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...]

18 Current affairs and GK questions

 Current affairs: 1. Indian Hockey team won the inaugural Asian Champions Trophy by defeating Pakistan in the final. 2. Who is the author of books "The White Tiger" & "Last Man in Tower"? Answer: Arvind Adiga. 3. Who owns the copyright for "Happy Birthday to you" song? Answer: Warner Chappell. 4. Who is the new Chief Minister of Uttarakhand? Answer: Bhuvan Chand Khanduri (BJP). 5. Which company is the title sponsor of 2011 Champions League T20 Cricket tournament? Answer: Nokia. 6. Who is the new IPL Chairman? Answer: Rajiv Shukla. N. Srinivasan will be the new BCCI chairman.  History quiz: 1. National anthem was (Jana Gana Mana) first sung at? Answer: Calcutta session of Indian National Congress on December 27, 1911. 2. Jana Gana Mana was officially adopted as the Indian National anthem on? Answer: January 24, 1950. 3. Who translated National anthem into Hindi? Answer: Abid Ali. 4. Who translated National anthem (from Bengali) into English? Answer: Rabindranath Tagore. 5. Who composed the music for present Indian National anthem? Answer: Captain Ramsingh Thakur. 6. Vande Mataram poem was taken from which novel? Answer: Anandamath – written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay in 1882. 7. Which Indian won Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913? Answer: Rabindranath Tagore - first Asian to win Nobel prize. 8. Who was the first Municipal Commissioner of Bombay? Answer: Arthur … [Read more...]