Thursday, April 2, 2009

GK Quiz by Neo Quiz Spot

G K Quiz

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1. Identify this person who has won the Padma Vibhushan Award for the year 2009


2. Who is known as the "Phantom of Bombay House"

3. What was built by built by Hazrat Hussain Shah Wali in 1562, during the rule of Ibrahim Quli Qutb Shah to meet the water and irrigation needs of the city?

4. Name the person who has won the maximum number of total career Olympic medals

5. By what name do we commonly know the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation?

6. Identify this person who has proposed of having multiple captains in a single team?


7. Belonging to the genus Pomoxis, a crappie is what sort of creature?

8. What was invented by a Josip Belušić in 1888, and was originally called a velocimeter?

9. Founded in Bolton in 1895, which world famous athletics footwear and sport apparel company was originally known by the name J.W. Foster & Sons before its name was changed in 1958?

10. This service became popular when the NBA Portland Train Blazers began using this system after winning the championship in the 1977 season? The first major of this kind appeared when Sugar Ray Leonard fought Thomas ‘Hitman’ Hearns for the Welterweight championship. Viacom Cablevision was the first to offer this service, Name the service?

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Answers

1. Anil Kadodkar

2. Shaporji Pallonji Mistry

3. Hussain Sagar Lake (Built on the tributary of river Musi to meet water and irrigation needs for the city

4. Larissa Latynina

5. Freddie Mac

6. John Buchanan (Coach of the Kolkata Knight Riders)

7. A freshwater Fish

8. Speedometer

9. Reebok

10. Pay Per View

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