Monday, February 7, 2011

Quiz 1| General Knowledge Quiz I

1. When was Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) was founded?

Answer : The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) founded in 2001 by the leaders of China,Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,Russia,Tajikistan,& Uzbekistan.

2. When was India's National Song " Vande matharam " first sung?

Answer : India's National Song "Vandematharam" first sung in-1896 at Calcutta.

3. Who was the leader of Bardoli Satyagrah in 1928?

Answer : Sardar Vallabhai Patel.

4. What is Ellen Churchill Semple's first book?

Answer :  "American History and Its Geographic Condition" in 1903

5. Who is America's first influential female geographer?

Answer : Ellen Churchill Semple's

6. Where is Biggest river island in the world?

Answer : The River island,Majuli in Assam, Is Biggest river island in the world.

7. Where is largest fresh water lake in world?

Answer : Wular Lake(J&K)is the largest fresh water lake in the world.

8. When was Indo-Sri Lanka Peace Accord signed?

Answer : Indo-Sri Lanka Peace Accord-Colombo on July 1987- Between Rajiv Gandhi & Pres JR Jayawadene.

9. In Which year was Railway budget separated from General Budget?

Answer : 1921.

10. Which committee separated Railway budget from general budget?

Answer : Acworth Committee

11. When is NRI day?

Answer : The day on which Mahatma Gandhi return from South Africa in 1915 was chosen to celebrate the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas.(NRI Days)

12. Who invented the World Wide Web (WWW)?

Answer : Tim Berners-Lee.

13. No of  bones Present in our head.

Answer : 29

14. What is the oldest food plant?

Answer : Barley.

15. Who is the new President of International Academy of Astronautics?

Answer : G Madhavan Nair

16. Who introduced currency?

Answer : 1329-30 Muhammad Bin Tughlaq introduced a token currency(copper coins).

17. Who founded Qutub Minar?

Answer : Qutub Minar founded by Qutubuddin Aibek ,but completed by Iltutmish.

18. What Novel is 'Slumdog Millionaire based on?

Answer : The Film 'Slumdog Millionaire' is based on a novel "Q & A" by an Indian 'Vikas Swarup".

19. What is the largest Number of Rock Cut Paintings?

Answer : Bhimbetka

20. What VOIP stands for?

Answer : VOIP stands for Voice over Internet Protocol. It refers to the facility of worldwide phone calls through the internet.

21. Who was First women CM Of Inida?

Answer : Sucheta Kripalini(UP)-1963

22. Who was first Chief Justice of India?

Answer : Harilal J Kania-1950

23. Who was Head of INTEGRATED GUIDED MISSILE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM(IGMDP) in 1983?

Answer : A.P.J Abdul Kalam

24. Who was First TN Women Grand Master?

Answer : S. Vijayalakshmi

25. Which tax is levied & collected by the Union but distributed between Union & States?

Answer : Tax on income other than on agricultural income

26. Who Invented Bacteria?

Answer : A Dutch man Anton Van Leeuwenhock

27. When was Bacteria first discovered?

Answer : 1675 (Anton Van Leeuwenhock)

28. What is the oldest stock exchange in Asia?

Answer : Bombay Stock Exchange

29. Where is Biggest Museum of India Located?

Answer : National Museum,NEW DELHI(1949)

30. Where is Largest library in India Located?

Answer : National Library(KOLKATA)

31. When was India largest library estalished?

Answer : National Library(KOLKATA)-1836.

32. Who Invented TRANSISTOR?

Answer : Invented by William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Britain.

33. Who Founded ISRO?

Answer : Vikram Sarabhai founder CHAIRMAN.

34. In which year was ISRO founded?

Answer : 1969 by Vikram Sarabhai

35. Who Proposed GARLAND CANAL to Link Ganga with Cauvery?

Answer : K.L.Rao(1972)

36. When did French Revolution took place?

Answer : French Revolution took place in 1789

37. Who Used term " Cold War " first?

Answer : Bernard Baruch

38. Who was the First Indian Woman to Complete MBBS?

Answer : MBBS Kadambini Ganguli Bose in 1888

39. Who is the first Indian wrestler to Win Gold medal at world championship held at Moscow?

Answer : Sushil Kumar

40. What is the Tallest Mountain in Sri Lanka?

Answer : Pidurutalagala

41. Who is first woman Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago?

Answer : Kamla Persad-Bissessar A 58-year-old woman of Indian origin, she has been elected as the first woman Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago.
42. What is the Largest flower in the World?

Answer : Rafflesia Arnoldii , and it can grow as big as an umbrella.

43. What is Hottest planet in the Solar system?

Answer : Venus-864 F(462 C)

44. Which is Longest living cells in the body?

Answer : brain cells which can live an entire lifetime

45. When was First Earth day celebrated?

Answer : First Earth Day Celebrated in US in 1970

46. Who was the First Indian Woman to receive Norman Borlaug Award?

Answer : Dr. Amrita Patel

47. How is Diamond Formed?

Answer : Diamond-a metamorphic mineral formed as a result of immense heat& pressure on graphite inside earth

48. What is Highest Point of Peninsular India?

Answer : Anamudi is the highest point of peninsular India.

49. Number of peaks above 2000 meters in Norway ?

Answer : Norway has 300 peaks above 2000 meters.

50. Who Invented Fibre-optic Cable?

Answer : Charles K. Kao also Won 2009 Nobel Physics

51.Which country is going to host the 2018 Football World cup?

Answer : Russia

52.Which Asian country is going to host the 2022 Football World cup?

Answer : Qatar

53.Slavery in the United States was officially abolished by which amendment in the Constitution?

Answer : The 13th Amendment

54.Le Comedie Humaine is a path breaking work written by which French Writer / Philosopher?

Answer : Balzac

55.Of which club was Carlo Ancelotti the manager of before he became the manager of Chelsea FC?

Answer : AC Milan

56.Which was the first city in the world to host licenced Taxicabs?

Answer : London

56.From which Iraqi city did Saddam Hussein hail from?

Answer : Tikrit

57.Ray Manzarek was the keyboard ist of which seminal rock band?

Answer : The Doors

58.Who is the current chairman of the Federal Reserve in 2010?

Answer : Ben Bernanke

59.Ruby Myers was the real name of which Indian Silent Film star?

Answer : Sulochana

60.What is the name of the Russian Dog that was spent to space to orbit around the Earth?

Answer : Laika was sent in spacecraft named Sputnik 2

61.What is the tallest mountain in Japan?

Answer : Fuji is tallest and it is an active volcano

62.What is the oldest statue found?

Answer : Statue found at the site of Ayn Ghazal near Amman, Jordan date back to 7500 BC

63.Where is world's highest cricket ground is located?

Answer : Chail, Himachal Pradesh in India build in 1893 this pitch is 2,444 meters above sea level

64.What is the Sir Donald Bradman's average in first and second innings of test matches?

Answer : First innings average is 97.85 and second innings average is 104.50

65.When did first Lok Sabha election take place in India?

Answer : In 1952

66.When and by whom The Air Conditioner was invented?

Answer : Williamn Havinland Carrier

67.Which became the first commercially developed spacecraft to successfully return after orbiting the Earth?

Answer : SpaceX Dragon

68.Who wrote one of the most definitive books on ornithology called Birds of America?

Answer : John James Audobon

69.On 27 December, in the year 1924 who was released from Landsberg prison?

Answer : Adolf Hitler

70.Which city is the capital of Wales?

Answer : Cardiff

71.Whom did Queen Elizabeth surpass to be the oldest monarch of the United Kindom?

Answer : Queen Victoria

72.Who directed the 2000 film Requiem for a Dream?

Answer : Darren Aronofsky

73.Who played the role of Micheal Corleone in the GodFather Triology?

Answer : Al Pacino

74.What is the capital of Azerbaijan?

Answer : Baku

75.When was first computer was introduced?

Answer : In 1968 by Douglas Engelbart at the Fall Joint Computer expo in San Francisco, USA

76.When and whom was the first open heart surgery was performed?

Answer : By Dr Ludwig Rehn of Frankfurt, Germany in September 7,1896

77.Why and from when Jaipur is called "Pink City"?

Answer : In 1876, was dressed Pink to welcome Prince Albert and Queen Elizabeth II

78.Who is only American president ever to be elected to one term, defeated for a second term and then re elected four year later?

Answer : Grover Cleveland became the 22th and the 24th president of USA

79.Nigeria recently withdrew corruption charges against which company, which is the world's second largest oilfield services corporation?

Answer : Halliburton

80.Which French monarch's heart was recently discovered after a desecration of his grave in 1793?

Answer : Henry IV

81.Which American diplomat, who was the chief negotiator of the Dayton Peace Accords, revently died at the age of 69?

Answer : Richard Holbrooke

82.Which state became the first of the Eleven slave states to secede from the United States, eventually leading up to the American Civil War?

Answer : South Carolina

83.Captain William Mynors of the Royal Mary, a British East India Company vessel, named which island when he sailed past it on Christmas Day in 1643?

Answer : Christmas Island

84.The Vizconde Massacere was an infamous Massacre that occured in which Asian country?

Answer : Phillipines

85.On January 3rd, in the year 1948, from which organisation was founded by the signing of an agreement by 28 nations?

Answer : World Bank

86.For which football club does Mesut Ozil play for?

Answer : Real Madrid

87.Which country did Indonesia gain its Independence from?

Answer : Netherlands

88.On 3rd January, in the year1978 which country became a democracy after 40 years of Dictatorship?

Answer : Spain

89.When and where did the Martin Luther King Jr famous speech about "I have a Dream" take place?

Answer :  On August 28, 1963 in Washington, USA

90.Who was the first prime minister of Singapore and also the world's longest serving prime minister?

Answer : Lee Kuan was prime minister for more than three decades

91.Who is commonly believed to be the first person to have laid down the basic concepts of the working of a helicopter?

Answer : Leonardo da vinci

92.Juan Carlos is the current monarch of which country?

Answer : Spain

93.British General Cornwallis was defeated by whom at the battle of Princeton?

Answer : George Washington

94.Which British explorer discovered the sarcophagus of the Pharoah Tutankhamen in the year 1924?

Answer : Howard Carter

95.If Hawaii was admitted as the 50th state of the US Congress, which state was the 49?

Answer : Alaska

96.Cory Evans is the younger brother of which Premier League Footballer?

Answer : Johnny Evans

97.Who directed the 1992 western Unforgiven?

Answer : Clint Eastwood

98.John Paul Jones was the bassist and keyboard player of which rock band?

Answer : Led Zeppelin

99.If you were walking down the roads of Addis Ababa, in which country would you be?

Answer : Ethiopia

100.Burma gained its independence in 1948 from which country?

Answer : United Kingdom



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