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

Geographical discoveries-Great explorers-Quiz

1. Who discovered Brazil?

Ans: Pedro Alvarus Cabral

2.Who discoverd New Zealand?

Ans:Abel Tasman

3. Who discoverd Philippines?

Magellan

4.Who discovered the Cape of Good hope?

Bartha lomio Diaz

5.Who discovered Australia?

Captain Cook

6.Who discoverd America?

Christopher Columbus

7. Who discovered a sea route to India from Europe?

Vasco de Gama

8. Who discovered Victoria falls?

David Livingstone

9.Who discovered Tasmania?

Abel Tasman

10.Who discoverd South Pole?

Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen

11.Who discovered North Pole?

Robert Peary

Heads of Various World organizations--Latest who's who--Quiz

Here is an update of the heads of Various World organizations.This is an important part of the current affairs. Hope it is useful for Quiz, Trivia and competitive exams.

Secretary General, UN---Ban ki moon
Director General,WHO---Margarret Chan
Head, UNICEF----Ann Veneman
Head, FAO---Jacqueous Diouff
Head,IAEA---Mohammed El Baradei
President, World Bank--Robert Zoellik
Managing Director, IMF--Dominique Strauss Kahn
Secretary General, NATO--Jaap De Hoop Scheffer
Secretary General,ASEAN--Surin Pitsuwan
Secretary General ,OPEC--Abdellah Salim El Badri
Chairman,SAARC-----Mahindra Rajapakse
Secretary General ,Commonwealth--Kamlesh Sharma