QUESTION 1: She was a national swimming champion, a jockey, a Miss India, an actress, and now,
a social activist. Who is being talking about?

QUESTION 2: Which Indian was considered the "father of surgery?"

QUESTION 3: During the British rule of India there were a number of princely families. The
grandson of one of these Princes is now a popular Bollywood actor. Name the Prince in question
(the actor's grandfather).

QUESTION 4: Which India city got its name because of the presence of a large number of banyan
trees in that area?

QUESTION 5: This person paid the highest individual income tax in the mid 1990's — apart from
also featuring in advertisements that exhorted people to pay income taxes. Who?

QUESTION 6: Which character, according to the Hindu mythology is said to have offered
herself/himself as food to a lion in order to prevent it from attacking a cow?

QUESTION 7: Which district can claim to have produced the maximum number of Bharat Ratnas,
how many of them and who are they?

QUESTION 8: Which Indian politician was acting PM twice but never became the a Prime Minister?

QUESTION 9: How many Indians have won the Junior Singles' Event at Wimbledon? Name them.

QUESTION 10: What connects M. S. Swaminathan, Verghese Kurien and Raja Ramanna,
the men behind the green, white and nuclear revolutions of India?

QUESTION 11: A famous Indian personality was misplaced accidentely by the hospital staff when
he was born. This was found by his uncle because he had noticed a deformity in the baby on the first day.
Name this famous person whose life would have been different but for his uncle.

QUESTION 12: Name the Indian athlete who lost a medal in an Olympic event by 100th of a second?

QUESTION 13: Who was the first Non-Congress Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, and what party
did he represent?

QUESTION 14: When was the practice of pre-censoring movies introduced in India and by which
act?

QUESTION 15: He is supposed to be a prophet who migrated to Kashmir around 2000 years ago
and is believed to be the fifth advent of Buddha in some accounts. Who is being talking about?

QUESTION 16: Which university is regarded (at least by some) to be the oldest in the world?

QUESTION 17: When the Babri Mosque was demolished in 1992, the Government of India asked the
Rajputana Rifles to go to Ayodhya and control the situation there. For the first time in history, a regiment refused to follow the government order citing a very strange but valid reason. What was the reason given by Rajputana Rifles for not obeying government's order?

QUESTION 18: Who can be regarded as India's first rap singer and what is the song?

QUESTION 19: Who is the most famous child of Prakash and Prem Peshawaria?

QUESTION 20: P.T.Usha is probably most famous for losing out an Olympic track and field
Gold medal by a whisker in 1984. Lesser known is the fact that two other athletes from Kerala had also competed in the finals of a track and field event in the same Olympics. Who all?

QUESTION 21: Which film comedian is widely regarded as the first film comedian to receive the
Padma Shri from the Government of India? Also mention the year.

QUESTION 22: Link the following.

• Lenovo
• Airtel
• Cole Porter
• and the words Cash Mountain

QUESTION 23: Although mute, this resident of Kolkata received visitors from across India, and
around the world. At the time of his death within the last five years he was one of the oldest residents of Kolkata. What was his name?

QUESTION 24: Connect Anthony Gonsalvez, Anand Babu, and Subbiah Rajarathinam.

QUESTION 25: At what location is it said that Lord Vishnu made an offering to Lord Siva of an eye?