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Suresh's Quiz - Nov 1998

1. Which is the only part of the human body which does not feel pain though it contains numerous nerves?

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2. In Hindu mythology, whose name literally means Ear as he is said to have been born out of his mother's ear ?

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3. What are common to these movies - Adi Shankaracharya, Bhagvad Gita and Swami Vivekananda?

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4. What is located at 17°23' N latitude and 78°28' E longitude?

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5. Which South American city's name literally means River of January in Spanish ?

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6. Which athletic event is referred to as Suicide in Ten Instalments ?

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7. In the USA, what is divided into Eastern, Central, Mountain and Pacific ?

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8. What title did the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb bestow on the rulers of Jaipur, feeling that they were 25% more brave and handsome than the rest of the world ?

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9. Which district in Uttar Pradesh is in the centre of a controversy because of the Central Government's decision to include it in the proposed Uttaranchal state?

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10. By what name is the fictional character Don Diego de la Vega better known as ?

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11.Which international organization got it's name because, when it was first started, it's members would meet in turn in each other's homes ?

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12. In the S.I system of measurement, there are seven basic units for measurement of physical quantities. Six of them are Ampere, Kelvin, Kilogram, Metre, Mole and Second. Name the seventh unit.

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13. To which company did the shipment of tea dumped in the ocean by American colonists (in the famous Boston Tea Party) belong ?

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14. In fiction, who said to whom on their first meeting - "I presume you have been to Afghanistan" ?

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15. Which popular movie, originally made in Tamil and later dubbed into several languages, was based on the kidnapping of an Indian Oil executive called Mr. Doraiswamy Iyengar by militants ?

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