LIMCA BOOK OF RECORDS QUIZ 2011-KOLKATA

Contributed by ArunavhaChanda 

1. Who is the only Test cricketer to have scored more runs than Don Bradman, but failed to score in his last innings?

Ans: Sourav Ganguly

2. Which river forms India's Waterway no. 1?

Ans: Ganga

3. Which Indian state had the first woman CM?

Ans: Uttar Pradesh

4. Which Bollywood actor would you associate with the "Being Human" foundation?

Ans: Salman Khan

5. How do we better know singer, Steffani Joanne Angelina Germanotta?

Ans: Lady Gaga

6. The President of which country is also the honorary co-prince of Andorra?

Ans: France

7. On which Indian currency note would you find the picture of a computer monitor?

Ans: Rs. 1000/-

8. In October, 2011, the world's highest webcam was installed on top of which mountain peak?

Ans: Mt. Everest

9. Which painting attracts more than 6 million people every year to the 'Louvre Museum'?

Ans: The Mona Lisa

10. On 10th May, 2001, who sang the ghazal, 'Lagta Nahin Dil Mera...' in the Parliament to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the First War of Indian Independence?

Ans: Jagjit Singh

11. On 9th July 2011, ___________ became the newest country in the world.

Ans: South Sudan

12. Which computer keyboard symbol is traditionally called the pound sign or the number sign in USA?

Ans: # (or) Hash

13. Which continent produces 90% of the world's rice?

Ans: Rice

14. What is the official colour of the Queen and the Royal Family of the Netherlands?

Ans: Orange

15. Which scientist saved his city in Sicily from Romans by practical application of pulleys and levers?

Ans: Archimedes

16. Omnitrix and the Humungosaur dinosaur can be associated with which television series?

Ans: Ben 10

17. In October 2011, MPs of UK voted to allow which Social Networking site during debates in the House of Commons?

Ans: Twitter

18. Buzz Aldrin, the 2nd man on the moon, appeared in which 2011 Hollywood action film?

Ans: Transformers 3

19. Chef Rafael Esposito designed which food item in honour of Queen Margherita in the colours of the Itaian flag?

Ans: Pizza

20. The adult males of which primate are called 'silverbacks'?

Ans: Gorilla

21. Elle Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee, winners of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, hail from which country?

Ans: Liberia

22. In which 1865 children's novel will you find the the King, Queen and Knave of Hearts?

Ans: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

23. Plasma, which makes up 55% of blood fluid, is basically 92% what?

Ans: Water

24. Camp, Golf, Polo and Half are all types of Shirt, Trousers or Coats?

Ans: Shirts

25. Which Asian country emits more CO2 than USA and Canada combined?

Ans: China

26.

Which cartoon is this?

Ans: Chota Bheem

27.

Identify the game.

Ans: Kho-Kho

28.

Which creature, also called dwarf leopard is this?

Ans: OCELOT

29. There was a vague Bengali song played, we had to identify the singer.

Ans: Shreya Ghoshal

30. [Chammak Challo] Music director?

Ans: Vishal-Sekhar.

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Limca Book of Records Quiz Delhi 2011

It was originally posted on gyaan.in

1)new delhi is home to 2 unesco world heritage sites one being the qutub minar what is the other?

Answer--Humayun's Tomb

2)to which country does the world's longest-serving current (royal) head of state belong?

Answer--Thailand

3)what is the p in http?

Answer--Protocol

4)Polar bears hibernate.True or False.

Answer--False

5)which Nobel prize has been given continuously since its inception(no year in which noone received the prize)

Answer--Nobel prize for Economics

6)who holds the record for the most no. of sixes in Champions League T20?

Answer--Virat Kohli

7)Sir William Herschel disovered which planet using a handheld reflecting telescope in 1781?

answer--uranus

8)Who is the current leader of the opposition in Rajya Sabha?

Answer--Shri Arun Jaitley

9)This is the year of the____________________(chinese calendar)?

Answer--Rabbit or Hare

10)Buzz Aldrin has a Guest appearance in which 2011 action film?

Answer--Transformers Dark of the moon

11)Which color derives its name from the Greek word for "Indian dye"?

Answer--Indigo

12)Identify--

(the image given was different and a lot more difficult to identify)

Answer--Novak Djokovic

13)Which famous play by Shakespeare has the lines--"In sooth, I know not why I am so sad."? 

Options--Merchant of venice,as you like it,macbeth

Answer--Merchant of Venice

14)Identifying voice--

Answer was Jairam Ramesh

15)Identify---

Answer--Kate or Catherine Middleton or Duchess of Cambridge

16)my first and middle name is Kisan Baburao--

Answer--Anna Hazare

17)Identify the flower--

Answer--Daffodils

18)Salman Khan's production hosue is known as SKBH with Sk being evident but what is BH?

Answer--Being Human

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I will post more as i remember now come questions from Finals--

1)First non governmental organisation to join Twitter--

Indian Post

2)Identify

First Telephone made by Alexander Graham Bell(prototype)

3)Which character from well know triology of novels goes to Albert Mission School?

Swami from Swami and Friends by Rk Narayanan

4)Who bowled the first ball in the world cup?(maybe for india)

Madan Lal

5)THe Danjon Scale is used to meaure what natural phenomena with L=0 being Very dark almost invisible and L=4 being Very bright copper-red or orange?

Lunar Eclipse

6)Reykjavík is the world's Northernmost capital which is the Southernmost?

Wellington,New Zealand

7)First t20 international match was held between asutralia and england.Serious or joking.

Answer-Joking(Australia and New Zealand)

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Results--

1st New era public school

2nd Springdales Public School

AQAD 425

Identify the logo.

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AQAD 424

Name the Campaign/Put Funda.