2. Question 1 For which historical saga did Mel Gibson win the Best Director Oscar in 1995? Braveheart

3. Question 2 Who became the first DMK Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu in 1967? C N Annadurai

4. Question 3 Which Prime Minister won Berhapur Lok Sabha seat in Orissa in the 1996 General Election? P V Narasimha Rao

5. Question 4 In 1927, to which city was the Australian capital shifted from Melbourne? Canberra

6. Question 5 Which Sikh guru was tortured to death on Jehangir’s orders? Arjan Dev, the fifth guru

7. Question 6 How many years comprise a quincentennial? 500 years

8. Question 7 The Tilaiya, Maithon, Konar and Panchet dams together constitute which multipurpose scheme? Damodar Valley Corporation

9. Question 8 The name of which solution, widely used as a condiment in food, means ‘sour wine’ in French? Vinegar

10. Question 9 Which poet wrote Mihir-i-Nimroz, a history of the Mughals, for Bahadur Shah Zafar? Mirza Ghalib

11. Question 10 The Gulf of Bothnia separates Sweden from which country? Finland

12. Question 11 Which is the last and bottom-most bone of the vertebral column? Coccyx

13. Question 12 Which tennis player of the 1970s was nicknamed the ‘Poet of the Pampas’ as well as the ‘Bull of the Pampas’? Guillermo Vilas

14. Question 13 Which dance form, once practised by devadasis is South Indian temples, was earlier known as Dasi Attam and Sadir? Bharatanatyam

15. Question 14 Which inventor of the language COBOL coined the word ‘bug’ for computer problems? Grace Hopper

16. Question 15 By what name was the Hindi film character actress Kokila Kishorechandra Balsara better known? Nirupa Roy

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