A GOOD QUIZ

1. BY- PRAGYAN YADAV
QUIZ

2. Question-1
Identify?

3. Answer of Q.1
He is Priyanka Gandhi’s son
Rehan Vadra who visited
Parliament and witnessed
Lok Sabha proceedings
from the visitors’ gallery.

4. Question-2
Who has sworn in for the
third term as the president
of Syria?

5. Answer of Q.2
Bashar Assad

6. Question-3
Who is the UN Secretary
General?

7. Answer of Q.3
Ban Ki-moon

8. Question-4
In Parliamentary terminology
what does the term Zero
Hour mean?

9. Answer of Q.4
 This 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.

10. Question-5
Which two African nations
made it to the knockout
stage for the first time in
FIFA 2014?

11. Answer of Q.5
Nigeria and Algeria

12. Question-6
Who was the highest scorer
in the FIFA World Cup in
2014?

13. Answer of Q.6
James Rodriguez

14. Question-7
How many red cards were
given in the FIFA World Cup
2014?

15. Answer of Q.7
10

16. Question-8
Identify?

17. Answer of Q.8
Neymar
This Brazilian soccer star
suffered broken vertebrae
during a WC match against
Colombia.

18. Question-9
Which Indian state is the
largest producer in the world
of the golden coloured
‘Muga’ silk?

19. Answer of Q.9
Assam

20. Question-10
Which Indian state would you
be in if you were watching
birds at Ranganathittu Birds
Sanctuary, situated on an
island in the Kaveri river?

21. Answer of Q.10
Karnataka

22. Question-11
Novels ‘Anandmath’,
‘Durgeshnondini’ and
‘Kapalkundala’ were
authored by which Bengali
writer?

23. Answer of Q.11
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

24. Question-12
Baglihar Dam, also known as
Baglihar Hydroelectric
Power Project, in Jammu
and Kashmir is built across
which river?

25. Answer of Q.12
Chenab

26. Question-13
What line connects the points
on a map that receive equal
amounts of rainfall?

27. Answer of Q.13
Isohyet

28. Question-14
Which physicist born in India
invented the ‘Optical Fibre’?

29. Answer of Q.14
Narinder Singh Kapany

30. Question-15
Identify?

31. Answer of Q.15
He is Welsh 800m runner
Gareth Warburton who has
been provisionally suspended
from all competition after being
charged with an anti-doping
offence.

32. Question-16
Recently 10,000-year-old
rock paintings depicting
aliens and UFOs were
found in which state of our
country?

33. Answer of Q.16
Chhattisgarh

34. Question-17
India strengthened relations
and signed 3 MoU with
which country in the 6th
BRICS Summit?

35. 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.

36. Question-18
Next BRICS Summit to be
held in which country?

37. Answer of Q.18
Russia

38. Question-19
Who took the charge as
IOC(Indian Oil Corporation)
chief?

39. Answer of Q.19
B Ashok

40. Question-20
Give details of this book.

41. Answer of Q.20
This 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.

42. Question-21
Identify?

43. Answer of Q.21
The famous comic book icon
Archie Andrews died in 16th
July 2014’s installment of
‘Life with Archie’.

44. Question-22
What is the name of Sri
Lankan batsman who has
announced his retirement
from Test cricket?

45. Answer of Q.22
Mahela Jayawardene

46. Question-23
Who is elected Cricket
Association of Bengal Joint
Secretary in its 83rd
Annual
General Meeting?

47. Answer of Q.23
Former Indian captain Sourav
Ganguly

48. Question-24
How many yellow cards did
Brazil concede in the
recently concluded World
Cup?

49. Answer of Q.24
12

50. Question-25
Who wrote the book ‘My
Experiments with Truth’?

51. Answer of Q.25
M K Gandhi

52. Question-26
Who wrote the book ‘A
Passage to India’?

53. Answer of Q.26
E M Foster

54. Question-27
Who wrote the book ‘The
Time Machine’?

55. Answer of Q.27
H G Wells

56. Question-28
Who wrote the book ‘Alice in
Wonderland’?

57. Answer of Q.28
Lewis Carroll

58. Question-29
Who wrote the book ‘Angry
River’?

59. Answer of Q.29
Ruskin Bond

60. Question-30
Who wrote the book ‘My
Truth’?

61. Answer of Q.30
Indira Gandhi

62. Question-31
Who wrote the book ‘A
Woman’s Life’?

63. Answer of Q.31
Guy de Maupassant

64. Question-32
Who wrote the book ‘Sunny
Days’?

65. Answer of Q.32
Sunil Gavaskar

66. Question-33
What is the name of the first
black woman to win an
Olympic gold medal who
died on 14th
July 2014?

67. Answer of Q.33
Alice Coachmen Davis

68. Question-34
How many games were
played at Macarana stadium
which hosted the final
between Argentina and
Germany?

69. Answer of Q.34
Seven

70. Question-35
Who is the first player in the
history of football to win the
Ballon d’ Or?

71. Answer of Q.35
Lionel Messi

72. Question-36
What 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?

73. Answer of Q.36
Sahil Bansal

74. Question-37
Who developed Yahoo?

75. Answer of Q.37
David Filo and Jerry Yang

76. Question-38
What does VVVF stand for?

77. Answer of Q.38
Variable Voltage Variable
Frequency

78. Question-39
Which consists of two plates
separated by a dielectric
and can store a charge?

79. Answer of Q.39
Capacitor

80. Question-40
What 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?

81. Answer of Q.40
Rod Stewart