Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Quiz 8 | General Knowledge Quiz II

1. Where is Lingaraja temple Located?

Answer : Bhubaneswar

2. Which department Approves Five year Plans?

Answer : Five Year Plans in India are approved by National Development Council.

3. What is India's First low orbit Earth Observation Satellite?

Answer : Bhaskara-I in 1979 from Russia.

4. What is India's Second low orbit Earth Observation Satellite?

Answer : Bhaskara-II in 1981.

5. Who is Current Chief Election Commissioner of India?

Answer : NAVIN CHAWLA.

6. Who was First Chief Election Commissioner of India?

Answer : Sukumar Sen-1950

7. Which Committee was set up By RBI to appraise the working of the Monetary System?

Answer : Chakravarty Committee(1985)

8. Who Invented CRESCOGRAPH?

Answer : JC BOSE invented CRESCOGRAPH for recording plant growth.

9. Which Virus Causes Dengue fever?

Answer : Flavi virus

10. Who is Director General of WTO?

Answer : Pascal Lamy is Director General of WTO

11.Milwaukee is a city found in which US state?

Answer : Wisconsin

12.On 7th Febrauary, in the year 1929, the Soviet Union exiled which important communist leader?

Answer : Leon Trotsky

13.Who was the first black Major League Baseball player of the modern era?

Answer : Jackie Robinson

14.The carnival of the animals is a music composition by which French Composer?

Answer : Camille Saint-Saens

15.On 7th Febrauary, in the year 1561, which great Mughal Gerneral, who was the regent for Akbar died?

Answer : Bairam Khan

16.Which British author wrote the best selling Winne the Pooh Series?

Answer : AA Milne

17.Matthew Webb was the First person to swim across which body of water?

Answer : English Channel

18.Jose Bosingwa plays as a full back for which football club?

Answer : Chelsea

19.Which actor will play the role of Bane in the upcoming film The Dark Knight Rises?

Answer : Tom Hardy

20.Who is the first women to become doctor in Italy ?

Answer : Maria Montessori was the first women to graduate from the University of Rome La Sapienza Medical School

21.Who won the recently concluded 2011 Men's Handball Championship defeating Denmark in the process?

Answer : France

22.Who won the men's single trophy in the 2011 Australian Open?

Answer : Novak Djokovic

23.Who won the women's single trophy in the 2011 Australian Open?

Answer : Kim Clijsters

24.Edward of Caernaryon was the first person to hold what title?

Answer : Prince of Wales

25.Sir Thomas Raffles is a personality whom you would associate with which country?

Answer : Singapore

26.Which was the first full Lenght Disney animated film?

Answer : Snow white and Seven Dwarfs

27.On 14th Febrauary, in the year 1935, which classic board game was invented?

Answer : Monopoly

28.The Maastricht treaty was signed leading to the creation of which entity?

Answer : European Union

29.Which Nobel Prize winning author wrote the best selling novel Babbit?

Answer : Upton Sinclair

30.Who is the First to win the nobel prize and she is also the only women to win it in two fields Physics and chemistry?

Answer : Marie Curie first won on 1903

31.In which city would you find the Pashupathinath Temple?

Answer : Kathmandu

32.On which year was computer gaint IBM was founded?

Answer : On 21st Febrauary in 1924

33.Which sport is performed in a circular ring called the Dohyo?

Answer : Sumo Wrestling

34.The Knesset is the national parliament of which country?

Answer : Knesset

35.In the year 1946, The first general purpose electronic computer was unveiled, What was its name?

Answer : ENIAC

36.Which club did Carlo Ancellotti manage before he became the manager of Chelsea?

Answer : A C Milan

37.Moulin Rouge was a blockbuster Hollywood musical directed by which Australian director?

Answer : Baz Luhrrman

38.Which recent movie is based on te real life experience of Aron Ralston?

Answer : 127 Hours

39.On 28th Febrauary, in the year 1848, which pathbreaking work was published?

Answer : The Communist Manifesto

40.On 28th Febrauary, in the year 1925, which humour magazine published its first issue?

Answer : The New Yorker

41.The Polaroid camera was invented by which American Enterpreneur?

Answer : Edwin Land

42.In the year 1965, which African-American civil rights activist was assassinated?

Answer : Malcomm X

43.James Watson and who discovered the double helix structure of the DNA?

Answer : Francis Crick

44.Who was the first person to make a solo fight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon?

Answer : Steve Fossett

45.In terms of transfers, which footballer is currently the most expensive Englishman to be transferred?

Answer : Andy Carroll

46.What is the name of IBM's artificial intelligence program that won the American Quiz show Jeopardy beating two of the show's most successful contestants?

Answer : Watson

47.An Ecuadorian court recently fined which industrial giant US $8.6 billion for Texaco's pollution of the Amazon over a twenty year period?

Answer : Chevron

48.On the Banks of which river is Washington DC situated?

Answer : Potomac

49.If you were walking on the streets of Port-Au-Prince, in which country would you be?

Answer : Haiti

50.In 7th March, in the year 1928, Which Indian scientist developed his famous theory that would win him the Nobel Prize a couple of years later?

Answer : CV Raman

51.DuPont scientist Wallace Crothers inventor which substance?

Answer : Nylon

52.Who was the inventor of the Gramophone?

Answer : Thomas Alva Edison

53.Who portrayed the gangster Al Capone in the 1987 film The Untouchables?

Answer : Robert De Niro

54.For which club does the French footballer Eric Abidal Play for?

Answer : Barcelona

55.The Hollow Men is a poem written by which American British poet?

Answer : TS Eliot

56.Sheikh Mujibur Rehman is a person you would associate with which country?

Answer : Bangladesh

57.Aspirin was a trademark registered by which company?

Answer : Bayer

58.Which explorer is considered to be the first person to circumnavigate the world?

Answer : Ferdinand Magellan

59.La Traviata is an opera written by which composer?

Answer : Verdi

60.If you were walking down the streets of cologne, in which country would you be?

Answer : Germany

61.Who gave the name Muhammad Ali to Cassius Clay?

Answer : Elihaj Muhammad

62.If you were in Charles de Gaulle airport, in which city would you be?

Answer : Paris

63.For which team does Nicholas Anelka play for?

Answer : Chelsea

64.Who painted the world famous painting Guernica?

Answer : Pablo Picasso

65.Which actor played James Bond immediately before Pierce Brosnan?

Answer : Timothy Dalton

66.Seiji Maehara a resigned as minister for Foreign Affairs of which country after a scandal over political donations?

Answer : Japan

67.Eli Whitney is the inventor of which machine that made spinning easier?

Answer : Cotton Gin

68.The Mikado was a light opera written by which English duo?

Answer : Gilbert and Sullivan

69.If you were walking on the roads of Krakow, in which country would you be?

Answer : Poland

70.In which country was the 1962 Football World Cup held?

Answer : Chile

71.Which Irish political organization's name translates to 'by ourselves'?

Answer : Sinn Fein

72.Hank Ketcham is the popular inventor of which comic character?

Answer : Dennis the menace

73.Who succeeded Mother Teresa as the head of the Missionaries of Charity?

Answer : Sister Nirmala

74.The Anschluss annexed which country to Nazi Germany before the Second World War?

Answer : Austria

75.Recently amid an ongoing armed conflict the U.N. Security Council approves military force against which country, including a no-fly zone?

Answer : Libya

76.If you were outside the Brandenburg Gate, in which country would you be?

Answer : Germany

77.Which German statesman/politician was referred to as the 'Iron Chancellor'?

Answer : Otto von Bismark

78.The Battle of Agnicourt was fought by which English king?

Answer : Henry V

79.The Library of Alexandria is something that you would encounter in which country?

Answer : Egypt

80.Who was the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic?

Answer : Charles Lindbergh

81.For which Football club does Eric Abidal play?

Answer : FC Barcelona

82.The Road Not Taken is a famous poem associated with which American poet?

Answer : Robert Frost

83.Mark Zuckerberg is a person you would associate with which country?

Answer : Facebook

84.Which actress won the Best Actress award at the recently concluded Oscars?

Answer : Natalie Portman

85.Who won the Best Actor Oscar this year for his role in the film The King's Speech?

Answer : Colin Firth



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