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? Answer: Hyundai (Hyundai Heavy Industries). 2. Which famous Indian king’s name means "painless, without sorrow" in Sanskrit? Answer: Ashoka Maurya or Ashoka the Great (The emblem of the modern Republic of India is an adaptation of the Lion Capital of Ashoka.) 3. Whose autobiography is named as the “Long Walk to Freedom” published in 1994? Answer: Nelson Mandela. 4. Which was the first thirty minute cartoon to be aired during prime time? Answer: Flintstones. 5. For how long did the “Hundred years’ War” continue? Answer: 116 (There are also some sources which say it went on for 117 years). 6. Which is the world’s largest religious building? Answer: Angkor Wat in Cambodia which is also depicted on the Cambodian National Flag. 7. How do we know “Edvige Antonia Albina Maino” better as? Answer: Sonia Gandhi. 8. This element’s name had been a dispute between the Russian and American scientists as there were no foolproof evidences regarding as to who discovered this element first. The Russians called it kurchatovium, named after Igor Kurchatov, until 1997. Then IUPAC gave it an official name which was different from this, thus in favour of the American scientists. Which is this … [Read more...]