1. Think and answer. What is a shoemaker's model for shaping or repairing footwear called?
2. Name the member of the Nehru-Gandhi family who was the last signatory in the original, hand-written Constitution of India.
3. As of now, who is the 14th and last Indian to have scored a century on his Test debut?
4. Into which body of water do the Nile and Amazon flow into at the end (or have their mouth)?
5. “My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my old friends under the apple-trees” concludes which much-loved classic?
6. Rasikapriya is the last and 72nd raga in which musical classification?
7. Which was the 12th and final Labour of Hercules?
8. Name the dwarf planet (and its moon), at a distance of 96.4 AU from the Sun, considered the most distant known natural objects in the Solar System.
9. Which annual, century-old famous sporting event finishes on the Champs-Elysees in Paris?
10. If The Deerslayer was the first in the “Leatherstocking Tales” pentalogy, then what was the second and most famous one?
11. In the Kurma Avatara, what was the last offering from the ocean when it was churned by the Devas and Asuras?
12. Harrison Schmitt is the last human to achieve extra-terrestrial feat?
13. Name the final and completed Tintin adventure.
14. Which 2012 Oscar-winning hit song begins thus: “This is the end, hold your breath and count to ten…”
15. And to appropriately end this odyssey, the question that started it all on February 26, 2000: Which famous poem was first published under the title “Bharat Vidhata” in the Tatvabodhini Patrika in January 1912?
Answers: 1. A ‘last’; 2. Feroze Gandhi; 3. Rohit Sharma; 4. Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean; 5. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell; 6. “Melakarta”, the collection of fundamental ragas in Carnatic music; 7. Capturing Cerberus alive, without using weapons; 8. Eris and Dysnomia; 9. Tour de France; 10. Last of the Mohicans ; 11. Amrita (nectar of immortality); 12. Walk on the moon; 13. Tintin and the Picaros ; 14. Adele’s ‘Skyfall’; 15. ‘Jana Gana Mana’.
