Ans: Hugh Toye
2. What is the full form of ISDN, a circuit-switched telephone network system?
Ans: Integrated Services Digital Network
3. Who is considered to be 'the Father of library science, documentation, and information science in India'?
Ans: S R Ranganathan
4. Whose birthday (12th August) is observed as National Library Day' in India?
Ans: S R Ranganathan
5. What is measured in bytes per second?
Ans: Bandwidth
6. Which organization compiles & publishes the Press Freedom Index?
Ans: Reporters Without Borders
7. The Morocco leather, associated with book bindings is made from the skin of which animal?
Ans: Goat
8. In which year was the Indian Patent Act implemented?
Ans: 1972
9. The excess presence of which chemical in water causes 'Blue Baby Syndrome?
Ans: Nitrates
10. In which war was the guns effectively used for the first time in India?
Ans: First Battle of Panipat (1526)
11. Which country is having the largest area of cultivated land in the world?
Ans: USA
12. Which Indian state has the largest number of slum population?
Ans: Maharashtra
13. Which virus is transmitted to humans through the rodents?
Ans: Hantavirus
14. Which Asian countries are seperated by the Amnok River?
Ans: China & North Korea
15. Where is the headquarters of the National Centre for Disease Control?
Ans: New Delhi
16. In which Indian state is the Catherine Falls & Law's Falls are situated?
Ans: Tamil Nadu
17. Which was the first Indian state to introduce the institution of Lokayukta?
Ans: Maharashtra (1971)
18. In which year was the United Nations Convention against Corruption signed?
Ans: 9th December 2003
19. Which important international non-governmental organization was founded by Peter Eigen in 1993?
Ans: Transparency International
20. Which revolutionary nationalist was popularly called 'Master Da'?
Ans: Surya Sen
21. Who is the only scientist to have visited the Moon?
Ans: Harrison Schmitt
22. Which Bengali educator is often called 'Banglar Bagh (Tiger of Bengal)? Ans: Ashutosh Mukherjee
23. Who developed the method of spiritual practice called 'Integral Yoga'?
Ans: Aurobindo Ghosh
24. Mirra Alfassa, known to her followers as 'the Mother' was the spiritual collaborator of ____?
Ans: Aurobindo Ghosh
25. Name the daughter of the former U S President, who chose to stay at Aurobindo Ashram at Puducherry and died there?
Ans: Margaret Woodrow Wilson
