India Lok Sabha elections--Quiz

1. Which is the largest Lok sabha constituency in India by area?

Ladakh

2. Which is the largest Lok sabha constituency by number of voters?

Outer Delhi

3.Which is the smallest Lok sabha constituency in India by area?

Chandni Chowk

4. Which is the smallest Lok sabha constituency by number of voters?

Lakshdweep

5. Who holds the record of Highest majority of a candidate in Lok sabha elections?

Anil Basu of CPM won from Arambagh, West Bengal with a margin of 592502 votes in 2004.

6.Which state has the highest number of MPs in Lok Sabha?

Uttar Pradesh-- 80 MPs

7.What is the maximum no. of seats won by a party in an election/

Congress in 1984 won 415 seats

8. Which was Jawaharlal Nehru's constituency?

Phulpur in U P

9.Which was Indira Gandhi's constituency?

Rae Barelli

10. Who has won the maximum no of Lok sabha elections from a same constituency?

P M Saeed from Lakshdweep

List of major inventions and inventors--Quiz

FIND out Who invented what? Useful for Quiz competitions and competitive exams etc.

Aeroplane : Orville and Wilbur Wright
Atom Bomb ; Auto Han
Diesel Engine : Rudolf Diesel
Dynamite : Alfred B. Nobel
Electric Generator : Michael Faraday
Electric Lamp : Thomas Alva Edison
Electrolytic cell : Alessandro Volta
Elevator : Elisha G. Otis
Gramophone : Thomas Alva Edison
Integrated Chip : Jack Kilby
Lightning Conductor : Benjamin Franklin
Mercury Thermometer : Fahrenheit
Microphone : Sir Alexander Graham Bell
Movie Projector : Thomas Alva Edison
Pneumatic Tyres : John Boyd Dunlop
Radio : Marconi
Safety Razor : King C. Gillette
Steam Engine (condenser) : James Watt
Telegraph Code : Samuel Morse
Telephone : Sir Alexander Graham Bell
Television (mechanical) : John Logie Baird
Telescope : Galileo
Transformer : Michael Faraday
Vulcanised Rubber : Charles Goodyear
X-Ray : Rontgen

Awards won in 2008--Quiz

1. Who won Bharat Ratna in 2008?
Pandit Bhimsen Joshi
2.Who won Magsasay award in 2008?
Grace Padaca
3.Who won Jnanpith award in 2008?
Rahman Rahi --Kashmiri
4.Who won the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna in 2008?
M S Dhoni
5.Who won the DadaSaheb Phalke award in 2008?
Tapan Sinha
6.Who won the Indira Gandhi peace prize in 2008?
Mohammed El Baradei
7.Who won the Booker prize in 2008?
Aravind Adiga