starter question 1

Which politician?s travelogue is titled My Pakistan Yatra in English, Meri Pakistan Yatra in Hindi and Mera Safar-e Pakistan in Urdu?

bonus questions

Topic: Hidden treasures

A. Which evil pirates? treasure does Jim Hawkins chase in Robert Louis Stevenson?s Treasure Island?

B. What did Henry Rider Haggard write in 1885, which is said to have been written as a result of a bet that he could not write a novel as exciting as Stevenson?s Treasure Island ?

C. Which ship did Sir Francis Haddock capture, taking Red Rackham?s treasure with him and hiding them in Marlinspike Hall in the Tintin series?

starter question 2

What word completes Walter Robbins? remark after being dismissed by a West Indian spinner with the first name Ellis in the 1933 Manchester Test ? ?Fancy being done by a bloody...? ? WHAT?

bonus questions

Topic: Budget

A. Which finance minister announced the setting up of the first Planning Commission in his Budget speech for 1950-51?

B.Which former Governor of the RBI in pre-Independence India presented the Budget in the first Lok Sabha elected under the Constitution?

C. Under which Prime Minister did P. Chidambaram present his first Budget as the country?s Finance minister?

Question of the week

Which author played Iqbal Ahmed Khan in Aparna Sen’s award-winning film Mr & Mrs Iyer?

ANSWER TO LAST WEEK’S QUESTION:

BECAUSE GANDHIJI RETURNED TO INDIA FROM SOUTH AFRICA ON THIS DAY IN 1915

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