1. Which is the second-largest city in West Bengal?
Answer: Asansol
2. Who won the title of Miss World 2024?
Answer: Krystyna Pyszkova (Czech Republic)
3. Who is regarded as the pioneer of blank verse in Bengali literature?
Answer: Michael Madhusudan Dutt
4. Who was the first Bengali writer to receive the Sahitya Akademi Award?
Answer: Jibanananda Das
5. Which Viceroy of India proposed the construction of the Victoria Memorial in memory of Queen Victoria?
Answer: Lord Curzon
6. How many wildlife sanctuaries are there in West Bengal?
Answer: 15
7. In which year was the Battle of Plassey fought?
Answer: 1757
8. Who was the first Chancellor of the University of Calcutta?
Answer: Lord Canning
9. Who was the first Indian woman to swim across the English Channel twice?
Answer: Bula Choudhury
10. Who founded Bengal Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals, India’s first pharmaceutical company?
Answer: Prafulla Chandra Roy