1. In 1969 after a split came Congress (O). What is ’O’?
2. The author of The Medium is the Message
3. Heathrow is the site of which airport?
4. The first British administrator of Bengal
5. Dadabhai Naoroji was Dewan (chief minister) of which princely state for a brief period?
6. What is a gazeteer?
7. Who wrote The Golden Threshold and The Broken Wing?
8. Norman Pritchard was the first (African/Asian/European/American) to win an Olympic medal
9. Which Asian Country’s largest airline and flag carrier is called ‘‘El Al’’?
10. The Buddha was born in (Bodh Gaya/Kapilavastu/Varanasi/Kashiranga)
11. On an old postage stamp is the inscription ’Haute Volta’. Which country is it?
12. What is special about the spelling of ’Mozambique’?
13. At the Olympic Games in Paris in 1924, who won seven races in six days?
14. Capital of New York State
15. In which system of treatment are needles inserted into the skin at selected places on the body?
16. Emperor Ashoka’s father
17. Khajuraho was the capital of which dynasty
18. India’s first sound film made in Hindi in 1931
19. Israel’s Father of the Nation?
20. Dadasaheb Phalke produced the industry’s first box office hit, in 1917, which ran for 23 weeks.The film?
21. Conjunctivit is affects the : nose/eyes/ear/colon
22. Mombasa, Kisumu and Nakuru are cities of
23.Naples is Italy’s third most populous city. Mention the first two.
24. The first Indian ever to be elected to the British parliament
25. Madame Tussaud’s name is associated with a
26. ’Czar’ can also be spelt
27. Who was the President of India when a state of emergency was declared in 1975?
28. Originator of the Punjabi script Gurumukhi
29. An all-woman expedition scaled Annapurna III in 1970. Their nationality?
30. The I.A.S officer who became the first Chief Minister of an Indian State
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