1) When was the Battle of Plassey?
a) 3 March 1754
b) 23 June 1757
c) 1st January 1761
d) 14 June 1764
2) Who betrayed Siraj-ud-Daulah at Plassey?
a) Mir Jafar
b) Mir Sadak
c) Bania Bapu
d) Chandrakant More
3) Which city was captured by Robert Clive in 1751?
a) Bombay
b) Calcutta
c) Arcot
d) Mysore
1) What are eagles?
a) Talking birds
b) Large birds of prey
c) Singing birds
d) Birds of carrying messages
2) To which order eagle belongs?
a) Tinamiformes
b) Craciformes
c) Falconinformes
d) Galliformes
3) Which eagle preys on sloths and monkeys?
a) Harpy eagle
b) Sea eagle
c) Caucasian eagle
d) Serpent eagle
1) Who discovered the first four satellites of Jupiter?
a) Christiaan Huygens
b) Johannes Kepler
c) Galileo Galilei
d) Thomas Pickering
2) Which spacecraft first visited Jupiter?
a) Pioneer 8
b) Pioneer 10
c) Ulysses
d) Volyager 1
3) Who is Jupiter in mythology?
a) God of fire
b) King of gods
c) God of forest
d) God of air
1) When did Napoleon III become the Emperor of France?
a) 15 March 1758
b) 10 May 1774
c) 8 July 1776
d) 2 December 1852
2) When was Napoleon III born?
a) 14 January 1800
b) 20 April 1808
c) 19 August 1802
d) 31 December 1798
3) Where was Napoleon III born?
a) Paris
b) Rome
c) London
d) Amsterdam
1) How was Lesotho known?
a) Natal
b) Nyasaland
c) Basutoland
d) Transvaal
2) Which country surrounds Lesotho on all sides?
a) Namibia
b) Zimbabwe
c) S. Africa
d) Zambia
3) When did Lesotho become independent?
a) 4 October 1966
b) 12 December 1963
c) 30 June 1964
d) 1 May 1956
1. What did Edward Jenner discover?
a) Aspirin
b) Vaccination for cholera
c) Penicillin
d) Vaccination for smallpox
2. When was Edward Jenner born?
a) 7 March 1745
b) 17 May 1749
c) 12 September 1738
d) 29 December 1742
3. Where was Edward Jenner born?
a) Berkley
b) Liverpool
c) Plymouth
d) Chelsea
1. When did Samoa become independent?
a) 1 January 1962
b) 21 May 1966
c) 16 August 1960
d) 24 November 1965
2. Which country annexed Western Samoa in 1899?
a) France
b) Germany
c) Italy
d) Spain
3. When did New Zealand conquer Western Samoa?
a) 1901
b) 1908
c) 1914
d) 1918
1) When was Jules Verne born?
a) 22 June 1815
b) 11 May 1821
c) 6 October 1824
d) 8 February 1828
2) Where was Jules Verne born?
a) Versailles
b) Paris
c) Nantes
d) Marseilles
3) Who was the captain in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea?
a) James Cook
b) Nemo
c) Francis Drake
d) Gunn
1) Which was the opening date of Beijing Olympics 2008?
a) 7 July 2008
b) 5 May 2008
c) 6 June 2008
d) 8 August 2008
2) Who lit the Olympic flame in Beijing Olympics 2008?
a) Liu Xiang
b) Li Ning
c) Guo Jingjing
d) Wu Minxia
3) Who did the lip synching for Yang Peiyi at the opening ceremony of Beijing Olympics 2008?
a) Amei Chang
b) Lin Miaoke
c) Wu Bai
d) Evonne Hsu
4) Who declared the opening of Beijing Olympics 2008?
a) Jackie Chan
b) Wen Jiabao
c) Hu Jintao
d) Hua Kuo Feng
5) Who won the gold medal in men’s 10m air rifle shooting in Beijing Olympics 2008?
a) Matthew Emmons
b) Jason Turner
c) Vincent Hancock
d) Abhinav Bindra
1. When was Michael Colin Cowdrey born?
a) 14 March 1928
b) 16 April 1936
c) 9 September 1934
d) 24 December 1932
2. Where was Michael Colin Cowdrey born?
a) Lahore
b) Ootacamund
c) Kapurthala
d) Ambala
3. Where did Michael Colin Cowdrey make Test debut?
a) Old Trafford
b) Brisbane
c) Oval
d) Durban