DivyaHamsa Blog: September 2008

Few days back, when i was searching for GK questions on the web to conduct team building activities in our company. I collected few questions which are very useful to improve our Gk up to some extent:

1. · Fastest computer in the world?-- road runner

2. · who is the winner of iifa best actor award 2008 ?-- shahrukh khan (chak de india)

3. · who is the chief of indian air force ?-- fali homi major

4. · olympics venue 2008-- china

5. Who is the miss universe india 2008 ?-- simaran kaur mundi

6. · who is the miss india world 2008--parvathy omnakuttan

7. · venue of 15th saarc summit 2008?--colombo (sri lanka)

8. · who got dada saheb phalke ratna award 2008?--b.r.chopra

9. · who is the present chairman of cii ?-- k.v.kamath1

10. · what is the fullform of "bric" ?--brazil,russia ,india,china

11. · which film has bagged the best movie awards in iifa awards which was held in bangkok ?--chak de india (yash chopra)

12. · who is the winner of french open 2008 men's title ?- rafael nadal

13. · who is the winner of dlf ipl cricket tounament 2008 ?--rajasthan royals

14. · national human rights commission chairman?---justice rajendra babu

15. Who is the indian hockey coach ? jokim karvalo

16. · who is the winner of iifa best actor award 2008 ?--shahrukh khan (chak de india)

17. · who is the chief of indian air force ?--fali homi major

18. · who is the present chairman of cii ?-- k.v.kamath1

19. · which film has bagged the best movie awards in iifa awards which was held in bangkok ?--chak de india (yash chopra)

20. · who is the winner of french open 2008 men's title ?--rafael nadal

21. · who is the winner of dlf ipl cricket tounament 2008 ?--rajasthan royals

22. · national human rights commission chairman?-- justice rajendra babu

23. Who is the indian hockey coach ?-- jokim karvalo

24. Odf full form is …. "open document format"

25. Pdf full form is "portable document format"

26. who acquired the company 'double click'?-google

27. What is 'road runner'?- super computer built by ibm, the worlds fastest computer

28. A file extension .ogg indicates which format ?- audio codec

29. Rose pink city - jaipur (rajastan)

30. Garden city - bangalore (karnataka)

31. Diamond city - surat (gujarat)

32. Lake city - udaipur (rajastan)

33. Sun city - jodhpur (rajastan)

34. City of palaces - kolkata (west bengal)

35. Bangle city - hyderabad (andra pradesh)

36. White city - udaipur (rajastan)

37. City of golden temple - amritsar (punjab)

38. Twin cities - hyderabad and secundarabad(andra pradesh)

39. Pearl city - tuticorin (tamil nadu)

40. Temple city - bhuvaneswar (orissa)

41. Orange city - nagpur (maharashtra)

42. City of seven islands - mumbai (maharashtra)

43. Absence of iodine in human body causes --goitre.

44. What is the scientific name of soda water?carbonic acid '

45. Pharmacology is the study of - .drugs

46. Who discovered flourescence ?-sir george stokes

47. Who was the inventor of stainless steel?—brearley

48. The v nom of the cobra acts on --central nervous system

49. Who first proposed the concept of atomic number?--henry moseley

50. Which fruit is the ' ing of fruits'?—mango

51. Hearing frequency of human .ear --20 hz to.20000 hz .

52. Cane juice contains wtiich type of sugar –sucrose

53. The protecting membrane which cover the heart—pericardium

54. The vitamin required for clotting of blood --vitamin k

55. Which blood group is considered as a universal recepient ?--group ab

56. What is called suicidal bags?—lysosome

57. The balancing organ of our body –ear

58. Who was the first indian to become a member of the british parliament?--dadabhai naoroji

59. What is neft in terms of banking?national electronics fund transfer

60. who discovered oxygen? --joseph priestly

61. which country is the leading producer of mica? India

62. In which year was the first nobel prize presented?—1901

63. ‘work less, do more’ is the tag line for what? -- microsoft office 97

64. How do we better know the company j.w.foster and co.? –reebok

65. Why did intel call the successor to the 486 processor series "pentium", instead of using a combination of digits as they had always done? --because numbers cannot be trademarked.

66. The first cricket bowler to achieve 500 wickets in One-day internationals is--Wasim Akram

67. Which bangalorean started the free e-mail service "hotmail"? --sabeer bhatia

68. What do the letters espn in the name of the tv channel stand for? --. Entertainment and sports programming network

69. Durand Cup is associated with---Football

70. What do the letters in the names of the indian corporate giants bpl and mrf stand for? -- bpl – british physical laboratories, mrf – madras rubber factory

71. In tirupati, the hundi receives millions of rupees every year. What is the mythological reason for the hundi to be there in the first place? --- once vishnu was reborn on earth to take back lakshmi who had come away after a fight. In that birth he needed money to marry her and he borrowed it from kubera since he had none. Till today his devotees are helping him pay back the loan by contributing to the hundi.

72. Who is the first Indian to take a hat trick in an international test-- Harbhajan Singh

73. In the mahabharata, other than the kauravas who else had a hundred brothers?
-- shakuni

74. Which of india's greatest freedom fighters got his name because his familywere originally sellers of perfume? --gandhi from gandha

75. Which state has the distinction of having the most jnanpith award winners? – karnataka

76. Who wrote â€˜Meghdootâ€™ --Kalidas

77. What is the difference between “neft” and “rtgs” transactions

Neft: national electronic funds transfer

Rtgs: real time gross settelement

78. Who is called as missile man of india—kalam

79. The first novel in the Harry Potter series is
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

80. Before kalam how many people worked as presidents for the republic india : 10

81. By which university students “google” was developed -- stanford

rhene alvarez & sergey brin

82. first Indian satellite—Aryabhatta

83. Which any one film which has won 11 Oscar awards "Titanic"and .Ben Hur

84. Leaning Tower of Pisa located in ---Italy

85. whos the first indian citizen to win the booker prize?- arundhati roy

86. Who wrote the book 'The Book of Indian Birds'
Dr. Salim Ali

87. The first one-day Cricket World Cup tournament was held in—England

88. According to legend, which deity was Ved Vyasa's scribe as he dictated the story of the Mahabharata?
Ans : Ganesha

89. What is the name of the elephant which serves as the mount of Lord Indra?
Airavata

90. The famous â€˜Sun Templeâ€™ is located in which Indian state--: Orissa

91. Who is considered as the father of Jainism
Ans : Mahavira

92. The oldest Veda is—Rig veda

93. Who is the Supreme Commandant of the Defence forces in India
The President

94. The first space vehicle launched by USSR was
Sputnik

95. What is the full form of BARC—Bharath automic reasearch centre

96. Name the Indiaâ€™s first geostationary communication satellite
APPLE

97. Which is the largest tea producing country in the world?-india

98. Which brand/company uses the ad line "We know India better"?-- LIC of India

99. Ranigiri in Andhra Pradesh is famous for
Gold

100. Which Indian state leads in the production of cotton
Maharashtra

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