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Showing posts with label GK. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

''Four more years''

Who is TIME mag's 2012 person of the year?
                                                    Ans - Barack Obama

Migrants

Which day has been proclaimed by UN as international migrants day?
                                          Ans - December 18

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Sitar

Which Indian musician was nominated for academy award for his original music score for the movie ''Gandhi''?
                                          Ans - Pandit Ravi Shankar

Thursday, November 29, 2012

iPod

Who is known as the ''father of iPod''?
                                               Ans - Tony Fadell

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Diabetes

Which day is world diabetes day?
                                                               Ans - November 14

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Nobel for EU

The 2012 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the European Union.
The EU consists of how many members?
                                          Ans - 27 member states

Disaster

-Name the natural disaster that hit USA recently-
                                                Ans - Sandy cyclone

Twice lucky

-Who is the first women to win Booker prize twice?
                                                           Ans - Hilary Mantel

Thursday, October 4, 2012

UNAIDS

-Who is the newly appointed goodwill ambassador of UNAIDS(United Nations programme on HIV/AIDS)?
                                                           Ans - Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Marx & History

-Name the author of ''Age of extremes" and ''how to change the world"-
                                            Ans - Eric Hobsbawm (passed away recently) 

Saturday, September 22, 2012

Khel Ratna

-who was the first recipient of Rajive Gandhi khel ratna award?
                                                      Ans - Viswanathan Anand

Oscar entry

-which film has been nominated as India's entry at Oscars in foreign film category?
                                                Ans - Barfi

God particle

-what is known as ''God particle''?
                                                 Ans - Higgs Boson

ODI cricketer

-Who is the one day international cricketer of the year(2012)-
                                                     Ans - Virat Kohli

Nobel & Oscar

-Name the person who won both Nobel prize and Oscar award-
                                               Ans - Bernard Shaw

Under-19 world cup

-Under whose captaincy India won the under-19 cricket world cup 2012?
                                                 Ans - Unmukt chand

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Joseph Anton

-Who is the author of ''Joseph Anton''?
                                                  Ans - Salman Rushdie

Saturday, September 15, 2012

Big Ben

-The iconic clock tower (commonly known as BIG BEN) of Britain's parliament was officially renamed as -   

Ans - Elizabeth Tower (in honor of the Queen-Elizabeth 2nd-for 60th year on the British throne.

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Libya

-Name the U.S ambassador to Libya, who was killed in a rocket attack in Benghazi-
                                              Ans - Christopher Stevens

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

The cooperative dairy movement

-Who is the father of white revolution and known as ''milkman of India''?
                                                      Ans - Verghese Kurien