1. According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which ‘modern custom may have originated in France when the Gregorian calendar, which moved New Year’s Day from March 25 to January 1, was adopted in 1582?
2. Which Indian sports-based community project in India won the Laureus Sport for Good Award on March 26?
3. Which girl was the most famous occupant of 263 Prinsengracht in Amsterdam in the 1940s?
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4. Which Indian State commemorates its formation on this date with a Day dedicated to the State?
5. Japan’s Shigeru Ban was recently awarded the prize often called the ‘Nobel Prize of architecture’. Name the honour.
6. In the epic
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7. According to recent report by WHO, what is the ‘the biggest environmental health problem’ now?
8. Eid al-Fitr or the Feast of Fast-Breaking marks the beginning of which month in the Islamic calendar?
9. Which is the heaviest of all the naturally occurring elements?
10. How did the “spotted wren-babbler” or Elachura make news recently?
11. What are the four cycles in an engine used in most gasoline-powered cars?
12. Name the firm: It has a name that means “a round or eye-like opening or design” and was acquired by Facebook for $2 billion recently.
13. Name the Bangladeshi, the only player to score a century and take a hat-trick in a Test match.
14. Name the disk-shaped region, past Neptune’s orbit, now considered to be the source of the short-period comets and home to Pluto.
15. Vishnu used his Chakra to free elephant-king Gajendra from which animal?
Answers: 1. All Fools’ Day; 2. Magic Bus; 3. Anne Frank; 4. Utkala Dibasa or Odisha Day; 5. Pritzker Prize; 6. Hector; 7. Air pollution contributed to an estimated 7 million deaths worldwide in 2012; 8. Shawwal; 9. Uranium; 10. It has been revealed that it is unique with no closest living relatives in the Passerida group of perching birds; 11. Intake, compression, combustion and exhaust; 12. Oculus; 13. Sohag Gazi; 14. Kuiper Belt; 15. Crocodile.