Fortnightly Quiz-240

1 Name the two rivers that will be linked as per a recent MoU signed between the Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh governments.

2 Which Bill, seeking to provide 100 days’ assured employment every year to every rural household in 200 districts of the country, was passed by the Lok Sabha recently?

3 Which state has the maximum population living below poverty line?

4 Which former Prime Minister’s birth anniversary was recently observed as ‘Akshay Urja Divas’?

5 Name Asia’s oldest stock exchange.

6 Name the Swiss mathematician who is credited with inventing the mind game Sudoku.

7 Name the field involving the diagnosis of diseases, treatment and improving human health using materials and devices designed at the molecular or nano level.

8 Name the film city in Hyderabad which has entered the Guinness Book of World Records for being the largest in the world?

9 Which is the second largest mobile phone user country in Asia with as many as 59 million connections?

10What is the study of coins known as?

11Who was the creator of Tintin comics?

12Who has got the country’s top sporting honour — Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award — this year?

13What is the practice of swinging an old cricket ball in the opposite direction to that expected by the batsman known as?

14How many countries have the one-day international (ODI) playing status?

15What is the highest one-day international total (in 50 overs)?

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Winners of quiz 239: The first prize by draw of lots goes to Vishwjeet Singh Malik, XI-B, OSDAV Public School, Khurana Road, Kaithal- 136027.

Second: Sahil Ahuja, 9th, Sant Isher Singh Senior Model School, Phase 7, Mohali-160062.

Third: Sachit Handa, XII, DAV School, New Shimla, Shimla-171002.

Answers to quiz 239: Stephen Robinson; Haft VII Babur; 60; Mangal Pandey; Texas Instruments; Snuppy; Eyes; Action Taken Report; Society for Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Among Youth; Shane Warne; 5th; Tirunesh Dibaba; 4; Arjun Atwal; 2 runs.

Cash awards of Rs 400, 300 and 200 are given to the first, second and third prize winners, respectively. These are sent at the school address.

Note: Kindly mention the pincode of your place to facilitate the delivery of the prize money.