1. Which country won most football world cups prior to India’s Independence
2. Who was the last American before Agassi and Sampras, to win the men’s singles title at the Australian Open?
3. What is Don Quixote’s real name in the eponymous classic by Miguel Cervantes?
4. Which Indian bestseller is subtitled ‘Unleashing the Power Within India’?
5. What is located on the Schirmacher oasis in the South Pole?
6. In the Mahabharata, who was also called ‘Annapoorna’?
7. By What short name is the wildbeast also known?
8. Of the three primary centres of the global diamond industry, name the one in Europe.
9. If it’s ‘Rashtrapati’ for India, what is it for Pakistan?
10. Name the place in the Marshall Islands, where more than 20 nuclear bomb tests were conducted between 1946 and 1958.
11. Which historic city, named as an honorific reference to its founder, was christened ‘Nova Roma’ by him?
12. Which is the shortest of William Shakespeare’s plays?
13. Name the largest volcano in Europe, known locally as Mongibello.
14. The world is celebrating the 250th birth anniversary of a great composer born in Salzburg today. Name him.
15. Which is the world’s largest office building?
16. If the first ‘parva’ of the Mahabharata is ‘Aadi’, what is the 18th called?
17. The first Indian to get hat-trick in test match
18. Nowroz is
19. What is known as a ’banker’s cheque’?
20. ‘Samta Sthal’ is the Samadhi of
21. The word ’yogurt’ is adopted from (Bantu/Turkish/Hindi/Italian)
22. Gaya is in (Jharkhand/Bihar/Chhattisgarh/Orissa)
23. The athlete who broke the world record 35 times-official and unofficial
24. Which gland produces melatonin, a hormone that may weakly modulate wake/sleep patterns?
25. The Liberhan Commission looked into
26. The Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages is situated at
27. Dandiya Ras is a dance form of
28. In which event did Mark Spitz win an awesome seven gold medals in the 1972 olympics?
29. Kuchipudi is a dance drama from
30. ‘Medicins Sans Frontieres’ won the 1999 Nobel Prize for Peace. It is a
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