General Knowledge (GK) Questions and Answers October 25 (2020)
1) Gandhi was elected President of the All-India “Khilafat” Conference which held its session on 24 November, 1919 at?
Answer: Delhi.
2) American writer and humorist Samuel Clemens adopted which pen name from a term commonly used in river boating?
Answer: Mark Twain.
While working as a reporter on a Nevada newspaper, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, a former Mississippi riverboat pilot, adopted the pseudonym Mark Twain, which in river parlance means “two fathoms deep.”
3) Which kind of plants have more than one stem?
Answer: Shrubs.
4) What is the largest U.S. state east of the Mississippi River?
Answer: Georgia.
5) A passage in which the river water flows are:
Answer: Channel.
6) What was the name of the first trained dolphin in the movie The Day of the Dolphin?
Answer: Alpha.
7) Miller’s experiment proves the origin of life by:
Answer: Chemosynthesis.
8) Talc is the softest mineral. The scale used to test the hardness of minerals for identification is:
Answer: Moh’s Scale.
9) How many dominant types of cognitive theories of development are there?
Answer: Two.
10) The town of Hershey, home to the world’s largest chocolate plant, can be found in which state?
Answer: Pennsylvania.
11) Who invented analytic geometry?
Answer: Rene Descartes.
12) Which bird’s feathers turn white during the winter?
Answer: Ptarmigan.
Ptarmigans are members of the grouse family of game birds.
13) Which is the principal animal steroid?
Answer: Cholesterol.
14) What kind of creature was Dr. Seuss’s Yertle?
Answer: A turtle.
15) In which state of India, the broadest continental shelf is found?
Answer: Gujarat.
General Knowledge (GK) Questions and Answers October 25 Part 2
16) Which insect has been used to treat baldness?
Answer: Blister beetles.
17) Process of changing a fluid into a thickened congealed state, as in blood is called:
Answer: Coagulation.
18) Which city is the capital of the Italian region of Lombardy?
Answer: Milan.
19) Which was the capital of Egypt during the period of The Old Kingdom?
Answer: Memphis.
20) What is the two-word motto for the Boy Scouts of America?
Answer: Be prepared.
21) Arabian Peninsula is a vast plateau lying between:
Answer: the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
22) The estimated age of the universe is:
Answer: Between 7 and 20 billion years old.
23) The leader of the counter-reformation was a retired soldier called:
Answer: Ignatius of Loyola.
24) Which Latin American country has the highest proportion of black population?
Answer: Panama.
25) A world leader, whose dead body was secretly removed from the Mausoleum in 1961?
Answer: Stalin’s.
26) The word “dinosaur” is derived from the Greek for “terrible lizard”.
Answer: True.
27) The name of the first workers government in the world:
Answer: Paris Commune.
28) The tendency for a stationary object to remain at rest, and for a moving object to continue at the same speed is called:
Answer: Inertia.
29) ‘The Boer War’ fought between the Boers of South Africa and the English was in the year:
Answer: AD 1899.
30) Who was King Arthur’s wife?
Answer: Guinevere.
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