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Important General Knowledge Questions and Answers
50 Top Important General Knowledge Questions with Answers Part 1 (1-17)
1) Who was the author of the book Wuthering Heights?
Answer: Emily Bronte.
2) How did the Sumerians build their temples?
Answer: In the shape of tall towers.
3) How many people have walked on the moon?
Answer: 12.
4) Name a gymnosperm which yields a drug for treating asthma:
Answer: Ephedra (the drug is ephedrine).
5) The Separatists that landed at Plymouth Rock were primarily what religious affiliation?
Answer: Puritan.
6) What is the Sulfide ore of silver known as?
Answer: Argentite.
7) What British stage production did Monkee Davey Jones star in as a child?
Answer: Oliver.
8) What is the primary function of management?
Answer: Planning.
9) What does a herpetologist study?
Answer: Reptiles.
10) The same keys are used for encryption as well as decryption:
Answer: In symmetric encryption.
11) In which country is the great port of Antwerp?
Answer: Belgium.
12) Which is Very Low Frequencies (VLF) band?
Answer: 10-30 khz.
13) Solar relates to the Sun, sidereal relates to the stars and synodic relates to the moon.
Answer: True.
14) Give an example of renewable resources:
Answer: fiber.
15) Who commanded the French ships which arrived in Botany Bay on 28 January 1788?
Answer: Jean-Francois de la Perouse.
16) The Greek engineer Hero once showed his compatriots how to dig a tunnel under a mountain by starting at both ends at once. Which subject did he use to estimate the points where digging could be started simultaneously?
Answer: Trigonometry.
17) Who was the Goddess of Love and Beauty?
Answer: Aphrodite.
Most Important General Knowledge Questions Part 2 (18-34)
18) The wavelength of sound in air is 10cm. What is its frequency?
Answer: 3.3 kc/s.
19) What Italian word is used to refer to a half-story, usually between the ground and first floor?
Answer: Mezzanine.
20) Which are the four categories of traffic signs?
Answer: Warning signs, Regulatory signs, Directional informatory signs, other informatory signs.
21) What “E” is a men’s magazine famous for its “Dubious Achievement Awards”?
Answer: Esquire.
22) ‘Blossom by blossom the spring begins’ In which poem does this line occur?
Answer: Swinburne’s “when the hounds of spring”.
23) In 1957, an animal named Laika became the first living creature to orbit Earth; which kind of animal was she?
Answer: A dog.
24) Sun’s own sign:
Answer: Leo.
25) Who discovered oxygen?
Answer: Joseph Priestly and Karl Wilhelm Scheele.
26) Is external combustion engine lighter or heavier in weight?
Answer: Heavier.
27) Atomic mass is expressed in atm. True or false?
Answer: False.
28) Whose dying words were “Crito, we owe a cock to Asclepius; pay it and don’t forget.”?
Answer: Socrates.
29) Which nerve is located in the human jaw?
Answer: Maxillary.
30) Who founded Motown Records?
Answer: Berry Gordy Jr.
31) Hummingbirds, native to the Americas, are the only birds capable of which maneuver?
Answer: Flying backward.
32) Which mountain in Thessaly did the ancient Greeks believe to be home of the gods?
Answer: Olympus.
33) What is the world’s tallest animal?
Answer: The male giraffe.
34) What was enforced by Parliament in 1379 and was the trigger that caused the ‘Peasant’s Revolt’ of UK?
Answer: Poll tax.
Important General Knowledge Online Quiz Questions and Answers Part 3 (35-50)
35) The satellite that orbits a planet is a:
Answer: Moon.
36) Don River, a major river in Russia empties into which sea?
Answer: Sea of Azov.
37) Labeled arrows on diagrams should be:
Answer: horizontal.
38) Archaeology focuses on:
Answer: Pre-historic Societies.
39) In chemistry, room temperature is:
Answer: 25 degrees Celsius.
40) In which Asian Country the Zoroastrian religion was founded?
Answer: Iran.
41) What weathering chemicals are made by decaying plants?
Answer: Acids.
42) What is a bond?
Answer: Bond is a promise of the issuer to pay principal and interest at a specified time.
43) The rule to calculate Force is:
Answer: Mass X acceleration.
44) What was the name, which Henry Fox Talbot called his technique?
Answer: Calotype or talbotype.
45) What were first issued in 1950 and allowed people to ‘pay by plastic’?
Answer: Credit cards.
46) When did China join the United Nations?
Answer: 1971.
47) What material forms the hard outermost layer of a human tooth?
Answer: Enamel.
48) French Renaissance furniture can be divided into two important styles. Which are they?
Answer: Francis 1 and Henry II.
49) Who was the first woman to be awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross medal?
Answer: Amelia Earhart.
50) The Andes Mountains are composed largely of which rocks?
Answer: Igneous rocks.
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