15 GK questions and answers

Indian cricketer Suresh Raina

 15 Quiz questions and answers: 1. Who holds the world record for Steeplechase event? 2. What is the full form of FAX?  3. Who is the first Indian cricketer to score a century in T20 cricket? 4. What is the full form of BT cotton? 5. Who is the "father of Hydrogen bomb"? 6. Who is the first AFMC graduate to receive all three top honours – Sword of Honour, President's Gold Medal and the Kalinga trophy? 7. Indian National Congress (INC) was founded on? 8. St.Stephen's Day is celebrated on? 9. Who is the only cricketer to score a century and take 5 wickets on test debut? 10. According to mythology, what is the vahana of Kartikeya? 11. Who is the first woman to win Jnanpith award? 12. Which country is the largest producer of cotton? 13. Who sent the first Christmas card? 14. What is the capital of Mozambique? 15. Who holds the world record for fastest hundred in T20 cricket? Quiz answers: 1. Saif Saaeed Shaheen (Qatar) – 7:53:63 at Brussels in 2004. Brimin Kipruto's time of 7:53:64 is the second-best performance in history. 2. Fascimile Transmission 3. Suresh Raina 4. Bacillus Thuringiensis (BT) 5. Edward Teller 6. Shikha Awasthi (Medical cadet of Armed Forces Medical College) 7. December 28, 1885 8. December 26 9. Bruce Taylor (New Zealand) against India at Eden Gardens in Kolkata 10. Peacock 11. Ashapurna Devi (Bengal) for Pratham Pratisruti 12. China. India is in second … [Read more...]

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...]