1. Cricket: Don Bradman scored maximum number of double centuries (12) while Sachin Tendulkar scored maximum number of centuries (48). 2. Cricket: Suresh Raina is the only Indian cricketer to score centuries in 3 formats of cricket – test, one day and T20. 3. Sports: Saina Nehwal will receive 2010 Rajiv Khel Ratna award. Her coach P. Gopichand was already honoured with the Dronacharya and Rajiv Khel Ratna awards. 4. National highway update: Chennai-Kolkata road: NH5 name will be changed to NH16. Pune-Hyderabad-Vijayawada-Machilipatnam: NH9 will be changed to NH65. Digamarru-Ongole road: NH 214-A name will be changed to 216. 5. Elections: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) lost its national party status. To get national party status, a party needs to be recognised as state party in at least 4 states. JD (U) lost state party status in Jharkhand while Samajwadi party lost status in Uttarakhand. MDMK lost state party status in Tamil Nadu. … [Read more...]
July 29: Quiz questions of the day
From this week, I will try to focus more on current affairs and will update latest general knowledge questions on regular basis. You can share latest quiz questions and answers through comments. General knowledge questions: 1. Total number of TV channels in India: 503. 2. Sound making instrument that gained popularity during 2010 FIFA world cup: Vuvuzela 3. 2014 FIFA world cup will be held in: Brazil (South America). Brazil previously hosted FIFA world cup in 1950. 4. Symbol for Indian rupee is designed by: D. Udaya Kumar. Sony decided to use new rupee logo in the logo of KBC4 (Kaun Banega Crorepati). Sony is expected to launch KBC4 on October 11, 2010 – birthday of show host, Amitabh Bachchan. 5. Cricket: Suresh Raina became the 9th Indian cricketer to score century on debut in test cricket. He scored century in his first test against Sri Lanka. Azharuddin scored centuries in his first 3 tests against England. 6. DTH: Dish TV is the number one DTH company in India with 62 lakh subscribers followed by Sun Direct DTH with 58 lakh subscribers. 7. Cricket: 2010 Champions league cricket will be held in South Africa from September 10, 2010. 10 teams will participate in the tournament. 8. Movies: Avatar is the number one movie in box office collections in the world cinema history. Avatar so far collected 273 crore dollars followed by Titanic with 183 crore dollars. 9. Mobile: Bharti Airtel is the number one telecom operator in India with 13.6 crore subscribers followed by Reliance mobile with 11.1 crore subscribers. 10. Cricket: Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara have highest 150+ scores in test … [Read more...]
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