1. Shanta according to some versions of an epic was the daughter of which king? A sacrifice by her husband brought about the birth of the king's son.
2.What name meaning 'hammer' was assumed by Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Scriabin in 1906 ?
3.Saxe-Coburg:Windsor::Battenberg:?
4.There are only three women to have been represented on US currency - Martha Washington, Susan B. Anthony, and who is the third?
5.What first did Rene Sully-Prudhomme,Emil von Behring, Jacobus van't Hoff, Wilhelm Roentgen, and Jean Henri Dunant Frederic Passy achieve?
6.What is the (apocryphal) claim to fame of two thieves Dismas and Gestas in history?
Time Frame: 100 BC to 200 AD
7.According to Greek myth, Olympians were descended from primal, self-created gods. Who was the first of these gods?
8.A, being grievously sick, went to his cousin, Prioress of Kirklees, who had great fame for the letting of blood. He was welcomed and his vein opened forthwith. But finding himself locked in, faint and with no means of staunching the flow, he scented treachery. Feebly he sounded his horn. But B was listening and burst doors to reach him. From his comrade's arms A shot a broad arrow through the window, saying: "Bury me where it falls." And there they buried him, as he wished, with his bow at his side and a green turf under his head.
This is a legend associated with A's death. Who's A?
9.Troubled by the anti-catholic rule under King James I, three notorious British catholics hatched a conspiracy to teach the king a lesson. They enlisted the help of a Yorkshire mercenary, who had distinguished himself on the continent in the Spanish Army, for this purpose. Name him.
10.He was the god of jewels in ancient Greek myth. He was said to be the kindest of the gods, but Hades framed him for the death of Piraeus's - the killer of Medusa - son. He was banished from Olympus but Zeus allowed him to stay as the watcher of the animals. Name him.
11.An extract from a story in mythology:
A stops and asks B this question: "Who among the three suitors should be the husband of Mandaravati?"
B replies with a lot of thought, "The person who gave her the life by reciting the spell is her creator, it could be her father. The person who took her bones to Ganges shall be her son. But the person who committed himself to the ground and slept on her ashes out of love, can be her husband."
What does A do next?
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12.Gutzon Borglum was a student of the great French artist Auguste Rodin. Considered one of the greatest artists of modern times, his Mares of Diomedes was the first work by an American artist ever purchased by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. But the man and his other achievements today have been overshadowed by his most famous creation. What?
13.In 1488, one of Bartholomeu Dias' captains, Jao del Infante, landed on a certain island to "molest the seals and penguins" because of which the island was named after the Dutch for seals.In 1845 Lord Charles Somerset had lepers moved to this island where they were to "love and die unwanted on an island of terror". Name the place.
14. May 11, 1944 - Allies attack the Gustav Line south of Rome.
May 12, 1944 - Germans surrender in the Crimea.
May 15, 1944 - Germans withdraw to the Adolf Hitler Line.
May 25, 1944 - Germans retreat from Anzio.
June 5, 1944 - Allies enter Rome.
June 6, 1944 - ________________
June 9, 1944 - Soviet offensive against the Finnish front begins.
June 10, 1944 - Nazis liquidate the town of Oradour-sur-Glane in France.
June 13, 1944 - First German V-1 rocket attack on Britain.
Fill in the blank.
15.What is the claim to fame of Justice Jag Mohan Lal Sinha, an ex-judge in the Allahabad High Court, in Indian political history?