QUESTION 1: Who is the first Indian to become a European star on television and what was the character?

QUESTION 2: Name the sage who reportedly drank Ganga (when she came down at the call of
Bhagirath). However, the sage later let Ganga leave through his ear.

QUESTION 3: Name the major change to the plot devices of Valmiki's Ramayana and Vyasa's story
of Sakuntala (as narrated in Mahabharata) as done by Tulsidas and Kalidas.

QUESTION 4: What rakshasi was on The Cosby Show?

QUESTION 5: Connect "Operation Shakti" to Major General Natraj and Major General Prithiviraj?

QUESTION 6: Which famous Indian bollywood related personality had the initials ASDK at birth
(now this person has changed their name)?

QUESTION 7: Connect Texas Instruments and Shabana Azmi.

QUESTION 8: Link novelist Jack London to Mahabharata anti-hero Karna.

QUESTION 9: This building is home to more Indian nationals in France than any other. The building celebrates Republic Day every January 26 and Independence Day every August 15. Even Naseeruddin Shah visited this building in November 2000. Name this Parisian building.

QUESTION 10: Mr. U V (U is his first name and V is his family name), on the birth of a son,
approached Jawaharlal Nehru and asked him to suggest an appropriate name. Nehru suggested the name X. When Indira Gandhi got to know of this, she became livid as she wanted to name her own son X. She now named her son Y instead. However, her grandson was named X, after some years. Mean while, Mr. X V named one of his own sons as Y. The question: Name U, X, Y and V.

QUESTION 11: What is common between the last Nizam of Hyderabad, the defence minister of
India during Sino-Indian war, the Prime Minister of India during the destruction of the disputed structure at Ayodhya and the daughter of a Bharat Ratna who composed music for the film Gandhi?

QUESTION 12: What sometimes fatal disease has a common name that is in Hindi, and a second
name that is named after a geographic location in West Bengal.

QUESTION 13: This museum is unique because most of the exhibits were collected by a single
person in his life time. Which museum, which place? Who was the person who collected them? What was he?

QUESTION 14: Song Sample Here
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QUESTION 15: 20 years ago, this bird was rediscovered. Name it, who discovered it and where is it found?

QUESTION 16: India ceded a portion of its territory to Pakistan. Name the location, area and year.

QUESTION 17: In whose name was the famous Dakshineshwar Kali Temple officially registered
after it was completed in 1855? And why?

QUESTION 18: Find one degree of separation between George Lucas and Santosh Sivan.

QUESTION 19: An English indie band paid tribute to a playback singer with a song that went on to
be a Top 40 hit in many countries in 1998. That playback singer later contributed to a Grammy for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group. Name (1) The English indie Band (2) The playback singer and (3) How the playback singer contributed to the Grammy award?

QUESTION 20: A is sometimes called the book of life. B is a person who, along with other peers,
figured out how to translate A into C, discovering and using what is now called D. B along with two others received a Nobel prize for this effort. Who are A, B, C and D?

QUESTION 21: This word, used today mostly to refer to an equestrian event has its origins in India.
It is loosely a corruption of the Hindi/Persian words for 'ball' and 'house'. Originally, it referred to any of various sporting contests. What word is being talk of?

QUESTION 22: Name the only India-born head of a state or provincial government in North America (current or prior; excluding the West Indies)

QUESTION 23: This person was among the first to talk of the concept of Swaraj. He also
propagated Vedas. Who?

QUESTION 24: Connect dacoitry and Sita?

QUESTION 25: Some believe that Kabbadi may have been inspired by which construct of the
Kurukshetra war?