1) Which of the following is true of Louis Mountbatten? a) First Attorney General of independent India b) First Governor General of independent India c) First President independent India d) First Prime Minister of independent India 2) When was Louis Mountbatten born? a) 5 March 1896 b) 25 June 1900 c) 3 July 1904 d) 7 December 1902 3) Where was Louis Mountbatten born? a) Hanover b) Berlin c) Dublin d) Windsor

1) How much was Charles Dickens paid when he worked at Warren’s Blacking Factory at the age of twelve? a) One pound a week b) One guinea a week c) Six shillings a week d) Ten shillings a week 2) What did Charles Dickens teach himself after buying Gurney’s Brachgraphy? a) Typewriting b) Shorthand c) Telegraph d) Music 3) With whom Charles Dickens had a love affair that ended in 1833? a) Maria Beadnell b) Dora Winter c) Flora Copperfield d) Jill Smith

1) Who won mixed doubles championship in Australian Open 2009? a) Marcelo Meto, Alize Cornet b) Daniel Nestor, Aleksandra Wozniak c) Lukas Dlouhy, Iveta Besenova d) Mahesh Bhupati, Sania Mirza 2) Who were runners up in mixed doubles championship in Australian Open 2009? a) Wesley Moodie, Patty Schnyder b) Jurgen Metzer, Dominika Cibulkova c) Tommy Robredo, Anabel Medina Garriques d) Andy Ram, Nathalie Dechy 3) Who won men’s doubles championship in Australian Open 2009? a) Mardy Fish, John Isner b) Simone Boleli, Andreas Seppi c) Michael Bryan, Robert Bryan d) Leander Paes, Lukas Dlouhy

1) What is the approximate number of islands that comprise the Philippines? a) 6,000 b) 7,000 c) 8,000 d) 9,000 2) When did the Philippines become independent? a) 4 July 1776 b) 4 July 1946 c) 14 August 1947 d) 1 January 1984 3) Which country had the Philippines as its colony from 1898 to 1946, except for some years during World War II? a) Portugal b) USA c) UK d) Belgium

1. Who after she had a heart-lung transplantation started craving for beer, green peppers and chicken nuggets, favourite foods of her donor, and wrote the book “A Change of Heart”? a) Agatha Christie b) Barbara Cartland c) Claire Syliva d) Jane Austen 2. Who wrote “Molecules of Emotion: Why You Feel the Way You Feel” and said memories are stored not only in the brain but extend to the whole body? a) Candace Pert b) Nathaniel Hawthorne c) George Bernard Shaw d) Anthony Byron 3. Who are the authors of “The Living Energy Universe” proposing universal living memory? a) Charles and Mary Lamb b) Gary Schwartz and Linda Russek c) Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre d) Philip Hughes and Jean Danielou