1. The term ‘bully’ is associated with which game?
2. With which game is the term ‘Checkmate’ associated?
3. The term ‘links’ reminds of which game?
4. The term ‘mallet’ is associated with which game?
5. Name the first Indian who swam across the English Channel?
6. Where is the National Stadium situated?
7. Give the measurements of a Boxing Ring.
8. What is the duration of a hockey match?
9. Give the full form of L.B.W.
10. Which country became the champion of the first World Cup Cricket?
11. On this day, 40 years ago, the world saw the first controlled landing of a space probe on the Moon. Name the Russian craft.
12. The 47th anniversary of the tragic demise of a pioneer of Rock and Roll, who had a band called ‘‘The Crickets’’, is being observed today. Name him.
13. What distinction does the video ‘‘The Making of Thriller’’ have in the history of videos?
14. India is the third largest country, and the second in Asia, with most Scouts. Name the top-ranked country.
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15. Which pilgrimage place’s name translate to ‘‘gateway to the God’’?
16. In Greek mythology, name the father of Theseus after whom a sea is supposedly named.
17. Name the two sides that fought World War I.
18. What is an extrasolar plant (or exoplanet)?
19. Name the ten-year old boy who helps to tend working elephants in Rudyard Kipling story.
20. Which studios did the Walt Disney Company buy recently in a deal worth $7.4 billion?
21. Which prolific inventor introduced, in 1894, to the public the ‘‘Kinetograph’’, the first practical moving picture camera?
22. Which bi-continental republic was established in October 1923 from the remnants of the Ottoman Empire?
23. In the world of money, what is common to Algeria, Sebia and libua (in a non-exhaustive list)?
24.Name the CM of the State in which the hill town of Kalimpong is situated.
25. In Which famous university were Larry Page and Sergey Brin studying when they began Google as a research project in January 1996?
26. Which globally popular ball game was officially played on this day for the first time, at YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1892?
27. What first can be attributed to Pope John II in 533 AD?
28. Who was the first to observe the Jovian satellites Io, Europa and Callisto through the telescope?
29. The chemical element with atomic number 58 is named after the largest asteroid. Name it.
30. In which classic does ‘‘the creature’’ refers to itself as ‘‘hideous wretch’’?
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