Kaun Banega Crorepati | Quiz Questions

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...]

Kaun Banega Crorepati quiz questions

KBC quiz questions: September 12, 2011: 1. Which hand signal is depicted on the reverse of the current Indian one-rupee coin? Answer: Thumbs up. 2. Father of which leader has been the Deputy Prime Minister of India? Answer: Meira Kumar (Babu Jagjivan Ram daughter). 3. Kisan Ghat is the Samadhi Sthal of which leader? Answer: Former Prime Minister Choudhary Charan Singh. 4. Which queen of Magadha ordered that Ashoka's son and heir, Kunal's eyes should be 'torn out'? Answer: Tishya-Rakshita. General knowledge questions & Answers: 1. Spice which is known as the Indian Saffron also called the "yellow root" in many languages? Answer: Turmeric. 2. Which city in India is called the "Yellow City"? Answer: Erode (Reason: It's the world's largest producer of turmeric and hence is also called the "Turmeric City".) 3. Alexander's ferocious favorite horse whom he personally trained for warfare and would never fight without it, he also named a city after this horse after it's death. Name the Horse? Answer: Bucephalus. 4. The cuckoo clock was invented in this country, Adidas, the sports wear company is from this country and Albert Einstein was born in this country. Name the country? Answer: Germany. 5. Where would you find MCC Museum, the world's oldest sporting museum ? Answer: Lord's Cricket Ground. 6. Which endangered animal does the Gir National Park protect? Answer: Asiatic Lions 7. Who is the creator of the Amar Chitra Katha series ? Answer: Anant … [Read more...]

13 GK bits and KBC 2011 questions