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Question 1

Which international tennis star is nicknamed Swiss Miss?

Martina Hingis

Question 2

The Gidda is a traditional dance performed by women of which state of India?

Punjab

Question 3

In which Asian capital did gangster Chhota Rajan escape from custody in September 2000?

Bangkok

Question 4

Which religious leader’s official summer residence is the Castel Gondolfo?

The Pope

Question 5

In which country is the town of Ghazni situated?

Afghanistan

Question 6

Which Swiss folk hero is the subject of an opera by Rossini?

William Tell

Question 7

Which African nation is the country of origin of Graeme Hick, who plays international cricket for England?

Zimbabwe

Question 8

Which comedian did Robert Downey Jr play in a 1991 Richard Attenborough film?

Charlie Chaplin

Question 9

Which seaport in Gujarat was the first international port to be established in Independent India?

Kandla

Question 10

Wackford Squeers was the Headmaster of Dotheboys Hall in which Charles Dickens novel?

Nicholas Nickleby

Question 11

Which painting was specially commissioned for the Spanish pavilion at the International Exposition in Paris, in 1938-39?

Picasso’s Guernica

Question 12

Where in United Provinces was the great revolutionary Chandrashekar Azad shot dead by the police?

Allahabad

Question 13

Who made his directorial debut with the Raj Kapoor starrer Teesri Kasam?

Basu Bhattacharya

Question 14

Which Calcutta born novelist wrote Vanity Fair?

William Makepeace Thakeray

Question 15

The name of which two-faced drum used in Carnatic music literally means ‘made of clay’?

Mridangam

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