- Which was the first Indian film to be provided insurance cover?
- Who is called India's Johnny Appleseed, the father of the Indian apple industry?
- Industrialist Nusli Wadia is the grandson of which prominent figure in the Indian subcontinent's history?
- Through which treaty did the British annex Assam on February 26, 1826 in order to turn it into an agricultural estate of tea?
- Which engineering company actually built the bridge on the River Kwai for David Lean's film?
- Which organisation commissioned Shyam Benegal to produce his television series Yatra?
- Which tranquiliser was nicknamed "Mother's little helper" as housewives commonly used it to cope with stress?
- Where was the first factory of the British East India Company set up?
- Which British mathematician designed an analytical engine, which was the forerunner of the digital computer?
- Who is the patron saint of ecology?
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