Test your knowledge

1. Who became the first speaker of Lok Sabha?
2. Whose book, ‘Autobiography’ of an unknown Indian is dedicated to the memory of the British Empire in India?
3. In Hindu Mythodology of which musical instrument was Ravana a skilled player?
4. Which branch of Science deals with the study of liquids at rest?
5. Which Roman slave did a rebellion of slaves and gladiators in Itlay in 73 B.C.?
6. Who discovered the phenomenon of chain reaction?
7. Which state has one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World has been found underwater?
8. Which one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World has been found underwater?
9. What was the ancient name of the State of Orissa?
10. At which tennis tournament are the host club’s colours green and purple?
11. Which 17th century city could be entered through Delhi, Ajmeri, Lahori, and Kashmiri Gates?
12. In which script is the South Indian Language Tulu written?
13. In which American state would you find the “Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes”, famous for its Volcanoes?
14. Which mythological mountain of Hindu Cosmology the temple Gopuram or Shikara represents?
15. Which region of Rajasthan has been likened to an open -air art gallery?
16. During the reign of which King of Kerala the Dance from Mohini Attam evolved?
17. In which Indian city in 1526 did Babar build a Commemorative Mosque in the Kabuli Bag?
18. In the English language, what are words which are pronounced alike but have different spellings and meanings called?
19. In which town of South India was the Carnatic musical trinity of Thyagaraja, Shyama Shastri, and Muthuswami Dikshitar born?
20. What term describes a hot spring that throws out streams of boiling water?

Answers:
1. Ganesh Vasudeo Mavalankar; 2. Nirad C Chauduri; 3. Veena; 4. Hydrostatics; 5. Spartacus; 6. Otto Hann in 1938-39; 7. Madhya Pradesh; 8. Pharos of Alexandria in Egypt; 9. Kalinga; 10. Wimbledon; 11. Shahjanabad; 12. Kannada; 13. Alaska; 14. Mt. Meru;  15. Alaska; 16. Maharaja Swati Tirunal (1813-1847); 17. Panipat; 18. Homophones; 19. Thiruvayyaru, in Tamil Nadu; 20. Geysers