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General Knowledge (GK) Questions October 24 (2020)
1) All land-living vertebrates, including human beings are descended from which fishes?
Answer: Lobe-finned fishes.
2) The scientific name for mosses is:
Answer: Bryophytes.
3) From where anthropologists have founded the important fossils of the first human beings lived in Africa?
Answer: Shores of Lake Turkana in Kenya and in Oldupai Gorge in Tanzania.
4) Hong Kong is also known as?
Answer: Xianggang.
5) Which typesetting uses molten metal and molds of letters, numbers and other characters to produce type?
Answer: Hot-metal typesetting.
6) Which of these writers was an innovator of the stream of consciousness technique?
Answer: James Joyce.
The technique which mimics the inner thought process is used widely in his novel “Ulysses”.
7) Who used only two characters on stage at a time?
Answer: Aeschylus.
8) Which states parliamentarians became the first in Australia to be paid?
Answer: Victoria’s.
9) What is the name given to the number by which the exposure should be increased for a particular filter with a particular film?
Answer: Filter factor.
10) Who was the one-eyed giant?
Answer: Cyclops.
11) Who leaded the army of the tribe of the children of Issachar the journey from the wilderness of Sinai?
Answer: Nethaneel.
12) The ‘blue’ planet with the most water is:
Answer: Earth.
13) What is the real name of Frank Richards who was an English writer?
Answer: Charles Harold St. John Hamilton.
14) Which country is not adjacent to Lake Tanganyika?
Answer: Malawi.
15) In which place Baluchar Sari or Baluchuri Sari is manufactured?
Answer: In Bengal.
General Knowledge (GK) Questions October 24
16) Which famous symbol was variously represented as a chalice, dish or stone?
Answer: Holy grail.
The object of a quest by the Knights of the Round Table, it could be found only by the pure.
17) Who is the leader of the Communist Party?
Answer: General Secretary or First Secretary.
18) Where in the body does a cataract form?
Answer: Eye.
19) One square kilometer is equal to how many hectares?
Answer: 100 hectares.
20) Tuscan and Composite are two classical orders of what type of architecture?
Answer: Roman.
21) What is the currency of Bulgaria:
Answer: Lev.
22) Which Civil War general popularized a new men’s hairstyle, which became known as “sideburns”?
Answer: General Ambrose E. Burnside.
Union General Ambrose E. Burnside earned a niche in history for his mutton chops, which became known as “sideburns.”
23) Which are the famous seashores in Jamaica?
Answer: The shores of Ocho Rios and Montego seas.
24) What was Dr. Martin Luther King’s nickname when he was younger?
Answer: M.L.
25) Which product of nature is used to control dandruff?
Answer: Henna.
26) Following the U.S., which country is the leading maize (corn) producer?
Answer: China.
27) In which plateau majority of Tibet’s population lives?
Answer: Outer plateau.
28) A mixture where one substance dissolves in another is called:
Answer: A solution.
29) In which art form people organise the expressive movements of their bodies into rhythmic and visual patterns?
Answer: Dancing.
30) In sports, which NBA player is the all-time leader in points scored, Michael Jordan or Kareem Abdul-Jabbar?
Answer: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
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