quiz by - pragyan yadav

BY- PRAGYAN YADAV

QUIZ

Question-1Identify?

Answer of Q.1He is Priyanka Gandhi’s son

Rehan Vadra who visited Parliament and witnessed Lok Sabha proceedings from the visitors’ gallery.

Question-2Who has sworn in for the

third term as the president of Syria?

Answer of Q.2Bashar Assad

Question-3Who is the UN Secretary

General?

Answer of Q.3Ban Ki-moon

Question-4In Parliamentary terminology

what does the term Zero Hour mean?

Answer of Q.4This period starts immediately

after question hour is over. It starts at noon and its duration is

an hour. During zero hour, various issues

of public importance are raised by MPs, without prior notice.

Question-5Which two African nations

made it to the knockout stage for the first time in FIFA 2014?

Answer of Q.5Nigeria and Algeria

Question-6Who was the highest scorer

in the FIFA World Cup in 2014?

Answer of Q.6James Rodriguez

Question-7How many red cards were

given in the FIFA World Cup 2014?

Answer of Q.710

Question-8Identify?

Answer of Q.8NeymarThis Brazilian soccer star

suffered broken vertebrae during a WC match against Colombia.

Question-9Which Indian state is the

largest producer in the world of the golden coloured ‘Muga’ silk?

Answer of Q.9Assam

Question-10Which Indian state would you

be in if you were watching birds at Ranganathittu Birds Sanctuary, situated on an island in the Kaveri river?

Answer of Q.10Karnataka

Question-11Novels ‘Anandmath’,

‘Durgeshnondini’ and ‘Kapalkundala’ were authored by which Bengali writer?

Answer of Q.11Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Question-12Baglihar Dam, also known as

Baglihar Hydroelectric Power Project, in Jammu and Kashmir is built across which river?

Answer of Q.12Chenab

Question-13What line connects the points

on a map that receive equal amounts of rainfall?

Answer of Q.13Isohyet

Question-14Which physicist born in India

invented the ‘Optical Fibre’?

Answer of Q.14Narinder Singh Kapany

Question-15Identify?

Answer of Q.15He is Welsh 800m runner

Gareth Warburton who has been provisionally suspended from all competition after being charged with an anti-doping offence.

Question-16Recently 10,000-year-old

rock paintings depicting aliens and UFOs were found in which state of our country?

Answer of Q.16Chhattisgarh

Question-17India strengthened relations

and signed 3 MoU with which country in the 6th BRICS Summit?

Answer of Q.27 Brazil The three agreements that were signed were: MoU on Cooperation in the Field of

Environment, Agreement on Space, MoU on Cooperation in the Establishment of a

consultation mechanism on mobility and consular issues.

Question-18Next BRICS Summit to be

held in which country?

Answer of Q.18Russia

Question-19Who took the charge as

IOC(Indian Oil Corporation) chief?

Answer of Q.19B Ashok

Question-20Give details of this book.

Answer of Q.20This is 540-year-old book which is a

translation of a French book written around 1463 by Raoul Lefevre.

It is the first English book sold for $1Million.

The name of the book is The Recuyell of the Histories of Troye.

Question-21Identify?

Answer of Q.21The famous comic book icon

Archie Andrews died in 16th July 2014’s installment of ‘Life with Archie’.

Question-22What is the name of Sri

Lankan batsman who has announced his retirement from Test cricket?

Answer of Q.22Mahela Jayawardene

Question-23Who is elected Cricket

Association of Bengal Joint Secretary in its 83rd Annual General Meeting?

Answer of Q.23Former Indian captain Sourav

Ganguly

Question-24How many yellow cards did

Brazil concede in the recently concluded World Cup?

Answer of Q.2412

Question-25Who wrote the book ‘My

Experiments with Truth’?

Answer of Q.25M K Gandhi

Question-26Who wrote the book ‘A

Passage to India’?

Answer of Q.26E M Foster

Question-27Who wrote the book ‘The

Time Machine’?

Answer of Q.27H G Wells

Question-28Who wrote the book ‘Alice in

Wonderland’?

Answer of Q.28Lewis Carroll

Question-29Who wrote the book ‘Angry

River’?

Answer of Q.29Ruskin Bond

Question-30Who wrote the book ‘My

Truth’?

Answer of Q.30Indira Gandhi

Question-31Who wrote the book ‘A

Woman’s Life’?

Answer of Q.31Guy de Maupassant

Question-32Who wrote the book ‘Sunny

Days’?

Answer of Q.32Sunil Gavaskar

Question-33What is the name of the first

black woman to win an Olympic gold medal who died on 14th July 2014?

Answer of Q.33Alice Coachmen Davis

Question-34How many games were

played at Macarana stadium which hosted the final between Argentina and Germany?

Answer of Q.34Seven

Question-35Who is the first player in the

history of football to win the Ballon d’ Or?

Answer of Q.35Lionel Messi

Question-36What is the name of the boy

from DPS Mathura Road who has entered the Limca Book of Records for serving as the youngest editor-in-chief of an art magazine?

Answer of Q.36Sahil Bansal

Question-37Who developed Yahoo?

Answer of Q.37David Filo and Jerry Yang

Question-38What does VVVF stand for?

Answer of Q.38Variable Voltage Variable

Frequency

Question-39Which consists of two plates

separated by a dielectric and can store a charge?

Answer of Q.39Capacitor

Question-40What is the name of the

Grammy Award winning artist who will set the stage alight at the opening ceremony of the 2014 CWG in Glasgow on July 23?

Answer of Q.40Rod Stewart