Q 01/05

In which present-day country is Banga, the Lyallpur village where Bhagat Singh was born in 1907?

A) India

B) Pakistan

C) Bangladesh

D) Nepal

Answer · why

B) Pakistan

Pakistan holds both ends of Bhagat Singh's life: Banga, his birth village in Lyallpur district, and Lahore, where he was hanged in 1931 at a spot now ...

Q 02/05

On which island, then a Japanese colony, did the bomber carrying Subhas Chandra Bose crash in August 1945?

A) Okinawa

B) Hainan

C) Taiwan

D) Luzon

Answer · why

C) Taiwan

Taiwan's Taihoku airfield, now Taipei's Songshan Airport, is where the overloaded bomber crashed on 18 August 1945, three days after Japan's surrender...

Q 03/05

Which lender, registered in Lahore in 1894, had Lala Lajpat Rai closely involved in running it in its early years?

A) Bank of Baroda

B) Punjab National Bank

C) Central Bank of India

D) Allahabad Bank

Answer · why

B) Punjab National Bank

Punjab National Bank opened for business in Lahore's Anarkali Bazaar in April 1895 and moved its head office to Delhi weeks before Partition in 1947.

Q 04/05

Which 2022 blockbuster imagines rebels Alluri Sitarama Raju and Komaram Bheem as friends in 1920s Delhi?

A) KGF

B) RRR

C) Eega

D) Arya

Answer · why

B) RRR

RRR, from Baahubali director S. S. Rajamouli, is pure invention: the two men never met, Raju fighting the British in the Andhra hills and Bheem the Ni...

Q 05/05

Which star returned from a four-year break to play sepoy Mangal Pandey in the 2005 film 'The Rising'?

A) Shah Rukh Khan

B) Aamir Khan

C) Salman Khan

D) Saif Ali Khan

Answer · why

B) Aamir Khan

Aamir Khan had not appeared on screen since Dil Chahta Hai in 2001; the film premiered at Cannes and ended 2005 as Hindi cinema's fourth-biggest earne...