Current affairs and GK questions

Vivek Express

 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 to be posthumously awarded the F1 driver's title? 6. Who is the first female head of state in Latin America to win a second term in power? 7. Who is the winner of 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature? 8. Who is the founder of State Bank of Mysore? 9. Which film is India's official entry for next year's Oscars? 10. Who is the Marathon race world record holder? 11. First African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize? 12. Who is the winner of 2011 Booker Prize? 13. Who scored the fastest goal in the history of Barcelona-Real Madrid football games? Quiz answers: 1. Vivek Express (Dibrugarh-Kanyakumari). Train takes 82.5 hours to travel 4,286 km. 2. 1957. 3. Gopinath Bordoloi. 4. Virginia Rometty. 5. Jochen Rindt (1970). 6. Argentina President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. 7. Tomas Transformer (Sweden). 8. M. Visvesvaraya. 9. Malayalam movie "Adaminte Makan Abu". 10. Patrick Makau (Kenya). 11. Kenyan woman Wangari Maathai (2004 Nobel Peace Prize). 12. Julian Barnes for The Sense of an Evening. 13. Karim Benzema (Real Madrid).  … [Read more...]

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 Chappell. 4. Who is the new Chief Minister of Uttarakhand? Answer: Bhuvan Chand Khanduri (BJP). 5. Which company is the title sponsor of 2011 Champions League T20 Cricket tournament? Answer: Nokia. 6. Who is the new IPL Chairman? Answer: Rajiv Shukla. N. Srinivasan will be the new BCCI chairman.  History quiz: 1. National anthem was (Jana Gana Mana) first sung at? Answer: Calcutta session of Indian National Congress on December 27, 1911. 2. Jana Gana Mana was officially adopted as the Indian National anthem on? Answer: January 24, 1950. 3. Who translated National anthem into Hindi? Answer: Abid Ali. 4. Who translated National anthem (from Bengali) into English? Answer: Rabindranath Tagore. 5. Who composed the music for present Indian National anthem? Answer: Captain Ramsingh Thakur. 6. Vande Mataram poem was taken from which novel? Answer: Anandamath – written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay in 1882. 7. Which Indian won Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913? Answer: Rabindranath Tagore - first Asian to win Nobel prize. 8. Who was the first Municipal Commissioner of Bombay? Answer: Arthur … [Read more...]