15 quiz questions and answers: 1. Which of the following country is not sharing border with Afghanistan? A. Turkmenistan B. Uzbekistan C. Kazakhstan D. Tajikistan Answer: Kazakhstan 2. Who is the author of the book “Decision Points”? Answer: George W. Bush 3. Who is the painter of famous works “Young Girls” and “South Indian Villagers”? Answer: Amrita Shergil (India) 4. Who painted famous picture “Mouline Rougue Series”? Answer: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (France) 5. First Muslim Chief Election commissioner of India? Answer: S.Y. Quraishi 6. Scientific name of Saffron – expensive spice? Answer: Crocus sativus 7. Who was the first Dalit President of India? Answer: K.R. Narayanan (1997) 8. Which country suffered worst ever inflation in the last 100 years? Answer: Hungary in 1946 – Prices were doubled once in every 16 hours. Zimbabwe suffered worst inflation in 2008. 9. Which is the Asia’s largest residential university? Answer: Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in Varanasi 10. Where Gautam Buddha delivered his first sermon? Answer: Sarnath (Uttar Pradesh) 11. Who was the first Dalit Chief Justice of India? Answer: K.G. Balakrishnan (2007) 12. Who was the first Asian to win Nobel Prize in economics? Answer: Amartya Sen (India) 13. Which country is the largest producer of Apple fruits? Answer: China … [Read more...]
20 quiz bits on inventors
20 Quiz questions on inventions: 1. Who invented the localizer antenna system for radio navigation? 2. Who was the inventor of the world’s first disposable cell phone? 3. Who is credited with the invention of the fax machine? 4. Who do we owe the telephone to? 5. Who is the inventor of World Wide Web and HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language)? 6. What did Louis Braille invent? 7. Who was the brain behind the most popular game in America, Baseball? 8. Which invention is Claude Chappe famous for? 9. Who made our lives easy by inventing the dishwasher? 10. Who is known as the ‘founding father of genetic engineering’? 11. Name the famous astronomer who proved that the sun is stationary at the center of the solar system. 12. Who discovered radium? 13. Who invented bandaids? 14. Who was the first person to develop a blood bank? 15. What is Michael Faraday famous for? 16. Who is the brain behind home diabetes test? 17. What did King Camp Gillette invent? 18. Who started Hallmark Cards? 19. Who is the creator of Barbie doll? 20. Name the inventor of the artificial kidney dialysis machine. Quiz Answers: 1. Andrew Alford 2. Randice-Lisa Altschul 3. Alexander Bain 4. Alexander Graham Bell 5. Tim Berners-Lee 6. Braille Printing 7. Alexander J. Cartwright 8. The first non-electric telegraph 9. Josephine Garis … [Read more...]
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