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Spectrum frequency and uses

Source: Business Line.   Spectrum frequency and uses:   S.No Spectrum frequency Used by Uses  1.  540 Khz  AM Radio  Used by All India Radio  2.  5.95 Mhz-26.1 Mhz  Short Wave Radio  Radio stations to transmit over long distance  3.  54-88 Mhz  Doordarshan  Channels 2-6  4.  88-108 Mhz  FM Radio  FM Radio channels  5.  145-860 [...]

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Vivek Express

Current affairs and GK questions

  Current affairs & General knowledge questions:   1. What is the name of India’s longest train service?     2. In which year, decimal system replaced the Anna?   3. Who was the first Chief Minister of Assam?   4. Who is the new CEO of IBM?   5. Who is the only driver [...]

Technology and IT quiz: 24 questions and answers

  KBC questions and answers:   1. Which country keeps time 15 minutes ahead of Indian standard time?   Answer: Nepal.   2. Charaka was an ayurvedic physician to which king of ancient India?   Answer: Kanishka.     Technology quiz questions & answers:   1. What is the full form of T9?   Answer: [...]

18 General knowledge questions and answers

  Current affairs:   Kannada poet and playwright Chandrashekar Kambar has been honoured with the Jnanpith Award. Kambhar is the eight Kannada writer to get Jnanpith award.   2008 Jnanith award winner: Urdu writer Akhlaq Mohammad Khan Shahryar.     18 Quiz questions & answers:   1. Which company is the world’s largest ship builder? [...]

10 GK questions and answers

  1. The only English alphabet that does not appear in the names of any compound throughout the periodic table?   Answer: Letter ‘J’.   2. What was the gold colour version football, used in the Finals of FIFA 2010 called?   Answer: JO’ BULANI (REASON: As the finals was held in Johannesburg commonly nicknamed [...]

Indian finance minister Pranab Mukherjee

13 GK bits and KBC 2011 questions

  Kaun Banega Crorepati Q&A – September 15, 2011:   1. What act was passed in 1956 by the Indian Parliament to protect sexually exploited women?   Answer: SITA – Suppression of Immoral Traffic Act.   2. Which National Park was initially established in 1936 as Hailey National Park?   Answer: Corbett.   3. Which [...]

Sports quiz: US Open Tennis quiz

  2011 US Open winners:   Men’s singles: Novak Djokovic (Serbia) – he defeated Rafael Nadal (Spain) in the final.   Women’s singles: Samantha Stosur (Australia) – she defeated Serena Williams (USA) in the final.   Women’s doubles: Lisa Raymond & Liezel Huber (USA).   Men’s doubles: Jurgen Melzer (Austria) and Philipp Petzschner (Germany).   [...]

ICC Cricket awards 2011

  England batsman Alastair Cook and Jonathan Trott won the ICC Test player and player of the year awards respectively. Sri Lankan Kumara Sangakkara won the ICC One Day player of the year award.   Aleem Dar won the Umpire of the year award.   Devendra Bishoo (West Indies) won the emerging player of the [...]

Kaun Banega Crorepati quiz questions

  KBC quiz questions: September 12, 2011:   1. Which hand signal is depicted on the reverse of the current Indian one-rupee coin?   Answer: Thumbs up.   2. Father of which leader has been the Deputy Prime Minister of India?   Answer: Meira Kumar (Babu Jagjivan Ram daughter).   3. Kisan Ghat is the [...]

18 Current affairs and GK questions

  Current affairs:   1. Indian Hockey team won the inaugural Asian Champions Trophy by defeating Pakistan in the final.   2. Who is the author of books “The White Tiger” & “Last Man in Tower”?   Answer: Arvind Adiga.   3. Who owns the copyright for “Happy Birthday to you” song?   Answer: Warner [...]

Indian woman President Pratibha Patil

25 Quiz questions on Indian women

  Indian women quiz:   1. Who is the longest serving President of Indian National Congress?   Answer: Sonia Gandhi (1998-present).   2. Who is the first woman President of India?     Answer: Pratibha Patil.   3. Who is the first Indian woman Badminton player to reach singles quarterfinals at the Olympics?   Answer: [...]

KBC Quiz questions: September 7, 2011

  Name change: Parliament of India passed the Orissa (Alteration of Name) Bill to change the name of state of ‘Orissa’ to ‘Odisha’ and the Constitution (113th Amendment) Bill to change the ‘Oriya’ language name to ‘Odia’ (8th schedule).   Kaun Banega Crorepati questions & answers:   1. In 1858, which freedom fighter attained martyrdom [...]

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi

KBC Questions and answers: September 6, 2011

  Kaun Banega Crorepati quiz game show Q & A:   1. The middle name of which Chief Minister is “Damodardas”?     Answer: Narendra Modi (Gujarat Chief Minister).   2. According to the Puranas, which king was cursed that he would die of a serpent bite?   Answer: Parikshit (grandson of Arjun).   3. [...]

Current affairs and GK questions: September 6

  15 quiz questions with answers:   1. Who is the President of World Bank?   Answer: Robert Zoellick.   2. Total number of species on earth?   Answer: 87 lakh (65 lakh species on land and 22 lakh species in the ocean).   3. Which country is the largest producer of sugar?   Answer: [...]

Kaun Banega Crorepati quiz questions: September 5, 2011

  KBC 2011 quiz game show questions and answers:   1. Which dyeing technique for fabrics uses wax?   Answer: Batik.   2. Third day of month of “Baisakhi” is called as?   Answer: Akshay.   3. What in India is divided into two types – “Deewani” and “Foujdari”?   Answer: Adalat.   4. Who [...]

AP Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy

KBC, GK and Current affairs questions

  Kaun Banega Crorepati on September 1, 2011:   1. Who holds the record of being at the number 1 spot in the ATP rankings for the maximum number of weeks?   Answer: Pete Sampras (USA).   2. Who is the author of the Pulitzer prize winning book “The Emperor of all Maladies”?   Answer: Siddhartha [...]

IOC day is September 1

Current affairs quiz: September 1, 2011

  Current affairs:   1. Indian Oil (IOC) day is celebrated on?     Answer: September 1. Indian Oil Company was established on June 30, 1959. It was renamed Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. on September 1, 1964 following the merger of Indian Refineries Ltd. with it.   2. LIC day is celebrated on?   Answer: [...]

Kaun Banega Crorepati quiz game show questions and answers

  KBC 2011 Game show questions & answers:   1. To which God, is the Padmanabhaswamy temple, located in Thiruvananthapuram, dedicated?   Answer: Lord Vishnu.   2. Who was Time Magazine’s “Person of the year” in 2010?   Answer: Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook CEO)   3. Who became the Lokayukta of Karnataka in August, 2011?   [...]