QUESTION 1: The twin cities of Hyderabad, India and Secunderabad are divided by a lake. The
famous stone embankment across the lake is known by a pretty simple name. There are two theories associated with how it got its name. State both of them.

QUESTION 2: Answer the following :

• a) What are the earliest Christians in India known as? (The Caste's name).
• b) Who is attributed to have travelled from the west and performed the first baptisms ? (The person's name or how he is popularly know as).
• c) When? (Which year).
• d) Where? (The exact place name).

QUESTION 3: Paraphrasing a great man's saying - "You are first ignored, later laughed at. Then
they fight you, but you win." Connect this with a term in software jargon, its usage, the great man whose saying have paraphrased and the person who coined the term.

QUESTION 4: What word for a strong cotton working cloth or overalls, comes from a low lying
village near Bombay where it was first manufactured?

QUESTION 5: In August 2003, J Jayalalithaa, chief minister of Tamil Nadu issued orders to enforce
a law that had been passed 53 years earlier, but not enforced. What law was that?

QUESTION 6: What was British's first trading post in India? What was the year?

QUESTION 7: Which state of India gets its name from the fact that 5 tributaries run through it.
Name the state, each of the five tributaries, and the river the tributaries belong to.

QUESTION 8: Name the Indian who discovered a law related to supernova? He also had an
asteroid named after him.

QUESTION 9: Who was the ruler of Magadha at the time of Siddhartha Gautama's death?

QUESTION 10: Quoting a newspaper columnist:

"...for in 2000 the Government decided to issue a new "revised" set, guided by the following principle: that there would be a hundred volumes, each of 500 pages. The edifice painstakingly created by Swaminathan and his team was dismantled; and the entries now "remixed" according to the new specifications. In the process, the illuminating prefaces written to the original volumes have been dropped. Also missing are the maps and illustrations. The cross-references, so carefully prepared and so indispensable to scholars, have been rendered meaningless."

What are these volumes? Who is Swaminathan? What became of this controversy?

QUESTION 11: What perecentage of the earth’s population are followers of Dharmic religions?
What percentage of Asia’s population are the followers of Dharmic religions?

QUESTION 12: Back in the days before cinema, high entertainment and comic books; mass media
existed in the form of story tellers and entertainers, who traveled from village to village with dolls and scrolls depicting scenes drawn from myths and folklore. Name this folk-art.

QUESTION 13: What is the Indian connection to a popular online photo service? Name the
connection and the photo service.

QUESTION 14: This is the only country to have supported India in all its foreign policies in the last
50 years. However, it rarely gets praised for it and hardly gets any media coverage as India's strategic partner. Which country is being talked about and what is the reason behind its perpetual support to India's foreign policy.

QUESTION 15: Over 400 titles and 85 million copies, this series was one of the most successful
ventures in Indian publishing history. There were attempts to televise this in the last decade, but due to budgetary constraints, it had (arguably not well-known) actors playing the roles in 15-minute or segments or so, rather than what its televised form should ideally have been. What is being referring to?

QUESTION 16: By winning on 6 April 2006 at Kochi, the Indian Team had achieved something
unparalleled in One Day Cricket. What is it?

QUESTION 17: Which Indian temple is so located that there is no piece of land between it and the
South Pole?

QUESTION 18: I entered business at the age of 18 in 1976. My latest interest is export business
based on horticulture. I am on the board of governors of one of the IITs as well as one of the IIMs. Who am I?

QUESTION 19: Legend has it that this actor on landing at the Gateway of India in 1928, offered the following prayer to the almighty: "Mr. God, if you don't make me an actor and a star here, I will swim the seven seas and go to Hollywood". Who is being talked about?

QUESTION 20:

• (1)Connect "A" with one of the most notable activities of "B".
• (2)In a similar fashion, the most notable activity of "B" was related to an institution with the motto — To know is to grow. What was the relation?
• (3)What's the commonality between answer of parts (1) and (2)?

QUESTION 21: This Indian cricketer of the yesteryears was nicknamed "Rhubarb" by his western counterparts as his real name was difficult to pronounce. Who is being referred to?

QUESTION 22: Link the following personalities:

1. J.R.D. Tata
2. Swami Vivekananda
3. Theodore Roosevelt

QUESTION 23: His name is Prem Behari Narain Raizada (Saxena), son of Brij Behari Narain Raizada
and hails from Delhi. Although he is not himself well-known, he wrote something in his own hand, using a flowing italic style in the best calligraphic traditions. What did he write?

QUESTION 24: 2 Indians, under the supervision of a British, worked to build up the world's first
fingerprint bureau during the British Raj.

1. Name the British.
2. Name the 2 Indians.
3. Name the location where the fingerprint bureau was situated. (the exact building, not only the city).

QUESTION 25: A place falling undisputedly under the dominion of India was "formally" annexed by
India more than five years after the Independence of India due to an "unusual" reason.

1. Name the place.
2. Give the year in which we annexed it.
3. State the reason for the delay