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General Knowledge (GK) Questions October 23 (2020)
1) According to Astrology, friend planets of Jupiter:
Answer: Sun, Moon and Mars.
2) What stands 320 metres tall in the Champ de Mars and was designed for the 1889 Paris Exhibition?
Answer: Eiffel Tower.
3) What are the two types of cylinder liners?
Answer: Dry liners and wet liners.
4) The Lena River in Russia flows into which sea?
Answer: Laptev Sea.
5) What is the main aim of man according to Buddhism?
Answer: To attain Moksha.
6) A squall line is a term used to describe a:
Answer: Weather front.
It is a line that precedes a cold front, marked by wind gusts and often heavy rain.
7) “If my mother had lived, I could not have loved you, for she would never have let me go” D.H. Lawrence told his wife Frieda. In which novel does Lawrence portray a mother’s possessive love for her son?
Answer: Sons and Lovers.
8) What is the speed of light?
Answer: 186,300 miles per second.
9) Name the American jazz pianist and song-writer who composed ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ and the Negro folk-opera ‘Porgy and Bess’:
Answer: George Gershwin.
10) In which ocean would zero degrees longitude, zero degrees latitude be found?
Answer: The Atlantic Ocean.
11) Name the person who became the chairman of U.S.S.R in 1988, he was also a Soviet leader?
Answer: Mikhail Gorbachev.
12) Can orbitals hold two, four or eight electrons?
Answer: No.
13) Warm ocean currents in the equatorial region is known as:
Answer: Equatorial current.
14) Which country leads the world in alcohol consumption?
Answer: China.
15) Who defined social control “as a process by which individual is made group responsive and by which social organisation is built and maintained”?
Answer: Paul H. Landis.
General Knowledge (GK) Questions October 23
16) Who were Hugh de Merville, William de Tracy, Reginald Fitzurse and Richard le Breton?
Answer: The four knights who assassinated Thomas a Becket in Canterbury Cathedral.
17) What was the name taken by Nicholas Break Spear in 1154 when he became the only English Pope? Answer: Adrian IV.
18) Who was the only president to serve in the Senate after his presidency?
Answer: Andrew Johnson.
19) What is Reversibility?
Answer: The ability to convert future sums into present funds quickly without appreciable money loss.
20) King Clovis established what city as his capital in 508?
Answer: Paris.
Clovis ruled over the Franks from 481-511 A.D.
21) Where was the first successful transatlantic telegraph cable connected?
Answer: Valentia, Ireland, to Heart’s Content, Newfoundland, Canada.
22) Who was the author of the book Gypsy Ballads?
Answer: Federico Garcia Lorca.
23) Which one had driven German troops out of most of Eastern Europe and had established a pro-Communist Government in Poland?
Answer: Soviet Forces.
24) Who was Time magazine’s first Man of the Year in 1927?
Answer: Charles Lindbergh.
25) The meaning of the word Al-Ameen:
Answer: The faithful.
26) What type of vehicle do the British call a ‘lorry’?
Answer: A Truck.
27) In France, who established royal furniture workshops?
Answer: King Henry IV.
28) In which sport would you hear the term “Dogleg”?
Answer: Golf.
It is golf jargon for a fairway bending either to the right or the left.
29) Annapurna is located at:
Answer: Himalaya in Nepal.
30) In periodicals, the name of what U.S. magazine is the French word for “miss”?
Answer: Mademoiselle.
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