Test Your Knowledge - 1
1: She was a national swimming champion, a jockey, a Miss India, an actress, and now, a social activist. Who is being talking about?2: Which Indian was considered the "father of surgery?"
3: During the British rule of India there were a number of princely families. The grandson of one of these Princes is now a popular Bollywood actor. Name the Prince in question (the actor's grandfather).
4: Which India city got its name because of the presence of a large number of banyan trees in that area?
5: This person paid the highest individual income tax in the mid-1990s — apart from also featuring in advertisements that exhorted people to pay income taxes. Who?
6: Which character, according to the Hindu mythology is said to have offered herself/himself as food to a lion in order to prevent it from attacking a cow?
7: Which district can claim to have produced the maximum number of Bharat Ratnas, how many of them and who are they?
8: Which Indian politician was acting PM twice but never became the a Prime Minister?
9: How many Indians have won the Junior Singles' Event at Wimbledon? Name them.
10: What connects M. S. Swaminathan, Verghese Kurien and Raja Ramanna, the men behind the green, white and nuclear revolutions of India?
ANSWERS
1: Nafisa Ali2: Sushruta
3: Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi
4: Vadodara
5: Mithun Chakraborty
6: Dileepa, ancestor of Rama, as recounted in Kalidasa's Raghuvamsa.
7: Ratnagiri District, with the following awardees : Dhondo Keshav Karve, Pandurang Vaman Kane, B. R. Ambedkar
8: Gulzarilal Nanda
9: Three Indians: Ramanathan Krishnan in 1954, his son Ramesh Krishnan in 1979, and Leander Paes in 1990
10: All three of them have won Padma Shri, Padma Vibhushan and Padma Bhushan awards.
