1. Name the Russian city, once known as Petrograd and Leningrad, founded on this date in 1703.
2. May 27 this year marks the 50th death anniversary of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. When and where was he born?
3. From which two constituencies has India’s new PM Narendra Modi been elected to the Lok Sabha?
4. On May 19, Google celebrated the 40th anniversary of which world-famous 3D puzzle?
5. Which famous Shelley poem starts thus: ‘I met a traveller from an antique land’?
6. Hircine is an adjective for which common herbivore?
7. What is the new official name of the NBA basketball team that was known as the Charlotte Bobcats since 2004?
8. In which South American country has the largest dinosaur ever known to walk the earth been discovered recently? It was 130 feet long and 65 feet tall and weighed 85 tons.
9. What type of a scavenger bird is a “Ruppell’s Griffon”?
10. In theology, what is “apostasy”?
11. Juneau is the capital of which big state in the U.S.?
12. Which term for an important person comes from the large headgear once worn by the rich?
13. A PIN is used to operate ATMs or make an online payment. Expand PIN.
14. Which rapper’s debut album was “Infinite”?
15. What is the medical term for “relating to the clotting of blood”?
Answers: 1. Saint Petersburg; 2. November 14, 1889 at Allahabad; 3. Varanasi and Vadodara; 4. Rubik’s Cube; 5. Ozymandias; 6. Goat; 7. Charlotte Hornets; 8. Argentina; 9. Vulture; 10. The abandonment of a religious belief or principle; 11. Alaska; 12. Bigwig; 13. Personal Identity Number; 14. Eminem; 15.Thrombo.
