General Knowledge Question & Answer - 03-11-2014

Questions:

1. State the two worst disasters in Maharashtra state after the Koyna earthquake?
2. For which pop song did Tracy Chapman win three Grammy's in 1989?
3. Who first referred to the English as a nation of shopkeepers?
4. In Which film did Shabana Azmi co - star with Shirley Mclaine ?
5. Apart from the massacre of students agitating for democracy what is the significance of the Tiananmen Square in Beijing city?
6. What record is held by Malayalam film actor Prem Nazir?
7. What is America's highest civilian award?
8. Which Indian won the $ 1.2 million Jacob K. Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award for his research on neurological disorders, in 1989?
9. Against which country did Sachin Tendulkar make his cricketing debut for India, aged 16?
10. Name the pilot and co - pilot of the first all - women flight crew of the Indian Airlines?

Answers: 

1. The Sept 30, 1993 Latur earthquake in Which 30,000 are believed to have died. Then comes the floods of 1989 that left 895 dead and damaged property worth 150 crores
2. Fast Cars.
3. Napoleon  Bonaparte
4. Schesinger's Madame Sousatka
5. It is the largest city square in the world
6. He has acted as the hero in more films than anyone else in the world.
7. Medal of freedom
8. Subhash Chandra Basu..
9. Pakistan
10. Saudamini Deshmukh and Nivedita Bhasin.

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General Knowledge Question with Answer - 30-10-2014

Questions:

1. Name the World's longest serving prime minister of a nation?
2. Name the Jazzman  and master of the rollicking piano style known as stride?
3. Who is the youngest lawn tennis player to win the US open?
4. For which of his films did hollywood director Milos Forman win an Oscar?
5. What does the term film noire mean?
6. What was Laurel and Hardy's last film together?
7. In 1969 Barbara Streisand was awarded the Oscar for her first film funny girl in a tie - win with which other actress?
8. Who became the first Black elected Governor  of an American state in 1989?
9. Who was the first Black to be appointed Ambassador of the USA?
10. Who was the highest ranking Black officer in the history of the US military?

Answers:

1. Lee Kuan yew. He was  PM of Singapore for 31 years until he stopped down in 1990
2. Joe Turner
3. Pete Sampras of the US -19 years
4. One flew over the cuckoo's Nest
5. This French Phrase is used to describe films which are sombre in mood, often portraying underworld corruption and crime are frequently through not invariably set in shadowy city streets and are peopled by characters notable for their cynical and disillusioned outlook on life
6. Atoll K (Also shown as Robinson Crusoeland and Utopia) . This film made in France in 1953, was a flop.
7. Katherine Helpburn, who collected her Oscar for The lion in winter
8. Douglas Wilder. Elected Governor of  Virgina a southern state with a Black minority.
9. Andrew young. He was US ambassador to the UN
10. General Collin Powell. He was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff

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General Knowledge Questions & Answers - 23-10-2014

Questions:

1. Name the family owns the largest privately - owned media empire in the US?
2. Which bank in Atlenta, USA, funnelled at least $ 3 billion in the form of loans to Iraq, Illegally, for maintaining  Saddam Hussein's war machine?
3. Which religion did Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones rock group convert to before marrying Texan model Jerry Hall in 1990?
4. In which event did India win her only gold medal in the 1990 Asian Games held in Beijing?
5. Name the coach of the Legendary Olympian Athlete Jesse Ownes.
6. Jesse Ownes in 1936 and Carl Lewis in 1984 each won 3 Olympic golds in identical events. Name these events.
7. Name the first husband and wife to win a gold medal apiece in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics?
8. Name the Czech who won the 5000 mtrs, 10,000 mtrs and the marathon in Helsinki Olympics.
9. What are the two extreme points of Great Britain?
10. Name the first  woman to win the Olympic gold in 100 mtrs run, in  1928?

  

  Answers:

1. The New House family
2. Banca Nazionale del Lavoro 
3. Hinduism
4. Kabaddi
5. Larry Shyder
6. 100 mts,  200 mts and long jump
7. Emil Zatopek and Dana nee Ingrova
8. Emil Zaptopek
9. John O'Groats and Land's End
10. Elizabeth Robinson, USA

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General Knowledge Questions & Answers - 20-10-2014

Questions:

1. Give the common name for the mineral nephrite?
2. Jabiru is the Brazilian name for which South American bird?
3. In Which North American state would you find the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, famous for its Volcanic vents?
4. Which US city is the birthplace of Black civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, Jr?
5. What is the permanent burrow in which the badger lives called?
6. What does astrophobia mean?
7. What does UNICEF stand for?
8. In 1498 which explorer discovered for the West the sea route to India by rounding the Cape of Good Hope?
9. Which is the holy book of the Zoroastrians or Parsis?
10. Which country famous for Adam and Gouda cheese?

  Answers:

1. Jade
2. The giant stork
3. Alaska 
4. Atlanta
5. A set 
6. Fear of celestial space
7. United Nations Children's Fund (formerly United Nations International Children's  Emergency Fund)
8. Vasco da Gama of Portugal
9. Zend Avesta
10. Holland

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General Knowledge Question & Answer - 14-10-2014

Questions:

1. Which Swedish footballers became famous as the Gre - No -Li trio?
2. What is a rabbit's day - resting place called?
3. What anatomical condition is referred to as polydactyly?
4. What is hydropathy?
5. Name the southern region of Argentina between the Andes and the Atlantic Ocean?
6. In Greek legend name the mother of Oedipus who married him not knowing he has her son.
7. What is the commonest side effect of some commonly used analgesics (pain killers)?
8. Which Zebras have long hairy ears and bray like donkeys?
9. What does the instrument pedometer measure?
10. Who has scored the slowest half century in Test cricket?

Answers:

1. Gunnar Gren, Gunnar Nordahl and Nils Liedholm
2. A form 
3. Increased number of fingers in one hand
4. Medical treatment solely by application of water internally and externally
5. Patagonia
6. Jocasta
7. Irritation of stomach producing nausea, Vomiting and bleeding
8. Grevy's Zebra
9. The distance a person walks
10. Mudassar Nazar of Pakistan

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General Knowledge Questions & Answer - 11-10-2014

Questions:

1. Which decrease is known as Grave's disease?
2. Which cricket was nicknamed Electric Heels?
3. What are ectothermic or poikilothermic animals?
4. Which Swede footballer earned the title King of the Dribble?
5. Name the animal that is related to the Zorilla?
6. Give the exact loaction of the mitral value in the heart?
7. The word dinosaur comes from two Greek words. what do they mean?
8. To which country did the ancient Asechylus belong?
9. What is the name of the Test cricketer ground in Kennigton s. London?
10. What Job did Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, take up when he completed his university course?

 Answers:

1. Exophthalamic goitre
2. Learie Constantine of west Indies.
3. Cold - blooded animals (That is animals that have no internal mechanism for regulating body temperature, so that it fluctuates with changes in ambient temperatures. Though termed cold - blooded, body temperatures may be maintained at a high level as a result of activity or by behaviour patterns such as basking)
4. Kurt Hamrin
5. The Skunk
6. Between left atrium and left ventricle
7. Terrible lizzard
8. Greece
9. The oval
10. Teaching deaf children

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General Knowledge Question & Answer - 10-10-2014

Questions:

1. Which animal named Hsing - Hsing was gifted by china to the USA in 1972?
2. Who is known as job's Comforter?
3. Palembang is the largest city of which province in Indonesia?
4. The shell series is the domestic cricket championship of which country?
5. Which Lake is linked to the Gulf of Finland by River Neva?
6. Which Swedish footballer was called professore because of his scientific play?
7. What does the book called pharmacopoeia contain?
8. Which English bowler has conceded most runs in a Test?
9. What is Italy's unit of currency?
10. Which Roman emperor is supposed to have started a fire in AD 64 to make place for his golden palace?

Answers:

1. Te giant Panda
2. A person who increases the misery of the person he pretends to comfort
3. Sumatra
4. New Zealand
5. Lake Ladoga, Europe's largest lake.
6. Gunnar Gren 
7. Table of drugs
8. Ian Botham while playing aginst Pakistan in 1987 conceded 217 runs in 52 overs
9. Lira
10. Nero

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General Knowledge Questions & Answers - 08-10-2014

Questions:

1. What is the bissextile year more popular as?
2. What is a female sheep called?
3. Which is the only neighbouring country of Monaco?
4. The word abbot (a monk who heads a monastery) comes from the Aramaic abba. What does abba mean?
5. Which famous volcano is known as the Bonfire of Europe?
6. Which country was formerly known as South West Africa?
7. What is the chemical name of epsom salt?
8. Name the largest river of France?
9. Which is the largest satellite in our solar?
10. Who shot dead John Lennon, rock singer, song writer, guitarist and founder member of the Beatles, in 1980?

 

Answers:

1. Leap year
2. Ewe
3. France
4. Father
5. Mount Etna
6. Namibia
7. Manganese Sulphate
8. River Loire
9. Jupiter's Ganymede
10. Mark Chapman

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General Knowledge Question and Answer - 24-09-2014

Question:

1. What is Odaynophagia?
2. At what speed can a sloth run?
3. Which political leader became Known as the Gandhi of America?
4. Derived from Spanish, Juntia is used to describe a revolutionary government. What does Juntia literally mean?
5. Which is the biggest shark? This largest of all fishes doesn't attack human beings.
6. What poem written in praise of someone or something known as?
7. Diet is Japan's parliament. What is its upper chamber called?
8. Which echinoderm (marine invertebrate) can regenerate and develop into complete new individual from a single disjointed arm?
9. Why is it supposed to be easier to Swim in sea water than in rivers?
10. What is a male sheep called?

  

Answer:

1. Painful Swallowing.
2. It cannot run at all. it crawls at less than one mile an hour.
3. martin Luther King, Jr.
4. Council.
5. Whale shark.
6. An ode.
7. House of peers.
8. Starfish.
9. Because density of sea water is higher than river water staying afloat in it is that much easier.
10. Ram.

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General Knowledge Questions & Answer - 22-09-2014

Questions:

1. In Chittagong, Bangladesh, What are turtles fed with by devotees?
2. In which part of the body does the stunk produce its foul - smelling spray?
3. What are components of high molecular weight called?
4. Medically speaking, what is CTR?
5. Which philosopher defined man as a two - legged animal without feathers?
6. Which English footballer has a career record of scoring 49 goals?
7. What is fresco painting?
8. What is a small independent state between two hostile larger ones, thought to lessen the chances of war between them, called?
9. Which revolution of 1688 is given the name of bloodless (or) Glorious Revolution?
10. Name the player who brought out an aluminum bat in a cricket Test match.

 Answer:

1. Raw cow's lung.
2. Under its tail.
3. Polymers.
4. Cardio pulmonary resuscitation, for sudden collapse.
5. Plato.  
6. Boddy Charlton.
7. Technique of applying paint onto damp freshly laid plaster.
8. A buffer state.
9. The English Revolution (Name given to the events of 1688 - 89 during which James 11, unpopular convert to Catholicism, fled from England and William 111 and Mary 11 were established by parliament as joint monarchs. The title celebrates the bloodlessness of the event and the assertion of the constitutional importance of parliament).
10. Dennis Lillee of Australia.

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General Knowledge Questions & Answers

Questions:

1. Name the female singer who took religion to the top of the pop scene?
2. The following is the opening lines of which novel? It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife?
3. Who captained England in three football world cups?
4. The English words canyon, patio and rodeo  are borrowed from which European language?
5. In which country was Germany's Adolf Hitler born?
6. Which tiny country is completely bounded by south Africa?
7. Who were the rival captains in Srilanka's inaugural cricket test match?
8. Name the first European to invade India?
9. Laos is a republic in SE Asia. What are the two major languages of Laos?
10. What is the study of weather and climate called?

 Answers:

1. Lena Martel with her number One Day at a Time
2. Jane Austen's pride and prejudice
3. Billy Wright (1950, 54 & 58)
4. Spanish
5. Austria
6. Lesotho
7. Bandula Warnapura for Sri lanka and Keith Fletcher for England
8. Alexander the great of Macedonia Greece
9. Laotian and French
10. Meteorology

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General Knowledge Question & Answer - 19-09-2014

Questions:

1. In which Middle East country were golden hamsters first discovered in the world?
2. Which England Test Cricketer was a psychotherapist?
3. Which animal looks like it has a black coat with a white blanket flung over it?
4. How many characters are there in Tolstoy's War and place?
5. Name the two renowned ballet theaters of Russia?
6. Name the first spaghetti western i.e. a cowboy film made by Italian director in Europe?
7. Alfred Nobel invented dynamite. What did his father invent?
8. The Cameroons have been colonial territories of which countries?
9. What was unique about the 1927 film The Jazz Singer?
10. Who won the 5,000 and 10,000 meters as well as the marathon in the same Olympics? 

 Answers:

1. Syria.
2. Mike Brearley.
3. The Malay tapir.
4. More than 500.
5. The Bolshoi and the Kirov.
6. A fistful of dollars.
7. Plywood.
8. Germany, Britain, France.
9. It was the first full - length talking picture.
10. Email Zatopek.

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General Knowledge Question & Answer - 16-09-2014

Questions:

1. The highly poisonous Russell's viper is native to which part of the world?
2. To which British Island in the south Atlantic was Napoleon exiled on June 18, 1815?
3. Which mammal delivers more young in one litter than any other?
4. What is said to be theoretically produced during nuclear reactions when the positive charges for protons and the negative charges for electrons are reversed?
5. What are the parts of the large intestine?
6. How many US presidents have been assassinated?
7. Which bird family does the jay belong to?
8. Name the republic of the former USSR where people are known to live to an extraordinary age?
9. What trophy is at stake in a cricket test series between England and the West indies?
10. What is the young one of a goose known as?

 Answers:

1. Indian Subcontient.
2. St Helena.
3. The tailless hedgehog or tenrec of Madagascar (about 25 in one litter).
4. Anti matter
5. Ascending, transverse and descending colon, rectum.
6. Four
7. The crew. 
8. Georgia.
9. The Wisden Trophy.
10. Gosling.

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General Knowledge Question & Answer - 12-09-2014

Questions:

1. The disease pneumonia refers to inflammation of which part of the body?
2. What is the principal monetary unit of Romania?
3. What is the study of punishment of crime and of prison management called?
4. What is aerographics  the study?
5. which planet did French astronomer Urbain Jean Leverrier help discover?
6. In which Italian city was Mussolini's body hung up publicly by partisans?
7. What is Perimetry?
8. Which Hungarian king is also regarded as the apostle of Hungary?
9. Which central and South America tree - dwelling anteater  has a long prehensile tail?
10. Where did Japan sign the peace Treaty With 48 countries in 1951

  Answers: 

1. The lungs
2. Leu
3. Penology
4. Atmospheric conditions
5. Neptune. It was discovered in 1846 by Johann Galle within 1 deg of the position predicted and sent to him by Leverrier. L. based his surmise on the observed irregularities in the motion of the Urauns (John Couch Adams too is credited with the same prediction arrived at independently)
6. Milan
7. Determination of the visual field
8. King Stephen
9. The Tamandua
10. San Francisco.

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General Knowledge Questions & Answers - 09-09-2014

Questions:

1. What does the Latin phrase non composmentis mean?
2. What is an animal having eight limbs called?
3. In which ancient country were cats wor - shipped?
4. In biological terms what is rust?
5. Which was Napoleon 's most brilliant victory in 1805 against Austria and Russia, sometimes called the battle of the three emperors?
6. What is the emission of light by an organism called?
7. Name the world's smallest mammal?
8. Among cricketers to take 200 test wickets who has the worst bowling average?
9. April, the fourth month of the year is derived, from a Latin verb. What does 'April' mean?
10. Which is smallest living bird?

Answers:

1. Insane.
2. Octopad, e.g .octopus.
3. Egypt.
4. A disease caused by fungus in wheat plants.
5. Battle of Austerlitz (fought in Moravia, Czechoslovakia).
6. Bioluminescence.
7. The pygmy shrew.
8. Gary sobers: 235 wickets @ 34.03.
9. To open; referring to the opening of spring bluds.
10. The bee hummingbird.

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General Knowledge Question and answers - 01-09-2014

Questions:

1. Which principal dramatic character is regarded by most critics as the first truly modern character in English literature?
2. Name the western arm of the Indian Ocean between Yemen and Somalia?
3. What is the normal cerebral blood flow per 100 grams per minute in human beings?
4. What is the similarity between a frog and a tarsier? 
5. What is called Adam's needle?
6. Which Indian Test cricketer is called Colonel?
7. What is a state called when its government is an elected one and it does not have a hereditary governor or figurehead?
8. what is the name of the alloy combining magnesium and aluminium?
9. How much potassium is present in the human body?
10. What does anachronism mean?

 Answers:

1. Hamlet. Hamlet is said to embody the Paralysing consciousness of the modern man.
2. The Gulf of Aden.
3. 50 - 55 ml.
4. Both use their long, Powerful hind legs to jump.
5. Yucca, a plant with leaves bearing threadlike fibres.
6. Dilip Vengsarkar.
7. A republic.
8. Magnalium.
9. 3000 - 3500 mg.
10. A chronological error.

Which of these is the study of trees ?

Which of these is the study of trees ?

A ) Dendrology 

B ) Pedology

C ) Oology

D ) Orology 

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Answer : A ) Dendrology 

Which of these is the most populated State in U.S.A ?

Which of these is the most populated State in U.S.A ?

A ) New York 

B ) Texas 

C ) California 

D ) Washington 

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Answer :  C ) California

Which of these is the most popular and common snack in U.S.A ?

Which of these is the most popular and common snack in U.S.A ?

A ) Guacamole 

B ) Potato Chips

C ) Tortilla chips

D ) Popcorn

Which countries held FIFA 2002 world cup

In Which of these countries , football world cup 'FIFA 2002' held ?

A ) Austria - Germany 

B ) Korea - Japan

C ) Brazil - Argentina 

D ) France - Italy 

The Answer of FIFA 2002 word cup football held by Korea and Japan

B ) Korea -Japan