the Dead
Q131: India is the only country in the world that produces all four types of silk
...
Name the residential
complex and who founded it?
Ans: Nalanda University and Kumaragupta founded in 5th century AD
Q133: How is the old port area called Tamralipta now known in the state of West Bengal?
Ans: Tamluk
Q134: Rig Veda amongst it's 1028 hymnas mentions the cultivation of yava, What do we
popularly call it in English?
Ans: Barley
Q135: Some of the sites of this age are Mehrgarh (Pakistan), Burzahom and Gufkral (Jammu
and Kashmir), Chirand (Bihar) and Maski and Piklihal (Karanataka)
...
Can you name the age?
Ans: Neolithic or New Stone Age
Q136: The first municipal corporation was set up in 1688, in which Indian city?
Ans: Madras
Q137: NCF was set up in 1996 with a 24-member governing council
...
Expand NCF
Ans: National Cultural Fund

Q138: This kingdom broke away from Mauryan control and emerged as a strong political
nerve centre under 1st century BC under King Kharavela
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Name the kingdom
Ans: Kalinga
Q139: Three major rulers: Gautamaputra Satakarni (AD 106-130), Vasisthiputra Pulumayi
(AD 130-154) and Yajnasri Satakarni (AD 165-194)
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Name this important dynastic trail of
the Deccan
Ans: Satavahanas
Q140: Firoz Shah Tughlaq brought two of them from Topra in Haryana and Meerut and
installed them at Firoz Shah Kotla and North Delhi ridge
...
It is presently kept in the National Museum
of which city?
Ans: Karachi
Q142: Dr Patrick Russel (1727-1805) came to India and pioneered the study of what?
Ans: Father of Indian Ophiology
Q143: Apart from Mahabharata, there is a Ghatotkacha that comes in Indian history as son
of Srigupta-former chief of Pataliputra
...
They were Joseph Galibardy and Cyril Mitchie
...
This football legend later turned into coaching youngsters including a stint with
the football team of St Marys, Byculla
...
She was arrested in 1932 at the age of 16 and
to life imprisonment
...
She was s awarded
Padama Bhushan and passed away in 1993
...
On his third visit to India as a Portugese
viceroy-as appointed by King John III, he died of Malaria in Cochin on December 24, 1524
...
What?
Ans: Aadhar
Q153: Along with Jean Dreze , who co-authored India: Economic development and Social
Opportunity ?
Ans: Amartya Sen
Q154: What is the literal meaning of 'Nataraj' in Sanskrit?
Ans: Lord of Dance
Q155: Which member of the Tagore family founded Shantiniketan in 1863?
Ans: Debendranath Tagore
Q156: Two months after arriving at Calcutta with Gaffky and Fischer, he had observed the commashaped bacillus in seventy cholera victims
...
Later in May 1897, when he reached Bombay, bubonic plague was epidemic in upper
India
...
And the surname stuck
...

The nickname stuck
Q159: The students of this school are called Manorites
...
Six of India's hockey gold medallists in the editions of 1928, 1932 and 1936
studied here
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One is the Natal phase which one is the other?
Ans: Transvaal phase
Q163: H
...
This sector currently has 26 public sector, 20 private
sector and 41 foreign entities
...
64 trillion
...
R
...
Name the city
Ans: Rajamundhry
Q177: She wrote about her American experience in a book titled United States Chi
Lokasthiti Ani Pravasvrutta (Status of Society of United States and a travelogue)]and it has
been published in English translation as American Encounter
...
Name the legend
Ans: Pandita Ramabai

Q178: Which Indian city was designed by Vidyadhar Bhattacharya through nine rectangular
blocks, strictly according to Shilpa Shastra?
Ans: Jaipur
Q179: Newham Council believes the memorable rendezvous is a prime example of how the
borough was a hotbed for community cohesion as far back as 1931, when the picture was
taken
...
One of them is Gandhi
...
Which dargah?
Ans: Nagore dargah

Q181: Food heritage
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The south-Indian states have their own versions of X
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X in Trinidad and Tobago is generally larger and thinner
...

Q184: Dolphins can be seen in two large Goa rivers
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Name the other
...
Which Norman became
the second Indian to win a gold medal at the 1958 British Empire Games-Cardiff (in the same
edition Milkha Singh won the 440 yards to become the first Indian to win a gold medal)?
Ans: Norman Snell in the Individual Pursuit category in cycling
Q187: How do we know Margaret Noble better in Indian history?
Ans: Sister Nivedita

Q188: Which ninth century dynasty included names of Nagabhatta I, Mahendrapala I and
Mahipala I and Kannauj remained an important epicentre of the kingdom?
Ans: Pratiharas

Q189: Gharials had their captive breeding centre in which wildlife sanctuary in eastern
India?
Ans: Nandan Kanan
Q190: Connect the words Polo, Sangai, Nine Hills One Valley and Ratan Thiyam
Ans: Manipur
Q191: He swapped his masculinity
...
Who?
Ans: Shikhandi
Q192: Pangong Tso Lake will be roughly 5 hours drive from which Indian city?
Ans: Leh
Q193: With which state of India would you associate the following tribes: Angami, Ao,
Chakhesang (Chokri/Kheza), Chang, Khiamniungan, Kuki, Konyak, Lotha, Phom, Pochury,
Rengma, Sumi, Sangtam, Yimchungru and Zeliang?
Ans: Nagaland

Q194:
...

A row of pearls mislaid
...

One fifth upon the bed
...

One tenth were caught by her lover
...
Every fortnight there is a loss of one, every decade we loss about 100 of them
...
The first
three being: That the country will always be first in his thoughts and that he will give to her
service the best that is in him; That in serving the country he will seek no personal
advantage for himself; That he will regard all Indians as brothers and will work for the
advancement of all without distinction of caste and creed
...
In which country was the rally
held?
Ans: Myanmar
Q202: His lifespan was 1890-1931
...
In his short life, he changed the face of Indian journalism
...
A plateau which is 26 km away from Srinagar
...
Name the person and the movement
Ans: Acharya Vinoba Bhave and Bhoodan
Q207: Name the sacred water body that surrounds the Golden Temple in Amritsar
Ans: Amrit Sarovar
Q208: On October 13, 1987 while going through his comprehensive collection of video
tapes, he zeroed in on Marilyn Monroe's River of No Return (1954) as his next production
starring himself and Danny Dengzongpa
...
Name the legend
Ans: Kishore Kumar
Q209: Which two Indian musicians won a Grammy award in 1991 for being a part
collaborative album 'Planet Drum'?
Ans: Zakir Hussain and Vikku Vinayakram

Q210: Which 7artiste's directorial debut 'Through the eyes of the painter' won the Golden
Bear for the best short film in Berlim Film Festival-196?
Ans: M
...
Hussain

Q211: Where will you find the Baichung Bhutia stadium in Sikkim?
Ans
...
Why?
Ans: For his ability to fight with both hands
Q213: In the cricket stadium in Indore, there is a huge concrete bat
...

The image however could not be completed and is therefore worshipped in its unfinished
form
...

Ans : Conches of the Pandavas
Q216: Who founded the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry along
with Purushottam Thakur in 1927 ?
Ans: GD Birla
Q217: The Captive Ladie and Visions of the Past are English books of poems by which Indian
author?
Ans: Michael Madhusudan Datta
Q218: 'An only son of prosperous parents is apt to be spoilt, especially so in India'
...
Which city gets it’s name?
Ans : Uttarkashi
Q221: What unique cricketing first is held by Amay Khurasia in terms of international norms
in Indian cricket?
Ans : First cricketer to be dope-tested
Q222: What did Rev Jonathan Scobie, a Baptist minister living in Yokohama, develop in 1869
for his invalid wife?
Ans : The rickshaw
Q223: What performing art finds mention in the Ramayana and is thus sometimes
considered to be the oldest of performing arts?
Ans : Mimicry – Mareecha’s mimic of Sri Ram in the forest to lure Sita out of the magic
circle
Q224: Earlier known as, “Mrs
...
How is it better known today?
Ans : Oberoi Grand hotel, Kolkata
...
What street is it in
Mumbai?
Ans : Dalal Street
Q237: This classical dance form is named after a village of Divi Taluq of Krishna district of
Andhra Pradesh ?
Ans: Kuchipudi

Q238: By what name was the legendary Hindi film character actress Kokila Kishorechandra
Balsara known in Bollywood?
Ans: Nirupa Roy
Q239: Whose autobiography is called “The fall of a sparrow”?
Ans: Dr
...
ONE WAS CBI
...

Q244: What was the primary reason for the construction of Umaid Bhavan Palace in Jodhpur
in 1929?
Ans: "As a famine relief project, which gave “employment to 3,000 people?”
Q245: Who is the third of this trinity of Carnatic Classical Music? Tyagaraja, Muthuswami
Dikshitar & ___________?
Ans: Shyama Shastri
Q246: It is an Arabic word which literally means "talking to women"
...
What?
Ans: Ghazal

Q247: In a very famous Indian work of fiction, Mahendra, a young zamindar, leaves his
drought affected village Padachihno for a nearby town, but he is taken a captive by the
soldiers
...
What is the name of the
hideout?
Ans: Ananda Math
Q248: Name the two sons of music director Chitragupta
...

Ans: Anand Milind
Q249: His first venture was to open the Hong Kong branch of his father's firm in December
of the same year, in partnership with Premchand Roychand and others
...
In 1871 he began to promote the
"Central India Spinning, Weaving and Manufacturing Company, Limited", and built from
scratch the Empress Mills in Nagpur
...
Who?
Ans: Jamshetji Tata
Q250: He was the son of Tripta and Mehta Kalu and was born in 1469, at Talwandi
...
He borrowed heavily from the
Panchatantra for his material
...
What work?
Ans: Hitopadesha
Q253: Ghiyas ud din Tughluq wanted to shift the capital from Delhi to a new city
Tughluqabad
...
Tughluq promised to deal with Aulia when he returned
from his Bengal campaign
...
Tughluq
never reached Delhi
...
He was crushed to death
...
The rest of the infantry was disarmed and disbanded
...
what is common?
Ans: All arose from the churning of the ocean by the asuras and devas (Dhanvantri carried
the nectar of immortality) "
Q256: This great Indian philosopher suggested that the world was real instead of illusory
...
Svantantra
and Paratantra - independent and dependant
...
Who?
Ans: Madhvacharya
Q257: He succeeded his elder brother Veera Narasimha as king
...
He
himself wrote a Telugu classic Amukta Malyada and a play in Sanskrit, Jambavati Kalyana
...
1st retelling of the Mahabharata in a non-sanskrit
language
...
Complete the series
...
?
Ans: Natya or dance

Q261: Born on 4 May 1767 at Tiruvayyaru in Tanjavur district of Tamil Nadu, to the daughter
of the poet-composer Girija Kavi, he was named after the presiding deity of Tiruvarur
...
Born and bred in a highly cultured
family, he was a profound scholar and poet
...
He was a disciple of Sonthi Venkataramanayya, one of the foremost
singers of the day
...
It was overcome successfully by developing
these plant gardens all around the place at the suggestion of a Hindu worker
...
In recognition of the wonder, this plant was declared
an anti-malarial in 1907 at the Imperial Malaria Conference
...
George Clark, the Chief Engineer of the Bombay Government,
during a visit to Bhandup in 1843
...
30 pm "amidst the loud applause of a
vast multitude and to the salute of 21 guns
...
Bengaluru (previously known as Bangalore)
Q265: In Sanskrit, the literal meaning of this word is Cowshed or Herd of cows
...
What?
Ans: Gotra
Q266: Complete the list of sisters as per a prominent family in Indian politics that produced
a chief minister
...

Q267: State Bank Of India was perviously known as what?
Ans: Imperial Bank of India

Q268: Rani Rashmoni handed over this piece of land to the Maharajah of Cutch Behar
...
Today it is named in the
memory of the two
...
Eden Gardens
...
How?
Ans: They draw their bows with their middle finger from Ekalavya in Mahabharata
...
The current name was
popularized by the Marathas and used for the first time in an official document in 1795
...
In which city is the ground located?
Ans: JALLANDHAR
Q273: This Member of Parliament from West Bengal played the lead role in Madhuri Dixit’s
debut film ‘Abodh’
...
Which present day Indian place we are referring to?
Ans: GOA
Q275: Name the bow of Arjuna?
Ans: GANDIVA

Q276: This Hindu festival celebrated in the Indian state of Kerala and in certain districts of
Karnataka, usually in the second week of April
...
This occasion signifies the sun's transit into the first zodiac sign
according to Indian astrological calculations, and represents the vernal equinox
...
Which Festival are we referring to?
Ans: VISHU
Q277: What name connects the child of Kamadhenu, the Sanskrit term for daughter, an
alternate name for Gold and one of the 108 names of Durga?
Ans: NANDINI
Q278: The Masoleum situated in Faizabad name when translated means ‘Garden of
Roses’
...
Name the Peak
...
The relationship between the person and
Razia Sultan formed the backdrop of the period film ‘Razia Sultan’
...
He actively
campaigned against Indira Gandhi with his supporters in Indian parliamentary elections in
1977
...

Name the legend
...

The father a legend in another racquet sport was the first Indian to win a title abroad in his
sport
...
Name the city
Ans: MEERUT
Q285: As per the Mahabharata Parikshit was enthroned here and the first oral rendition of
the Mahabharata was done by Vaishampayana during the rule of Janamejaya
...

Ans: TAKSHILA
Q286: Vishnuprayag is the confluence of Alaknanda and which other river?
Ans: DHAULI GANGA
Q287: A gold medallist in discus held in the 1966 and 1970 Asian Games
...
76 metre also a silver medallist in the 1966 Commonwealth Games held
in Kingston and the 1974 Asian Games in Tehran
...
Incidentally the nation identifies with him
better for his work in the field of entertainment rather in the domain of Televsion
...
It formed the centre piece around which the city was planned
...

Ans: MOHAMMED QULI QUTB SHAH
Q289: Who is the Hindu God of Medicine/Ayurveda?
Ans: DHANVANTARI
Q290: The garden is located in a radius of 300 Km from Delhi
...
Now it has been named after one of the rulers of the former princely
state of Patiala
...
The
water is strongly sulphurous and its temperature varies from 46°C to 51
...
As per legend
Arjuna dug these wells
...

Ans: SOHNA
Q292: Who established the Boy Scouts Association in India?
Ans: ANNIE BESANT
Q293: The place one of the prominent localities of Delhi gets its name from the water tank
built by Allaudin Khalji
...
Name the
locality/place?
Ans: HAUZ KHAS
Q294: The temple dedicated to the Goddess is constructed over a sacred spring
...
The legend has it that
the water inside the well situated in the Temple complex changes its colour from time to
time as an index of the prevailing conditions in the valley
...
Can you name the temple?
Ans: KHEER BHAWANI
Q295: Which Indian political figure coined the term ‘Integral Humanism
...
Can you name the person?
Ans: DEEN DAYAL UPADHYAYA
Q296:The River is known as Karnali is a major tributary of the Ganges and incidentally the
largest river of Nepal
...
Which river are we referring to?
Ans: GHAGHRA
Q297: Built in 1799 and designed by Lal Chand Ustad in the form of the crown of Lord
Krishna
...
Name the
historical monument
Ans: HAWA MAHAL

Q298:The place now a historical and architectural monument located in the city of Dhaka
was built as the official residence of Shah Shuja
...
Name the monument?
Ans: BARA KATRA
Q299: The phrase describes a middle ground or a compromise between ones goals or
desires and one's current state or possessions
...

Q301: This festival is observed by the mother for the long life of her son(s)
...
The festival is
traditionally a North Indian Festival
...
The current name was
popularized by the Marathas and used for the first time in an official document in 1795
...
How do we know the river
know?
Ans: TUNGABHADRA
Q305: Lake Pichola forms the backdrop of which Indian City?
Ans: UDAIPUR
Q306: What name connects an Aamir Khan movie to a Mughal Emperor?
Ans: RANGEELA
Q307: Manyakheta was the capital of which Indian Dynasty?
Ans: RASHTRAKOOTA

Q308: Who performed the role of Lord Rama’s charioteer during the battle against Ravana?
Ans: MATALI
Q309: Bhopal was founded by King Bhoja
...
Who are we talking about?
Ans: CLIFF RICHARD
Q311: As per the Urdu poetic tradition what does the word ‘Takhallus’ mean?
Ans: Pen Name
Q312: Who is the only Indian Cricketer to take a Hat Trick in Men’s World Cup Cricket?
Ans: CHETAN SHARMA
Q313: Sisupala the cousin of Lord Krishna represented which Kingdom?
Ans: CHEDI
Q314: Sudarshan Patnaik, the internationally renowned Indian artist uses which medium to
express himself?
Ans: SAND
Q315: Against which country did Rahul Dravid score his first ODI Century?
Ans: PAKISTAN
Q316: Two scripts were used in the Ashokan reign
...
Who are
we talking about?
Ans: R
...
Which present day Indian place we are referring to?
Ans: GOA
Q320: Two of his commentaries are still remembered
...
10th century Kashmiri philosopher, he
disappeared with his followers in a cave
...
It marks the New Year in accordance with
the Malayalam calendar
...
The Sanskrit
term for the festival means equal
...
Name the Lake?
Ans: DODHITAL
Q329: As Lakshman Singh is to Shiv Kapur who Kaur Singh is to
...
This novel was written by Mirza
Haadi Ruswa in 1903
...
Name the Novel
...
What is it in the Indian food heritage?
Ans: Jalebi
Q335: Who founded Physical Research Laboratory at Ahmedabad and established Indian
Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and is considered as one of the founding fathers of the
Indian space programme?
Ans: Vikram Sarabhai
Q336: Which Sanskrit term means 'the science of life ' ?
Ans: Ayurveda

Q337: Rabindra Setu, Vidyasagar Setu and Vivekananda Setu are bridges spanning which
river?
Ans: Hoogly
Q338: One of the former key members of one of the Rajasthan royal family, the princess of
Cooch Behar, amongst other achievements held the Guinness Book of Record honour for
the world’s largest landslide election victory (winning 192,909 votes out of 246,516 cast)
...
What did they establish?
Ans: Arvind Mills

Q342: Isa Khan Effendi, a world famous architect from Egypt is credited with the design of a
famous struture, which one?
Ans: The Taj Mahal
Q343: His real name was Maheshdas
...
Who?
Ans: Birbal
Q344: Which Sikh Guru compiled the Granth Sahib?
Ans: Guru Arjan Dev-the 5th guru
Q345: By which name/title do we know Shivaputra Siddharamaiyya Komkali better?
Ans: Pandit Kumar Gandharva

Q346: Kundanlal Saigal sang the famous song "Babul mora" in the movie "Street Singer"
...
This member of the House of Commons in the late 1800s was
known as Mr
...
Who?
Ans: Dadhabhai Naoroji
Q350: Which collective term are we referring to if we are talking about: the tricks of divide
and rule; the importance of being careful in making friends, the perils of natural enemies
becoming friends, the act of losing what you already have in hand and the disastrous effects
of saying things without proper thought?
Ans: Panchatantra or the Five Tantras
...
Shyam Sharan was a part of an unique
moment of history on October 23, 1951
...
The 90-year old man has an alert mind and follows the destiny of the
nation as keen as before
...
One of the legends say that it
was discovered by a Muslim shepherd Buta Malik
...
It is 48kms from Pahalgam and the stop-overs can include Chandanwari, Seshnag, Baltal and
Panchtarni
...
Can you name the community?
Ans: Baghdadi Jews
Q357: Tukoji Rao II (1844-1886) of the Holkar reign built the M
...
H Hospital, Shiv Vilas
Palace, Kila (now a Girls Degree College), began the construction of the Lal Baugh Palace and
constructed a pioneering of railway line between where to Indore?
Ans: Khandwa
Q358: Located in the Dattagiri hill range of the Western Ghats it is revered both by the
Hindus and Muslims
...

Name the saint
Ans: Baba Budan
Q359: This century old tradition is at Kotakkal in Malappuram district of Kerala
...
Pioneered by
the Warrier family , can you name the organization?
Ans: Arya Vaidya Shala
Q360: In which year did Mohun Bagan beat the East York Regiment to become the first
Indian team to win the IFA Shield?
Ans: 1911

Q361: It was founded in 1924 by Master Sunder Singh Lyallpuri, founder-father of the Akali
Movement and the Shiromani Akali Dal in Punjab, with the contributions from USA, Canada
and mainly from the sons of the soil belonging to Lyallpur from the district of Sheikhpura
(now in Pakistan)
...
The opening dedication was performed by Gandhiji
on September 15, 1924
...

Q362: The whole creation took place in exactly 6 hours notice when Lala Hardayal was
invited to give a lecture as a result of factionalism within the YMCA
...
What would be the exact name in
English?
Ans: Fennel Seeds
Q364: With which state of India would you associate the following tribes: Angami, Ao,
Chakhesang (Chokri/Kheza), Chang, Khiamniungan, Kuki, Konyak, Lotha, Phom, Pochury,
Rengma, Sumi, Sangtam, Yimchungru and Zeliang?
Ans: Nagaland
Q365: Which raag is George Harrison playing in his sitar in the composition Norwegian
Woods?
Ans: Raag Bageshree
Q366: Munshi Premchand started the journal Hans
...

Who?
Ans: RAJENDRA YADAV
Q367: Shamshad Begum first sang this song in a film made in 1941, which somehow went
unnoticed
...
Which song?
Ans
...
At the age of 8, he was
sent away to a boarding school in Southampton, England
...
He was very dreamy and
imaginative boy
...
After completing his course in 1880, he joined Indian Medical Service and was
posted to Madras
...
Who is he?
Ans: Sir Ronald Ross
...

Q369: The roots of this kind of music can be traced back to Persia (today’s Afghanistan and
Iran)
...
Amir Khusro Dahelvi is credited for fusing Persian and
Indian musical tradition to create this as we know it today in the late 13 thcentury
...

Q370: X is known in Indian Alchemy by the following
mes: parada, rasa, rasendra, rasaraja, capala and suta
...
What is X?
Ans: Mercury
Q371: The monthly newsletter of which Indian organization is Trustmail?
Ans: The Unit Trust of india
Q372: Mother's name Prabhabati
...
Mother was the granddaughter of Rabindranath Tagore's younger brother
...
Can you name the actress?
Ans: Meena Kumari
Q373:Which Indian institution was the site of Old Hijli detention camp?
Ans: IIT Kharagpur

Q374: Governor General Lord Bentick initiated this in 1840
...
What did he start?
Ans: Commercial tea plantations

Q375: The important number is 7
...
What
are we discussing?
Ans: Longest National Highway
Q376: Built by Quli Qutub Shah, in 1591, with granite and lime-mortar
...
Which was the building?
Ans: Raj Bhawan or Governor’s Residence
...

Q379: It is in five parts
...
The present text was assembled from remnants and
standardized under the Sasanian kings (3rd–7thcentury AD)
...
Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan
Q381: Who demarcated the line that was to divide India and Pakistan?
Ans: Sir Cyril Radcliffe
Q382: Regarded as one of the most intelligent statesmen during his times
...
The Maratha power was at its peak during his times
...

Passed away, when he could not hear the defeat of his army and death of his sons in a
battle, which could have turned the course of Indian History
...
The Portuguese name is commonly used, derieved from the name
used for it by the Tepi tribe of Brazil who first bred the plan
...

Identify
Ans: Cashew
Q384: He made his acting debut in Ketan Mehta's "Holi" in 1985 which was a film based on
violence in college politics
...
But his foray into acting was not successful and he tried his hand at
modelling for the Close Up toothpaste and Lifebuoy soap
...
It is wedged between districts of Belgaum
to the north, Uttar Kannad to thr west, Haveri to the south and Gadag to the east
...
Now a part of the National Institute of Technology (NIT) campus, it is one of
the lesser known attraction
...
Sailorsuveyor-astronomer Michael Topping came here with his instruments in 1785
...
In the women's section, in an Indian final
Rashmi Kumar defeated Illavazhagi
...
Name the traveller
Ans: Domingo Paes
Q396: Ibrahim Shah Sarqui built the Atala Masjid
...
K
...
They were V
...
S Laxman (2000-01) with 281, Rahul Dravid (2000-01)
with 180 and who against New Zealand for a heroic innings at Mumbai in 1964-65, where he
scored 200 not out?
Ans: Dilip Sardesai
Q400: This unique 10 acre sanctuary, the only of its kind in the world currently has 65 of the
species
...
What does this palace near Thrissur specialise in?
Ans: Elephants
Q401: He took the title of Vatapikonda when he defeated Pulakeshin II and captured Vatapi
...
Name the king
Ans: Narashimhaverman I
Q402: What was the real name of Swami Vivekananda?
Ans: Narendranath Dutta
Q403: Mahavira's teachings were written in a form called Prakrit also called as Ardh what?
Ans: Ardh Magadhi
Q404: Mahatma Jyotiba Phule used this medium to include social themes
...
This genre takes its
name from a word that has an Arabic origin which means a sight worth watching for
...

Early bards include Uma and Bapu of Pev and Savlaj villages of Sangli district
...
Spanning from pre-partition to the
present, it looks at some important phases of India's political history
...
In this form pulling up is needed instead of pinning down
...
Gandhi portrait series in contemporary times
...
5 acre Indu Mill complex in Dadar (central Mumbai) under the possession of
National Textile Mills has been handed over to the state for a memorial of which great
Indian?
Ans: Dr B
...
Ambedkar

Q417: The book Unto the Last profoundly influenced Gandhi especially at a period between
Phoenix Farm in Durban 1904 and Tolstoy Farm in Johannesberg in 1910 and thereafter
...

Kalhan refers to the lake in Rajtarangini
...
Name the hall
Ans: Gaiety theatre
Q420: Who was the first Indian woman to feature in a postage stamp?
Ans: Meerabai
Q421: The phrase Satyameva Jayate is taken from which Upanishad?
Ans: Mundaka Upanishad
Q422: As per Indian Railways, what does PNR stand for?
Ans: Passenger Name Record
Q423: April 13, 1930, Rajaji began his salt march from where to Vedaranayam?
Ans: Tiruchi
Q424: Who presented Arjuna with a Gandiva in Mahabharata?
Ans: Varuna
Q425: Clue 1: Patangarh of Dindori district in Madhya Pradesh
...

Name the art form
Ans: Gond
Q426: His Hollywood films include Beau Geste (1926), Dancing Mothers (1926) and Tonight
at Twelve (1929)
...
Served as a secretary of Indian Football Association
between 1900 and 1902
...
Annual festival
honours Padmasambhava
...
Name the monastery
Ans: Hemis
Q428: In Treta Yuga, there is reference to Girikarnika
...
Can you name the river?
Ans: Sabarmati
Q429: US missionaries founded the hill station in 1844-45 to escape a bout of cholera in
Madurai
...
His essays on antiquities are considered as classics
...
Who are we referring to?
Ans: James Prinsep
Q433: Sagol Khongjei in Manipur paved the way for which sport?
Ans: Polo
Q434: Which mountain range separates Jammu from Kashmir?
Ans: Pir Panjal
Q435: Song Celestial by Edwin Arnold is a English rendition of which Indian text?
Ans: Bhagwad Gita
Q436: Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose set up the Azad Hind government on October 21, 1943
...
S
...
He pressed the mountain on Dasagreev’s toe and
a new name was born
...
Who are we referring to?
Ans: Ravana (meaning scream)
Q443: He served king Rituparna as the charioteer and later lost his kingdom to Pushkara
over a game of dice
...
Who was the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh?
Ans: Sucheta Kriplani
Q449: Who became the Congress President from Pandit Nehru, when the latter formed
Interim Government of 1947?
Ans: J
...
Kripalani
Q450: Photographer in Godhra
...
Met German
magician Carl Hertz
...
Name the legend
Ans: Dadasaheb Phalke
Q451: Documented by historian Elamkulam Kunjan Pillai, this form took it’s genesis around
11th-12th century AD and was created during a protracted period of warfare between Chola
and Chera dynasties
...
F
Hussain and Owais Hussain's jointly scripted venture Meenaxi-Tale of three cities?
Ans: Hyderabad, Jaisalmer and Prague
Q454: Which Hindustani classical vocalist has set up trust dedicated to her mother's
memory and promotion of classical music called Shakhri Begum Memorial Trust?
Ans: Ustad Rashid Khan of Rampur Sahaswan gharana
Q455: He lived a full life
...
When he was 20, he board the
cargo ship Janus and reached California on October 8, 1922
...
What does SSB stand for? :
Ans: Sahastra Seema Bal

Q457: Two clues: This former Indian medium pacer coached Bengal during 2006-2007 with
distinction
...
Can you name him?
Ans: Paras Mhambrey

Q458: The roots of this kind of music can be traced back to Persia (today’s Afghanistan and
Iran)
...
Amir Khusro Dahelvi is credited for fusing Persian and
Indian musical tradition to create this as we know it today in the late 13 th century
...
In India, Pakistan and Bangladesh a session of Qawwali is called ‘Mehfil-ESama’
...
As a 21 year old on his first tour to England in 1932 he took 11
wickets at an average of 20
...
He had the honour of scoring India’s first test match half-century
...
Who?
Ans: Amar Singh
Q463: With which Indian publication of Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) would you
associate late Anil Agrawal and some of his pioneering journalistic work?
Ans: Down to Earth
Q464: Who is Sunil Gavaskar's lone test match victim and what was the batsman's score?
Ans: Zaheer Abbas of Pakistan
...

Q465: Who was the first Indian cricket captain to win all five tosses in a Test series?
Ans: Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi

Q466: His masculinity was swapped
...
Who?
Ans: Shikhandi

Q467: The writer Madhuri Gharpure a Dombivili resident overheard someone relating the
story in a Mumbai local train and wrote it down for a Marathi newsletter
...
Name the film?
Ans: Shwaas
Q468: He has had a brief acting career, in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
...
Who am I talking about?
Ans: Vijay Amritraj
Q469: Which legendary medium pacer won the Kartick Bose Lifetime Achievement Award
for the Cricket Association for Bengal annual awards ceremony of the season 2006-2007?
Ans: Durga Shankar Mukherjee
Q470: Along with his wife Sarsaswati, he shot a small demo-film called The Birth of a Pea
Plant to prove to friends about celluloid as a valid medium for telling stories
...
Name the
pioneer
Ans: Dadasaheb Phalke
Q471: She has a half Slovenian origin, her mother's name is Bonnie Pandya
...

Q472: It was founded in 1924 by Master Sunder Singh Lyallpuri, founder-father of the Akali
Movement and the Shiromani Akali Dal in Punjab, with the contributions from USA, Canada
and mainly from the sons of the soil belonging to Lyallpur from the district of Sheikhpura
(now in Pakistan)
...
The opening dedication was performed by Gandhiji
on September 15, 1924
...


Q473: The whole creation took place in exactly 6 hours notice when Lala Hardayal was
invited to give a lecture as a result of factionalism within the YMCA
...
Which hill?
Ans: Raisina Hill
Q475: Which raag is George Harrison playing in his sitar in the composition Norwegian
Woods?
Ans: Raag Bageshree
Q476: Munshi Premchand started the newspaper Hans
...

Who?
Ans: RAJENDRA YADAV
Q478: Two clues
...
One of the former India
internationals to have played the sport and captained the country is Bishwajit Palit
...

Ans: Kabaddi
Q479: Samar Jodha's important public art installation partially titled A Silent Picture has
been installed in London around the same time as the Olympics
...
Which tournament?

Ans: Harris Shield
Q484: Which hockey goalkeeping legend won three consecutive gold medals between 1928
and 1936 in Olympic hockey?
Ans: Richard Allen
Q485: Thirty-eight year old Goanese Maria Rebello became the first Indian woman with a
world apex body badge to officiate what?
Ans: Santosh Trophy
Q486: This year is one of revisiting old landmarks
...
Sathiyan became a medallist in 16th
Asian Junior Table Tennis Championships in Bangkok, 30 years after Sujoy Ghorpade won a
bronze in 1980
...
He won a
freestyle bronze in 2009 at Herning in Denmark exactly 42 years after Vishambar Singh won
silver in the same event
...
The first text of this style of yoga called as the stretched effort was published in
15th century and was called Yoga Pradipika
...
It became national game
only in 1952
Q489: The first sultan of Delhi, Qutubuddin Aibak fell to his death in 1210 AD of injuries
suffered from playing a version of polo
...
The male
tribals take a wild pig and lock it inside a bamboo cage and subsequently tie one of the legs
to long rope
...
The two male standing at 6 metre distance has to pin it
...

The game formally reached England in 1885 and the modern scoring system began from
1891
...
Formed in
1846, by the civil servant Alexander Arbuthnot on the “Island” Name the famous Indian club
Ans: Madras Cricket Club
Q493: Uncle captained India in test cricket and the nephew captained Pakistan
...
The flower lends its
name to banner of Abhimanyu
...
Name the king

Q9: A Bengali film based on Saratchandra Chatterjee novel Pather Dabi (The demand of the
road) was made on him
...
Name the Indian revolutionary
Q10: Which great snake is said to be the bed of Vishnu, bearing the world on its thousand
hoods?
Q11: In Peter Brook's production Mahabharata which famous Indian performer and social
activist essayed the role of Draupadi?
Q12: Anantavijaya is the conch of which king?
Q13: She completed her version of a children's Mahabharta when she was 12
...
Name the young writer
Q14: Can you name the Shyam Benegal film which explores a cinematic contemporary
treatment on the Mahabharata?
Q15: Who is Ghatokach's mother?
Q16: While battling with cancer, she finished a brilliant rendering of Mahabharata
...
P Kailasam
...
One is Karna

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