SENJAM RAJ SEKHAR

ANYTHING GOES 1. Which payment company that was a pioneer in UPI was acquired by Flipkart in 2016? ( Commander G. R. Balakrishnan ( Retd), Chennai) 2. Anasuya Sarabhai, from the industrialist family of Sarabhai in Gujarat, has a unique distinction, quite different from her wealthy roots. What was it? ( U. N. Murthy, Secunderabad)

3. How many sides would you find in an icosagon object? ( Partha Sarkar, Kolkata)

4. In 1942, De Beers, the South African company that mines diamonds, gave 16 diamonds as a gift to an Indian. Who and why? ( Philip Joshua, Secunderabad)

5. In the long, checkered history of first class cricket, the Holkar team in a 1946 Ranji trophy match established a world record which has not been equalled in any first class match even after 72 years. What record? ( B. K. Harinath, Mysuru)

6. Every year in April, in Prague, a battalion of history buffs don army uniforms and march on vintage American military vehicles. This is known as the Convoy of Liberty. What does it commemorate? ( Deepak Gomes, Kolkata)

7. William Shakespeare included the word ‘ Mathematics’ in a play and nowhere else. Name the play. ( Clue: only play where one animal also appeared in the title) ( Gargee Sarkar, PanpraKhatra, Bankura)

8. The mission of TRAFFIC, a joint initiative of WWF and IUCN, is to ensure that trade in wild plants and animals is not a threat to the conservation of nature. TRAFFIC is the acronym of what? ( Muhammed Arif, Mumbai)