1) Spangled darter, is a species of darter fish, that was formerly included in the species Etheostoma stigmaeum. In 2012, the E. Stigmaeum was renamed after which famous personality?
-Barrack Obama
2) Famous for its many temples, especially a huge Tarekeshwar temple, which town in Karnataka shares its name with a former freedom fighter who acted in many Bollywood movies and died in 2012?
- Hangal
3) In which Indian city would you land on “Veer Savarkar International Airport”?
- Port Blair
4) Name the first person of Chinese origin to have played international cricket, after whom the bowling style ‘Chinaman’ is named.
- Ellis Achong
5) Named after English Mathematician Oliver Heaviside, this function is one of the most basic and widely used function in Control System design and Signal processing.
In the time domain, it is the integral of the Dirac delta function. What?
- Unit step function
6) What is the number?
-Barrack Obama
2) Famous for its many temples, especially a huge Tarekeshwar temple, which town in Karnataka shares its name with a former freedom fighter who acted in many Bollywood movies and died in 2012?
- Hangal
3) In which Indian city would you land on “Veer Savarkar International Airport”?
- Port Blair
4) Name the first person of Chinese origin to have played international cricket, after whom the bowling style ‘Chinaman’ is named.
- Ellis Achong
5) Named after English Mathematician Oliver Heaviside, this function is one of the most basic and widely used function in Control System design and Signal processing.
In the time domain, it is the integral of the Dirac delta function. What?
- Unit step function
6) What is the number?
peta stands for 10^15. So, the number is 15, as John Abraham is a famous brand ambassador for PETA
7)
A famous experiment, illustrated in 1, first demonstrated in 1851 is now showcased in Europe as shown in 2. What experiment and where is 2?
- Foucault Pendulum, Paris.
8) Macondo is a fictional town described in Nobel prize winner Gabriel García Márquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. Why did Macondo flash into news on April 20, 2010?
- Macondo blowout is the codename given to Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion in gulf of Mexico (BP oil leak)
9) What is the vitriolic connection?
The connect is H2SO4 that features in the lyrics of 'Give-me-a-sunshine' ans 'Masti ki Pathshala'.
10) Located at the banks of the Pegnitz river, which European city was the venue of post WWII millitary tribunals?
- Nuremburg
11) Which structure was built by Sultan Mohammad Quli Qutub Shah, to commemorate the elimination of a plague epidemic?
- Charminar
12) What screen name was adopted by Indian actor and director “Harikrishna Giri Goswami”?
- Manoj Kumar
13) What term is used to represent a distance of 3.26 light-years, or just less than 31 trillion kilometers?
- Parsec
14) A provedential paradox : What is the Japanese word for "Island of Good fortune"?
- Fukushima
15) Which country has mountain range called ‘Southern Alps’?
- New Zealand
16) Identify this person.
- Dutch explorer Abel Tasman after whom Tsamania is named.
17) What connects:
a) Friendly Islandsb) A native language of Malawi
c) A horse drawn taxi used in the Indian subcontinent
- Tonga
18) Name this instrument that Mian Tansen (of Akbar's court) was known to play.
- Rebab
19) Who is the only Indian to receive the highest civilian award in Pakistan, the ‘Nishan-e-Pakistan?
- Morarji Desai.
20) After much opposition from different political and social groups, authorities in Lahore in Pakistan dropped the idea of renaming the Shadman Chowk (where Bhagat Singh was hanged) after Bhagat Singh. Instead, the place will be named after a revolutionary Pakistani poet. Name him.
- Habib Jalib.
