2. Question 1 The 1945 film that launched M.S. Subbulakshmi on a national scale Meera

3. Question 2 Which part of vanilla is used : root/rind/ leaf/pod? Pod

4. Question 3 The third European country to legalise gay marriage Spain

5. Question 4 Satyajit Ray’s Apu trilogy Pather Panchali, Aparajito, Apur Sansar

6. Question 5 A merchant ship’s officer next in rank below the captain First mate or first officer

7. Question 6 Which of these is a coin: helot/heller/ hellion/hermit? Heller

8. Question 7 A person who has one black grandparent Quadroon

9. Question 8 The only person who faced trial in the US in connection with the 9/11 terrorist attacks Zacarias Moussaoui

10. Question 9 The plane that crashed in the Swiss Alps in 1950, killing Dr. Homi Bhabha Malabar Princess

11. Question 10 Amagasaki in Japan was in the news in April, 2005 because of (a plane crash/a gas leak/ a train derailment/a tsunami) A train derailment

12. Question 11 The film directed by Shyam Benegal and set during the liberation of Goa Trikaal

13. Question 12 A young deer less than a year old Fawn

14. Question 13 Talking of Diamonds, what is first water? The best quality and purest lustre

15. Question 14 The microbiologist credited with developing some 40 vaccines Maurice Hilleman

16. Question 15 The book voted the greatest book of all time at the turn of the millennium Don Quixote

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