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1. In Sahir Ludhianvi's pen name, if ‘Ludhianvi’ means that he is from Ludhiana, what does ‘Sahir' mean?Options-A: KingB: MagicianC: PoetD: Warrior
Answer- B: Magician
2. Ytterby, a village in which country, has four elements in the modern periodic table named after it?Options-A: SwedenB: NorwayC: FinlandD: Denmark
Answer- A: Sweden
3. Which institution developed and maintains the National Digital Library of India?Options-A: Indian Institute of SciencesB: IIT KharagpurC: Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)D: APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University.
Answer-B: IITKharagpur
4. The 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup was moved from China to the USA because of what reason?Options-A: 9/11 attacksB: SARSC: Swine FluD: Hong Kong protests
Answer- B: SARS
5. John Dryden, England’s first poet laureate, wrote a play named after which Mughal emperor in 1675, while the emperor was still ruling?Options:A: JahangirB: ShahjahanC: AurangzebD: Bahadur Shah I
Answer- C: Aurangzeb
6. Which of these Nobel laureates’ birth name was suggested by another Nobel laureate?Options:A: Venky RamakrishnanB: Abhijit BanerjeeC: Har Gobind KhuranaD: Amartya Sen
Answer- D: Amartya Sen
7. Which of these chemicals does not get its name from a celestial object found in our solar system?Options-A: CeriumB: PalladiumC: NiobiumD: Tellurium
Answer-C: Niobium
8. Which of these Bharat Ratna awardees was born as well as died in a country outside India?Options-A: Lal Bahadur ShastriB: Maulana Abdul Kalam AzadC: Mother TeresaD: JRD Tata
Answer- D: JRD Tata
9. In 1953, the Parliamentary election of which country was held under the charge of India's first chief Election commissioner?Options-A: NepalB: AfghanistanC: SudanD: South Africa
Answer- C: Sudan
10. Which member of the Nehru-Gandhi family won the Raebareli Lok Sabha seat in India's first ever general election held in 1952?Options:A: Jawaharlal NehruB: Vijay Lakshmi PanditC: Feroze GandhiD: Indira Gandhi