2. 1
• Born as Harikrishna Giri Goswami, in
Abbottabad, a town of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa,
now in Pakistan, his last appearance in movies
was the 1995 movie Maidan-E-Jung. His
trademark gesture in movies has been popular
as well as the source of controversy. Identify.
4. 2
• Nicknamed the Schindler of his domain of
business, he established what was called the
______ Freedom Train, a covert means of
allowing Jews to leave Germany to the various
sales offices of his firm around the world. Each
new employee of the firm arriving on the New
York pier would have around his neck a _____,
a symbol of freedom from the Nazis. Name
him and the brand he pioneered
6. 3
• The biggest company of the B.M. Khaitan
Group, this was originally called Union Carbide
India Limited, but changed to its present name
in 1994.
Identify the company, whose flagship
product’s logo commemorates the ‘fact’ that a
cat has nine lives.
8. 4
Complete the list
• 2003: The American Soldier
• 2004: George W. Bush
• 2005: The Good Samaritans (Bono, Bill and
Melinda Gates)
• 2006: ?
• 2007: Vladimir Putin
10. 5
• Originally, this is a Greek word meaning
‘dwarf’. If you’re a Star Trek fanatic, you’ll
think of the communications officer on the
Enterprise if I utter this word. A year or two
back, a random person would think of music if
I said this word, but now her/his mind will go
into a completely different direction.
Which word am I talking about?
12. 6
• The fountain is located at the Warner Ranch at 401 N.
Hollywood Way, about a half mile from the studio in
Burbank, California. In the center of the fountain four
large fish surround the base of the platform, their tails
soaring upward as to hold the large circular dish from
which the water squirts skyward. It was also used
prominently in the finale of the Charlton Heston
classic, The Omega Man, and in the film version of the
Broadway musical, 1776. Apart from this, something
famous was shot there, at about 4:00 in the morning
while it was extremely cold. What?
18. 9
• It arose from Vaishnava devotees dancing to
dancing to the episodes from Krishna's
life. Originally a Northern Indian temple
dance, it was transformed to a court dance in
the Mughal era. The new Muslim influence
brought with it certain changes to the dance
form: what had been a largely devotional
practice now became more a courtly
entertainment. Identify the dance form?
26. 13
Who was gifted with all these sobriquets:
• Muffakir-e-Pakistan ("The Thinker of
Pakistan"),
• Shair-e-Mashriq,
• Hakeem-ul-Ummat ("The Sage of Ummah") ?
32. 16
• He was born in 1945 at Vaidipur, a village in
the Ghaziabad District of Uttar Pradesh, to an
armyman. His birthname was R. Prasad Singh
Vidhudi. What surname did he adopt before
joining politics ?
34. 17
• This is the structural formula of a mechanically interlocked molecule. The molecule is a linear
catenane. It was synthesized and named by Stoddart and coworkers in 1996. However, it was
not actually made for any purpose but as a tribute and was thus named after it. What was it a
tribute to?
38. 19
Rates vary in different parts of the country and barring the
online portals it can also be purchased from a state
government authorized dealer at Faridabad. WHAT?
42. 21
• According to one version, the 50-ton magnet
on top of this structure was removed by the
British as it was disorienting the compasses of
approaching ships and led to many wrecks.Id
44. 22
• During the 2nd WW X joined the Royal Indian Air
Force eventually becoming head air transport
command. He also played a crucial role in the
Indonesian independence struggle as he braved all
hazards and flew a Dakota to and brought Sultan
Sjahirr from Java to India and ultimately allowed the
Sultan to form international opinion against the
Dutch leading to Indonesian Independence. For this,
X was given honorary citizenship of Indonesia and
awarded 'Bhoomi Putra', the highest Indonesian
award and a rare distinction ever granted to a
foreigner.
46. 23
This object has one of the strangest origins
possible - in a magazine cartoon by George
Moore on January 7, 1903. Within three
weeks, a patent was granted to W. J. Graham
of Graham Brothers, in Enfield, Middlesex. In
India, most of its production is carried out by a
company called Cozy. Identify this object,
which has a special place in Indian cinema.
54. 27
As a teenager, he was fascinated by physics. Although he planned to
pursue an undergraduate degree in that subject at Delhi University,
where he was accepted to the B.Sc. Physics Honors course, his brother
talked him out of the idea.
His brother told him that that he would end up “selling bananas” if he
continued toward his projected goal of getting a Ph. D in physics.
Instead, his brother said ” You should study engineering — specifically
electrical engineering — a subject that was then growing more and
more important “.
He went on to become one of the most famous electronic chip
designers of all time. Who?
56. 28
• _____________ also plays a small part in the Mahabharata
although he is an important character in one of the other
epics. Yudhisthira crowned himself as the Emperor
of Indraprastha and began preparations for a Rajasuya sacrifice. He
sent Sahadeva to the southern kingdoms to subjugate the rulers to
his authority and supremacy. Sahadeva's men reached the tip of the
mainland, wherein Sahadeva stopped and sent his messengers to
____________ kingdom. _____________accepted Yudhisthira's
authority and regarded it as "an act of time".
• Who are we talking about?
