Quiz 222 | General Knowledge Questions and Answers

1.What is the boundary line demarcating India and Pakistan known as ?

A. Radcliffe Line
B. McMahon Line
C. Durand Line
D. Curzon Line



2.Who founded Forward Bloc political party ?

A. A.O.Hume
B. Subhash Chandar Bose
C. Motilal Nehru
D. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee



3.Which Schedule Of the Constitution of India includes the emoluments payable to the President and the Governors?

A. First
B. Second
C. Third
D. Fourth



4.The oldest residential university of Britain is the

A. University of Edinburgh
B. Oxford University
C. University of Cambridge
D. None



5.Which of the following pairs of countries border Lake Victoria?

A. Zambia and Tanzania
B. Zambia and Botswana
C. Botswana and Mozambique
D. Tanzania and Uganda



6.When did Commander Robert Peary discovered North Pole?

A. 1904
B. 1905
C. 1908
D. 1909



7.Emile Gagnan and what other person invented the underwater Aqua-lung in 1942?

A. Jacques Cousteau
B. Esther Williams
C. Mike Nelson
D. Lloyd Bridges



8.Two of the great Mughals wrote their own memories. There were

A. Babar and Humayun
B. Humayun and Jahangir
C. Babar and Jahangir
D. Jahangir and Shahjahan



9.According to the forecast made by the Forbes magazine, the richest man in the world in 2014 would be ...

A. J. Frank Brown
B. Tarun Kataria
C. Mukesh Ambani
D. L. M. Mittal



10.Where is the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) situated ?

A. New Delhi
B. Ahmedabad
C. Bengaluru
D. Bhubaneshwar



11.What was the original name of renowned Hindi and Urdu writer Munshi Premchand ?

A. Raghupati Sahay
B. Dhanpat rai Srivastava
C. Akhtar Hussain Rizvi
D. Sampooran Singh Kalra



12.Which place in Bihar lies in a valley between the Ramshila and Pretshila Hills?

A. Gaya
B. Patna
C. Chota Nagpur
D. Sasaram



13.United Nations Climate Change Conference 2010 is officially referred to as the … session of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

A. 18th
B. 17th
C. 16th
D. 15th



14.What number shirt does David Beckham wear?

A. 23
B. 99
C. 00



15.Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been honoured with a degree of Doctor of Law by which among the following Universities ?

A. Alberta University
B. Oxford University
C. Westminster University



16.Who was the first woman to rule a nation in recorded history?

A. Razia Sultana of India
B. Queen Elizabeth I of England
C. Czarina Catherine the Great of Russia
D. Queen Hatshepsut of Egypt



17.Recently who among the following has won the IBM faculty award for the second consecutive term ?(2011)

A. Aravind Joshi
B. Venkatesan Guruswami
C. Amar Gupta
D. None of These



18.Sishu is the literary work of which Indian author?

A. Vikram Seth
B. Rabindranath Tagore
C. Jawaharlal Nehru



19.In how many languages Reserve Bank of India's Financial Education website is avaialble?

A. 11
B. 13
C. 25



20.A 100% literate country and also called a land of thousand lakes ______

A. Iceland
B. Finland
C. Ireland