Young World Quiz (May 18, 2007)
V.V. RAMANAN
1. On this date in 1974, India became the sixth nation to achieve a scientific feat. What was it?
2. Which Asian actor is playing captain Sao Feng in the latest movie “Pirates of the Caribbean”?
3. Which State sends the most number of MPs to the Rajya Sabha?
4. John Higgins and Mark Selby are professionals in a sport? Name it.
5. Which is the biggest constellation among Hydra, Centaurus and Orion?
6. Who is now considered the first person to become a US-dollar billionaire by writing books?
7. Where in the human body is the “pleurae”?
8. Who created the characters Hunca Munca, Squirrel Nutkin and Samuel Whiskers?
9. Which water body is considered the longest river in Central Asia?
10. Which Viceroy of India was also an Earl of Kedleston?
11. The translated version, by Aurobindo, of which famous song ends thus: “…Mother sweet, I bow to thee, Mother great and free!”
12. Pratapsingh Raoji Rane is the Chief Minister of…?
13. What literary aid was “invented” by Lewis Waterman?
14. What would one produce by using the Haber–Bosch process?
15. Which comic book hero made his first appearance in “Amazing Fantasy #15”in 1962?
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