Daily GK Quiz: 24 December 2012

1. Who is the world's first person to score a double century in One Day International (ODI) cricket?
[Category: Sports Cricket GK]
[A]Virender Sehwag
[B]Sachin Tendulkar
[C]Charles Coventry
[D]Saeed Anwar


2. The Garo Hills are part of the Garo-Khasi range in which Indian state?
[Category: Indian Geography GK]
[A]Arunachal Pradesh
[B]Assam
[C]Tripura
[D]Meghalaya


3. What is the economic theory and a technique used to determine the relative value of currencies called?
[Category: Economy GK]
[A]Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)
[B]Purchasing Expenditure Parity (PEP)
[C]Law of One Price (LOP)
[D]Real Exchange Rate (RER)


4. Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis was an Indian scientist and applied statistician. For what he is best known for?
[Category: Statistics GK]
[A]Mahalanobis Volume
[B]Mahalanobis Corelation
[C]Mahalanobis distance
[D]Mahalanobis Coefficient


5. Who was the first recepient of the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, a literary honour in India, in 1968?
[Category: Awards and Honours GK]
[A]C. Rajagopalachari
[B]Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
[C]Tarashankar Bandyopadhyaya
[D]Sumitranandan Pant