Question 1

What word, to describe extreme changes in form and appearance, comes from the Greek word for ‘transformation’?

Metamorphosis

Question 2

Which Bhakti saint’s original name was Vishwambhara Mishra?

Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

Question 3

What was called the ‘Cape of Storms’ by Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias in 1488?

The Cape of Good Hope

Question 4

With respect to drugs, which former US first lady coined the term ‘Just say no’?

Nancy Reagan

Question 5

Which Scandinavian country’s parliament is known as Folketing?

Denmark

Question 6

What was the name of Amitabh Bachchan’s character in the 1977 film Amar, Akbar, Anthony?

Anthony Gonsalves

Question 7

Who is the only Indian bowler to claim a hat-trick in Test cricket?

Harbhajan Singh

Question 8

Where in Afghanistan did the Taliban destroy two statues of the Buddha?

Bamiyan

Question 9

What fibre is produced by caterpillars belonging to the genus Bombyx?

Silk

Question 10

Of which US state is Boston the capital?

Massachusetts

Question 11

Name the resin secreted by the lac insect, used for making varnish and gramophone records.

Shellac

Question 12

Which city served as the Mughal capital before Shahjahan moved to Delhi in 1638?

Agra

Question 13

What science did Sir William Herschel first use as a method of identification in 1858?

Finger Printing

Question 14

By what name was the African country of Burkina Faso previously known?

Upper Volta

Question 15

Which brooding romance was written in 1847 by one of the Bronte sisters under the pseudonym Ellis Bell?

Wuthering Heights

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