1. Which two Indian musicians won a Grammy award in 1991 for being a part collaborative album 'Planet Drum'

2. The roots of this kind of music can be traced back to Persia (today-™s Afghanistan and Iran). In 11th century this Persian musical tradition called -˜Sema-™ or -˜Sama-™ majorly migrated to South Asia - Turkey and Uzbekistan. Amir Khusro Dahelvi is credited for fusing Persian and Indian musical tradition to create this as we know it today in the late 13thcentury. What

3. What is common to Abdul Karim Khan - Alladiya Khan and Naththan Khan in Hindustani music

4. Which 12th century fort was built by the Yadava general Raja Bhillamraj on the Deogiri hill? (Hint: Mendha canon - Bharat Mata temple and Chand Minar-the pillar of victory)

5. Prashant Rasailly is ready with his first film Kathaaa. Shot in 14 days - no script - six flashlights and three actors. This is the first ----------------full length feature film. Fill the blank

6. What name connects the child of Kamadhenu - the Sanskrit term for daughter - an alternate name for Gold and one of the 108 names of Durga

7. What is common to Muhammed Shafi Pandit (1968 batch) - Iqbal Khandey (1978). Khurshid Ganai (1982) - Asghar Samoon (1992) - Shah Faisal (2009) - seven more in 2010 and 11 successes in 2011

8. Who wrote the Panchatantra

9. Born in Faridpur which is present day Bangladesh in 1934 - he went on to become a legend in Indian literature. Recently - passed away - his first novel is called Atmo Prakash (Self-Revealation). Name the author

10. Author of Vikramarjuna Vijaya. 1st retelling of the Mahabharata in a non-sanskrit language. Who

11. Who was the first Indian woman to feature in a postage stamp

12. As per the Mahabharata Parikshit was enthroned here and the first oral rendition of the Mahabharata was done by Vaishampayana during the rule of Janamejaya. Identify this world heritage site.

13. One of the immortal heritages of Indian literature. This novel was written by Mirza Haadi Ruswa in 1903. From this novel two Bollywood films were made. Name the Novel.

14. Sachin Tendulkar-™s first world record was for his school Shardashram Vidyamandir in a school cricket tournament in Mumbai. Which tournament

15. He took the title of Vatapikonda when he defeated Pulakeshin II and captured Vatapi. Hiuen Tsang visited Kanchi during his reign. Name the king

16. Which three cities (including an European city) are three important pivots in M.F Hussain and Owais Hussain's jointly scripted venture Meenaxi-Tale of three cities

17. Designed by Atul.S. Pande - this motif of a sun in red and yellow with a fingerprint across it-™s centre represents equal opportunity of each individual. Name the national brand name/logo we are referring to

18. The country currently has 829 nomadic and semi-nomadic which tribes that roughly comprise of 13.51 crore people

19. It is the biggest city of the East and West Godavari districts and first Municipal Corporation in the Godavari district. Name the city

20. This cave is at the height of 3 - 880 metres (12 - 700 feet). One of the legends say that it was discovered by a Muslim shepherd Buta Malik. It was here that the divine husband talked about the creation and dissolution of universe to his half-asleep divine wife. It is 48-kms from Pahalgam and the stop-overs can include Chandanwari - Seshnag - Baltal and Panchtarni. Can you name the annual yatra

21. Regarded as one of the most intelligent statesmen during his times. The later Mughal dynasty was virtually at his mercy. The Maratha power was at its peak during his times. His link with a dancer is a subject of a forthcoming proposed Sanjay Leela Bhansali movie. Passed away - when he could not hear the defeat of his army and death of his sons in a battle - which could have turned the course of Indian History. Who is this person?

22. Firoz Shah Tughlaq brought two of them from Topra in Haryana and Meerut and installed them at Firoz Shah Kotla and North Delhi ridge. What did he instal

23. Which Sanskrit term means 'the science of life '

24. April 13 - 1930 - Rajaji began his salt march from where to Vedaranayam

25. In a very famous Indian work of fiction - Mahendra - a young zamindar - leaves his drought affected village Padachihno for a nearby town - but he is taken a captive by the soldiers. Bhavananda frees him and takes him to a secret hideout. What is the name of the hideout