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...]

Sports quiz: US Open Tennis quiz

 2011 US Open winners: Men's singles: Novak Djokovic (Serbia) – he defeated Rafael Nadal (Spain) in the final. Women's singles: Samantha Stosur (Australia) – she defeated Serena Williams (USA) in the final. Women's doubles: Lisa Raymond & Liezel Huber (USA). Men's doubles: Jurgen Melzer (Austria) and Philipp Petzschner (Germany).  Tennis quiz: 1. Who was the first Tennis player to win all four Grand Slam singles titles? Answer: Fred Perry. 2. Who won the most number of US Open men singles titles? Answer: John McEnroe. 3. Who won the most number of US Open women singles titles? Answer: Martina Navratilova. 4. Longest Tennis match in the history of US open Men's singles? Answer: Stefan Edberg Vs Michael Chang (1992). 5. Longest Tennis match in the history of US open women's singles? Answer: Samantha Stosur Vs Nadia Petrova (2011). 6. Longest Tennis match in the history of Professional Tennis? Answer: John Isner Vs Nicolas Mahut (2010 Wimbledon). 7. Oldest Tennis Grand Slam women's doubles champion? Answer: Lisa Raymond (USA). 38-year old Lisa Raymond won the 2011 US Women's doubles and broke the record of Billie Jean King. 8. Who played in most singles finals at US open? Answer: Bill Tilden. Pete Sampras played in most finals in open era. 9. Who played in most successive singles finals? Answer: Ivan Lendil. He reached the finals of US open from 1982-89. 10. Who reached semi-finals in most successive tournaments at US … [Read more...]