1. What was originally constructed by the East India Company in 1696 and later re-built by Robert Clive in 1758?- Fort William (in Calcutta).
2. The Doddabetta Peak is the highest point in which mountain range?- Nilgiri mountains.
3. Name the rocket used by NASA and the first to be launched from the Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station.-Nike-Apache.
4. Which British army engineer is also known as the father of the Archaeological Survey of India?-
Sir Alexander Cunningham.
5. How is the Kempegowda Bus Station in Bangalore popularly known as?-Majestic.
6. Karkadann was a mythological creature believed to have lived in India. Which animal is the myth based on?-Indian Rhinoceros
7. Name the social reformer from Maharashtra, who wrote under the pen name ‘Lokhitawadi’, and campaigned against social ills like the dowry system, child marriage and the caste system.- Gopal Hari Deshmukh.
8. Which agreement was signed in September 1960 between Jawaharlal Nehru and Ayub Khan, the then President of Pakistan, and facilitated by the World Bank?-Indus Waters Treaty.
9. Who was the first Managing Director of the company now known as Maruti Suzuki India Limited?-Sanjay Gandhi.
10. Where in India would you find the Le Corbusier Centre, Sukhna Lake and Capitol Complex?-Chandigarh.
11. Which early Indian political and social leader was a cricket enthusiast and also the vice president of a cricket club in North London? He was also the first Asian to be a British Member of Parliament.-Dadabhai Naoroji.
12. An influential cricket tournament held in Bombay in pre-independence India, it’s origins lay in an annual match played between Bombay Gymkhana and the Zoroastrian Cricket Club. It ultimately comprised five teams referred to as ‘Europeans’, ‘Hindus’, ‘Muslims’, ‘Parsees’ and ‘The Rest’. Name the tournament.-Bombay Pentangular.
13. Three teams made their debut in the 1996 Cricket World Cup held in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Two of them were Kenya and The Netherlands. Which team was the third?-United Arab Emirates.
14. Which stadium hosted the first ever Ranji Trophy match? One of the participating teams was Mysore, who ended up losing the match.-M.A.Chidambaram Stadium, in Chennai.
15. Which Indian poet’s daughter is married to Indian politician George Fernandes?-
Humayun Kabir. His daughter is Leila Kabir.
17. What was the name of the sting operation conducted by Tehelka reporters Mathew Samuel and Aniruddha Bahal of Tehelka in 2001? -Operation West End.
18. Who first novel is The Golden Gate, a novel told through the medium of poetry, and consists of 590 stanzas?-Vikram Seth.
19. Connect – Rupa, Jiva, Gopala Bhatta, Raghunatha Dasa, Sanatana and Raghunatha Bhatta.
They are the Six Goswamis of Vrindavan, a group of devotional teachers known for their writings on Vaishnava practices.
20. Who was the first Indian woman to win the Sahitya Academy Award in 1956?-Amrita Pritam.
21.Connect the following – a 1994 film starring Robin Williams, a supernatural drama series broadcasted by BBC and a charitable organization found by an Indian actor.-Being Human.
22. Who was the first Minister of Finance for India, a position in which he served from October 1946 till Independence Day?-Liaquat Ali Khan.
23. Which organization’s seal depicts a tiger and a palm tree? It was based on the image depicted in the ‘Mohur’, a gold coin minted in pre-independence India.-Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
24. Which business group owns ‘Go Air’? -They also Bombay Dyeing and Britannia Industries.-Wadia group.
25. Which company founded by R.P.Goenka can trace back it’s origins to a demonstration conducted in 1879 by P W Fleury & Co.?-CESC (Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation).
26. Who was the author of Akbarnama, the chronicles of the reign of the Mughal emperor Akbar?-Abul Fazl.
27. ‘Mula Sangh’ and ‘Kashtha Sangh’ are two branches of which sect and religion?-Digambara sect, Jainism.
28. What is the meaning of the word ‘Sur’, a Pashtun tribe found in parts of Afghanistan, Pakistan and India? Sher Shah Suri, who founded the Suri empire, was a member of this tribe.-The color red.
29. How is the Gangaridai (Nation of Ganges), an ancient state founded around 300BC, known as today? -Bengal (also Bangladesh).
30. Which Greek author wrote the book ‘Indica’, which provided an account of his travels through various parts of modern day India?-Megasthenes.
31. Who wrote ‘Great Tang Records on the Western Regions’, a narrative which describes in detail his journey across Asia, including India?Hieun Tsang.
31. Who wrote ‘Great Tang Records on the Western Regions’, a narrative which describes in detail his journey across Asia, including India?Hieun Tsang.
32. Jawaharlal Nehru wrote a series of letters to Indira Gandhi while in prison, which was later published as ‘Glimpses of World History’. Which prison was he in? Naini Central Prison.
33. Which ancient city is believed to have been called Kukkutarma, a Dravidian name meaning ‘city of the cockerel’? Mohenjo-Daro.
34. Who founded the Servants of India Society in 1905?Gopal Krishna Gokhale.
35. Which ancient Indian city’s name is derived from a Sanskrit word meaning ‘military establishment’?Cuttack
36. Name the famous Indian cinematographer who won two Film fare Awards, for Mother India in 1958 and Duniya in 1970.-Faredoon Irani.
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