This document contains 5 multiple choice questions and answers about various topics: 1. The question is about Dr. Abraham Thomas Kovoor, a rationalist from India known for challenging supernatural claims and declaring an award named after him that was given to Kamal Haasan. 2. The question asks about someone who witnessed both Hanif Mohammad's record cricket score and Brian Lara's later breaking of it, and identifies them as Bob Woolmer. 3. The question connects several John Grisham novels that were adapted to film. 4. The question discusses how mercury was used in the felt hat making process in the 18th century, causing health issues for workers, and identifies the phrase "

2. SET-1
ANSWERS

3. 1. He was a Nasrani, a
rationalist who came in the
limelight for his endeavor to
expose several God-like fake
people in India and Srilanka. An
NGO declared an award by his
name for the secular artists
wherein Kamal Hasan was the
first recipient.
 He is known for his paranormal
challenge to anyone, where he
announced a hefty sum for
anybody who proves God or
supernatural powers.
 What recent wonder/hit did this
person inspire?

4. Aamir’s character as in PK!
(He is doctor Abraham Thomas
Kovoor)

5. 2.When he was just a ten-year-old lad, he showed
interest in cricket. One nice morning, he was
taken by his father who was working in Pakistan
at that time to watch a local match. It happened
to be the one in which Hanif Mohammad scored
the mammoth 499, a record for first-class cricket
that stood until 1994, when Brian Lara hit 501 not
out forWarwickshire against Durham at
Edgbaston.
 Identify the person associated withWarwickshire
then who experienced both the instances.

6. BOBWOOLMER

7. 3. Connect these Hollywood films

8.  All these films are inspired from John
Grisham’s novels.
 The Chamber, The Client, The Pelican
Brief, Skipping Christmas, The Rainmaker, The
Runaway Jury, ATime to Kill andThe firm!

9. 4.The use of nitrate of Mercury dominated the
manufacturing process of felt hats in the 18th
century. Mercury was a chemical that could soften
stiff rabbit fur hairs while keeping them joined
together – a process that made the fur flexible,
tractable, and easily molded but the element of
poison can never be neglected.
 Thus mercury spread out the felt and as users
inhaled felt dust and licked the points of finishing
brushes, the poisonous substance used to mix
with their blood and they used to feel become
insane.
 Which phrase originated thus?

10. Mad as a hatter/ Mad hatter

11. 5.This man on the left invented something and named
it after a place (Flag of the place on the right) where
nuclear explosion testing was done in the mid 1940’s.
He expected an explosive commercial and cultural
reaction for his invention.
 What was the invention?

12. Bikini