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Current GK Questions and Answers
1) Who was the author of the book ‘The Sound and the Fury’?
Answer: William Faulkner.
2) Alpha-keratin is a protein present in which thing?
Answer: Wool.
3) What does Hygrometer measure?
Answer: Relative Humidity or moisture content in atmosphere.
4) What was the first country to recognize the United States as a nation?
Answer: Morocco.
5) Which of the following is used as ‘a moderator in nuclear reactor?
Answer: Graphite.
6) How many rings on the Olympic flag?
Answer: Five.
7) The Negev desert is located in?
Answer: Israel.
8) Which planet looks reddish in the night sky?
Answer: Mars.
9) Jalabiya is the traditional dress of which country? –
Answer: Saudi Arabia.
10) The lamprey closely resembles this animal:
Answer: Eel.
11) What was the source of the blue gem stone, lapis lazuli, for the people of Harappan culture?
Answer: Afghanistan.
12) What colour is vermilion a shade of?
Answer: Red.
13) In math, which geometric shape has more sides, a hexagon or a parallelogram?
Answer: A hexagon.
14) In baseball, the two opposing teams consist of how many players?
Answer: 9 players each.
15) A ‘doe’ is what kind of animal?
Answer: A female deer.
16) What is the capital of Morocco?
Answer: Rabat.
17) In which technology do Cryogenic engines find applications?
Answer: Rocket technology.
18) King Zog ruled which country?
Answer: Albania.
19) What U.S. city is the home of Playboy magazine?
Answer: Chicago.
20) The latitude of a place is the same as which place?
Answer: Celestial pole.
21) Sarafan is the dress worn in _?
Answer: Russia.
22) The type of symmetry of a human is:
Answer: Bilateral.
23) Which element that does not occur in nature but can be produced artificially?
Answer: Plutonium.
24) What colour is Spock’s blood?
Answer: Green.
25) Which countries have hosted the Winter Olympics most often (three times each)?
Answer: United States and France.
Current GK Questions and Answers Part 2
26) Which is the element found on the surface of the moon?
Answer: Titanium.
27) What does Radar Gun measure?
Answer: Speed of moving objects.
28) Which fictional captain is not human?
Answer: Flint.
29) Which Philosophy holds that the world is created and maintained by Universal Law?
Answer: Jain Philosophy.
30) Where in your body is your patella?
Answer: Knee (it’s the kneecap).
31) Who slew the medusa?
Answer: Perseus.
32) Which vitamin is considered to be a hormone?
Answer: D.
33) What does CITIUS, ALTIUS, FORTIUS mean?
Answer: Olympic Motto meaning “Faster, Higher, Stronger”.
34) The ‘red’ planet named after the Roman god of war is:
Answer: Mars.
35) Which can be used for biological control of mosquitoes?
Answer: Gambusia.
36) Where can you find London Bridge today?
Answer: USA (Arizona).
37) How many Interstate Highways are in Hawaii?
Answer: Three.
38) Which instrument used for finding out wind-direction?
Answer: Wind vane.
39) Cheongsam is the dress worn in?
Answer: China.
40) When unripe, this bright orange fruit is notoriously bitter:
Answer: Persimmon.
41) How are Latitude and Longitude?
Answer: Perpendicular to each other.
42) What spirit is mixed with ginger beer in a Moscow mule?
Answer: Vodka.
43) What is the name given to the molten rock beneath the surface of the Earth?
Answer: Magma.
44) The improper function of which results in condition ‘Myxedema’ in human beings?
Answer: Thyroid gland.
45) The shining object on new moon day is?
Answer: Planet Venus.
46) Which architectural style dominated the period from 1400 to 1600?
Answer: The Renaissance.
47) Which was the first talkie film of India?
Answer: Alam Ara.
48) Who was the first man in space?
Answer: Yuri Gagarin.
49) Which president of the Confederate States of America was a West Point graduate?
Answer: President Jefferson Davis.
50) Where are a large number of species are found within a small unit of area?
Answer: Wet evergreen equatorial forests.
Current GK Questions and Answers Part 3
51) This is cloud of gas is typically called _?
Answer: Nebula.
52) Fill in the blank. “Ultimately a great nation is a _____ nation.”
Answer: Compassionate.
53) In 1610, Galileo Galilei discovered four moons of which planet?
Answer: Jupiter.
54) What would you do with a Yashmak?
Answer: Wear it – it’s an Arab veil.
55) When an atom loses an electron, it becomes a:
Answer: Positive ion.
56) When does Relative humidity decreases?
Answer: With increased temperature.
57) What does Spirometer measure?
Answer: Volume of air inspired and expired by the lungs.
58) In 1987, which presidential candidate was photographed with Donna Rice aboard the yacht “Monkey Business”?
Answer: Gary Hart.
59) Through which Translocation of food materials in plants takes place?
Answer: Phloem.
60) Who betrayed Jesus to the Romans?
Answer: Judas Iscariot.
61) Oak Park, Burbank, and Skokie are suburbs of which U.S. city?
Answer: Chicago.
62) Why is ‘Beaufort Scale’ used ?
Answer: To measure wind velocity.
63) Ashes Trophy is related to which sport?
Answer: Cricket.
64) What TV detective was based on the character of Petrovitch in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment?
Answer: Columbo.
65) Which is the tree requiring minimum water for its growth?
Answer: Babul.
66) Which animal lays eggs?
Answer: Duck billed platypus.
67) An eyepiece is sometimes called an ocular. True or False?
Answer: True.
68) In which is ‘Foot and Mouth Disease’ found?
Answer: Cattle.
69) What does Seismometer measure?
Answer: Motions of the ground.
70) Vesuvius is located near which major Italian city?
Answer: Naples.
71) In which latitudes largest quantities of bauxite is found?
Answer: Tropical latitudes.
72) On television what was Flipper?
Answer: Dolphin.
73) This type of poem became popular in the mid 19th century:
Answer: Limerick.
74) Which tree, once very popular in social forestry, is now taken to be environmental hazard?
Answer: Eucalyptus.
75) Masters Trophy is related to which sport?
Answer: Golf.
Current GK Questions and Answers Part 4
76) What nationality was Vincent van Gogh?
Answer: Dutch.
77) In which animal is respiration done by skin?
Answer: Frog.
78) Who’s band was The Quarrymen?
Answer: John Lennon.
79) In which country are Bat-Yam and Holon?
Answer: Israel.
80) The Ruhr-Westphalia region is a famous industrial region of which country?
Answer: Germany.
81) Thomas and Uber cup is related to which sport?
Answer: Badminton.
82) In movies, for which film did Paul Newman win an Academy Award for Best Actor?
Answer: The Color of Money.
83) Which was the most successful Grand National horse?
Answer: Red Rum.
84) Which country is the largest producer of Bauxite?
Answer: Australia.
85) Davis cup is related to which sport?
Answer: Men’s Tennis.
86) A mass of frozen rock and gas that has a tail pointing away from the sun is a:
Answer: Comet.
87) What denotes the smallest temperature?
Answer: 1° on the Kelvin scale.
88) Who starred as the Six Million Dollar Man?
Answer: Lee Majors.
89) A mass of frozen rock and gas that has a tail pointing away from the sun is a:
Answer: Comet.
90) Foot-and-Mouth disease in animals, a current epidemic in some parts of the world, By which is this
caused?
Answer: Bacterium.
91) What metal has the chemical symbol Pb?
Answer: Lead.
92) Scorpions are eight-legged arachnids, like spiders. True or False?
Answer: True.
93) ‘Gobar gas’ contains mainly which gas?
Answer: Methane.
94) In the song Waltzing Matilda, What is a Jumbuck?
Answer: Sheep.
95) Flower growers use the concept of capillary action when they:
Answer: Place cut flowers in dyed water to colour the petals.
96) What is the principal reason for the formation of metamorphic rocks?
Answer: Extreme heat and pressure.
97) Bronze is made from what two metals?
Answer: Copper and tin.
98) Which African leader is the only person in history to have addressed both the League of Nations and the UN?
Answer: Haile Selassie I.
99) Medicine for epilepsy is obtain from which lichen?
Answer: Parmelia.
100) Who was Dan Dare’s greatest enemy in the Eagle?
Answer: Mekon.
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