1. Which Indian art form, conceived by the Manipur king Bhagyachandra Singh in the 18th century, entered UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity recently?
2. What is NASA’s six-year mission to survey and monitor changes in Earth’s polar ice called?
3. Which cricketer became the second Indian after Tendulkar to win the LG People’s Choice Award given by the ICC?
4. ‘Beatriz’s War’, which won the Golden Peacock for Best Film at the 44th International Film Festival of India, is the debut feature film from the first new sovereign state of the 21st century. Name it.
5. What is ‘Ocean Acidification’?
6. Which Bharat Ratna has written ‘Target 3 Billion’ and ‘Ignited Minds’?
7. Which team lifted the Junior Men’s Hockey World Cup, for a record sixth time, in New Delhi some days ago?
8. The Hubble Space Telescope has detected strong evidence of water plumes erupting from the surface of which of Jupiter’s moons?
9. The only session of the Indian National Congress that Mahatma Gandhi presided over was held in a Karnataka city. Name the city.
10. Which entertainer was named the most powerful Indian celebrity for the second time in a row by Forbes India recently?
11. What is the common name for ‘Borassus flabellifer’, the State tree of Tamil Nadu?
12. Where will the next Asian Games be held?
13. In Zoroastrianism, what is a ‘Dakhmah’?
14. What is the Schengen Area in Europe?
15. Which metallic element is extracted from Cassiterite?
Answers: 1. Sankirtana; 2. Operation IceBridge; 3. M.S. Dhoni; 4. East Timor; 5. The ongoing decrease in pH of Earth Ocean’s caused by uptake of Carbon dioxide; 6. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam; 7. Germany; 8. Europa; 9. Belgaum; 10. Shah Rukh Khan; 11. Asian palmyra palm; 12. Incheon, South Korea; 13. The Tower of Silence used for the exposure of the dead; 14. A group of 26 countries that have abolished passport and immigration controls at their common borders; 15. Tin
