Friday, July 3, 2009

Mtn millionaire quiz 29


Welcome once again,the Great icon Michael Jackson kicked the bucket .Quite sad ,we can at least take a quiz on his biography to see how much of him we know.

1.what was Michael Jackson's middle name (a) John (b) Joseph (c) Jimmy (d) Jones .

2.In what City was Michael Jackson born : (a) New York (b) Holly Wood (c) Gary,Indiana (d) Atlanta .

3.In what year was Michael Jackson born :(a) 1960 (b) 1957 (c) 1958 (d) 1962 .

4.In what year did Michael Jackson decide to go solo :(a) 1970 (b) 1971 (c) 1972 (d) 1980 .

5.what was the title of Michael Jackson's first album :(a) Bad (b) Off the wall (c) You are not alone (d) Thriller .

6.What was Michael Jackson's position in the number of children born of Joseph and kathrine Jackson 's family: (a) 5th child (b) 9th child (c) 7th child (d) 4th child .

7.which of these is not the name of Michael Jackson's children : (a)Prince Michael (b)Paris Michael (c) Prince Michael 11 (d) Jamie Michael .

8.Which of the children of Michael Jackson is also called blanket :(a) Prince Michael (b) Paris Michael (c) Prince Michael 11 (d) Jamie Michael .

9.How many Grammy in all did Michael Jackson win (a) 12 (b) 14 (c) 13 (d) 9 .

10.What genre of music does Michael Jackson play :(a) Highlife (b) pop (c) Country (d) Regae .

Answer
1.b)2.c)3.c)4.b)5.b)6.c)7.d)8.c)9.a)10.b

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Mtn millionaire quiz 28


Ina quana! how are you todayLet us have another attempt at some questions today,good luck.


1.who wrote the book 'The Da vinci code' :(a) Dan Brown (b) Sidney Sheldon (c) Arthur Haley (d) James Hadley Chase .

2.In what year was the Da vinci code written :(a) 2004 (b) 2007 (c) 2003 (d) 2001 .

3.What is the real name of the British author James Hadley Chase :(a) Rene Brabezan Raymond (b) Thomas Blendish (c) David Cameron (d) Ian Fletcher .

4.What other name does James Hadley Chase use for writing his books :(a) Raymond Thomas (b)Raymond Marshall (c) James Hybrad (d) Hadley Holmes .

5.Which one of these was the first novel written by James Hadley chase :(a) Cade (b) Tiger by the Tail (c) No orchid for Miss Blandish (d) Tell it to the Birds .

6.what is the real name of the 'Angel of Burundi' :(a) Juan Salomi (b) Marguerita Barankitse
(c)Marguerita Isiah (d) Angelina Isitopia .

7.Mombasa is in which Country :(a) Tanzania (b)Uganda (c) Kenya (d) Burundi .

8.In what year was Professor Wole Soyinka awarded the nobel prize for literature :(a ) 1987 (b) 1990 (c) 1986 (d) 1988 .

9.who wrote the play 'The strong Breed' :(a) Cypren Ekwensi (b)Professor Wole Soyinka (c) Bode sowande (d) Chinua Achebe .

10.In what State is Ajingi local government :(a) Sokoto State (b) oyo State (c) Kano State (d) Ondo State .

ANSWERS
1.a)2.c)3.a)4.b)5.c)6.b)7.c)8.c)9.b)10.c.

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Mtn millionaire quiz 27


As we get set for another round of quiz questions today ,i am still looking forward to your comment(s) on the various questions.Goodluck .

1.In what year did the Ship Titannic sink on its first voyage:(a) 1917 (b) 1912 (c) 1914 (d) 1920 .

2.If a project is said to be a 'white elephant' project,it is said to be :(a) Beautiful Project (b) useless And burdensome Project (c) Thoughtful Project (d) Parochial Project .

3.If someone has an impeccable character character ,he is said to be :(a) Sin-less (b) useful (c) well rounded (d) smart .

4.what does the movie rating P G stand for :(a) Please go on (b) Parental guidance needed (c) plain guys can watch (d) purple guys are to watch .

5. In what year was Marvin Gaye posthumously inducted into the hall of fame (a) 1970 (b) 1987 (c) 1989 (d) 1971 .

6.which of these building is the tallest building in Africa :(a) Marple Towers Johannesburg (b) Carlton center Johannesburg (c) Grand Hyatt Cairo (d)Nitel Building Nigeria .

7.In which country in Africa do you find the Pygmies :(a) Congo D R(b) Zambia (c) kenya (d) Ethiopia .

8.what was the title of the film that won Sean Penn his Oscar award(male category) in 2009 (a) the Post office (b) the bus (c ) Milk (d) Man in the house .

9.Who won the female category of 2009 Oscar award :(a) Kate Winslet (b) Nicole Kidman (c) Angelina Jolie (d)Jenifer Lopez .

10.What was the former name the country Myanmar :(a) Candalesia (b) Burma (c) Ceylon (d)Prussia .

Answers
1.b)2.b)3.a)4.b)5.b)6.b)7.a)8.c)9.a)10.b

Monday, February 23, 2009

Mtn millionaire quiz 26


Ekabo ,let us have a go at some more questions today .Good luck

1.who invented the world map :(a) Geraldus Mercator (b) Arthur Fugard (c) Sir chambelain Heath (d) JohnSmith .

2.Who wrote the Novel 'the wedding of Zein' :(a) Chinua Achebe (b) Tayeb Salih (c) Cypren Ekwensi (d) Mongo Betti .

3.Which musical group rendered the song 'plantation Boy' :(a) Smokie (b) Bob Marley and the wailers (c) Boney -M (d) Tuface Idibia .

4. Which tribe in Kenya is the U.S. President Barack Obama from :(a) Kikuyu (b) Luo (c) swahili (d) Acholi .

5.Who wrote the novel 'the beautiful ones are not yet born' :(a) Cypren Ekwensi (b)Kwei Ayi Amah (c) Mongo Betti (d) Chinua Achebe .

6.Which one of these is not a Nigerian Newspaper :(a) The nation (b) Guardian (c) The Conscience (d) Daily Star .

7.Kisumu is in which country :(a) Ghana (b) Uganda (c) Ethiopia (d) Kenya .

8.In which State is Giade local government located :(a) Bauchi state (b) Gongola State (c) Adamawa State (d) Benue state .

9.Who was the first person to score a goal at the National stadium Surulere Lagos :(a) Christian chukwu (b)Adokie Amasiemeka (c) Yakubu Mabo (d) Emmanuel Okala .

10.Ochaja is a town in which state in Nigeria :(a) sokoto State (b) Kogi State (c) Benue State (d) Rivers State .

ANSWERS
1.a)2.b)3.c)4.b)5.b)6.c)7.d)8.a)9.c)10.b .

Friday, February 20, 2009

Mtn millionaire quiz 25


Welcome to another round of questions for today.Good luck.

1.Who wrote the play'A midsummers night dream' :(a) Cypren Ekwensi (b) william Shakespeare (c) Wole Soyinka (d) Mongo Betti .

2.In what state is Emure local government located : (a) Ondo State (b) Edo State (c) Ekiti State (d) Delta state .

3.What is the name given to the head of parliament at state level in the Presidential sysyem of government in Nigeria : (a) Secretary of parliament (b) Ex-officio (c) Chief whip (d) Speaker .

4.In the abbreviation NIMET ,the 'M' stands for :(a) Methodist (b) Meteorologist (c) Metro (d) marble .

5.Which Country has the 'maple leaf 'embedded on its map :(a) Brazil (b) Thailand (c) Tanzania (d) Canada .

6.Who discovered Penicilin :(a) Sir Alexander Fleming (b) Sir Rudolph Haley (c) sir James watt (d) Edward Atkins .

7.what was the name the boxing legend Mohammed Ali formerly bearing :(a) Thomas Taylor (b) simon Atlay (c) Cassius Clay (d) Peter Adams .

8.Bujumbura is located in which country :(a) Kenya (b) Burundi (c ) SouthAfrica (d) Ethiopia .

9.What does the computer acronym U R L stand for :(a) United real locator (b) Uniform Resource locator (c) Unifying Replace tree (d) Undulating Relay locator .

10.In what state in Nigeria is Bacita located: (a) kano (b) Niger (c) Bauchi (d) Plateau .
ANSWERS
1.b)2.c)3.d)4.b)5.d)6.a)7.c)8.b)9.b)10.c

Saturday, January 31, 2009

Mtn millionaire quiz 24


Hello welcome to another round of quiz questions today.Good luck .

1.Which stadium is referred to as the theater of dreams :(a) Old Trafford (b) Wembley stadium (c)Raebuck Stadium (d) Hamburg stadium .

2. Which Country was the German leader Adolf Hitler originally from :(a)Sweden (b) Australia (c) Austria (d) Italy .

3.what is the real name of the popular lagos based musician 'kokoro' :(a) Timothy Iyalla (b) Akinwande olumeso (c) Benjamin Aderoumu (d) shefiu Olumeti .

4.When we say that something is an elixir ,what do we mean :(a) vitamin (b)Cure all (c) Head ache (d) pain .

5.Who invented Electricity :(a) Thomas Hopkins (b) Charles Darwin (c) Henry Carr (d) Michael Faraday .

6.Which of these words best describe Euthanasia :(a) Sweet Killing (b) Mercy Killing (c) Painful Killing (d) Wonderful Killing .

7.What does the abbreviation G. I. stand for :(a) General Issue (b) Government Issue (c) God's Issue (d) Great Issue .

8.When we say a leader is a defacto leader what do we mean :(a) Absolute Leader (b) weak leader (c) Beautiful leader (d) Solemn leader .

9.What is Barack Obama's middle name :(a) Sade (b) Hussein (c) Hakim(d) Abbas .

10.what name do you call the main character in a drama or play :(a) Antagonist (b) prologue (c) Protagonist (d) Analogue .

ANSWERS
1.a)2.c)3.c)4.b) 5.d)6.b)7.b)8.a)9b)10.b

Monday, January 26, 2009

Millionaire quiz 23


Let us have another attempt at some more questions.Good luck.

1.What is the real name of the Cameroonian Novelist Mongo Betti :(a)Alexander Byidi Awala (b) Raymond Kunde (c) Thomas Tau Tau (d) Timothy Ejong .

2.Who sang the Nigerian Highlife song 'Jolly papa ': (a)Rex Jim Lawson (b) Victor Olaiya (c) Victor Uwaifo (d) Fela Ransome Kuti .

3.Which musical instrument does D'banj play when performing on stage :(a) Flute (b) Drum (c) Trumpet (d) Harmonnica .

4.The Valkyie plot was an attempt to eliminate which world leader :(a) Benito Musolini (b) Emperor Hiro Hito (c) Prime minister Winston Churchill (d) Adolf Hitler .

5.In what year was the first story building erected in Nigeria :(a) 1951 (b) 1946 (c) 1949 (d) 1950 .

6.In what year was Sputnik 1 launched by the Soviet Union :(a) 1966 (b) 1961 (c) 1957 (d) 1958 .

7.who among these African musicians does not play highlife music :(a) E.T. Mensah (b) victor Olaiya (c) Sunny Ade (d) Rex lawson .

8.Which of these individuals is not a character in Achebe's "Things Fall Apart " :(a) Ikemefuna (b) Obierike (c) Ikechukwu (d) Nwoye .

9.What is the real name of the popular American actor 'fresh Prince of bell air' :(a) Tom Cruise (b) Will Smith (c) John Travolta (d) John Deere .

10. In what state in Nigeria is okobo local government located :(a) Imo state (b) Oyo State (c) Akwa ibom State (d) Cross Rivers State.

ANSWERS
1.a)2.a)3.d)4.d)5.b)6.c)7.c)8.c)9.b)10.c.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Mtn millionaire quiz 22


1.What is the real name of the Yoruba comedian Baba-sala (a) Sunday Omobolanle (b) Babatunde Omidina (c) Moses Olaiya (d) Babatunde Ashiru .

2.The popular Nigerian musician Sunny Neji is from which state (a) kogi state (b) Imo State (c) Cross River State (d) Anambra State .

3.which Nigerian musical group sang the Gospel song IGWE (a) D'Banj (b) Midnight crew (c) Afternoon crew (d) Morning crew .

4.From which political party is professor john Atta Millsthe newly elected President of ghana from (a) National Democratic congress (b) New Patrotic Party (c)Convention Peoples party (d) United Ghana Movement .

5.Who invented the sewing machine (a) Elias Howe (b) Charles Weisenthal(c) Thomas saint (d) Balthaser Krems .

6.What was the name of the first baby conceived and delivered by the birth process of invitro fertilization (a) Louise yellow (b) Louis white (c) Louis brown (d) Louis purple .

7.In what state is the town of Abiriba located (a) Imo state (b) Abia state (c) Eboinyi state (d) Kogi state .

8.Who was the first woman to have driven a car in Nigeria (a) Margrte Ekpo (b) Madam Tinubu (c) Funmilayo Ransome kuti (d) Professor Bolanle Awe .

9.In What year was election first held in Nigeria (a) 1925 (b) 1922 (c) 1914 (d) 1979 .

10. What were the first names of the Wright brothers that flew the airplane for the first time (a) Anthony and Thomas (b) Wilber and Orville (c) Wilbur and william (d) Theodore and Samuel .

ANSWERS
1.c)2.c)3.b)4.a)5.a)6.c)7.b)8.c)9.b)10.b

Sunday, January 4, 2009

Mtn millionaire quiz 21


Happy new year.Let us have a go at another set of questions today.Good luck.

1. Manilla is in which Country :(a) Indonesia (b) Senegal (c) Bangladesh (d) Philippines .

2. In what date and year was General Muritala Mohammed assasinated :(a) July 29 1973 (b) February 12th 1976 (c) February 12th 1973 (d) January 1st 1970 .

3. Nigeria had how many states by 1977: (a)13 states (b) 19 states (c) 15 states (d)30 states .

4. Which university was the first university in Nigeria :(a) University of Ibadan (b) University of Ife (c) University of Nigeria Nsukka (d) Ahmadu bello university zaria .

5. Ebu Town is in which state :(a)Edo state (b) Delta state (c) kogi state (d) Plateau state .

6.In which country is the Sphinx located :(a)India (b) Indonesia (c) Egypt (d) Japan .

7.Which individual is credited the amalgamation of the Northern and southern protectorate : (a) Sir James Robertson (b) Sir Lyltleton (c) Lord Fredrick Lugard (d) Lord Sommes .

8.Timbuctu is in which Country :(a) Ghana (b) Mali (c) Guinea (d) senegal .

9.What is the real name of the popular American actress Queen Latifah :(a) Dana Owens (b) Sarah Owens (c) Leticia Payne (d) Lorah Doyle .

10What is the real name of the character 'Gringory' in the Nigerian television comedy -MASQUERADE.:(a)Davis ofor (b) James Iroha (c) Lomard Ugorji (d) Melville Oviriango.

ANSWERS
1.d)2.b)3.b)4.a)5.b)6.c)7.c)8.b)9.a)10.b