Gen Quiz

1. The son of Pandit Brij Nath and Moona Devi, he founded a highly influential, English-newspaper, The Leader published from Allahabad in 1909.He was also the Chairman of Hindustan Times from 1924 to 1946. His efforts resulted in the launch of its Hindi edition named Hindustan Dainik in 1936. He started the tradition of Aarti at Har ki Pauri Haridwar to the sacred Ganga river which is performed till date.This was inline with the Ganesha Festival started by Bal Gangadhar Tilak in Maharashtra to organise the masses. Name this personality.
2.      A precursor of the modern X is mentioned in several ancient Indian works. A 920 CE Kannada language work by Shivakotiacharya mentions "iddalige", prepared only from an urad dal (black lentil) batter. Chavundaraya II, the author of the earliest available Kannada encyclopaedia, Lokopakara (c. 1025 CE), describes the preparation of this food by soaking urad dal (black gram) in buttermilk, ground to a fine paste, and mixed with the clear water of curd and spices. The Western Chalukya king and scholar Someshwara III, reigning in the area now called Karnataka, included an X recipe in his encyclopedia, Manasollasa(1130 CE). This Sanskrit-language work describes the food as iddarika. Name X.
3. What word owes its origin to the ancient Romans to describe someone you employed to handle your confidential business? 
4. What word owes its popularity to an opera by a little known French composer Edmond Audran, about a farm girl who would bring good luck to whoever had possession of her, provided that she remained chaste? 
5. From the world of technology, where would you come across something that resembles a mountain bluebird with a dash of hummingbird thrown in?
6. In the early days, it was believed that all seeds of the carob plant                           (Ceratonia siliqua) had unusually low variability in mass. Which unit came into existence from this belief?
7. Who claimed that his equations came to him in his dreams, whispered by his village goddess of Namagiri? He was the first research scholar of the Madras University (the post was created for him).
8. Who recognised heavy element particles in cosmic rays which he called 'mesons'? 
9. Which world record did Alan Eustace break on October 24, 2014, and who held it earlier?
10. This person won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1954, for his research in the nature of chemical bonds and its application in finding the structure of complex substances; and for Peace in 1962 for his activism supporting the nuclear test-ban treaty. Name this scientist who is the only person to receive two unshared Nobel Prizes.

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