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 - 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 - 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 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 & 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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