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Tamil Nadu Heritage Round
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100
This South African anti-apartheid leader spent 27 years in prison before his release in 1990. He went on to become his country's first Black president in 1994 and shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 with the man who had been his predecessor as head of state.
Nelson Mandela
100
- Nicknamed "The Great Wall of India,"
- Represented India across four consecutive Olympic Games, from London 2012 to Paris 2024
Parattu Raveendran Sreejesh - Indian National Hockey team
100
Which strategic waterway, connecting the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman and normally carrying roughly a quarter of the world's seaborne oil trade, has faced repeated closures and attacks through 2026?
The Strait of Hormuz
100
Largest functioning Hindu temple complex in the world?
Srirangam Temple
100
Full form of USB port?
Universal Serial Bus
200
Largely self-taught in colonial Madras with almost no formal training in advanced mathematics, this man mailed a set of unproven theorems to a Cambridge don in 1913. He was subsequently elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge — both extraordinary honours for an Indian at that time — and died at the age of 32, leaving behind notebooks that mathematicians are still mining for new results a century later.
Srinivasa Ramanujan
200
Yashpal Sharma
Batting against a fearsome West Indies pace attack in India's opening match of the 1983 World Cup, this middle-order batsman scored 89 to help India stun the two-time defending champions and was named Man of the Match.
He followed it with useful contributions against Australia, and in the semi-final against England.
He finished the tournament as India's second-highest run-scorer, behind only the captain who lifted the trophy at Lord's.
200
Parliament recently passed a bill altering the official name of a which Indian state?
Keralam
200
Which Pandya-era Tamil Nadu cave temple complex, contains the earliest known Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions and is associated with Jain ascetics who once inhabited its rock-cut beds?
Sittanavasal
200
What term is used to describe instances in which an AI model generates confident, plausible-sounding, but factually incorrect or fabricated information?
Hallucination
300
Who is this personality?
Sheikh Hasina- Five terms as Prime Minister of Bangladesh
-In August 2024, weeks of student-led protests — which began over civil-service job quotas but grew into a nationwide uprising — forced her to resign and flee the country. She has since lived in exile in India, and in November 2025 a special tribunal in Bangladesh sentenced her in absentia to death for crimes against humanity over the crackdown on the protesters.
300
Men's marathon world record holder is Kenya's Sabastian Sawe, who ran 1:59:30
300
El Niño refers to the periodic warming of surface waters in which ocean — a phenomenon that typically brings reduced monsoon rainfall to India?
The Pacific Ocean (specifically its central and eastern equatorial region)
300
This Sangam-age port city, mentioned in Greco-Roman accounts (including the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea) as a major centre of trade with Rome, was submerged and later excavated near present-day Poompuhar. Name it.
Kaveripoompattinam (Puhar)
300
Full form of GPT?
Generative Pre-trained Transformers
400
This officer commanded Indian forces to a decisive victory in the 1971 war with Pakistan, an outcome that led directly to the creation of Bangladesh. He was subsequently conferred the five-star rank of Field Marshal — a rank held by only one other officer in Indian Army history.
Field Marshal S. H. F. J. Manekshaw
400
-Won eight gold medals at a single Games, in Beijing 2008.
-He retired with a career total of 28 Olympic medals.-Out of 28, 23 of them gold — more than double the tally of the next most decorated Olympian of any sport
- Michael Phelps
400
A newly launched real-time cross-border payment corridor now connects India's UPI system with which neighbouring island nation?
Maldives
400
The Palani Murugan temple idol is composed of Navapashanam (nine substances), sculpted by Siddhar Bogar. Which other Tamil Nadu Murugan temple houses an idol believed to be composed of Dasapashanam (ten substances), also attributed to Siddhar Bogar?
Poombarai Murugan Temple (Kuzhanthai Velappar Temple), near Kodaikanal
400
Which British mathematician and computer scientist proposed a test to evaluate a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour indistinguishable from that of a human?
Alan Turing
500
Born in Pakistan's Swat Valley, this activist survived being shot by the Taliban in 2012 for publicly advocating girls' right to education. Two years later, at age 17, she became the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize laureate — a record that still stands.
Malala Yousafzai
500
India finished fourth overall in the medal table at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow with 39 medals. One discipline alone contributed 10 of those medals — 7 gold and 3 silver — making it the most successful single-sport campaign by any nation in that discipline's Commonwealth Games history. Name the sport.
Boxing
500
In May 2026, the United States launched a named initiative intended to help commercial shipping companies safely navigate the Strait of Hormuz despite ongoing Iranian threats. What was this operation called?
Project Freedom
500
Which ancient South Indian port city served as the early capital and harbor of the Pandyan Kingdom, famous for pearl trade?
Korkai
500
Who is this?
Dario Amodei
600
Born in a village in present-day Karnataka in 1860, this civil engineer served as Diwan (chief minister) of the princely state of Mysore from 1912 to 1918, during which he oversaw the construction of the Krishna Raja Sagara Dam and helped found several technical and industrial institutions in the region. Knighted by the British in 1915, he was later awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1955, and his birth anniversary — 15 September — is observed nationally every year in his honour.
Sir M. Visvesvaraya (National Engineer's Day, 15 September, marks his birthday)
600
This sport made its debut as an official Olympic medal event at the 2024 Paris Games, held in the historic Place de la Concorde, and was notable for being the first Olympic discipline with roots in urban street culture and hip-hop artistry. Despite this milestone, it was subsequently excluded from the sporting programme of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. Name the sport?
Breaking (breakdancing)
600
Officially stated theme associated with India's 80th Independence Day celebrations in 2026?
Marking a significant anniversary of .........?
"Yuva Shakti for Viksit Bharat@2047"
"150 years of Vande Mataram"
600
The British engineer associated with the restoration and modernisation of the Kallanai Dam (Grand Anicut) is
Sir Arthur Cotton
600
Mr.Gordon ........, co-founder of Intel, is credited with an observation predicting that the number of transistors on a microchip would double approximately every two years. What is this observation popularly called?
Moore's Law