India Quiz 47

India Quiz 47

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1. Name India's first gun for women designed and manufactured by the Ordnance Factories Organisation, Kanpur?

Indira
Nirbheek
Rakshak
Durga

2. In 2013 a dedicated customised pin code was given to Supreme Court of India by India Post to make faster delivery of petitions and other urgent mails. What is the PIN code?

110 001
110 100
110 200
110 201

3. Lalbagh or Lalbagh Botanical Gardens, meaning The Red Garden in English, is a well known botanical garden in southern Bengaluru, India. Who started the construction of this garden?

Tippu Sultan
Hyder Ali
Kempe Gowda
Veera Ballala II

4. Name the Governor-General who formed the "Triple Alliance" against Tipu Sultan

Lord Wellesly
Lord Cornwallis
Lord Curson
Lord William Bentick

5. Which Indian dish was granted Geographical Indication Status by the Indian GIS registry office in 2010, making it the first non-vegetarian dish in India to get this status?

Hyderabaid Biriyani
Laal Maas
Hyderabaid Haleem
Kerala Karimeen Fry

6. "You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the river" were the words of a Nobel Prize winning famous Indian personality. Can you identify the personality?

Mother Teresa
Sir C V Raman
Rabindranath Tagore
Amartya Sen

7. The Paik Rebellion also called the Paika Bidroha was an armed rebellion against the British East India Company's rule in 1817. In which state it happened?

Odisha
West Bengal
Bihar
Assam

8. The 2015 Saraswati Samman was won by Padma Sachdeve who is the first modem woman poet of this Indo-Aryan language. Name the language

Sindhi
Gujrati
Dogri
Marwari

9. Gopishantha is a Tamil movie actress who entered the Guinness World Records for acting in more than 1000 movies in 1985. By what stage name is she better known to us?

Srivdevi
Revathy
Bhanupriya
Manorama

10. Who wrote the book "Sleeping on Jupiter" that was shortlisted for Man Booker Prize and won DSC Prize for South Asian Literature in 2016?

Arundhati Roy
Anuradha Roy
Jhumpa Lahiri
Anita Nair

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