Competition Success Review had been serialising selected questions\nfrom the book BBC : 1. Which British Member of Parliament drafted the\nbill for the reform and expansion of the Legislative Councils at the fifth\nCongress session in 1889 ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. What are the first ten\namendments to the American constitution collectively known as ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. To which tribe of the\nTurks, named after the second son of Chengiz Khan, did the Mughals belong ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. In the game of chess,\nwhat is the maximum possible number of different point moves that a player\nplaying with white can start with ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5. Which catchphrase often\nused in publishing was coined by chemist Henry Wellcome in 1880s to describe a\nsmall new tablet he had invented ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 6. In Hindu myth, who is\nconsidered to be the physician of the gods ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 7. In 343 BC which son of\nNicomachus, the court physician to Amyntas III of Macedonia, was invited by\nPhilip II to educate his son Alexander ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 8. Which film director and\nshort-story writer wrote India\u2019s longest running weekly political column, Last\nPage from 1941 to 1986 in the chronicle Blitz ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 9. Which French General\nwas bestowed the title of \u2018Nawab\u2019 by the Mughal emperor in 1761 ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 10. Gottfried Leibniz was\none of the two mathematicians who developed calculus independently. Who was the\nother ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 11. Which mystical movement\nin Islam takes its name from the Arabic tradition of wearing garments of \u2018wool\u2019\n?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 12. Which word was coined by\nLewis Carroll to define words like smog in which two words combine together to\nmake a new word ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 13. Which element, having\nthe atomic number 27, derives its name from the German word for a goblin who\nallegedly haunts the places where it is mined ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 14. Which Norwegian explorer\ncrossed the Pacific Ocean on a raft in 1947 ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 15. Which well known Indian\nwon a Golden Bear at the 1967 Berlin Film Festival for his documentary Through\nthe Eyes of a Painter ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 16. Which eighteenth century\nBritish philosopher and economist is acknowledged as the founder of\nUtilitarianism ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 17. In the first century BC,\nLepidus, Octavius and which other statesman established the second Roman\nTriumvirate ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 18. Which European capital\ncity is served by the port Piraeus ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 19. Aphrodite Terra and\nIshtar Terra are the two major landmasses on which planet ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 20. Which royal sacrifice in\nancient India is believed to have ensured the prosperity and fertility of the kingdom\n?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Answers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1. Charles Bradlaugh<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. Bill of Rights<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. Chaghtai<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. Twenty<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5. Tabloid<\/p>\n\n\n\n 6. Dhanwantari<\/p>\n\n\n\n 7. Aristotle<\/p>\n\n\n\n 8. K. A. Abbas<\/p>\n\n\n\n 9. Joseph Dupleix<\/p>\n\n\n\n 10. Isaac Newton<\/p>\n\n\n\n 11. Sufism<\/p>\n\n\n\n 12. Portmanteau<\/p>\n\n\n\n 13. Cobalt<\/p>\n\n\n\n 14. Thor Heyerdahl<\/p>\n\n\n\n 15. M. F. Hussain<\/p>\n\n\n\n 16. Jeremy Bentham<\/p>\n\n\n\n 17. Mark Anthony<\/p>\n\n\n\n 18. Athens<\/p>\n\n\n\n 19. Venus<\/p>\n\n\n\n 20. Ashwamedha<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Siddhartha Basu of Kaun Banega Crorepati Popular T.V. Show Competition Success Review had been serialising selected questions from the book BBC : The Complete Mastermind. 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\nThe Complete Mastermind. Now we are proud to present different sets of\nquestions every month from
\nanother book\u2014BBC Mastermind India, edited and compiled by India\u2019s Ace Quiz\nMaster Siddhartha Basu
\nand published by Teksons Bookshop, New Delhi, in association with BBC. CSR\nhopes that its readers
\nfrom all over India will find the series useful not only for various\ncompetitive examinations
\nbut also in widening knowledge base of India and the World, so that
\nthey are able to participate creditably in various Quiz Contests.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n