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 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 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 Questions & Answers - 07-09-2014

Questions:

1. Who has the best bowling average in cricket at the test level? (Minimum 100 wickets)
2. The Ahaggar (9852 ft ) and the Tibesti (11204 ft) mountains are the only two mountains of which desert?
3. Of which language was Homer a great poet?
4. In which country is the Anal sea?
5. The world Schizophrenia comes from Greek words. What does it mean literally?
6. What was Mussolini before he became the Italian dictator?
7. For what is a Geiger counter used?
8. What is nyctalopia?
9. Which mountain range did Henry Stanley discover?
10. Which Zodiac sign does the fish depict?

 Answers:

1. England's G.A. Lohmann: 10.75- 112 wickets for 1205 runs.
2. Sahara
3. Greek
4. Russia
5. Divided or split mind
6. Teacher and journalist
7. For measuring radioactivity
8. Night blindness
9. The Mountains of the Moon (the Ruwenzori mountain range on the frontier of Zaire and Uganda)
10. Pisces

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General Knowledge Questions & Answers - 04-10-2014

Questions:

1. Why does the squirrel sometimes dine upside down on a tree?
2. Green colour is due to the presence of chromium oxide in which gemstone?
3. What is the study of stars called?
4. Which North American mammal is called skunk bear?
5. Which is the longest river in the Iberian Peninsula?
6. Which cricketer was called Father?
7. How is appetite regulated in humans and which part of the brain is involved?
8. name the three main groups of  squirrels?
9. Copper is alloyed with which metal to form brass?
10. What is scientific study of the soil called?

 Answers:

1. Because this position leaves its forepaws free to hold food.
2. The emerald.
3. Astronomy.
4. The Wolverine
5. Tagus
6. C.S. Marrioft of England.
7. Regulated by feeding and satiety centers in the hypothalamus.
8. Ground, tree and flying squirrels.
9. Zinc.
10. Pedology (Green pedon = ground).

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General knowledge Question & Answer - 02-10-2014

Questions:

1. Pushtuis the official language of  which southwest Asian country?
2. Name the Pakistani Prime minister to be assassinated in 1951?
3. What is the medical term for the common wart?
4. In physics what unit is used in measuring electrical resistance?
5. The most famous Chinese martial art is Kung fu. What does it mean?
6. Name the German Foreign Minister during Hitler's regime, Who was convicted as a war criminal and hanged in 1946?
7. What is megalomania?
8. What is the name given to the art movement in which forms and imagery give full play to the imagination and the subconscious?
9. Who was the most successful Australian bowler in the world's second Tied Test at madras in September 1986?
10. What's the etymology of the world fanatic?

 

Answers:

1. Afghanistan.
2. Liaquat Ali khan.
3. Verruca Vulgaris.
4. Ohm.
5. Skill or ability (derived from Mandarin Chuan fa).
6. Joachim von Ribbentrop.
7. Form of insanity marked by delusions of grandeur.
8. Surrealism.
9. Greg Mathews.
10. It is derived from the latin word fanum i.e. temple. literally, one who is possessed of the enthusiasm or madness of the temple engendered by over - indul-gence in religious rites.

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