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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