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1. In Sholay, what is the name of the character played by Amjad Khan?
Answer: Gabbar Singh
6. Which ancient Indian emperor embraced Buddhism after the Kalinga War?
Answer: Ashoka
14. What is the name of the fermented rice-and-lentil batter pancake popular in South India, traditionally served with sambar and chutney?
Answer: Dosa
16. What is the only country that borders both the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf?
Answer: Iran
21. What is the chemical symbol for tungsten?
Answer: W
2. Which actress played Chandramukhi in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Devdas (2002)?
Answer: Madhuri Dixit
7. What was the capital of the Vijayanagara Empire, whose ruins are now located at Hampi?
Answer: Vijayanagara
12. What is the name of the seven-note scale system used in Indian classical music, corresponding broadly to the notes Sa, Re, Ga, Ma, Pa, Dha and Ni?
Answer: Saptak
17. Which European capital city is divided by the Danube River into the historic areas of Buda and Pest?
Answer: Budapest
22. What is the name of the economic term for a market dominated by just two major sellers?
Answer: Duopoly
3. Who directed the 1995 film Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge?
Answer: Aditya Chopra
8. Who wrote the Indian national song “Vande Mataram”?
Answer: Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
13. Which Indian state is the origin of the traditional dance form Kuchipudi?
Answer: Andhra Pradesh
18. What is the name of the deepest known point in Earth's oceans?
Answer: Challenger Deep
This African river, the longest in the world, flows north into the Mediterranean Sea.
Nile River
4. Which Indian playback singer sang the song “Tujhse Naraz Nahin Zindagi” in Masoom (1983), in its male version?
Answer: Anup Ghoshal
9. Which Indian mathematician is associated with the famous number 1729, known as the Hardy–Ramanujan number?
Answer: Srinivasa Ramanujan
11. Which classical dance form originated in Kerala and is known for elaborate makeup, colourful costumes and expressive facial movements?
Answer: Kathakali
19. The 100 Years war in Europe was between which major Countries
France and England
24. In computing, what does the acronym “SQL” stand for?
Answer: Structured Query Language
5. Which was the first Indian film to win the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival?
Answer: Neecha Nagar (1946), directed by Chetan Anand
10. Which treaty, signed in 1765, granted the East India Company the right to collect revenue in Bengal, Bihar and Orissa?
Answer: The Treaty of Allahabad (specifically, the grant of the Diwani by Mughal emperor Shah Alam II)
15. In Hindustani classical music, what is the name of the rhythmic cycle, or taal, consisting of 16 beats and commonly divided into four groups of four?
Answer: Teentaal (also spelled Tintal)
20. Which African country was historically known as Abyssinia?
Answer: Ethiopia
This country is the largest in the world by land area.
Russia