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General Knowledge (GK) 2020 – Top 50 Quiz Questions and Answers
General Knowledge (GK) 2020 Quiz Questions Part 1
1) One such Ziggurat was recently found. By what name it is known?
Answer: The great tower temple at Nippur.
2) Write an example of an epiphytes:
Answer: Vanda.
3) Write the name of the cyanide process by which gold is extracted:
Answer: MacArthur and Forest cyanide process.
4) What is the oldest and simplest form of administrative organisation?
Answer: Line organisation.
5) The main disadvantage of Data Encryption Standard (DES) is:
Answer: Key distribution problem.
6) Which is Medium Frequencies (MF) band?
Answer: 300-3000 khz.
7) The foundation of locks are generally made of:
Answer: Bearing piles protected by sheet piles.
8) How many basic reasons are there for loss of soil and its degeneration to a useless heap of lifeless material?
Answer: Three.
9) In which industry the phrase “the tyranny of numbers” had once become popular and led to a marvellous invention?
Answer: Electronics industry.
10) What is called when mechanical waves have a frequency below the audible range?
Answer: Infrasonics.
11) Name the ship belonging to Great Britain which was the first to cross Atlantic Ocean under steam power?
Answer: Sirius.
12) ‘This is my play’s last scene, here heavens appoint My pilgrimage’s last mile.’
To which these lines belong?
Answer: John Donne’s: “Holy Sonnets”.
13) Other name of moon signs:
Answer: Gentle signs.
14) In which type does combustion of fuel take place inside the engine?
Answer: In Internal combustion engine.
15) What led to the origin of Buddhism?
Answer: Caste system and the rituals in Hinduism.
General Knowledge (GK) 2020 Quiz Questions Part 2
16) “No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money”. Who made this remark?
Answer: Dr. Johnson.
17) Which Jazz trumpeter is said to have invented bebop?
Answer: Dizzy Gillespie.
18) What was the name of the one-eyed giant in Greek Mythology?
Answer: Cyclops.
19) Name the sea which is a part of the Arctic ocean and extends from New Siberian Island to Wrangel Island:
Answer: East Siberian Sea.
20) Whose model of Society is mainly organismic?
Answer: Herbert Spencer.
21) Which Indian Sage has propounded the Advaita philosophy?
Answer: Adi Shankaracharya.
22) Bonds issued by governments are:
Answer: Debenture bonds.
23) When did the Central Postal Union (Universal Postal Union) was established?
Answer: 1884.
24) Cold War tensions rose again in 1979. What was the reason?
Answer: The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan.
25) A French Renaissance cabinet was designed in which style?
Answer: Henry II style.
26) The Andes and the Pacific Mountain Systems are part of the:
Answer: Ring of Fire.
27) Which is a largest fish in Devonian period?
Answer: Dunkleosteus.
28) The earliest three species Australopithecus anamensis, Australopithecus afarensis and Australopithecus africanus are called:
Answer: Gracile Australopithecines.
29) Which typesetting uses computers and computer printers to produce printed materials?
Answer: Electronic imagesetting.
30) Which dramas were performed as a part of an important yearly religious and civic celebration called the “City Dionysia”?
Answer: Tragedies.
General Knowledge (GK) 2020 Quiz Questions Part 3
31) Out of court settlement of disputes through third party negotiation is named:
Answer: Arbitration.
32) What are the general groups of films used in black and white photography?
Answer: (1) Ortho Process (2) Orthochromatic (3) Panchromatic (4) Infra Red.
33) How many members are there in the Tribe of Ephraim?
Answer: Forty thousand and five hundred.
34) What is the name of long loose robe with wide short sleeves worn by Japanese?
Answer: Kimono.
35) Which party has always been the mover and director of first revolution?
Answer: Leninist Party.
36) One square metre is equal to how many square centimetres?
Answer: 10,000 square centimetres.
37) What is the currency of Belize:
Answer: Dollar.
38) Where are the tourist centres Bali, Java and Sumatra located?
Answer: In Indonesia.
39) Which are the two main parts of the hair which has completed the growth?
Answer: Root and stem.
40) Mountainous plateau has caused salt lakes to develop. Why?
Answer: Lack of drainage.
General Knowledge (GK) 2020 Quiz Questions Part 4
41) Name the ballet master with whose effort ballet emerged as a theatrical form?
Answer: Pierre Beauchamp.
42) Who suggested and goaded Gandhian family to send Gandhiji to England to study Law?
Answer: Mavji Dave.
43) The most common trees in the canopy are called:
Answer: Dominant trees of the forest.
44) The river itself and all the smaller streams that supply water to the river are together known as:
Answer: A river system.
45) Who is the scientist related with the overthrow of the theory of spontaneous generation and experiments with swan necked flasks?
Answer: Pasteur.
46) Survey is also called:
Answer: Public opinion poll.
47) What is the mental phenomena of Idealism?
Answer: What is fundamentally important and real.
48) If the blood hiss from injury, which would be the injured blood vessel?
Answer: Artery.
49) Give the name of the scientist who prepared a successful vaccine for rabies:
Answer: Louis Pasteur.
50) At what depth does the Lehmann discontinuity lie?
Answer: 5200 km.
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