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 & Answers - 31-10-2014

Questions:

1. In Which Woody Allen comedy did super star Sylvester Stallone appear uncredited as a subway hoodlum?
2. Which speed barrier was broken by a French train recently?
3. Who was the second cricketer to mark his 100th Test milestone with a century, in 1989?
4. Name the first cricketer to score 1000 Test runs in his first year in Test cricket?
5. Which Middle East country was admitted to the UN for the first time in 1989?
6. What is the tailless macaque more commonly known as?
7. Which is Leftist and political activist was beaten to death on Jan 1, 1939 in Delhi, while performing a street play Hulla Bol (Cry in protest)?
8. Name the square which witnessed the massacre of Chinese students agitating for democracy in 1989?
9. An expatriate Indian gay club in San Francisco is called Trikone. What's the etymology of this word?
10. Who became the president of Iran after the demise of Ayatollah Khomeini?

Answers:

1. Bananas 
2. The 500 kmph barrier.
3. Javed Miandad 
4. Mark Taylor of Australia in 1989
5. Palestine
6. Barbary ape (also called magot)
7. Safdar Hashmi.
8. Tiananmen Square
9. In Nazi concentration camps, gays and lesbians were segregated and branded with pink inverse triangles. Trikone is the Indian word for Triangle.
10. A.A.H.Rafasanjani.

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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 with Answers - 29-10-2014

Questions:

1. Gavaskar has taken just one wicket in Test cricket. Whose wicket was that?
2. What is the highest fourth innings score in a cricket test?
3. Who was the first Black player to lead West Indies in a full Test series?
4. Which Test cricket bowler has taken Gavaskar's wicket the maximum number of times?
5. Who was the first batsman to be dismissed for 99 in Test cricket?
6. What is West Indies highest score in Test cricket?
7. In astronomy, what is believed to be the core of infant galaxies?
8. Which cricketer broke Greg Chappell's record of highest aggregate in a Test match?
9. In 1990 what law did the British parliament  pass regarding Anglican priests?
10. Which report on Job reservation to backward classes did V.P. Singh decide to implement when he was prime minister?

Answers:

1. Zaheer Abbas of Pakistan
2. 654 for 5, England v/s South Africa, 1938-39
3. F. Worrel against Australia in 1960-61
4. D. Underwood of  England - 12 times
5. C. Hill of Australia. In his next two innings also he was dismissed for 98 and 97
6. 790 for 3 declared against Pakistan at Kingston in 1957-58
7. Quasars
8. Graham Gooch, 456 runs in the first Test against India at the Lord's in 1990
9. Divorced men could became priests
10. Mandal Commission Report

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General Knowledge Questions & Answers - 28-10-2014

Questions:

1. In 1990 whom did Time magazine elect as its man of the decade?
2. Name the 80 - year old artiste who won the Oscar for Best Actress, also state the film for which she won it?
3. Who was the first Indian to win a gold at the International Mathematics Olympiad?
4. While compiling which American civil rights leader's papers did Prof. Carson find the doctorate thesis borrowed (plagiarsed)?
5. To which Nobel Prize winning dissident and author of Gulag Archipelago was Soviet citizenship restored?
6. Who set a cricket world record of four successive sixes in an over in a Test against England at Lord's in July 1990?
7. Of which country is kiwi the national bird?
8. What is the frog's long - jump record?
9. What type of animal is called inquiline ?
10. What is the Roman symbol for the number one hundred?

 

Answers:

1.  USSR'S Mikhail Gorbachev
2. Jessica Tandy in Driving Miss Daisy.
3. Rina Panigrahi of Mumbai
4. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr
5. Aleksandr Solzhenistyn
6. Kapil Dev. by doing this he also equalled the world test record of scoring maximum runs in a six - ball over.
7. New Zealand 
8. 14 feet
9. An animal that lives in the borrow, nest etc of animal of another species
10. C

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General Knowledge Questions With Answers - 25-10-2014

Questions: 

1. Who won the first cricket one day international between India and Pakistan, played in Dec 1, 1978 at Quetta?
2.  When and where did sunil Gavaskar make his debut in cricket one day internationals?
3. In 1990 who became the youngest ever winner of the tennis French open Women's singles title after defeating Steffi Graf?
4. Name the Chief of the US air force dismissed for disclosing in his press briefings too much of the Pentagon's war plans in the Gulf conflict with Iraq, 1990-91.
5. According to geologists which mountain range is rising skywards 1 cm or half an inch every year?
6. Whose triple century made at Lord's in 1990 preceded Brian Lara's record breaking triple century?
7. Name the filmstar who won an Oscar for his Portrayal of Paul Gaugin in lust for life?
8. According to the Journal of the American medical Association, which drug taken every other day helps prevent migraines?
9. The drug ornidyl (released a few years ago) is the first new treatment in 40 years for which African disease?
10. Who was asked by the Swiss supreme court to return to the Philippines $ 350 million, deposited in Swiss banks by her late husband?

Answers:

1. India beat Pakistan by four runs
2. At the 1975 Prudential Cup, at Heading- ley Leeds v/s England on July 13
3. Monica seles (at 16 yrs 7 mths) 
4. Micheal Dugan
5. The Himalayas
6. Graham Gooch. he scored 333 runs at Lord's v/s India
7. Anthony Quinn
8. Aspirin (325 mg)
9. Sleeping sickness
10. Imelda Macros

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General Knowledge Questions & Answers - 24-10-2014

Questions:

1. When and where was the first winter Olympics held?
2. Which polar animal has a twister tusk that looks like a unicorn's horn?
3. Name the Himalayan animal whose curved horn length exceeds its body height?
4. What is the Tasmanian wolf - a rare animal - also known as?
5. Name the two official languages of South Africa?
6. Give the meaning of the Latin words quid pro quo?
7. Mount Everest is called Chomo Lungma in Tibetan. What do these words mean?
8. Which American Linguist and political radical introduced a new theory of language called transformational generative grammar?
9. In which country does the river Parnaiba flow?
10. What is India's lowest ever score in cricket one - day international matches?

 

Answers:

1. In 1924 at Chamonix - mount Blanc, France
2. The male4 narwhal, a whale
3. Marco Polo sheep (also known as argali)
4. Thylacine
5. Afrikaans and English
6. One thing for another, or tit for that
7. Goddess of the wind
8. Naom Chomsky
9. Brazil
10. 63 runs in 28.3 overs v/s Australia at Sydney, 1980-81

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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 - 21-10-2014

Questions:

1. Which town in Sri Lanka is known as the city of Gems?
2. Which African republic's coast is notorious as White Man's Grave?
3. How is the Olympic flame kindled?
4. How is the Olympic flame brought to the modern Olympic venue?
5. Which dignitary inaugurated the first modern Olympics?
6. Which Filmstar won an Oscar for his performance as Prof Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady?
7. Name the white 'soul' singer whose debut album Affection sold two million copies?
8. In which year did Leander Paes, aged 17, win the Junior Wimbledon title?
9. Who was EI Salvador's first freely elected President?
10. Which Japanese automobile production engineer's just in time method of manufacturing helped make Toyota a giant of the car industry?

Answers:

1. Ratnapura
2. The Guinea coast 
3. Naturally, with the aid of the rays of the sun 
4. The Atlar of Hera, wife of Zeus, in the Temple of Zeus in Olympia, Greece
5. King George I of Greece
6. Rex Harrison
7. Lisa Stansfield
8. 1990
9. Jose Napolean Duarte
10. Taichi Ohno

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General Knowledge Question And Answer - 18-10-2014

Questions:

1. Lupus vulgaris is tuberculosis of which part of the human body?
2. Which animal did the ancient Romans call tiger horse?
3. How is yellow phosphorus preserved?
4. Which Indian bird is as melodious as a nightingale?
5. Into how many orders or groups have Scientists divided living mammals?
6. What's the earliest record we have of a New Year's festival?
7. What is a group of hippopotamuses (or water animal) called?
8. Name the Egyptian city founded by the Greeks?
9. Which are the two distinct layers of the skin?
10. To which country do the Ryukyu Islands belong?

 Answers:

1. The skin
2. Zebra 
3. It is kept under water
4. The Shama
5. Nineteen
6. The earliest record comes from Mesopotamia. This was also the harvest festival. people performed rituals to do away with the past and purify themselves for the new year. The Babylonian year started about the vernal equinox in the month of March. Clay tablets describe the ceremonies that were performed around 2000 BC. The festivities  centered around god Marduk
7. School
8. Alexandria
9. The dermis and epidermis
10. Japan

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General Knowledge Question & Answer

Questions:

1. Can the spray of a skunk cause permanent damage?
2. What is Alopecia?
3. Which Indian cricketer authored some Indian Cricketers?
4. In Which part of the skin lie the blood vessels?
5. What codename was given to the MIG - 29 fighter plane of Russia by NATO?
6. What term is given to a person who belives in the existence of god?
7. In terms of duration, Who has had the longest cricketer Test career?
8. Which is the vaccine given to all pregnant mothers?
9. Does the solenodan, A mammal, have a trunk a snout or a hole?
10. Affenpinscher is shaggy black dog. The name comes from German. What does it mean?

  

Answers:

1. No, it only stings the eyes
2. Loss of hair
3. Rusi Modi
4. the dermis
5. Fulcrum
6. Theist
7. England's Wilfred Rhodes; from June 1, 1899 to April 10, 1930
8. Tetanus vaccine
9. A snout
10. Monkey tereier

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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 Questions & Answer - 05-09-2014

Questions:

1.  Name the two chief diets of the squirrel monkey?
2. In physics, what is a quark?
3. Which animal is related to the suricate (meerkat)?
4. What is Dutch Treat?
5. Which English cricketer authored End of an innings?
6. What are young ones of insects called?
7. On how many hills is Rome built?
8. What does the phrase volte face mean?
9. What is the Brandenburg Gate?
10. Which English King was forced to sign the Magna Carta?

  Answers:

1. Fruits and insects.
2. A particle that is the basic subunit of neutrons and protons.
3. The yellow mongoose.
4. Entertainment at which each person pays his own bill.
5. Denis Compton.
6. Maggots or wrigglers.
7. Twenty. 
8. Complete reversal of opinion.
9. A triumphal arch erected in Berlin around 1788. It served as the main gate between East and West Berlin.
10. King John of England was forced by the rebellious bargons to sign the magna Cartain 1215 (It was designed to prohibit arbitrary royal acts by declaring a body of defined law and custom which the king must respect in dealing with all his free subjects. It was of fundamental importance to the constitutional development of England)

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Where is it located Gersoppa Falls ?

Where is it located Gersoppa Falls ( Joga Falls ) ?

1 ) Thamirabarani

2 ) sharavathi

3 ) Narmatha 

4 ) Kaveri 


Answer :