QUESTION 1: Which Indian town is also known as the little Japan?

QUESTION 2: Legend has it that this temple was formed when Vibhishana placed the idol of
recumbent Mahavishnu on the ground. The idol could not be moved thereafter, and still lies facing the south, unlike in most other temples where the deity faces east. The main gopuram is one of the tallest (if not the tallest) in India, and the temple complex is almost a city in itself. Name the temple and the city.

QUESTION 3: Which Kargil war martyr has 3 Kargil-related movies been partially based on.

QUESTION 4: This person is famous as a freedom fighter and is known for introducing apple
plantations in Himachal Pradesh in a big way. Who?

QUESTION 5: What is the caste of Manmohan Singh, the Prime Minister of India?

QUESTION 6: The rulers of this ancient kingdom had to slit their throats at the end of their reign
per tradition. Name the kingdom, the name by which the rulers were known, and the name of this suicide ritual.

QUESTION 7: Connect the DC comics universe with a God of the Hindu trinity.

QUESTION 8: According to the legend, A decided that his daughter B would get married only if it
happened at a particular auspicious moment. But this moment went unnoticed because B disturbed the ingenious device he had made to tell the time. To console her, A wrote a book in her name, which is considered a seminal book in that subject. Identify A and B.

QUESTION 9: The legend goes that he once predicted that the young son of a king would die on a
certain day by a certain animal. The King built a tall building and made the boy sit alone on the top floor so that the animal could never get to him. When the appointed time came and went, he went with the king to check whether the boy was alright. There they found him dead - there was a flag pole (dhwaj) on top of the building which carried a bronze figure of that animal, this figure had fallen on the head of the boy killing him. The King gave him a title after the name of that animal, and it is now part of the name by which we now know him. Who?

QUESTION 10: A sub-atomic particle initially got a defective/wrong name due to certain reasons.
Later it was pointed out that the name was wrong. A famous German physicist is believed to be the person who pointed out the fault in the name. However, according to other sources, an Indian suggested the new name in a publication in Nature. Name the particle and the Indian scientist.

QUESTION 11: Two wacky professors from Kerala were awarded the ________ prize for their
"ambitious" project involving the estimation of the area of an elephant. Interestingly, a European nation also won the same prize a few years later, for outsourcing ________ to India.

QUESTION 12: Why did Rupert Brooke get a mention in the Indian cricket circles in 2002?

QUESTION 13: What does India have in common with all of the following countries: Pakistan,
Myanmar, Canada, United States, Brazil, Morocco, China, Sudan, Switzerland, Australia?

QUESTION 14: Who connects the music group U2 and the movie Bridget Jones's Diary?

QUESTION 15: Where in India would one ask starred and unstarred questions?

QUESTION 16: Link Bayer to Amitabh Bachchan.

QUESTION 17: Tanuja Desai Hidier and Sophie Kinsella are two of them. Name the other two and
give the connection.

QUESTION 18: In the 17th century, the British East India Company selected members of this
community to keep sea piracy at bay. Over the next 100 years, they were sucessful and as a result, piracy moved on to SE Asia. Name the community and the location in India.

QUESTION 19: What connects Fort St. George in Madras and Henry VIII of England?

QUESTION 20: Connect band Rammstein to Lobsang Samten.

QUESTION 21: I was born/invented/discovered in the country that first analysed infinite series
expansions of trigonometric functions. My original name, was in Sanskrit. The Arabs translated my name into Arabic, and the Arabic translation was in turn transliterated by the Europeans into Latin. And in Europe, I was responsible for nullifying the glory of a God. So, who/what am I?

QUESTION 22: Which concern holds the sole right to manufacture our National Flag?

QUESTION 23: This property is linked to the British, Kapurthala dynasty and the Afghans. Name the
property.

QUESTION 24: Which major species is found in India but not in Sri Lanka. This has caused which
particular species to dominate Sri Lankan wildlife? Name both the species.

QUESTION 25: The name of which Carnatic and Hindustani raaga translates to "Sound of the
swan"?