Sunday, September 27, 2009

questions & answers

1.name the 2 indian women who featured in the fortune power 50 recently
2.who is the deputy prime minister of U.K
3.name the satellite launched by india recently
4.what is the code name of indias mission to moon
5.why was ajit jogi recently charged by the CBI
6.who won the dewang mehta award for excellence in the field of IT this year
7.whose record did micheal scumacher break on winnng 6 championships
8.who won the nobel peace prize
9.who won the german peace prize
10.who won the gandhi peace prize
11.recently a book about the life of daniel pearl was released.name the book and the author
12.the canadian pm is to visit india next week.name him
13.who won the booker prize this year.also name the book
14.name the first chinese in space and also the spacecraft in which he travelled
15.who is the head of the SEBI

ANSWER:

1.Vidya Chabria and Naina Lal Kidwai
2.John Prescott
3.Insat-3E
4.Operation Chandrayaan
5.Forgery(used a false document to tarnish the image of intelligence bureau)
6.Rajesh Hukku
7.Juan Manuel Fagio
8.Shrin Ibadi
9.Susan Atong
10.Vaclav Havel
11.A Mighty Heart- by Marianne Pearl
12John Chresteen
13.Peter Finley(Vernon God Little)
14.Yang Lewei(Shenzhou 5)
15B.N.Bajpai

· Adil Kalbani is the first black imam of Saudi Arabia.

· Trivia

· A history of the Internet

· - August 1991: Tim Berners-Lee releases web software

- December 1991: First web server outside Europe goes online

- November 1992: 26 servers now online

- April 1993: Mosaic web browser from Windows released. World wide web (www) made available to all for free

- May 1993: First online newspaper, the Tech published by students from MIT, launched

- June 1993: HTML programming, used to create webpages, released

- October 1994: Bill Clinton puts www.whitehouse.gov on the web. Netscape browser released

- February 1995: Radio HK becomes first dedicated online radio station

- July 1995: Amazon.com launched

- August 1995: Internet Explorer released

- September 1995: Ebay.com launched

- July 1996: Hotmail launched

- December 1997: Term "blog" coined, meaning weblog

- September 1998: Google opens first office in a garage in California

- January 2000: dot-com boom reaches peak

- August 2000: Nearly 20 million websites online

- November 2001: Pope John Paul II sends first papal e-mail

- April 2003: Apple's itunes music download service launches

- July 2004: Tim Berners-Lee receives a knighthood