starter question 1

Which cricketer, a British army officer in France, became a colonel during World War I and the chancellor of the Indian Chamber of Princes in 1932?

bonus questions

Topic: Famous remarks

A. Which Asian leader walked out of a UN Security Council meeting on December 15, 1971 saying, ?My country hearkens for me, why should I waste my time here ??

B. In a commemorative ceremony at the Yankee Stadium on April 27 1927, which icon, ?Bambino? to his fans, declared, ?The only real game, I think, in the world, is baseball??

C. Which Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court commented, ?What moved some misguided wretch to do this horrible deed may never be known to us?, while releasing the report of the inquiry commission into President Kennedy?s assassination?

starter question 2

Which city did the ancient Greeks know as Ilium after its legendary founder, Ilus, but later came to be known after his father?

bonus questions

Topic: Indian religious organisations

A. Born in 1861, which Allahabad-based leader and two times president of the Indian National Congress presided over the special session of the Hindu Mahasabha in 1924?

B. Which organisation was formed in October 1984 to protect the ?Ram-Janaki Rathyatra? in Ayodhya and has ?Seva, Suraksha and Sanskar? as its motto?

C. What started in August 1964 as an organising body for a global convention of Hindus to be held in Prayag during the 1966 Kumbh Mela?

1.Ranjitsinhji: A) Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto B) Babe Ruth C) Earl Warren 2. Tro y A) Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya B) Bajrang Dal C) Vishwa Hindu Parishad

Question of the week

Whose signature was depicted on all currency notes issued by the Reserve Bank of India between September 16 1982 and January 14 1985?

ANSWER to last week?s question: SOUTH AFRICA

Winner of Oct. 27 contest question:

Samita Ghose from Calcutta

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