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...]

13 GK bits and KBC 2011 questions

Indian finance minister Pranab Mukherjee

 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 car is the subject of book "Small wonder" published in 2010? Answer: Tata Nano. 4. Which shooter was honoured with Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna in August 2011? Answer: Gagan Narang. 5. Pranab Mukherjee presented his first union budget as Finance Minister in which Prime Minister's cabinet? Answer: Indira Gandhi. 6. In 1909, who translated the "Vande Mataram" into English which was published in the weekly "Karmayogin"? Answer: Sri Aurobindo.  General knowledge questions & answers: 1. Who discovered Thorium? Answer: The Swedish chemist Jons Jakob Berzelius in 1828. 2. Which country has the maximum representation of women in Parliament? Answer: Rwanda. 3. What is the name of the nano remote sensing satellite built by IIT Kanpur students? Answer: Jugnu. 4. What is India's largest brackish water lake? Answer: Chilika (Orissa). 5. Who was the world's richest man in 1937? Answer: Seventh Nizam of Hyderabad. 6. SEBI was established in which year? Answer: April 12, 1988. 7. The term "Silicon Valley: was first used by? Answer: Microelectronic News (1971).  … [Read more...]