quiz by - pragyan yadav
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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