2. 1
What was the entity that Pascoal
Menezes (of CMM group fame) started
that would become the informal forum
for discussing economics and business
in Portuguese ruled Goa? V.M.
Salgaocar was one of the key member
of this society.
4. 2
Whose autobiography starts thus :
“An only son of prosperous parents
is apt to be spoilt, especially so in
India. And when that son happens
to have been an only child for the
first eleven years of his existence
there is little hope for him to escape
6. 3
This is what Dr. Ambedkar said to the Rajya
Sabha on 2nd September 1953 “people always
keep on saying to me ‘O, you are the maker of
the Constitution’. My answer is I was a hack.
What I was asked to do, I did much against my
will…. Sir, my friends tell me that I have made
the Constitution. But I am quite prepared to say
that I shall be the first person to burn it out. I do
not want it. It does not suit anybody…”. So who
was the ‘real’ author
of the Constitution of India?
14. 7
Who said this “Lecoq was a
miserable bungler… he had only
one thing to recommend him and
that was his energy. That book
made me positively ill. The
question was how to identify an
unknown prisoner. I could have
done it in twenty four hours. Lecoq
15. Sherlock Holmes about Inspector
Lecoq who was created by the
French sensational novelist Emile
Gaboriau
16. 8
The earlier Indian Test cricket teams
were often plagued by infighting and
favouritism. One of the well known
fragmentist of the Indian team was the
Maharajkumar of Vizianagaram “Vizzy”.
About whom did his stooges coin a
doggerel “Baahar se kaala, andar se
22. 11
To whom was a letter addressed thus:
Dear ______: I am a ninth-grade student
at the White Plains High School. While it
should not matter, I would like to
mention that I am a white girl. I read in
the paper of your misfortune, and of your
suffering. And I read that if you had
sneezed, you would have died. And I am
simply writing you to say that I’m so
happy that you didn’t sneeze.”?
24. 12
Not only did he fail to secure a British
patent after legal action from Sir
Joseph Swan, but he also lost his
American one, in October 1883, when
the US Patent office ruled that a prior
invention by William Sawyer and Albon
Man whose patent was granted in
1878, took precedence?
26. 13
Louis Braille’s alphabetical system for
the blind gives 63 possible
combinations, which he assigned to
letters, punctuation marks, numerals,
mathematical signs and a number of
common words such as ‘and’, ‘for’, ‘of’,
‘with’, ‘the’. The original system devised
by Braille excluded one particular letter
from the set. Which one and why?
28. 14
Market Street is the central street of _____, the
location of several big shops including Bombay
Anand Bhavan and Truth Printing Works. Kabir
Street is the residence of the elite, while Lawley
Extension is a new upcoming lane housing the rich
and the influential. Ellmen Street, home to the oilmongers, is the last street and beyond it lies the
river Sarayu. Other streets include Grove Street
and Kalighat Lane.
Between Ellmen Street and the river lie Nallappa's
Grove and the cremation ground. The
Untouchables and sweepers live on the lower
