1. When was Thomas Gray born?
a) 3 June 1688
b) 1 January 1701
c) 21 July 1714
d) 26 December 1716
2. Where was Thomas Gray born?
a) Bristol
b) Cardiff
c) Liverpool
d) London
3. Where did Thomas Gray have his education in 1725-1734?
a) Queen Mary School
b) Kilkenny Grammar School
c) Eton College
d) Holy Family School
1. When was Eritrea officially proclaimed independent?
a) 17 March 1948
b) 24 May 1993
c) 18 September 1939
d) 14 November 1931
2. When was the Italian colony of Eritrea officially proclaimed?
a) 1 January 1890
b) 23 April 1870
c) 11 August 1880
d) 12 December 1798
3. When did the British drive out the Italians from Eritrea?
a) 1961
b) 1954
c) 1941
d) 1945
1. When did Albert Einstein win Nobel Prize for Physics?
a) 1922
b) 1928
c) 1921
d) 1926
2. When was Albert Einstein born?
a) 14 March 1879
b) 4 June 1878
c) 3 September 1885
d) 3 October 1877
3. Where was Albert Einstein born?
a) Hamburg
b) Ulm
c) Dresden
d) Berlin
1) How was France known?
a) Cymru
b) Sverige
c) Gaul
d) Britannia
2) Who won the Battle of Tours in 732?
a) Charles Martel
b) Napoleon
c) Louis XVI
d) William of Normandy
3) From which people France got its name?
a) Normans
b) Vikings
c) Danes
d) Franks
(Figures of the Olympic Movement are considered official.)
1) Which was the opening date of Mexico Olympics 1968?
a) 7 July 1968
b) 24 June 1968
c) 16 March 1968
d) 12 October 1968
2) Who jumped 8.90m in long jump and got gold medal in Mexico Olympics 1968?
a) Bob Beamon
b) Carl Lewis
c) Klaus Beer
d) Ralph Boston
3) Who won bronze in hockey in Mexico Olympics 1968?
a) India
b) New Zealand
c) Pakistan
d) Australia
1) What name was taken by Jean Baptiste Bernadotte when he became king of Sweden in 1818?
a) Carl XIV Johan
b) Olaf
c) Gustav
4) Harald
2) When did Sweden become a member of the European Union?
a) 1992
b) 1995
c) 2000
d) 2002
3) Which Swedish Prime Minister was assassinated on 28 February 1986?
a) Olof Palme
b) Tage Erlander
c) Thorbjorn Falldin
d) Ola Ullsten
1) When was Hannibal born?
a) 265 BC
b) 250 BC
c) 247 BC
d) 203 BC
2) When was Hannibal taken to Iberia by his father Hamilcar Barca?
a) 237 BC
b) 248 BC
c) 263 BC
d) 199 BC
3) On crossing which river by Hannibal Rome declared the Second Punic War?
a) Rhine
b) Seine
c) Ebro
d) Danube
1. When was Trygve Lie elected secretary general of United Nations?
a) 1 February 1946
b) 5 June 1944
c) 10 August 1945
d) 12 October 1938
2. When was Trygve Lie born?
a) 8 January 1884
b) 3 April 1882
c) 16 July 1896
d) 11 November 1892
3. Where was Trygve Lie born?
a) Bode
b) Tromsa
c) Kristiania
d) Nordford
1. When was Ava Gardner born?
a) 29 February 1926
b) 7 April 1925
c) 18 August 1924
d) 24 December 1922
2. Where was Ava Gardner born?
a) Philadelphia
b) Houston
c) Grabtown
d) Batavia
3. Who was Ava Gardner’s co-star in The Killers?
a) Burt Lancaster
b) Humphrey Bogart
c) Mickey Rooney
d) James Dean
1) Who of the Padma Vibhushan Awardees 2010 had won Nobel Prize?
a) Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
b) Zohra Segal
c) Ebrahim Alkazi
d) Yaga Venugopal Reddy
2) Who of the Padma Bhushan Awardees 2010 had CBI chargesheets against him for defrauding State Bank of India and under arrest for some time?
a) Bernard Madoff
b) Sant Singh Chatwal
c) Ramalinga Raju
d) David Leeson
3) Who won the bronze medal in Beijing Olympics 2008 and was awarded Padma Shri in 2010?
a) Saina Nehwal
b) Leander Paes
c) Karnam Malleshwari
d) Vijender Singh