1. Name Sony’s invention that debuted on this date 35 years ago and became a generic name for a portable music player?
2. Name the two Indian properties, one natural and the other cultural, that have been inscribed in the latest UNESCO’s World Heritage List.
3. Name the countries with capitals Bujumbura and Kigali that observe July 1 as their Independence Day from Belgium in 1962.
4. Which franchise dethroned Miami Heat to win the NBA title recently?
5. What is stored in an ossuary?
6. The most distant known moon of any planet in our Solar System orbits around Neptune. Name it.
7. Where does Spongebob Squarepants live under the sea?
8. What is Apple’s new compiled programming language for iOS and OS X development called?
9. What shape is the pasta called rigatoni?
10. What is the chief official language of Israel?
11. Which actor-singer has directed the ‘Don’ series of films starring Shah Rukh Khan?
12. According to the nursery rhyme, who ‘…stole a pig and away did he run’?
13. When would a doctor use the term diastolic or systolic?
14. Which of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ name does not end in a vowel?
15. Which sea’s entrance is guarded by the ‘Pillars of Hercules’?
Answers: 1. Walkman; 2. Great Himalayan National Park and Rani-ki-Vav in Patan (Gujarat); 3. Burundi and Rwanda; 4. San Antonio Spurs; 5. Bones of the dead; 6. Neso; 7. A pineapple; 8. Swift; 9. Tube-shaped; 10. Hebrew; 11. Farhan Akhtar; 12. Tom the piper’s son; 13. Measuring one’s blood pressure; 14. Raphael; 15. Mediterranean.
