100 General Knowledge Quiz Questions Answers
General Knowledge Quiz Questions Part 1 (GK Quiz 1-20)
1) The Sumerians developed the art of writing. By what name it is known?
Answer: Cuneiform writing.
2) How old is Bodhi tree at Gaya ?
Answer: Over 2000 years.
3) Which is the first artificial element?
Answer: Technetium.
4) Name the organisation in which line authority and staff authority relationship exist side by side:
Answer: Line and staff organization.
5) In encryption method, it is difficult to perform:
Answer: Comparisons, arithmetic operations etc.
6) Which is Very High Frequencies (VHF) band?
Answer: 30-300 Mhz.
7) In an estuary the maximum distance between buoys is:
Answer: 1600 m.
8) Which are the two methods to achieve soil conservation?
Answer: Biological and Mechanical.
9) When parallel rays are coming from an object, it is supposed to be lying at:
Answer: Infinity.
10) What is called when mechanical waves have a frequency above the audible range?
Answer: Ultrasonics.
11) What is a Canoe which is made from a single log of wood or tree called?
Answer: A Pirogue.
12) ‘A ship is driven towards the South Pole by a storm, a bird appears and then things begin to happen.’ In whose work do you find this situation?
Answer: In Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s.
13) In Astrology enemy planets of the sun:
Answer: Saturn and Venus.
14) How is the temperature produced inside the cylinder of an internal combustion engine?
Answer: Very high.
15) Which thoughts disappointed Siddhartha?
Answer: Disease, old age and death.
16) This is a well-known quotation, and perhaps what it says is true: “Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity”. Who said it?
Answer: George Bernard Shaw.
17) Who created the character of Ziggy Stardust in his Glam rock period of the 1970s?
Answer: David Bowie.
18) Who was the Maharishi who lived during the developments of the Pandava-Kaurava struggles and witnessed all the incidents related in the epic Mahabharata?
Answer: Vyasa.
19) When was Indira Gandhi assassinated?
Answer: 1984 October 31.
20) What do you mean by East Greenland current?
Answer: The cold ocean current flowing along the eastern shores of Greenland.
General Knowledge Quiz Questions Part 2 (GK Quiz 21-40)
21) Who said “Society is co-operation crossed by conflict”?
Answer: Robert Morrison MacIver.
22) Who is the spiritual leader of the Tibetan Buddhists?
Answer: Dalai Lama.
23) The discount market is concerned with the purchase and sale of:
Answer: Short-term bills.
24) When did people in Southern Mesopotamia began to use clay tokens that had different shapes and markings?
Answer: 8000 B.C.
25) Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, what argument did they gives to it?
Answer: The invasion was designed to help defend Afghanistan’s pro-Communist government from Afghan rebels.
26) The Italian Renaissance influenced England largely because of the encouragement of whom?
Answer: King Henry VIII.
27) The Tethyan Mountain System extends how many kilometres?
Answer: 11,000 kms.
28) Length of a Dunkleosteus is:
Answer: 23 feet (7 meters).
29) In which period Robust species were extinct?
Answer: Between 2 million and 1 million years ago.
30) Program for the computers that uses Electronic imagesetting, enable users:
Answer: To perform word processing, type selection, reproduction of graphics and page make-up.
31) The Greeks, staged performances in the theatre which seated about 14000 people?
Answer: Theatre of Dionysus, Athens.
32) After how many years the period of filing the case of debt recovery will be over?
Answer: 3 years.
33) Which type of black and white film is available in the Indian Market for general use?
Answer: Panchromatic.
34) Who was known as ‘iron chancellor’?
Answer: Prince Otto von Bismarck.
35) What is the name of short skirt worn by women?
Answer: Kilt.
36) Communist countries are more Leninist than Marxist. Why?
Answer: Lenin speaks to them in the language of organization and power.
37) 1000 cubic centimetres are equal to how many cubic decimetre?
Answer: One cubic decimeter.
38) What is the currency of Belgium:
Answer: Franc.
39) Which is the national airlines of Indonesia?
Answer: Garuda Indonesia.
General Knowledge Quiz Questions Part 3 (GK Quiz 41-60)
40) Which are the three types of hair, based on it’s growth?
Answer: One which grows straight, one which can be turned aside and curly.
41) Western neighbouring country of Tibet:
Answer: India.
42) Who codified the ballet technique in the 19th century?
Answer: Carlo Blasis.
43) At which place did Gandhi launch the first no-tax campaign in the country in 1918?
Answer: Kheda.
44) Climbing vines and epiphytes, may grow in:
Answer: Canopy.
45) A river is highest at its:
Answer: Headwaters (where the river begins).
46) What is the study of pollen known as:
Answer: Palynology.
47) Psychoanalytic theory is based on whose theory?
Answer: Sigmund Freud.
48) Who was the earliest philosopher to support the scientific method?
Answer: Francis Bacon.
49) If the bleeding would improve, which would be the injured blood vessel?
Answer: Vein.
50) Which hormone in our body regulates feminine characteristics?
Answer: Estrogen.
51) Most of the earthquakes of the shallow focus range are caused due to:
Answer: Thrust faulting.
52) Secondary Myofilament are made up of a protein known as:
Answer: Actin.
53) According to scientists the earth and all living things have been always changing and developing. This development through changes is known as:
Answer: Evolution.
54) The growth of Christian organisation was one of the most significant developments of the:
Answer: Middle age.
55) The name of the American ship which was sunk and destroyed by the German torpedoes:
Answer: Lusitania.
56) The leader of the ‘Black’ in the U.S.A who was stabbed to death by a woman?
Answer: Martin Luther King.
57) The credit of preparing the first legal code in the west goes to the Roman emperor named:
Answer: Justinian I.
58) The German Emperor who fled to Holland at the end of the First World War:
Answer: Wilhelm II.
59) What is the name of the main Soviet News Agency?
Answer: Tass.
60) The isobars indicate:
Answer: The atmospheric pressure in a particular area.
General Knowledge Quiz Questions Part 4 (GK Quiz 61-80)
61) Of which country is Bohemia now a part?
Answer: Czechoslovakia.
62) Which valley is generally described as the Paradise on Earth?
Answer: Kashmir.
63) Across which river do the Black Forest and the Vosges face each other?
Answer: The Rhine.
64) A modern dramatist said this in explanation of his craft: ‘Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It’s the aim of art to give it some’. Which dramatist?
Answer: Jean Anouilh.
65) What is Cape Kennedy now known as?
Answer: Cape Canaveral.
66) Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland originated from a boat trip which the Christ Church lecturer in Mathematics took with the three daughters of the Dean of Christ Church. Who were the three daughters?
Answer: Lorina, Alice and Edith.
67) What separates Australia and Papua New Guinea?
Answer: Torres Strait.
68) What instrument is used by the navigator for determining longitude and latitude at sea?
Answer: Sextant.
69) Who coined the phrase ‘a temporary abode of purchasing power’ while explaining the concept of money?
Answer: Milton Friedman.
70) Where was India’s first satellite Aryabhata fabricated?
Answer: ISRO, Bangalore.
71) Who has won the most Oscars for best Actress?
Answer: Katharine Hepburn – 3. Incidentally no artist has got three Oscars for Best Actor, though Katharine’s husband Spencer Tracy was among those who got two.
72) Who wrote “Cinema and 1”?
Answer: Ritwik Ghatak.
73) When did Peoples Republic of China become its member?
Answer: In October 1971.
74) The prizes (except peace) are presented in:
Answer: Stockholm.
75) The world record holder in long jump did not .win his turn in 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Can you say the reason?
Answer: Mike Powel of USA withdrew due to injury.
76) Name the country Edmundo represented in his long years of football career:
Answer: Brazil.
77) Who are the twins who played for Australia in One Day Internationals?
Answer: Steve and Mark Waugh.
78) Who are the gold winners in men’s doubles in Asian Games, Bangkok 1998?
Answer: Paradorn Srichaphan and Narathorn.
79) Where is the head quarters of the Space Commission – ISRO?
Answer: Bangalore.
80) On what did the Sumerians write?
Answer: On clay plates and dried and baked and preserved it.
General Knowledge Quiz Questions Part 5 (GK Quiz 81-100)
81) Write two examples of annuals :
Answer: Wheat, rice.
82) In pure gold contains a metal in small amount, which metal?
Answer: Copper.
83) What do you mean by concentration of authority at higher levels?
Answer: Centralisation.
84) What is an art of breaking ciphers?
Answer: Cryptanalysis.
85) Which is Ultra High Frequencies (UHF) band?
Answer: 300-3000 Mhz.
86) A 50-year flood is one which will occur:
Answer: At an average of once in 50 years.
87) How many factors are there on which the agriculture of today depends heavily?
Answer: Three.
88) The astronomical term “azimuth” is only associated with:
Answer: Polar coordinates.
89) What is the velocity of sound in air?
Answer: 300 m/s.
90) In shipping, what is a ladder of rope or chain with wooden or iron rungs (steps) called?
Answer: Jacob’s ladder.
91) Haiku, a short lyric of seventeen syllables in all, 5+7+5, has its country of origin in:
Answer: Japan.
92) In Astrology, friend planets of the sun:
Answer: Jupiter, Moon and Mars.
93) An internal combustion engine could be started or stopped at will. Is it a true or false statement?
Answer: True statement.
94) Name the place where Siddhartha get enlightened:
Answer: Buddhagaya.
95) Who could have uttered the witticism, “Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humour in the woman”.
Answer: Oscar Wilde.
96) What is the better-known name of the drummer Richard Starkey?
Answer: Ringo Starr.
97) Who pleaded to Lord Ganesha to dictate the verses told by Vyasa?
Answer: Lord Brahma.
98) Indira Gandhi won, Jawaharlal Nehru Award in:
Answer: 1984.
99) In which ocean is the Easter Island is situated?
Answer: Pacific Ocean.
100) Who wrote the book “Ancient Society”?
Answer: Lewis Henry Morgan.
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