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Lincoln was elected from the newly formed Republican Party. To which party did he belong before that?

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Lincoln was very good in a contact sport and is enshrined in the Hall of Fame for that sport. Name the sport.

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What is the relevance of the phrase ‘You sockdologizing old man-trap’ in the life of Lincoln?

Answer : It was the line from ‘Our American Cousin’ that acted as a cue for John Wilkes Booth to fire the shots at the President

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If the famous President’s memorial is in Washington DC, where is his resting place?

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Which national holiday did he establish in 1863 during the Civil War?

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On May 22, 1849, Lincoln was given Patent No. 6469 and is the only U.S. President to have a patent. What did he devise?

Answer : A buoying vessel to lift boats over shoals

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Apart from Kansas, which two States were admitted to the Union during Lincoln’s presidency?

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What does the landmark 13 Amendment, passed by Congress shortly before Lincoln’s death, deal with?

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On which lunar ‘sea’ did Lunokhod 1 land?

Answer : Mare Imbrium or Sea of Rains

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How did Lunokhod 1 stay warm during the frigid lunar night?

Answer : A polonium-210 radioisotope heater unit

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How long (in Earth days) did Lunokhod 1 operate on the Moon?

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How far did Lunokhod 1 travel on the lunar surface?

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How many high-resolution panoramas did Lunokhod 1 send back to Earth?

Answer : 206 high-resolution panoramas

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Which is the space mission that had carried out the world’s first successful planetary rover to the Moon?

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In 2025, for the first time in Nobel history, four faculty of which US institution have won the award in a single year

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Which is the latest of the six categories, being added in 1968, and who established it?

Answer : Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden’s central bank)

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The last time there was no Nobel Prize for a category was in 1972. Which category?

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Which category has had the most laureates with 232 since inception, including 40 times of having three people sharing the award

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Who was the last individual to win a second Nobel prize and in which category?

Answer : K. Barry Sharpless in Chemistry (2001 and 2022)

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What is common to these five Peace laureates: Carl von Ossietzky, Aung San Suu Kyi, Liu Xiaobo, Ales Bialiatski and Narges Mohammadi?

Answer : They were all under arrest at the time of the award of the Nobel Prize

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What is the surname of the only siblings to have won the Nobel Prize, with one sharing the 1969 Economics prize and the other the 1973 Medicine prize?

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Who is the Asian who declined the prize in 1973?

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After a nearly yearlong journey, NASA’s robotic spacecraft landed on Mars on this day in 1976 and began relaying information about the planet’s atmosphere and soil as well as colour photographs of the rocky surface. What was the spacecraft called?

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This American architect, has been called a “father of skyscrapers”. He was born on this day in 1856. The phrase “form follows function” is attributed to him. Who was he? 

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This Indian author known for her books The Inheritance of Loss and Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard was born on this day in 1971. Who is she?

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Which country officially became independent from the United Kingdom on this in 1971? 

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This American poet and painter who first attracted attention, in an age of literary experimentation, for his unconventional punctuation and phrasing died on this day in 1962. Who was he? 

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What is the name of the 1946 film which Frank Capra directed, which is based on the short story “The Greatest Gift”?

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The Titanic wreck was found about 370 miles (595 km) off the coast of which place in Canada in the early hours of September 1, 1985?

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Name the two institutions involved in the discovery mission.

Answer : USA’s Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the French Research Institute for Exploration of the Sea (IFREMER)

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Name the 16-foot (5-meter) submersible equipped with a remote-controlled camera that made the discovery and the images of which part of the ship was sent across first?

Answer : ‘Argo’ and the giant boilers

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What is the name given by scientists to the iron-eating microorganisms that are covering the wreckage?

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Contrary to popular belief that a gash caused by the iceberg collision led to the disaster, scientists have attributed what ‘prime’ reason may have contributed to the sinking?

Answer :  Low-quality steel or weak rivets

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Name the company that was granted permission in 1987 to retrieve artifacts from the wreckage.

Answer : Titanic Ventures, Inc. (later renamed R.M.S. Titanic, Inc.)

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In 2024, a bronze statuette of which goddess, which had been in the first-class lounge, was located on the ocean floor?

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Who is the American explorer credited with leading the team that discovered the remains of the ill-fated liner?