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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.