Ques for 50 lakhs: Who was the Chairman of the Calender Reform Committee that initiated the adoption of Saka Calender as the Indian national Calender ?
a) Meghad Saha
b) Subrahmayan Chandrashekhar
c) Praboodh Chandra Sangupta
d) Vanu Bapu
Ans is a) Meghnad Saha
Ques for 50 lakhs: Which of these persons has not walked on the moon ?
a) Charles Duke
b) James A Lovell
c) Alan Bean
d) Pete Conrad
Ans is b) James A Lovell
Ques for 25 lakhs: In 1850, the first experimental electric telegraph line in India was set up between Calcutta and which place ?
a) Diamond Harbor
b) Darjeeling
c) Murshidabad
d) Dhaka
Ans is a) Diamond Harbor
Description: The history of Indian telecom can be started with the introduction of telegraph. The Indian postal and telecom sectors are one of the worlds oldest. In 1850, the first experimental electric telegraph line was started between Calcutta and Diamond Harbour. In 1851, it was opened for the use of the British East India Company. The Posts and Telegraphs department occupied a small corner of the Public Works Department, at that time.
Subsequently, the construction of 4,000 miles (6,400 km) of telegraph lines connecting Kolkata (then Calcutta) and Peshawar in the north along with Agra, Mumbai (then Bombay) through Sindwa Ghats, and Chennai (then Madras) in the south, as well as Ootacamund and Bangalore was started in November 1853
An electrical telegraph is a telegraphy that uses electrical signals, usually conveyed via telecommunication lines or radio. The electromagnetic telegraph is a device for human-to-human transmission of coded text messages.
Click here to visit Wikipedia to know more
Ques for 12 lakhs : Douglas Engelbert who passed away in 2013, is credited as the inventor of which of these products?
a) Mobile Phone
b) Computer Mouse
c) Bluetooth Device
d) Digital Camera
Ans is b) Computer Mouse
Ques: The black widow, which eats the male counterpart after mating, is a female species of which animal ?
a) Sloth
b) Ant
c) Spider
d) Termite
Ans is c) Spider
Ques: In which of these sports has an Indian woman never won an Olympic medal ?
a) Badminton
b) Shooting
c) Weightlifting
d) Boxing
Ans is b) Shooting
Who is the only leader to be elected Prime Minister of Pakistan three times ?
a) Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani
b) Benazir Bhutto
c) Liaqat Ali Khan
d) Nawaz Sharif
Ans : D. Nawaz Sharif
Ques: In the Ramayana, which demon impression Rama's voice, screaming, "Lakshman ! help me " ?
a) Surpanakha
b) Khara
c) Maricha
d) Dushana
1. Which of these sounds would you associate with the heart ?
A. Tring Tring
B. Tap Tap
C. Click Click
D. Dhak Dhak
Answer : A. Tring Tring
2. Who is the ' Bharat Ka Veer Putra ', according to the title of a 2013 TV Series ?
a) Tipu Sultan
b) Chandragupta Maurya
c) Maharana Pratap
d) Ashoka
Ans : c) Maharana Pratap
In 2013, Which Natural Calamity is known as Himalayan Sunami ?
a) Uttrakhand
b) Arunachal Pradesh
c) Jammu and Kashmir
d) Sikkim
Ans : A. Uttrakhand
No comments:
Post a Comment