1 Starting with a question on Mother Teresa. She was widely regarded as Albanian, but if you were to visit her birthplace today, which country would you be visiting?

2 She was born in the first century AD and first married to Philip the Tetrarch of Iturea. After his death, she married Aristobulus of Chalcis and became his queen. She is, however, remembered for something she demanded and has been immortalised by Oscar Wilde and composer Richard Strauss. Identify her.

3 Sydenham’s Chorea is a physical condition characterised by uncoordinated jerking of the hands, face and feet. It’s usually a childhood infection, and connected with rheumatic fever. By what name was it more commonly known?

4 Pranchiyettan & the Saint is a 2010 Malayalam film starring Mammooty and is all about a conversation between a rice merchant and a Christian saint. Which widely-revered Christian saint spoke to Pranchiyettan?

5 Sufi mystic Amir Khusro is a towering figure in Indian music and is regarded as the father of the qawwali as well as the inventor of the sitar and the tabla. Which great Sufi saint was his spiritual leader?

6 In 2014, Afton Elaine Burton was affianced to an 80-year-old currently serving concurrent life-terms at Corcoran State Prison in California. The prisoner called it off in 2015, because he thought she just wanted to make money displaying his body after his death. Name this prisoner, incarcerated for crimes committed in the summer of 1969.

7 Gowri, his brother Mohan and gang members Eldi, Shivaji, Jayavelu, Rajaraman, Ravi, Palani and Paramasivam were convicted for a series of murders in Chennai in the late ’80s. By what name was Gowri better known?

8 Scholars generally agree that he was born to Hulsi and Atmaram Dubey in a village in Rajapur on the banks of the Yamuna in the 16th century. But he wrote his most famous work and spent most of his life in another city, where he established a very famous temple and also has a ghat named after him. Identify this famous writer.

9 Which American homoeopath, who murdered his wife Cora Henrietta and tried to escape from London to the Americas, became the first convict to be captured by the use of wireless telegraphy?

10 Which actor’s popularity as Simon Templar in the ’60s television series The Saint, helped him get an even more famous role in a film series in the ’70s?

Answers

1. The Republic of Macedonia. When she was born, Skopje was a part of the Ottoman empire

2. Salome, the daughter of Herod II and infamous for demanding the head of John the Baptist

3. Saint Vitus Dance. A Sicilian saint, whose birthday people traditionally celebrated by dancing before his statue. The name of the disease caught on as a result

4.Saint Francis of Assisi. The film was a reasonable hit

5.Nizamuddin Auliya of Delhi

6.Charles Manson

7. Auto Shankar. He was sentenced to death and hanged in 1995

8. Tulsidas, who wrote the Ramcharitmanas. Tulsidas ghat and Sankat Mochan temple are two of Varanasi’s better-known tourist attractions

9. Doctor Harvey Crippen, who was escaping on the Montrose in 1910. He was captured in Canada

10.Roger Moore, who starred in seven Bond films between 1973 and 1985

Joy Bhattacharjya is a quizmaster and Project Director, FIFA U-17 World Cup

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