1. Which Baltic State, with Vilnius as Capital, celebrates the restoration of Independence on this date?
2. Which Power Puff Girl has short blonde hair in two pigtails, blue eyes, and dresses in a blue dress with a black belt?
3. Which film won seven Oscars, the most for the event, at this year’s Academy Awards ceremony?
4. Who recently regained the top spot as the world’s richest person, according to Forbes magazine’s annual ranking of global billionaires?
5. Name the only woman to be awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously.
6. On how many days will polling be held for the 16th Lok Sabha?
7. What is common to the incumbent Presidents of Argentina, South Korea, Costa Rica and Liberia?
8. Which Avatara of Vishnu is associated with the “Ksheera Sagara Manthanam”?
9. In which category is Elinor Ostrom the only female Nobel Laureate so far?
10. Which Disney offering has become only the second animated film to cross the $1 billion mark in worldwide box office grosses?
11. If one is eating the ‘Mazurek’, a variety of pastry or cake, at Christmas, in which European country is the person in?
12. After which brave queen is the daily train running between Bangalore and Kolhapur named?
13. Which English Premier League club is nicknamed ‘The Eagles’?
14. Of what use is a potometer to a botanist?
15. Which is the best known example of the ‘G-type main-sequence’ star or a yellow dwarf to us?
Answers: 1. Lithuania; 2. Bubbles; 3. ‘Gravity’; 4. Bill Gates; 5. Aruna Asaf Ali; 6. Nine days spread over a period of 73 days; 7. All are women; 8. Kurma; 9. Economics; 10. ‘Frozen’; 11. Poland; 12. Rani Chennamma of Kittur; 13. Crystal Palace; 14. It measures the water uptake of a leafy shoot; 15. Our own Sun.
