1. Sharad Navaratri is being celebrated from today. Traditionally, on what date does the Sharad Navaratri commence?
2. Of which South American country has the popular Hugo Chavez been re-elected President?
3. Roquefort cheese is made from which animal’s milk?
4. Who was chosen Player of the Tournament at the recently-concluded ICC World Twenty20?
5. Which is the largest country in Africa?
6. Name the French legend who won the World Rally Championship drivers’ title for a record ninth consecutive year recently?
7. With which rule in the mid 1970s is the name of Pol Pot associated?
8. How did British scientist John B. Gurdon and Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka make news?
9. Name the most famous fictional place created by Frank Baum?
10. On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of its first printing, a new edition of a book by Mahatma Gandhi was published. Name the book.
11. What type of a common food item is a bagel?
12. Shadman Chowk in Lahore has been renamed after which Indian freedom-fighter?
13. Where in a horse is a dock?
14. Which activist made news with his “Bijli-Paani” Satyagraha and charges against Robert Vadra recently?
15. Which European capital city is served by the Orly airport?
Answers: 1. The ‘pratipada’ (first day) of the bright fortnight of the lunar month of Ashvina; 2. Venezuela; 3. Sheep (ewe’s milk); 4. Shane Watson; 5. Algeria; 6. Sebastien Loeb; 7. Khmer Rouge in Cambodia; 8. They have been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize for Medicine?; 9. Oz; 10. My Early Life; 11. Bread; 12. Bhagat Singh; 13. Tail; 14. Arvind Kejriwal; 15. Paris.
