1. When was Robert Southey born?
a) 8 February 1764
b) 5 April 1776
c) 12 August 1774
d) 4 December 1768
2. Where was Robert Southey born?
a) Lisbon
b) Liverpool
c) Ipswich
d) Bristol
3. Which school did Robert Southey attend?
a) St. George’s School
b) Westminster School
c) St. David’s School
d) Rugby School
What do these words have in common?
Banana
Dresser
Grammar
Potato
Revive
Uneven
Assess
1) When was Konstantin Chernenko born?
a) 22 January 1909
b) 19 May 1912
c) 24 September 1911
d) 14 November 1918
2) Where was Konstantin Chernenko born?
a) Bolshaya Tes
b) Nagutskoye
c) Dushanbe
d) Tashkent
3) When did Konstantin Chernenko join the Communist Party?
a) 1921
b) 1925
c) 1931
d) 1945
1) Who surpassed Brian Lara’s record of 11,953 Test runs in Mohali Test October 2008?
a) Virender Sehwag
b) Rahul Dravid
c) Sourav Ganguly
d) Sachin Tendulkar
2) Who is the first batsman to score 12,000 runs in Test cricket?
a) Leonard Hutton
b) Garfield Sobers
c) Andrew Sandham
d) Sachin Tendulkar
3) Who scored 102 runs in India’s first Innings in Mohali Test October 2008?
a) Mahendra Singh Dhoni
b) Rahul Dravid
c) Sourav Ganguly
d) Zaheer Khan
1. What was Rosa Parks’ original name?
a) Rosa Cuthbert Guy
b) Rosa Louise McCauley
c) Rose Fitzmaurice
d) Lily White
2. When was Rosa Parks born?
a) 4 February 1913
b) 24 June 1912
c) 14 July 1914
d) 17 November 1916
3. Where was Rosa Parks born?
a) Birmingham
b) Richmond
c) Tuskegee
d) Springfield
1. What was Lucien Bonaparte’s original name?
a) Luciano Pavarotti
b) Lucius Cornelius Balbus
c) Luciano Buonaparte
d) Gaius Marius
2. When was Lucien Bonaparte born?
a) 4 March 1764
b) 21 May 1775
c) 27 August 1769
d) 28 December 1772
3. Where was Lucien Bonaparte born?
a) Ajaccio
b) Berlin
c) Frankfurt
d) Salzburg
1) How much was Charles Dickens paid when he worked at Warren’s Blacking Factory at the age of twelve?
a) One pound a week
b) One guinea a week
c) Six shillings a week
d) Ten shillings a week
2) What did Charles Dickens teach himself after buying Gurney’s Brachgraphy?
a) Typewriting
b) Shorthand
c) Telegraph
d) Music
3) With whom Charles Dickens had a love affair that ended in 1833?
a) Maria Beadnell
b) Dora Winter
c) Flora Copperfield
d) Jill Smith
1. When was Charles I (Stuart) king of England, Scotland and Ireland?
a) 1688-1696
b) 1649-1660
c) 1625-1649
d) 1553-1558
2. When was Charles I (Stuart) born?
a) 1 February 1515
b) 19 April 1620
c) 7 September 1655
d) 19 November 1600
3. Where was Charles I (Stuart) born?
a) Glasgow
b) Fife
c) Rochester
d) Edinburgh
1. When did Louisiana become a state of USA?
a) 4 March 1776
b) 30 April 1812
c) 12 September 1782
d) 8 December 1820
2. Who claimed Louisiana for France in 1682?
a) John Law
b) Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville
c) Rene Robert Cavalier
d) Pierre de Troyes
3. Who founded New Orleans?
a) Charles Le Moyne
b) Jacques Cartier
c) Louis Jolliet
d) Jean Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville
1) Who won Nobel Prize 2014 for Medicine?
a) Jules Bordet
b) John O’Keefe, Edvard Moser, May-Britt Moser
c) Swedish doctors
d) Robert Edwards
2) For what was Nobel Prize 2014 for Medicine given?
a) Discovery of inner GPS in the brain
b) Tuberculosis research
c) Performing 10 womb transplants
d) Work on immunity
3) Who won Nobel Prize 2014 for Physics?
a) ISRO scientists
b) Andre Geim, Konstantin Novoselov
c) Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, Shuji Nakamura
d) CERN