Question 1

The presence of which compound imparts a red colour to red blood corpuscles?

Haemoglobin

Question 2

Which future President of India was appointed Vice-Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University in 1979?

K R Narayanan

Question 3

Which 15th century Empire’s capital was at Cuzco?

Inca

Question 4

Which South-east island is shared by Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia?

Borneo

Question 5

Which popular American talk shows theme song is ‘Run On’?

Oprah Winfrey Show

Question 6

Lord John Russell was the first British Prime Minister to have a child in office. Who is the second?

Tony Blair

Question 7

Which tennis player wrote a A Hard Road to Glory,a three-volume history of black American athletes?

Arthur Ashe

Question 8

What does DK in the fashion label DKNY stand for?

Donna Karan

Question 9

Which country won the group matches ‘by default’ in the 1996 cricket World Cup?

Sri Lanka

Question 10

Which famous writer wrote the screenplay for the Beatles’ animated movie The Yellow Submarine?

Eric Segal

Question 11

Which 1987 silent comedy film starred Kamal Hassan in the lead role?

Pushpak

Question 12

In 1961, which European city was divided into two by a wall?

Berlin

Question 13

Which Lok Sabha MP was Jawaharlal Nehru’s son-in-law?

Feroze Gandhi

Question 14

In which mountain range does the Siachen Glacier lie?

Karakoram

Question 15

Who edited and published the final two volumes of Das Kapital after Karl Marx’s death?

Friedrich Engels

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