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20 GK questions and answers

  20 GK bits and answers:   1. When was the first ATM opened for business?   2. Which Hockey star played the most number of international matches for India?   3. Who founded the Engineering firm L&T?   4. Who founded Mormonism?   5. Who is the winner of 2011 Dadasaheb Phalke award?   [...]

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Sachin Tendulkar with wife Anjali and children

Cricket quiz: 10 questions and answers

  10 cricket quiz questions and answers:     1. Who scored the highest number of half-centuries in Test cricket?   2. Which team scored the highest number of runs in an One-day match?   3. Who are the double centurions in one day cricket?   4. Who hit the highest number of boundaries in [...]

17 GK questions and answers

  17 quiz questions:   1. What is the scientific name of “Purple Frog” which was recently discovered by Indian scientist Biju near Idukki in Kerala?   2. First ever TV commercial is…   3. What is the capital of Slovakia?   4. Founding day of the Republic of China?   5. Who invented instant [...]

Indian cricketer Suresh Raina

15 GK questions and answers

  15 Quiz questions and answers:   1. Who holds the world record for Steeplechase event?   2. What is the full form of FAX?     3. Who is the first Indian cricketer to score a century in T20 cricket?   4. What is the full form of BT cotton?   5. Who is [...]

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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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: [...]