Test Your Knowledge_4

Test Your Knowledge_4

01. Which Indian temple is so located that there is no piece of land between it and the South Pole?
02. Legend has it that this actor on landing at the Gateway of India in 1928, offered the following prayer to the almighty: "Mr. God, if you don't make me an actor and a star here, I will swim the seven seas and go to Hollywood". Who is being talked about?
03. This Indian cricketer of the yesteryears was nicknamed "Rhubarb" by his western counterparts as his real name was difficult to pronounce. Who is being referred to?
04 His name is Prem Behari Narain Raizada (Saxena), son of Brij Behari Narain Raizada and hails from Delhi. Although he is not himself well-known, he wrote something in his own hand, using a flowing italic style in the best calligraphic traditions. What did he write?
05. 2 Indians, under the supervision of a British, worked to build up the world's first fingerprint bureau during the British Raj. Name the British. Name the 2 Indians. Name the location where the fingerprint bureau was situated. (the exact building, not only the city).
06. A place falling undisputedly under the dominion of India was "formally" annexed by India more than five years after the Independence of India due to an "unusual" reason. Name the place. Give the year in which we annexed it. State the reason for the delay
07. In his hey days, Kapil Dev was called the 'Haryana Hurricane'. Who gave him the nickname?
08. What was the village that survived the tsunami largely undamaged and why?
09. What's unique about the North Bengal Lok Sabha constituency in 1952?
10. Which famous place in India gets its name from the local name for "mangrove trees"

ANSWERS

01. The temple at Somnath.
02. Prithviraj Kapoor
03. Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan
04. Constitution of India
05. 1) Sir William Herschel and later Sir Edward Henry. 2) Azizul Haque & Hemchandra Bose 3) New Scotland Yard.
06. Minicoy island in 1956. The reason was that the information about the Independence of India had not reached them. Nehru noticed the Union Jack flying on a lighthouse during his visit. The Union Jack was formally unhoisted by a representative of the UK.
07. The Guinness Book of World Records
08. Naluvedapathy village. They made a Guinness record planting 80,244 saplings on December 2, 2002. That helped them avoid disaster.
09. It was a 3 member seat. (i.e 3 MPs were to be elected from the constituency)
10. Sundarban. It's from "Sundari"— the local name of a particular kind of mangrove tree.