KBC Contestant Taj Mohammed Rangrez won 1 crore, all questions asked to him in Kaun Banega Crorepati

Who is he ?
Taj Mohammed Rangrez is from Udaipur, Rajasthan. 42 years old Taj Mohammad is a History Teacher, he told media that people have now started calling him Crorepati Rangrez

Ques : A Batsman is most likely to be called 'out of form' because of which of the following ?
A. Not taking Wickets
B. Not winning tosses
C. Not bowling full tosses
D. Not Scoring runs
Ans :  D. Not Scoring runs

Ques :The increased level of which of these causes more humidity in the air ?
A. Dust
B. Watervapour
C. Smoke
D. Sunlight
Ans : B. Watervapour

Ques :Which of terms is used to denote food that is permissible for consumption according to Islamic law ?
A. Jhatka
B. Haram
C. Halal
D. Kosher
Ans : C. Halal


Ques : Which film this song from?
A. Special 26
B. Shootout at Wadala
C. Himmatwala
D. Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani
Ans: D. Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani

Ques : Penguin, Ostrich, Emu and Kiwi have what in common?
A. Similar shapes
B. Can not fly
C. Can not walk
D. Can not see
Ans : B. Can not fly



Ques : What disease, ascribed to a deficiency of vitamin B1, gets its name from a Sinhalese word for "weakness"?
A. Anaemia
B. Riboflavin
C. Beriberi
D. Kala-azar
Ans :  C. Beriberi
Description: Beriberi refers to a cluster of symptoms caused primarily by a nutritional deficit in Vitamin B1 (thiamine). Beriberi has conventionally been divided into three separate entities, relating to the body system involved (nervous or cardiovascular) or age of patient (infantile). Beriberi is one of several thiamine-deficiency related conditions, which may occur concurrently, including Wernicke's encephalopathy, Korsakoff's syndrome, and Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome.



Ques for Rs 3,20,000: To what post was P Sathasivam appointed in July 2013?
a)  CBI Director
B) Chief Justice of India
C) Chief Election Commissioner
D) National Security Advisor
Ans is B) Chief Justice of India

Description: Palanisamy Sathasivam (born 27 April 1949) is the Chief Justice of India. He succeeded Altamas Kabir on 19 July 2013. He is the 40th Chief Justice of India and the second from Tamil Nadu
Sathasivam was born into an agricultural family to Palanisamy and Natchiammal at Kadappanallur village near Bhavani of Erode district.

Ques Rs 6,40,000: Which sportsman's 108's birth anniversary was celebrated on 29 Aug 2013?
A) Dhyan Chand
B) Ranjitsinhji
C) C K Nayudu
D) I A K Pataudi
Ans is A) Dhyan Chand

Description: Dhyan Chand (29 August 1905 – 3 December 1979) was an Indian Hockey player widely considered to be one of the greatest players of all time.[1] Chand is most remembered for his goal-scoring feats and for his three Olympic gold medals (1928, 1932, and 1936) in field hockey, during an era where India was dominant in the sport.

Ques for Rs 12,50,000: Mamnoon Hussain, recently elected president of Pakistan, was born in which Indian city ?
A) Allahabad
B) Agra
C) Ajmer
D) Amritsar
Description: Mamnoon Hussain (Urdu: ممنون حسین‎; born 2 March or 23 December 1940) is a Pakistani textile businessman and politician who is the current President of Pakistan, having been elected in 2013.
Hussain briefly served as Governor of Sindh in 1999; his stint as Governor was cut short by the October 1999 military coup d'état. He was elected as President of Pakistan on 30 July 2013, and holds office since 8 September 2013, succeeding Asif Ali Zardari, who did not seek re-election.


Ques for Rs 25,00,000: What was the code name of the operation by IPKF to take control of Jaffna from the LTTE in 1987 ?
A) Operation Cyclone
B) Operation Meghdoot
C) Operation Cactus
D) Operation Pawan
Ans is D) Operation Pawan

Description: 
Operation Pawan was the codename assigned to the operation by the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) to take control of Jaffna from the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, better known as the Tamil Tigers), in late 1987 to enforce the disarmament of the LTTE as a part of the Indo-Sri Lankan Accord. In brutal fighting lasting about three weeks, the IPKF took control of the Jaffna Peninsula from the LTTE, something that the Sri Lankan army had tried and failed to achieve for several years. Supported by Indian Army tanks, helicopter gunships and heavy artillery, the IPKF routed the LTTE, at the cost of 214 soldiers.


Ques for Rs 50,00,000: Which of these cities is not named after its founder or a dynasty?
A) Bikaner
B) Ludhiana
C) Khajuraho
D) Jodhpur
Ans is C) Khajuraho



Ques for Rs 1 crore: Who is the youngest person ever to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Lawrence Bragg
B) Tsung- Dao Lee
C) Werner Heisenberg
D) Carl D Anderson
Ans is A) Lawrence Bragg


Description: Sir William Lawrence Bragg CH OBE MC FRS (31 March 1890 – 1 July 1971) was an Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer, discoverer (1912) of the Bragg law of X-ray diffraction, which is basic for the determination of crystal structure. He was joint winner (with his father, Sir William Bragg) of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1915:



Ques for Rs 3 crore:  Which explorer first determined the location and altitude of Lhasa ?
A) Radhanath Sikdar
B) Nain Singh Rawat
C) Francis Younghusband
D) Andrew Waugh
Ans is B) Nain Singh Rawat

Radhanath Sikdar was an Indian mathematician who, among many other things, calculated the height of Peak XV in the Himalaya and showed it to be the tallest mountain above sea level. Peak XV was later named Mount Everest.

Nain Singh Rawat', 1830-1895, was one of the first of the late 19th century who explored the Himalayas for the British. He hailed from the Johaar Valley of Kumaon.

Major General Sir Andrew Scott Waugh was a British army officer and surveyor now remembered as the man who named the highest mountain in the world after Sir George Everest, his predecessor in the post of Surveyor-General of India.

Lieutenant Colonel Sir Francis Edward Younghusband, KCSI, KCIE was a British Army officer, explorer, and spiritual writer.



Description: Nain Singh Rawat', 1830-1895, was one of the first of the late 19th century who explored the Himalayas for the British. He hailed from the Johaar Valley of Kumaon.

Rai Bahadur Nain Singh Rawat was born to Lata Burha in 1830 in Milam village , a bhotia village in the valley of Johar, at the foot of the Milam glacier where the river Goriganga originates. The Rawats ruled over the Johar valley, during the reign of Chand dynasty in Kumaon; this was followed by the Gorkha rule. In 1816 the British defeated the Gorkhas but maintained a policy of non-interference and friendship towards the Johar Bhotias. The famous Bhotia explorers mostly belong to the village of Johar.