KBC questions and answers: 1. Which country keeps time 15 minutes ahead of Indian standard time? Answer: Nepal. 2. Charaka was an ayurvedic physician to which king of ancient India? Answer: Kanishka. Technology quiz questions & answers: 1. What is the full form of T9? Answer: Text on 9 Keys developed by the Tegic Communications. 2. Which famous company acquired Sun Microsystems? Answer: ORACLE. 3. What is the Google headquarters called? Answer: Googleplex (reference to googolplex, the name given to the large number 1010100, or 10googol). 4. It was started in 1984 with an initial mission of building indigenous supercomputers in India headquartered at Pune presently. What are we talking about? Answer: C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing). 5. Which is the famous video game company whose name when translated from Japanese to English roughly gives the phrase “leave luck to heaven”? This company was initially started as a producer of playing cards. Which is this famous company? Answer: Nintendo founded by Nintendo Koppai. 6. What is the full form of “DOCOMO”? Answer: Do Communication Over The Mobile Network. 7. Jerry Yang and David Filo founded this company. This company gets its name from a fictional character of Gulliver’s travels. Which is this famous company? Answer: YAHOO!. 8. It is a line of consumer-oriented laptop computers designed by Lenovo. The computers were put on the market in January 2008 as entirely Lenovo products, and were not produced by IBM. What are … [Read more...]
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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...]
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