Monday 11 June 2012

Selected Questions from Kannadada Kotyadhipati

  1. Who wrote the famous poem - 'Vedanti Helidanu, Honnella Mannu Mannu' ? K V Puttappa, Gopalakrishna Adiga, N S Lakshminarayana Bhat, G S Shivarudrappa
  2. The equator divides the earth into how many parts ? 2, 3, 4, 5
  3. What does 'F' in FDI stands for? Frequent, Foreign, Fund, Finance
  4. Where is Elu Suttina Kote located? Bijapur, Shreerangapatna, Melukote, Chitradurga
  5. In which of the following places, ICC Cricket World cup 2011 was inaugurated? New Delhi, Colombo, Dhaka, Mumbai
  6. What is the name of the role played by Master Manjunath in the series - Malgudi Days? Guru, Keerthi, Swamy, Mani
  7. Which book by Kuvempu won the 1st Jnanapeetha award for Kannada? Malegalalli Madumagalu, Bommanahalliya Kindarijogi, Shoodra Tapasvi, Sriramayana Darshanam
  8. Who once worked out the 23rd root of a 201 digit number 12 seconds faster than super computer UNIVAC? T Vijaya Raghavan, Shakuntala Devi, R S Agarwal, Srinivasa Ramanujan
  9. Arrange the following structures in increasing order of their heights - Karnataka High Court, Eifel Tower, Gola Gummata, Burj Khalifa
  10. In Mahabharata, whose weapon was a plough?

Answers : 1. G S Shivardrappa, 2. 2, 3.Foreign, 4. Chitradurga, 5. Dhaka, 6. Swamy, 7.Sriramayana
Darshanam, 8. Shakuntala Devi,  9. Karnataka High Court, Gola Gummata, Eifel Tower, Burj Khalifa, 10. Balarama