01. The current US Secretary of Defense is:
(1) Jack Skraw
(2) John Ashcroft
(3) Colin Powell
(4) Donald Rumsfeld

02. In the context of Arms and Treaties, ABM Stands for:
(1) Anti Ballistic Missile
(2) American Ballistic Missile
(3) Anti Ballistic Menace
(4) American Ballistic Menace

03. This 800 - year old tower was shut for the last one decade for renovation and repair. Which?
(1) Eiffel Tower
(2) CNN
(3) Leaning tower of Pisa
(4) Empire State Building

04. The city of Frankfurt is in:
(1) France
(2) Germany
(3) Switzerland
(4) Sweden

05. Baramullah district is in which Indian state?
(1) Punjab
(2) Himachal Pradesh
(3) Jammu & Kashmir
(4) None of these

06. Which of the following music groups is/was popularly called the ‘The Fab Four’?
(1) Grateful Dead
(2) The Beatles
(3) The Spice Girls
(4) None of these

07. What is the art of preserving, stuffing and mounting animals in lifelike forms called?
(1) Taxonomy
(2) Taxidermy
(3) Ikebana
(4) Haiku

08. What physical phenomenon causes the spherical shape of raindrops?
(1) Gravity
(2) Friction
(3) Surface Tension
(4) Evaporation

09. Adi Sankara set up four Mutts in the four corners of the country. Two are at Badrinath & Puri. Where are the other two located?
(1) Dwaraka and Kancheepuram
(2) Dwaraka and Rishikesh
(3) Dwaraka and Sringeri
(4) Sringeri and Rishikesh

10. This much-talked about disease gets its name from the Greek word for coal. Which word?
(1) Cancer
(2) Alzheimer’s
(3) Parkinson’s
(4) Anthrax

11. Loggerhead, Atlantic Ridley, Painted and Green are four different species of:
(1) Dogs
(2) Snakes
(3) Turtles
(4) Dinosaurs

12. Benito Mussolini was a dictator of which country?
(1) Germany
(2) Poland
(3) Italy
(4) USSR

13. Which country joined the World Trade Organization(WTO) on Dec. 11, 2001?
(1) South Korea
(2) China
(3) Russia
(4) Brazil

14. Slobodan miloseivc is a former president of which country?
(1) Belgium
(2) Yugoslavia
(3) Poland
(4) Albania

15. Who was the first Indian Governor-General of India?
(1) Lord Mountbatten
(2) Rajagopalachari
(3) Rajendra Prasad
(4) None of these

16. Who wrote the famous poetic drama ‘Faust’?
(1) Leonardo da Vinci
(2) Wolfgang Von Goethe
(3) Anton Chekov
(4) Voltaire

17. Who was the last Guru of the Sikhs?
(1) Guru Govind Singh
(2) Guru Tek Bahadur Singh
(3) Guru Nanak
(4) None of these

18. Which of the following terms denote the superstitious fear of the number thirteen?
(1) Thirteephobia
(2) Triskadekahobia
(3) Tridecaphobia
(4) None of these

19. How long did the Kurushektra war last?
(1) Fourteen years
(2) 27 days
(3) 13 months
(4) 18 days

20. What does a Phillumenist collect?
(1) Old coins
(2) Flags of various nations
(3) Match box labels
(4) Empty cigarette boxes

Answer Key
(11) 3    (12) 3    (13) 2    (14) 2    (15) 2
(16) 2    (17) 1    (18) 2    (19) 4    (20) 3

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