3. The Rules
• 6 sets of 5 questions each
• Each set has four 1 pointers and a 3 pointer
• No negatives
• Teams of max 4 people
• More than 4 - play as separate tables
• All answers to be written down
• Include table # on your answer sheet
• Hand in answers at the end of each set
15. Her first published appearance was in 2
issue 350 of The Royal Magazine for
December 1927, with the first printing of
the short story The Tuesday Night Club.
First full-length novel was Murder at the
Vicarage.
Sources claim that the character is partly
modeled on the author’s grandmother.
Name, please.
16. 3
This is a depiction of
a short story first
published in
Graham's Magazine
in 1841.
It is claimed to be the
first detective story.
Which story / author?
17. The epitaph on his gravestone in the 4
churchyard at Minstead in New Forest,
Hampshire, reads:
STEEL TRUE
BLADE STRAIGHT
_____________
KNIGHT
PATRIOT, PHYSICIAN & MAN OF
LETTERS
Who?
18. “He has no original. He is a 5
dream man… For your private
detective wants to be a hard
and shifty fellow, able to take
care of himself in any situation,
able to get the best of anybody
Use this actor as
he comes in contact with,
a clue whether criminal, innocent
bystander or client.”
This is the author talking about
which character?
19.
20. Answers
1. Nancy Drew
2. Miss Jane Marple
3. Murder in the Rue Morgue by
Edgar Allen Poe
4. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
5. Sam Spade from Maltese Falcon
22. 1
If Shashi Tharoor and Preneet
Kaur are the current
Ministers of State for this
ministry, who is the Cabinet
Minister?
He is a former CM and
governor.
23. 2
There are 33 Cabinet-rank
Ministers in the govt currently. 27
of them are from the Congress.
From the non-Congress parties are
A Raja, Dayanidhi Maran, MK
Azhagiri, Mamta Bannerjee,
Sharad Pawar and who else?
He holds the Ministry of New and
Renewable Energy.
24. 3
There are four father – son pairs in
the 15th Lok Sabha.
1.Ajit Singh - Jayant Chaudhary
2.Mulayam Singh Yadav - Akhilesh
Yadav
3.Adhikari Sisir Kumar - Adhikari
Suvendu
Name the fourth pair.
25. 4
The youngest Cabinet
Minister in the current
Cabinet is 42 years old, and
holds the Textiles Ministry
after being elected from the
Chennai Central constituency.
Who?
26. 5
The Cabinet Minister for Water
Resources in India vacated the
post 3 days after being sworn
into office and went on to
create a record of sorts.
Who is this, and for what
reason?
27.
28. Answers
1. SM Krishna
2. Farooq Abdullah
3. HD Deve Gowda and HD
Kumaraswamy
4. Dayanidhi Maran
5. Meira Kumar, who became the
first Woman Speaker of the Lok
Sabha
32. 3
Who is missing?
1975: Faroukh Engineer
1979: Surinder Khanna
1983: Syed Kirmani
1987: Kiran More
1992: Kiran More
1996: Nayan Mongia
1999: Nayan Mongia
2003: ???
33. 4
Who was the captain of the
Indian cricket team in the
1975 Prudential World Cup?
34. 5
CONNECT:
Dennis Amiss 137 vs Ind 1975
J Miandad 103 vs S.L 1987
Martin Crowe 100 vs Aus 1992
Nathan Astle 101 vs Eng 1996
Brian Lara 116 vs S.A 2003
35.
36. Answers
1. Piloo Reporter
2. Anderson Cummins, Graeme Hick
and Kepler Wessels – Represented
multiple countries in World Cups
3. Rahul Dravid
4. Srinivas Venkatraghavan
5. Centuries in the first matches of
each of these World Cups
42. 3
Cheese was not added until
1889, when the Royal Palace
commissioned the Neapolitan
Raffaele Esposito to create one
in her honor. She strongly
preferred one in the colors of the
Italian flag: red (tomato), green
(basil), and white (mozzarella).
What are we talking about?
43. If this is his latest, what was the earlier one? 4
44. In 353 B.C. Queen 5
Artemisia decided
to build the most
splendid tomb
ever, in memory of
her husband. It
became so famous
that it is now
associated with
stately tombs
everywhere.
45. Answers
1. Queen Victoria
2. Queen Rania of Jordon
3. Margherita Pizza
4. Elizabeth, Shekhar Kapur’s next
film
5. Mausoleum
