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When was swimming first Introduced In
the Olympic games?

In which country did skling originate?

Between which dates was the American
Civil War fought?

Which is the largest Island In the world?

Which is the longest river In Asla?

Which Is the shortest of the Gospels?

Which of the following land measurements In acres would be closest to 100 hectares ?

When was the Communist party of India
born ?

What Is the meaning of asperity?

Which is the year of the first manned
space flight?

What Is parvenu?

What is acrophobia?

What is a centurion?

The Cultural Revolution In China was launched by Chaliman Mao Tse-Tung to revive the nation’s revolutionary spirit and to wage war against the ‘bourgeois elements in the cultural world and the burnautracy. Can you remember when it started?

Who was the creator of Mania computer that made the hydrogen bomb possible?

Which game was invented by the British army In India on a rainy afternoon?

Which Roman emperor was the first to embrace Christianity and is regarded as the founder of the Christian empire?

Which is the widest waterfall In the

world?

In which modern state would King Solomon’s Mines be situated?

Normal human walght is related to
height. By how much should one exceed
that to be called fat?

Which of the following birds cannot fly?

Who wrote the first true encyclopedia?

What is an open-end Investment
company?

From which mineral is aluminum extracted?

Perhaps Shakespeare didn’t like dogs.
There Is only one dog In his plays, but that too is set In a foreign country. Name the play:

Who was the earliest saint. Who had come to India to convert people to Christianity?

When did Mahatma Gandhi return to India from South Africa to give loadorshlp to her struggle for indepondence?

What is the meaning of miscegenation?

In which game Is the ‘Thomas Cup’ awarded?

The greatest happiness principle holds that the supreme good Is the greatest happiness of the greatest number. Of which philosophy Is it the basic tenet?

There are altogether four blood groups: A, B, AB and O. Which of these is known as the universal donor?

Among anlmals, which has the longest gestation period?

What is the meaning of the Anglo-Indian word gentoo?

A child who will speak English has to learn the poem Twinkle, twinkle little star’. Who wrote it?

What should be the daily quantity of urine production in a healthy body?

Among the birds which can fly which is the heaviest?

What would 100°C be In the Fahrenheit?

The U.S Doclaration of Independence is considered to be the most Important of all American historical documents and one man wrote it almost entirely. Who?

What is the capital of Australia?

Which waterfall In the world Is highest, I.e., by drop from lip to base?

In logic, different kinds of arguments are described. What is argumentum ad boculum?

What Is pulchritude?

What is a connoissour?

Where did the game basketball originate:

Which among the following countries does not belong to the United Arab Emirates?

Name the largest gland of the body:

Which is the longest-living animal in the world?

What is a parquet floor?

USA, UK, France, and USSR have the Nations. power of the veto In the United Which other country has It?

Electric lamps are sealed after they are filled with this gas.Identify which:

How many referees are there in wrestling bout?

Which Southeast Asian country has never been colonized?

What is the zodiacal sign Virgo represented by?

The presence of one of the following cutlery may poison the system and ultimately cause cancer, Which?

Which Shakespearean play opens in a brothei in Vionna?

What is a freebooter?

‘To right a wrong it is necessary to exceed proper limits, and the wrong cannot be righted without the proper Limit being exceeded’. Who said this?

The deficiency of which hormone causes cretinism?

The first Olympic Game in 776 B.C was confined to only one event. What was?

Which is the largest volcano in world?

Whose pen name was Ella?

What does Inchoate mean?

Of the following Nobel Prize winner who was the first ever to win the prize for Physics?

Tho first over formulation of a theory evolution was by:

Which book of the ‘Old Testament’ composed first?

Paper was manufactured In Europe 1600 years after It was in this country:

Potato was Introduced from the New World into the Old. From which place did It come?

The Greenhouse Effect written about recently by ecologists is:

What Is the meaning of obsequious?

What us the meaning of adventitious ?

Which blood group does one have to accept the blood of any of the four groups?

What Is an al fresco lunch?

With which sport is the term regatta associated?

What are diuretics?

The “Battle of Yermuk” was fought between Muslims and

What Is chalcedony?

How much time accumulates in the bladder of normal person per minute?

Alexander the Great, In his Invincible march of conquest through India, was forcod to turn back after he had reached the banks of a certain river. Which was it?

If you holding you an opponent in a half nelson what kind of combat are you in?

Which British king ascended the throne at the age of ten?

What Is the rogion of origin of the very English tree, Elm?

Which explorer discovered the West Indies?

Which country In Asia has the largest railway network?

What is an antigen?

‘Anybody who hates children and dogs can’t be all bad’. who said that?

What is the meaning of lughbrious ?

Where are the headquarter of the UNESCO?

In cur solar system, which planets have no satellites?

How many light years is a parsec?

In which year was the Davis Cup International Team competition started?

Where do the Blue Nile and the white Nile meet in great scenic aplendor?p

What is the meaning of quizzical?

What is the meaning of banal?

The works of Aristotle, Shakespeare, and Dickens were banned in this country as corrupting. Finally, 1968 the ban was lifted. Which country?

What is the meaning of uxorious?

What is the meaning of brown study?

In Britain, what does the Hansard record?

Who was the very first person to walk on the moon?

What is a poltergelst?

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