Current affairs: Kannada poet and playwright Chandrashekar Kambar has been honoured with the Jnanpith Award. Kambhar is the eight Kannada writer to get Jnanpith award. 2008 Jnanith award winner: Urdu writer Akhlaq Mohammad Khan Shahryar. 18 Quiz questions & answers: 1. Which company is the world’s largest ship builder? Answer: Hyundai (Hyundai Heavy Industries). 2. Which famous Indian king’s name means "painless, without sorrow" in Sanskrit? Answer: Ashoka Maurya or Ashoka the Great (The emblem of the modern Republic of India is an adaptation of the Lion Capital of Ashoka.) 3. Whose autobiography is named as the “Long Walk to Freedom” published in 1994? Answer: Nelson Mandela. 4. Which was the first thirty minute cartoon to be aired during prime time? Answer: Flintstones. 5. For how long did the “Hundred years’ War” continue? Answer: 116 (There are also some sources which say it went on for 117 years). 6. Which is the world’s largest religious building? Answer: Angkor Wat in Cambodia which is also depicted on the Cambodian National Flag. 7. How do we know “Edvige Antonia Albina Maino” better as? Answer: Sonia Gandhi. 8. This element’s name had been a dispute between the Russian and American scientists as there were no foolproof evidences regarding as to who discovered this element first. The Russians called it kurchatovium, named after Igor Kurchatov, until 1997. Then IUPAC gave it an official name which was different from this, thus in favour of the American scientists. Which is this … [Read more...]
10 GK questions and answers
1. The only English alphabet that does not appear in the names of any compound throughout the periodic table? Answer: Letter ‘J’. 2. What was the gold colour version football, used in the Finals of FIFA 2010 called? Answer: JO’ BULANI (REASON: As the finals was held in Johannesburg commonly nicknamed as Jo’Burg). 3. What is the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan called? Answer: Durand Line (It is named after Henry Mortimer Durand, the Foreign Secretary of British India at the time.) 4. What is named after the Brahmaputra River in India and Moskva River of Russia? Answer: BrahMos (A Supersonic Cruise Missile. It is the world's fastest cruise missile in operation. It can be launched from submarines, ships, aircraft or land.) 5. How do we know SAMPOORAN SINGH KALRA (an INDIAN lyricist, poet and director) better as? Answer: GULZAR SAAB (“Gulzar” is his pen name and he is a winner of an Oscar for Best Original Song, “Jai Ho” in Slumdog Millionaire) 6. Name the parent company of Rolls Royce Motor Cars. Answer: Bayerische Motoren Werke (BMW) (In English: “Bavarian Motor Works”. The circular blue and white BMW logo or roundel is portrayed by BMW as the movement of an aircraft propeller, to signify the white blades cutting through the blue sky) 7. Who is the current Governor of Reserve Bank of India? Answer: Dr. Duvvuri Subbarao (His term was to end in September 2011. But breaking from tradition, the Prime Minister's Office put out a statement announcing that Subbarao, a former finance secretary would now retire on September 4, 2013.) 8. Who took over the post of … [Read more...]
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