2. Question 1 What word, to describe extreme changes in form and appearance, comes from the Greek word for ‘transformation’? Metamorphosis

3. Question 2 Which Bhakti saint’s original name was Vishwambhara Mishra? Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

4. Question 3 What was called the ‘Cape of Storms’ by Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias in 1488? The Cape of Good Hope

5. Question 4 With respect to drugs, which former US first lady coined the term ‘Just say no’? Nancy Reagan

6. Question 5 Which Scandinavian country’s parliament is known as Folketing? Denmark

7. Question 6 What was the name of Amitabh Bachchan’s character in the 1977 film Amar, Akbar, Anthony ? Anthony Gonsalves

8. Question 7 Who is the only Indian bowler to claim a hat-trick in Test cricket? Harbhajan Singh

9. Question 8 Where in Afghanistan did the Taliban destroy two statues of the Buddha? Bamiyan

10. Question 9 What fibre is produced by caterpillars belonging to the genus Bombyx ? Silk

11. Question 10 Of which US state is Boston the capital? Massachusetts

12. Question 11 Name the resin secreted by the lac insect, used for making varnish and gramophone records. Shellac

13. Question 12 Which city served as the Mughal capital before Shahjahan moved to Delhi in 1638? Agra

14. Question 13 What science did Sir William Herschel first use as a method of identification in 1858? Finger Printing

15. Question 14 By what name was the African country of Burkina Faso previously known? Upper Volta

16. 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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