General Knowledge No.27

1) SBI Life Insurance company is a joint venture between SBI and which company?

2) What is the lowest score successfully defended in a Twenty20 international.

3) Which instrument is used for measuring solar radiations?

4) Who is the only Chairman of TATA who wasn’t a Tata?

5) Who are the mother and child depicted in this stamp?

The answers are:

1) BNP Praibas

2) 43

3) Pyrometer

4) Nawroji Saklatwala

5) Mother: Jijabai, Son:Shivaji Maharaj

Puzzle No.28

You have the misfortune to own an unreliable clock. This one loses exactly 20 minutes every hour. It is now showing 8.00am and you know that is was correct at midnight, when you set it. The clock stopped 10 hours ago, what is the correct time now?

Answer:

10:00PM

Puzzle NO.27

Tiny Tum’s mathematics homework book (shown right) was the untidiest in the class. In one of his equations, the two different arithmetic signs were missing. What is the unknown whole number x that balances the equation?

The answer is:

13,

The missing number is 13 so that

208 -13 = 15 x 13

A problem of the form

ac ? ab = ca ! ab

where ? and ! are different arithmetic signs

General Knowledge No.26

1) After 26/11 attack by terrorists Indian government passed a resolution in december 2008, according to this resolution from 1st January 2009, Nationa Investigation Agency(NIA) came in to existance. Who has been appointed as the first chief of NIA?

2) In september 2008, India had imposed a ban on import of milk products from China, traces of which hazardouse chemical were found in milk powder, which was the cause for ban.

3) Tabala maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain won The Grammy Award 2009 for which music album?

4) Who was Man of the tournament in the first edition of IPL?

5) Identify this tennis player who partenered with Leander Paes to win French Open 2009.

The answers are:

1) Radha Vinod Raju

2) Melamine

3) Global Drum Project

4) Shane Watson

5) Lukas Dlouhy

Puzzle No. 26

“I’ve always been 45 years older than your Dad“, said Grandma to young Trickle (shown right). “But now the two digits in my age, both prime, are the reverse of the two in your Dad’s age”. How old is Grandma? …

Answer:

Grandma was 72 years old. Let the two digits be A and B. Then 10A+B-10B-A=45 so 9(A-B)=45. This gives A-B=5. Of the pairs 5,0; 6,1; 7,2; 8,3; 9,4 only 7,2 are both prime numbers.

General Knowledge No.25

1) Which country is most densely populated in South Asia?

2) Till date three Indian musicians have won Grammy Award in various categories, Pandit Ravi Shankar & Ustad Zakir

Hussain are the two, who is the third musician?

3) In 1982, Bhanu Atthaiyaa became first Indian to win an Oscar Award, for which film and the category she was

presented with Oscar Award?

4) Which country has collaborated in the creation of ‘Chetak’, a pilot-less helicopter.

5) Identify the artist given in the picture,

The answers are:

1) Bangladesh

2) Vishwa Mohan Bhatt

3) Film: Gandhi, Category: Costume Design

4) Israel

5) Pablo Picasso

1) Who has won Laureus World Sportsman Of The Year 2009 Award?

2) He was born on 5 Feb, 1985. Made his debut for Sporting Lisbon at the age of 17 in 2002. He was signed by top english football club in 2003 for 12 milllion pounds. Recently he was signed by a top spanish football club for world record transfer. Identify this famouse football player.

3) Which country has recently opened its tourism office in Mumbai, it’s first in India?

4) Which is the smallest country in Asia?

5) Identify the lady in the picture, she is related with banking sector

The answers are:

1) Usain Bolt (Jamaica, he won 100m & 200m Gold medals at Beijing  Olympics 2008.

2) Christiano Ronaldo

3) Spain

4) Maldives

5) Chanda Kocchar of ICICI Bank

Puzzle No.25

Complete the series…

120

142

166

192

220

250

???

The answer is:

282

What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?

Answer : River

1) As per the latest report on global trends of office spaces by real estate consultant CB Richard Ellis, which is the world’s most expensive city for office space?

2) ‘Plant Discoveries 2008′ : a report by Botanical Survey of India has revealed discovery of how many new species of plants in India?

3) At ‘Cannes Film Festival 2009′ the best film award was bagged by ‘The White Ribbon’, who was the director of that film?

4) In 1944, eight industrialists in Mumbai worked out a plan, the aim was to double the National Income by spending Rs.10,000 crore. This was probably first economic plan in India. What was the plan named?

5) Identify this boxer from who won Gold medal for India after a gap of 15 years at Asian Boxing Championship, Zuahi, China.

Answers :

1) Tokyo

2) 167

3) Michael Haneke

4)The Mumbai Plan

5) Suranjoy Singh in fly weight(51 kg)