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Name the Air Chief Marshall of India.

B S Dhanoa

The English author of 'Remains of the Day' won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Name Him.

Kazuo Ishiguro
(Japanese descent. Remains of the Day had won Booker Prize in 1989. Ishiguro had seperately won four Man Booker prize nominations. This novel was adapted into a movie starring Anthony Hopkins. Two other novels of his which were adapted for the big screen were - 'Never let me go' and 'White Countess')

India had declined its first invitation to FIFA World Cup due to lack of resources. When do you think it happened?

1950 FIFA World Cup in Uruguay

Which is the fifth Asian country after China, Japan, South Korea and UAE to host the U-17 World Cup?

India

Name the Stadium in the capital where the U-17 World Cup is happening right now.

Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Delhi, India.

 When was Quit India Resolution adopted?

7th August, 1942
(On 8th August, all the top brass leaders of Congress including Gandhi, Nehru and Patel were arrested by the Britishers. The Working Committee of the AICC and provincial Congress Committees were declared illegal.)

In the Lingayat community of Karnataka, which division follows the 12th century social reformer Basavanna and denounces untouchability, Hindu superstitions and multiplicity of God?

Lingayat Sect
(Veerashaivas worship Shiva in a formless State but reject all Vedic rituals like Lingayats.)

The first state in India to bring in an anti-superstititon law

Karnataka Prevention and Eradication of Inhuman Evil Practises and Black Magic Bill, 2017

Angela Merkel became the Chancellor of Germany for the first time in -

2005



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