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...]

Technology and IT quiz: 24 questions and answers

 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...]