1. Which major European conflict occurred between March 1854 and 1856?
2. If the Clintons’ pet cat was Socks, what was their dog called?
3. Against whom did the prolific Brian Lara score his epic, unbeaten 501?
4. What is the term for the ‘process by which an atmosphere warms a planet’?
5. Who bettered the feat of Sweden’s Per Lindstrand on November 26?
6. Who led the ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’?
7. Which large, endangered mammal has two Asian varieties—Indian and Javan?
8. Which Indian, a current UN Diplomat, wrote the Great Indian Novel?
9. According to legend, who shot an apple off his son’s head on this day 698 years ago?
10. Which famous American writer, after seeing his ‘obituary’, remarked: ‘The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated?’
11. In cooking, what is the process of breaking down collagens in meat to make it more palatable for consumption called?
12. Which popular video game console was codenamed ‘Dolphin’ during development?
13. Name the northern European country, with Riga as the Capital, celebrating its Independence to day.
14. In which book do Tom Canty and Prince Edward, both looking alike, appear?
15. The first commercial product of which Japanese company, known for its AV products, was a rice boiler in the late 1940s?
16. The largest Microsoft campus outside the U.S. is in India. Where?
17. Which type of puffer fish, that is highly toxic, is considered a delicacy in Japan?
18. With which primate would one associate Skull Island?
19. The first person of East Asian descent to become head of a Latin American nation was arrested recently. Name him.
20. Marie Sklodowska Curie was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for her discovery of Radium and which other element?
21. With which British band would one associate songs like ‘Stairway to heaven’, and ‘Kashmir’?
22. Who directed the 11 Academy Award winning classic ‘BenHur’?
23. EMIs are.
24. Name the project of middle school students in the Tennessee city of Whitwell that led to a monument for the Holocaust victims in Nazi Germany.
25. Which place in Australia was called ‘Anthoonij van Diemenslandt’ by the explorer who found it?
26. Which recently launched Microsoft product had the codename ‘Project Xenon’?
27. Sweden’s Jan-Ove Waldner has been a World and Olympic champion in which sport?
28. What does the expanded name of France’s TGV, the train service, translate to in English?
29. To which famous Novel Laureate is the quote ‘Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new’ attributed?
30. According to the tongue twister, which of the sheik’s animal is unwell?
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