KBC Questions and Quiz, Multiple Choice Questions and Answers
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Question: An Indian social and political leader was assassinated in 1948 by a Hindu nationalist. Who was he?
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Correct Answer Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in Gujarat, India in 1869. Named Mahatma (Great Soul), he studied law in London and spent many years in South Afica. Both Indira and Rajiv Gandhi were also assassinated (in 1984 and 1991 respectively). Indira's son, Sanjay, died in a flying accident.
Question: Yigal Amir assassinated this political leader...?
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Correct Answer Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated on November 4, 1995, while attending a rally to celebrate the signing of the Oslo Accords which established the Palestinian Authority. His assassin, Yigal Amir, was a right-wing Israeli activist who obviously felt that the Accords were nothing to celebrate! Rabin was the first of Israel's prime ministers to be born in Israel, and was the only PM to be assassinated and the second PM to die while in office. His death is seen by many to have stymied the hope for peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians, and while Rabin is very much a hero of the Israeli left, his assassination initiated the rise to power of the Israeli right. In 1978, Anwar Sadat signed the Camp David peace agreement with Israeli PM Menachem Begin, which was brokered by U.S. President Jimmy Carter, and Egypt became the first Arab state to recognize Israel's right to exist. This action resulted in the expulsion of Egypt from the Arab League (boy, he should have seen that one coming!), which straightway moved its headquarters from Cairo to Tehran. (Egypt was re-instated in the League in 1989). A fatwa on Sadat was issued by Omar Abdel-Rahman, a radical Muslim cleric, who was later convicted for his part in the February 1993 bombing of the World Trade Centre in New York. Sadat was assassinated on October 6, 1981, by a group of Egyptian Army soldiers who were members of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad organization. The assassination took place during a parade which Sadat was reviewing. Olaf (or Olof - spellings differ) was the Prime Minister of Sweden who was gunned down on February 28, 1986 as he and his wife walked home from the movies. Mrs. Palme was treated and survived her wounds, but the Prime Minister was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. The murder remains unsolved. India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi met her end in the garden of her home on October 31, 1984, when she was shot 16 times by two of her Sikh bodyguards in retaliation for her decision to send in troops to storm the Golden Temple of Amritsar, Sikhdom's holiest shrine, in order to flush out the Sikh separatists who were using the temple as their headquarters. In hindsight, maybe having Sikh bodyguards probably wasn't a good idea.
Question: Nathuram Godse was the man who struck down this pacifist...?
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Correct Answer Gandhi's determination to send the British, India's colonial rulers, packing brought about India's independence in 1947. Gandhi, who is lovingly called Mahatma ('Great Soul') or Bapu ('Father') by his followers, advocated non-violent resistance to British rule, and became an icon of pacifists everywhere. His assassination in 1948 by Hindu nationalist Nathuram Godse sent shock waves around the world and laid the foundation for much of the internecine troubles of that sub-continental country. Nehru was a colleague of Gandhi and succeeded him as leader of the Congress Party. He died of a heart attack in 1964. Stephen Biko was a non-violent anti-Apartheid activist in South Africa. He was one of the organizers of the Soweto protests, which unfortunately got out of control and devolved into the Soweto Riots. Following the riots, Biko came under even closer police scrutiny, and died in prison in 1977. The authorities claimed his death was the result of a hunger strike, which doesn't explain the massive head injuries Biko suffered just before his death. Police brutality, anyone? Tom Mboya was a Minister in the government of Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's first President after independence from Britain. Mboya was poised to become the next President of Kenya when he was gunned down in 1960. His assassin was executed, but there was widespread belief that the man who pulled the trigger was a catspaw for Kenyatta's powerful relatives and friends, who surmised that Mboya's presidency would put an end to their prestige and power.
Question: Which of these is a national soup of India? (It is also the national soup of another country)
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Correct Answer India has two national soups - Mulligatawny (also the national soup of Sri Lanka) and shorbet. Mulligatawny (in India) is a spicy soup (not exactly a soup in the traditional sense).
Correct Answer The national song is called "Vande Mataram...". The first Political occasion when it was sung was the 1896 session of the Indian National Congress ( Manorama Yearbook, 2001).
Correct Answer The song is called "Jana gana mana...". Only the first stanza (out of the five stanzas) forms the National Anthem; its playing time is 52 seconds. It was first sung on 27 December, 1911. Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 (for his work "Geetanjali").
Question: The Chakra (Wheel) in the Indian national flag has how many spokes?
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Correct Answer The Chakra appears on the abacus of the Sarnath Lion (which is the national emblem). The design of the National Flag was adopted by the Constituent Assembly of India on 22nd July, 1947.
Question: Pick out the one country whose currency is not "the pound"...?
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Correct Answer Somalia's currency is the shilling. The shilling is the name of Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya's currency. St. Helena, Syria and the Falkland Islands use the pound. The pound is also used in: Egypt, Cyprus, Gibraltar and, of course, the UK.
Question: Choose the country which doesn't use the franc...?
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Correct Answer Tonga's currency is the pa'anga. Some countries which use the franc are: Congo, Togo, Benin, New Caledonia, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Comoros, Wallis and Futuna Islands, Rwanda, Senegal and Cote d'Ivoire. The French france was used in France until January 1, 2002, when it was replaced by the euro.
