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Q1=   Who has written a book titled Aadhaar: A Biometric History of India's 12-digit Revolution?
Ans-   Shankkar Aiyar

Q2=   An Industrialist obtained his first pilot license on Feb 10,1929 in India. Who is that?
Ans-  JRD Tata

Q3=    Which is the fourth longest railway tunnel in Asia?
Ans-    It is constructed through the Pir Panjal mountain range. It is 11.2 km. long.

Q4=     Which is the famous biggest fall in Courtallam in Tamilnadu?
Ans-     Peraruvi which is 60 meters high.

Q5=      In 1990 making the pair, the first father and son climbed Mount Everest. Who are they?
Ans-     Peter Hillary and Sir Edmund

Q6=      When was the first actual computer " bug " identified?
Ans-      In 1947. It was stuck in a Harvard Mark II computer.

Q7=      When was the Taj Mahal designated as a UNESCO World Heritage site?
Ans-      -In 1983

Q8=      Which animals have the anatomical structure that enables them to roar?
Ans-      Tiger, leopard, and lion.

Q9=      Who is the oldest spaceman to fly to space?
Ans-      American spaceman John Glenn

Q10=    Who was the first woman [1903]to win a Nobel prize in chemistry?
Ans-     Marie Curie, for the isolation of the elements radium and polonium      

Q11=    Who was the first man to build a modern computer?
Ans-     Charles Babbage

Q12=     Who was the first to publish an algorithm to be executed by the computing machine, making her the first programmer.
Ans-      Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter at 27

Q13=    Who was the first woman to be President [1960]?
Ans-      Srimavo Bandarnaike president [1960]  

Q14=     In which country mother-daughter was P.M  and President. ?[1994]
Ans-      Srimavo Bandaranaike P.M [1994] and her daughter Chandrika Kumaratunga was the                              president [1994]
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