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QUESTION 1: Connect Bagha Jatin with a particular type of modern architecture/establishment in
Palestine.

ANSWER 1: Taggarts aka Tegarts, the police forts named after Charles Tegart who led the police force that hunted Bagha Jatin in Bengal. Tegart forts in the last days of the British Mandate in Palestine were specially reinforced police posts, named after the inventor Charles Tegart.

QUESTION 2: During the Bangladesh Liberation War, which was the only aircraft that did not suffer
a single loss while accounting for nearly a dozen "kills"; the best Kill ratio for any aircraft in the entire war?

ANSWER 2: Hawker Sea Hawks

QUESTION 3: A church in Mumbai recently celebrated its 400th anniversary. Name the church.

ANSWER 3: Our Lady of Egypt Church at Kalina

QUESTION 4: There are at present 812 of these worldwide, of which 26 are in India. The last of
these in India was incorporated in 2004 (not considering renewals). What are they, and which one was the last incorporated in India?

ANSWER 4: The World Heritage Sites. Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (formerly Victoria Terminus) (2004) was the last of these in India.

QUESTION 5: A less-known Indian physicist A working at B gained popularity by questioning the
existence of C thereby challenging the life-work of the internationally acclaimed physicist D. Name A, B, C and D.

ANSWER 5: A is Abhas Mitra, B is BARC, C is Black Hole and D is Stephen Hawking

QUESTION 6: What connects T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land and a song from Madonna's album Ray
of Light?

HINT
One Sanskrit word (or 3 words).

ANSWER 6

"Shantih shantih shantih" is the ending of The Waste Land, one of my favourite poems. It is also repeated in Shanti/Ashtangi, track 8 of Ray of Light

QUESTION 7: Brampton, Ontario has the second highest Indian immigrant population in Canada
(after Surrey, British Columbia). By what less-than-racially-sensitive names is it called colloquially (and in Canadian press) as a result.

ANSWER 7: Bramatown, Browntown, Bramladesh, Bramistan, Brambay and Bramcutta

QUESTION 8: Fill in the blanks: ______ was introduced in India in 1784 for the first time to develop
______ .

HINT
Hint 1: Both the "_____" are quite well known to everyone even today.
Hint 2: One refers to a place another to a product/service.
Hint 3: One is still very popular today and the other is still very populous.

ANSWER 8

"Lottery" and "Calcutta"

QUESTION 9: This is a form of Indian folk culture. Now the name of the form has become generic.
However, originally it was a particular piece of art based on a particular princess of north India. In fact, the name of the princess has become the name of the form. Name the form of folk culture.

ANSWER 9: Nautanki

QUESTION 10: A daughter of a Hindu King by his Muslim mistress, "given" to another Hindu ruler,
their love story became legendary. What is being talked about?

ANSWER 10: Mastani

QUESTION 11: They export me alive and I am one of the fastest growing export products for India
as well as topping the charts in the live exports category. Who am I?

ANSWER 11: Mud crabs

QUESTION 12: I share my name with a prominent personality from North India. But I myself am
famous mainly in the north eastern part of the country. Though I am not currently employed, I get my salary every month (till date). I also take regular vaccations from my "job", during which I travel by train to unknown places. And the irony of it all — I ain't even alive today! Who am I?

ANSWER 12: Baba Harbhajan Singh of the Indian army. He died in the 1960s thereof. A mandir is named after him near the Nathula Pass in Sikkim. According to the given information, he drowned in a stream and his body was never found. He still gets his pension, rank etc. According to prevailing folklore, everyday his boots are polished in the morning, and by dusk it is muddy again. He is revered my the Indian army jawans.

QUESTION 13: What is the fastest speed achieved by a train in India?

ANSWER 13: 184 km/h (114 mph)

QUESTION 14: Connect the following:

The animal whose brain can supposedly help cure your laziness.
The animal that figures in a Danish royal order; and
The animal that according to Malaysian and Burmese folklore, stamps out fire in the forest.

HINT
Hint 1: The animals are: Tiger, Elephant and Rhinos
Hint 2: Apart from the three in the riddles above, the other animals that fit into this connection are: lion, horse and bull.
Hint 3: This link did not exist prior to 1996.

ANSWER 14

The 1996 ten-rupee notes series.

QUESTION 15: Before Indian Independence, at which venue and year did England last beat India in
India in hockey?

ANSWER 15: England never beat India in India because they never played in India; presumably fearing losing to the home crowd's team.

QUESTION 16: Afrasia is considered as the largest of all X. Name X that has maximum density of
population.

ANSWER 16: Vypeen Island and Kochi

QUESTION 17: Link Jaipur and Toulouse.

ANSWER 17: Both are called pink cities.

QUESTION 18: When was the highest cricket pitch in the world built? And by whom?

ANSWER 18: In 1893 by Maharaja Bhupinder Singh (in Chail)?

QUESTION 19: I have acted in an award-winning movie. I have undergone prison sentence. And I
also happen to be a Sahitya Akademi award winner. Who am I? Which was the award winning movie I acted in? And how many days had I spent in prison?

ANSWER 19: Arundhati Roy; for In Which Annie Gives it Those Ones; one day.

QUESTION 20: Which Bollywood movie was the first to have a plotline with a timeline concerning
events of just one night. Also, most of the story is set in the vicinity of an apartment building. Which year?

ANSWER 20: Jagte Raho, 1956

QUESTION 21: Which outfit in India infamously created furore by burning Rama's effigy instead of
Ravana's during Ram Leela?

ANSWER 21: E.V. Ramasamy Naicker's Dravidar Kazhagam. It was dubbed the "Ravan Leela".

QUESTION 22: Name the Chola king who according to legends was born a spider in his previous
life?

ANSWER 22: Kochengan Chola

QUESTION 23: Which dish, that is still relished today, was created when one of Akbar's courtiers
accidentally added onions to a food being prepared for the emperor?

ANSWER 23: Dopiaza

QUESTION 24: When was electricity first brought to Mumbai? (The location and year)

ANSWER 24: 1882, Crawford Market

QUESTION 25: To keep in with Hindi nativity, he should probably have been named mota malik or
motu malik. However, his actual name was probably in keeping with the context. What is being talked about?

HINT
Translation may not be vital, but would still be important. Mota or Motu would mean fat or well endowed. Malik would mean leader. So, fat leader in some sense.

ANSWER 25

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