Question 1 Which actress became the first woman chairperson of National Film Development Corporation? Hema Malini

Question 2 The Bass Strait separates which island from the Australian mainland? Tasmania

Question 3 Who became the only Coptic Christian Secretary-General of the United Nations in 1992? Boutros Boutros Ghali

Question 4 On which pop artiste’s life is the Oscar- nominated film What’s Love Got To Do With It based? Tina Turner

Question 5 Which mountain was scaled for the first time without oxygen by Reinhold Messner and P Habeler? Mt Everest

Question 6 Where was India’s first nuclear power plant commissioned in 1969? Tarapur

Question 7 Which actor sang She’s Like The Wind in the 1987 film, Dirty Dancing ? Patrick Swayze

Question 8 In August 1926, Gestrude Ederle became the first woman to swim across which water body? The English Channel

Question 9 Which Egyptian city was designed by Alexander’s personal architect Dinocrates? Alexandria

Question 10 Which Indian won the Asian Snooker Championship in 2001? Yasin Merchant

Question 11 What term in cookery is used for ‘cooking quickly in a small amount of fat’? Saute

Question 12 Which was the first African team to take part in the cricket World Cup? East Africa

Question 13 Which school of Buddhism is literally translated as the ‘Diamond Vehicle’? Vajrayana

Question 14 Which metallic element derives its name from the Spanish for ‘silver’? Platinum

Question 15 Under Indian law, how old does an object have to be, to be considered an antique? Sixty Years

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