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General Knowledge Quiz Questions and Answers Part 1 (Quiz 1-25)
1) What is the temperature of the core of the sun, where the thermonuclear reaction takes place?
Answer: Around 15 million K.
2) What is Funaria?
Answer: Moss.
3) What are the neutrons and protons in an atom collectively known as?
Answer: Nucleons.
4) Who called management as a “Behavioural science”?
Answer: Chester Barnard.
5) The fundamental building blocks of HTML are called the :
Answer: HTML tags.
6) Current conduction with the PNP transistor takes place by hole conduction from:
Answer: Emitter to the collector.
7) The landing and take off areas of heliports are marked with:
Answer: Letter H.
8) What is the name of the resource which is directly or indirectly derived from the photosynthetic activity of green plants?
Answer: Biotic resource.
9) Who said, “The new power is not money in the hands of the few, but the information in the hands of the many”?
Answer: John Naisbitt.
10) Properties of the latest computer mouse:
Answer: Identifies person by recognizing the pattern of veins in hand.
11) Which are the methods adopted to count traffic for traffic survey?
Answer: Automatic traffic counts, Manual counts, and Turning movements.
12) When did the empire established by the Sumerians come to an end?
Answer: In 2650 B.C.
13) What is Chromosphere?
Answer: The layer around the photosphere.
14) What is Riccia?
Answer: It is a liverwort as it is like a flat lobed thallus.
15) Write Einstein’s mass-energy relation:
Answer: E = MC2
16) If the start tag of an HTML is <TAG> the end tag will be:
Answer: </TAG>
17) The collector current in either type of junction transistor is always less than:
Answer: Emitter current.
18) The boundary of the landing and take off areas of heliports are illuminated by:
Answer: Blue light.
19) Name a biotic resource:
Answer: Fruits.
20) Which book on mathematics has been described as a “scientific poem”?
Answer: Mécanique analytique.
21) Who invented Adhesive tape?
Answer: Richard. G. Drew.
22) Which are the methods adopted to count traffic for Area-wide survey?
Answer: Number plate survey, Origin, and destination survey, Roadside interview survey, and Self-completion forms.
23) When was I.S.R.O set up?
Answer: April 19, 1969.
24) In which years were the Oscar Statuette not made of metal?
Answer: During World War II, when a metal conservation drive was on, the Oscars were made of plaster in a symbolic gesture.
25) Which was the movie advertised as India’s first underwater movie?
Answer: ‘Anmol Moti ‘starring Jeetendra and Babita.
Latest General Knowledge and Quiz Questions Answers Part 2 (Quiz 26-50)
26) When was the U.N. charter drafted?
Answer: In April 1915.
27) Which are the prizes included in Nobel Prize?
Answer: A Gold Medal, a Diploma and Cash.
28) Which British athlete won the Gold Medal in the women’s long jump at the Tokyo Olympics in 1964?
Answer: Mary Rand.
29) When was the 11-a-side football game standardized?
Answer: 1870.
30) When and why was the crimson cricket ball (red cherry color) changed into white in color?
Answer: Australians changed it into white color to suit the night cricket plays.
31) Who won the Davis Cup in its inaugural year?
Answer: The USA in 1900.
32) Who directed the group of scientists in the Manhattan Project which succeeded in creating the atom bomb in 1945?
Answer: J. Robert Oppenheimer.
33) Where is the headquarters of I.S.R.O?
Answer: Bangalore.
34) Besides the Oscar Statuette, what are the other mementos awarded by the Academy?
Answer: Plaques for Scientific and Engineering Awards and certificates for Technical Achievement Awards.
35) Which theatre in India introduced the continuous show system?
Answer: Blue Diamond in Madras.
36) Where was the U.N. charter drafted?
Answer: San Francisco.
37) When was Economics included in Nobel Prize list?
Answer: 1969.
38) Who was the first athlete to be awarded the Padma Shri?
Answer: Milkha Singh.
39) ‘Soccer’ also means football. Who invented this word?
Answer: Charles. W. Brown ( England).
40) When where and between whom was the first official Cricket Test Match played?
Answer: At Melbourne between Australia and England on March 15-19, 1877.
41) Which is the world’s oldest Lawn Tennis Tournament?
Answer: Wimbledon, since 1877.
42) Which insect has the largest number of species in the world?
Answer: Beetle.
43) What does the term ‘MG’ mean in film parlance?
Answer: Minimum Guarantee.
44) Which signs are ruled by Jupiter?
Answer: Sagittarius and Pisces.
45) Engines belong to two main classes. What are they?
Answer: Internal Combustion and External Combustion.
46) What is the meaning of Arhat?
Answer: Buddhist saint who attained ‘sambodhi’.
47) Which group of brothers had their first US hit with “I Want You Back” in 1969?
Answer: The Jackson Five.
48) What sort of mythical creature is identified with the constellation Sagittarius?
Answer: Centaur.
49) What is the title of the presiding officer who keeps order in the House of Commons?
Answer: Speaker.
50) What is the imaginary lines drawn to connect places on a map which have the same elevation above sea-level?
Answer: Contour line.
General Knowledge and Quiz Questions Answers Part 3 (Quiz 51-76)
51) Sociology is a science. Why?
Answer: It is methodical.
52) Who is the detective story writer, once himself a Pinkerton detective, that wrote: “The Maltese Falcon”?
Answer: Dashiell Hammett.
53) Which was the first English poetry anthology?
Answer: Tottel’s Miscellany.
54) Which signs are ruled by Mercury?
Answer: Gemini and Virgo.
55) Name the type of engine in which combustion takes place outside the engine:
Answer: External Combustion engine.
56) Name the palace in which Tibetan lamas live:
Answer: Potala Palace.
57) Who wrote the song ‘White Christmas’ in 1942?
Answer: Irving Berlin.
58) What is the collective name for the three sisters who had wings, talons, huge teeth and snake for hair?
Answer: Gorgons.
59) Which conservative MP was a middle distance runner who won two Olympic gold medals and set 11 world records during the 1970s and 1980s?
Answer: Sebastian Coe.
60) A shallow portion of sea bottom that borders continents:
Answer: Continental shelf.
61) Which is the widely used method of data collection in Sociology?
Answer: Interview.
62) Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was a lecturer in Mathematics at Christ Church College in Oxford. What did he write that made him famous?
Answer: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
63) Name the Greek philosopher who wrote the earliest surviving and most influential essay on drama?
Answer: Aristotle.
64) What is the expanded form of COFEPOSA?
Answer: Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Act.
65) Who introduced the wet plate collodion process of making negatives in the camera?
Answer: Scott Archer of London, 1851.
66) What name Jacob given to the place where God spoke with him?
Answer: Bethel.
67) Who is the lion of Punjab?
Answer: Lala Lajpat Rai.
68) Which is the place of birth of the fashion photographer, Richard Avedon?
Answer: New York.
69) Who is the leader, made his own noncommunist revolution?
Answer: Fidel Castro.
70) What is fathom?
Answer: The unit to measure the depth of the sea.
71) The currency of Armenia is _
Answer: The Dram.
72) How many tourist resort centers are there at Belgium seashore which is having the length of 62 kilometers?
Answer: 15.
73) Who wrote “Poetics” which is the most famous essay on drama?
Answer: Aristotle.
74) What is the expanded form of MRTP?
Answer: Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Act.
75) Who invented the Dry Plate Photographic Process?
Answer: Dr. R.L. Maddox.
76) Who is the lion of Kashmir?
Answer: Sheikh Abdullah.
General Knowledge and Quiz Questions Answers Part 4 (Quiz 77-100)
77) What is a sweater?
Answer: A knitted pullover.
78) Fidel Castro made his own noncommunist revolution. But he put it into the organizational framework, of:
Answer: The old Cuban Communist Party.
79) What is the name of the device that measures weight by the tension of a spring?
Answer: Spring balance.
80) The currency of Australia
Answer: Dollar.
81) Where do the tourists who reach Nigeria go to enjoy the weekend?
Answer: Benin.
82) Who is called the Light of the World?
Answer: Jesus Christ.
83) An economic system consists of three kinds of spending units. Which are they?
Answer: Consumer households, business firms, and government.
84) Which became the first newspaper to use Koenig’s press?
Answer: The Times of London.
85) Which of the Western bloc acted independently of U.S policies?
Answer: West Germany.
86) The best-known Chinese chair design had a piece of wood that formed the center of the chairs back. That piece of wood is known as:
Answer: Splat.
87) The Appalachian Mountains extends a distance of about:
Answer: 1,500 miles.
88) Which animal was fed by opening their shells and filtering food from the water with a comb-like organ?
Answer: Brachiopods.
89) The footprint of Australopithecus afarensis resembled:
Answer: Those of modern people.
90) Which are the three steps included in the printing process?
Answer: Typesetting, preparing illustrations for reproduction and page make up.
91) Who was the first Roman emperor to embrace Christianity?
Answer: Constantine the Great.
92) “Banks are institutions whose debts -usually referred to as bank deposits – are commonly accepted in final settlement of other people’s debts”. Who said this?
Answer: Richard Sidney Sayers.
93) Who made the first permanent photograph?
Answer: Nicéphore Niépce.
94) What searched for a new economic and political relationship with other European countries, including Eastern Germany?
Answer: Independent policy of France and Western Germany.
95) The Renaissance was a period of European history that lasted from:
Answer: About 1300 to 1600.
96) The Rocky Mountains stretch for about:
Answer: 3,300 miles.
97) Animals with backbones are called:
Answer: Vertebrates.
98) From where Australopithecus afarensis bones were founded?
Answer: Chad, in north-central Africa.
99) What is Typesetting?
Answer: Is the assembly of individual letters and numbers to create the text portion of the printed piece.
100) The man who first assessed the mass of the earth?
Answer: Dr. Nevil Maskelyne.
General Knowledge and Quiz Questions Answers Part 5 (Quiz 101-130)
101) The location of “Hanging Gardens of Babylon’ is:
Answer: Iraq (100 km south of Baghdad city.
102) In this country Jute is the principal foreign exchange earner. Which country?
Answer: Bangladesh.
103) In which country is the Matterhorn?
Answer: Switzerland.
104) Two South African provinces take their names from rivers. Which are they?
Answer: Orange Free State and Transvaal.
105) Which state of America enjoys Mediterranean climate?
Answer: California.
106) Where does South America’s longest river have its source?
Answer: In the Andes.
107) Which part of Australia is known as “the land of Van Die Man?”
Answer: Tasmania.
108) What is the average of salinity of sea water?
Answer: 3.5%.
109) “The Communist Manifesto’, written jointly by Marx and Engels was published in:
Answer: 1848.
110) Which are the four layers in the outer surface of the earth?
Answer: (i) Lithosphere (ii) Hydrosphere (iii) Atmosphere (iv) Biosphere.
111) The two important ports of the Red Sea:
Answer: Port Said and Aden.
112) The highest peak in Nepal?
Answer: Mount Everest.
113) In which country is Flanders?
Answer: Belgium.
114) Which city is known as “Heart of America”?
Answer: Boston, USA.
115) Which is the only country in South America with an ‘Atlantic’ and a “Pacific” coast?
Answer: Columbia.
116) What is the prime export of Australia?
Answer: Woolen Goods.
117) The mixture of gasoline and alcohol is called:
Answer: Gasohol.
118) ‘The Critique of Political Economy’, the first fruits of Karl Marx’s long painstaking research at the British Museum, appeared in :
Answer: 1859.
119) Which chemical substance acts as the neurotransmitter at the nerve endings?
Answer: Acetylcholine.
120) What is the most important and drastic composition boundary within the Earth?
Answer: Gutenberg Discontinuity.
121) Cylindrical rod found at least in embryos of all vertebrates is:
Answer: Notochord.
122) Which Indian king put up a tough resistance and fight against Alexander?
Answer: Porus of Punjab.
123) Which subject is called the queen of science in the middle ages?
Answer: Theology.
124) The Egyptian ruler who nationalized the Suez Canal?
Answer: Gamal Abdel Nasser.
125) Where can you find the White House :
Answer: Washington D.C, USA.
126) The Greek Geographer who made a calculation of the diameter of the moon and distance between the earth and the moon:
Answer: Hipparchus.
127) The war that was fought between England and France from 1756 to 1763:
Answer: Seven years war.
128) Name the German battleship which sunk “The Hood” in May 1941 only to be sunk itself a few days later:
Answer: The Bismarck.
129) After death, the body stiffens within a few hours. What is this process known as?
Answer: Rigor mortis.
130) What is the “Mantle Transition Zone” at about 370-720 km depth?
Answer: Overlain by the Upper Mantle and underlain by the Lower Mantle.
General Knowledge and Quiz Questions Answers Part 6 (Quiz 131-160)
131) Bone matrix is made up of a protein called _
Answer: Ossein.
132) The thing that the Neanderthal Man accidentally discovered;
Answer: Fire.
133) The first university was started at:
Answer: Paris.
134) The name of the Parliament of Japan:
Answer: Diat.
135) The countries to be affected first by the ozone hole:
Answer: Chile and Argentina (South America).
136) The inventors of Concrete:
Answer: Romans.
137) The year in which the First war of American independence started:
Answer: AD 1775.
138) By what title was Oliver Cromwell known?
Answer: Lord Protector.
139) If the artery is injured, where we have to press strongly?
Answer: Main centers through which the blood vessels carries blood to the injured part.
140) Height of Everest:
Answer: 8,848 metre.
141) Name the folk dance which is performed by rustics in Shakespeare’s “Midsummer Night’s dream”?
Answer: Bergomask.
142) Karamchand Gandhi became the Dewan of Porbandar at the age of:
Answer: 25.
143) One of the most valuable products made from wood is:
Answer: Paper.
144) Where is the Amazon River located?
Answer: South America.
145) Protection of soil against loss is called:
Answer: Soil conservation.
146) Watching the behavior of human beings and other animals in their natural environment involves in which technique?
Answer: Naturalistic observation.
147) The branches of philosophy:
Answer: Metaphysics, epistemology, logic, ethics, and aesthetics.
148) If the injury is in the leg, where should we press?
Answer: In the femoral artery ( in the top edge of the thigh).
149) What is the name of the hairdressing done by the pressure of strong wind?
Answer: Blow-dry styling.
150) Height of the Peak Namcha Barwa:
Answer: 7,756 m.
151) Name the folk dance of Chile, Northern Argentina, and Peru which came due to Spanish colonization?
Answer: Zamacueca or Marinera.
152) Gandhi was about 17 years old when he lost his:
Answer: Father.
153) What serves as chief fuel for cooking and heating in many parts of the world?
Answer: Wood.
154) Length of the Amazon River is:
Answer: 4,000 miles.
155) Phylloclade is the modification of stem which is meant for:
Answer: Photosynthesis.
156) Psychologists conducting naturalistic observation studies to try to observe a group. Such a group is called:
Answer: Representative sample.
157) In addition to the five branches which branch is main in philosophy?
Answer: The philosophy of language.
158) If the palm is injured, where should we have to press?
Answer: Blood vessel of the wrist.
159) Whose lines are these and from where?
Answer: T.S. Eliot’s, “Whispers of Immortality”.
160) What do you understand by the term Re-recording?
Answer: Recording of the background music.
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