Sunday, August 28, 2011

Quiz 94 | General Knowledge Questions for Government Exams

1.Which Spanish town that was bombed during the Spanish Civil War lends its name to a painting by Pablo Picasso that depicts the event?

A. Madrid
B. Barcelona
C. Guernica



2.What is the Statute of Anne, enacted 1709-1710?

A. The first Marriage law
B. The first copyright law
C. The first royal succession law



3.Which is the only art work signed by Michelangelo?

A. The Last Judgment
B. The Pieta
C. David



4.In which country did the “Boxer Rebellion” take Place?

A. Burma
B. China
C. Russia



5.Which was the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean?

A. SS John Randolph
B. RMS Queen Elizabeth
C. SS Savannah



6.Who is the author of the popular nursery rhyme “Mary had a little lamb..”?

A. Jane Austen
B. Mary Aane Evans
C. Sarah Josepha Hale



7.Which painter created the painting Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?

A. Paul Gauguin
B. Paul Cezanne
C. Paul klee



8.Which among the following evolved the concept of relationship between mass and energy?

A. John Dalton
B. Max Planck
C. Albert Einstein



9.Hissarlik, a hill that identified by Heinrich Schliemann as the site of Homer’s Troy, is located where?

A. Iraq
B. Turkey
C. Libya



10.The Island of Zanzibar was a possession of which sultanate until the 19th Century?

A. Oman
B. Brunei



11.Which Russian Czar coined the term “The sick man of Europe” to describe the Ottoman Empire?

A. Czar Nicholas II
B. Czar Nicholas I
C. Czar Ivan IV



12.Who was the Carthaginians main general in the Second Punic War?

A. Hannibal
B. Saladin
C. Attila



13.Who is the patron saint of musicians?

A. St. Agnes
B. St. Cecilia
C. St. Augustine



14.Which British monarch of the 20th century was not crowned?

A. George V
B. George VI
C. Edward VIII



15.Which is the oldest existing European fort in India?

A. Pallipuram Fort
B. Agra Fort
C. Fort St. George



16.In the bible, who interpreted the dreams of Pharaoh?

A. Samuel
B. Daniel
C. Joseph



17.Who founded the Ottoman Empire?

A. Mehmed I
B. Abdul-Hamid I
C. Osman I



18.Which Spartan king led a small army of 300 Spartans against a vastly superior Persian force in the Battle of Thermopylae?

A. Leonidas
B. Cleomenes
C. Ephialtes



19.Which South Vietnamese leader was assassinated by his own generals in 1963?

A. Ngo Dinh Diem
B. Pol pot
C. Nguyen Van Thieu



20.Which of the following writers used “Elia” as a pseudonym? He was unusual among the Romantics in his preference for the city over the country?

A. William Blake
B. Charles Lamb
D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge


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