GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUIZ 4 (With Answers)
GENERAL
KNOWLEDGE QUIZ 4
by Santosh Kumar Biswa, Damphu
Central School, Bhutan
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General
Knowledge Quiz 16
1.
Who was the woman president
of Sri Lanka in 1994?
2.
Which Nobel Prize did Winston Churchill receive in 1953?
3.
When was the “Jana Gana
Mana” in India adopted?
4.
What are the colours of the
United Nations Organization’s flag?
5.
What is the colour of Spock?
6.
Name the actor of the movie
the Six Million Dollar Man?
7.
Name the first man to fly
across the channel?
8.
By what other name is
Mellor’s famously known as?
9.
What was invented by Dr
Edward Land in 1947?
10. Name the longest river in Italy.
11. In which year Mercedes car was seen for the first time?
12. Who performed the first heart transplant in South Africa?
13. How many heads does a Hydra have?
14. How many anuses does a Hydra have?
15. For how many years did sleeping beauty sleep?
16. How many eyes does an earthworm have?
17. Name the smallest Asian country in terms of both population and area?
18. By what name is the Central Asian snow leopard also known?
19. What is the official language of Hong Kong?
20. Name the largest city of China, in terms of population?
Answer
1. Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga
2. Literature
3. 24th January, 1950
4. A blue flag with a white globe and 2 olive branches on it
5. Green
6. Lee Majors
7. Louis Bleriot
8. Lady Chatterley’s Lover
9. Polaroid
10. Po
11. 1901
12. Christian Barnard
13. 9
14. No anuses
15. 100 years
16. No eyes
17. Maldives
18. Ounce
19. Cantonese and English
20. Shanghai
General
Knowledge quiz 17
1.
In which country was tea
originated?
2.
Who are Magyars?
3.
Who are the original
inhabitants of Australia?
4.
Who speaks the Romany
language?
5.
In which continent would you
find half the world’s population?
6.
From which country in
Bhangra dance originated?
7.
Name the biggest desert in
the world?
8.
Name the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea?
9.
Name the world oldest known
city?
10. What is the length of the Suez
Canal?
11. When was Indus valley civilization started?
12. When was Indus valley civilization ended?
13. When did Marco Polo visit India?
14. What is Spaceship Two?
15. Who is the first person to have his ashes put aboard a rocket and
'buried' in space?
16. Which Soviet Union leader is associated with ‘Glasnost’ and
‘Perestroika’?
17. Name the first Indian woman to be crowned as ‘Miss World’?
18. Who described Mahatma Gandhi as ‘Half-naked Fakir’?
19. Name the world’s busiest port today.
20. Name the Chinese first orbiter launched in 2007.
Answer
1. China
2. The Hungarian race
3. Aborigines
4. Gypsies
5. Asia
6. India
7. Sahara desert
8. Sicily
9. Damascus
10. 162.5 kilometres
11. 2500 B.C
12. 1800 B.C
13. 1290 A.D
14. It is the world’s first civilian passenger spacecraft
15. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry
16. Mikhail Gorbachev
17. Rita Faria
18. Winston Churchill
19. Port of Singapore
20. Chang’e 1
General
Knowledge Quiz 18
1.
When is the World Vegetarian
Day observed?
2.
Which country turned 63 in
May, 2011?
3.
Which Indian state has the
longest coastline?
4.
Which country is the newest
Republic in the world?
5.
In which country the Fabian
socialism first emerged?
6.
When did the American War of
Independence take place?
7.
Where is India’s largest
petrochemical complex located?
8.
Which city is known as the
‘Garden City of India’?
9.
When did the Communists in
China establish a Republic?
10. When did Russian revolution take place?
11. Who led the Russian revolution?
12. In which year did the demolition of Berlin wall take place leading to
the unification of Germany?
13. Who said ‘Man is born free yet everywhere he is in chains’?
14. In which year did Hitler become the Chancellor of Germany?
15. Name the person who was offered the President ship of Israel but refused
to accept it?
16. Who is regarded as the father of the Russian Revolution?
17. Name the first scooter launched by the Suzuki Corporation for the Indian
market?
18. Name the country that has the highest number of internet users today?
19. Who is the first President of Republic Nepal?
20. Which one of the following recently lost its planet status?
Answer
1. 2nd October
2. Israel
3. Gujarat, India
4. Nepal
5. Great Britain
6. 1776
7. Gujarat, India
8. Bangalore, India
9. 1949
10. 1917
11. Lenin
12. 1989
13. Rousseau
14. 1933
15. Albert Einstein
16. Lenin
17. Access 125
18. China
19. Dr Ram Baran Yadav
20. Pluto
General
Knowledge Quiz 19
1.
What is the name of the
proposed NASA mission to the Moon?
2.
When was the Universal
Postal Union established?
3.
Where is headquarter of the
Universal Postal Union?
4.
Who was the Prime Minister
of England at the time of the Second World War?
5.
Who was the Austrian
Chancellor from 1815 to 1848 AD?
6.
In which year was Israel
founded as a Jewish state?
7.
Name the smallest state and
least populated state in India.
8.
Name the sixth official
language of the United Nations?
9.
Name the patron saint of
England?
10. Which country proclaimed the Unilateral Declaration of Independence from
United Kingdom in 1965?
11. Which place is known as the "Polar Bear Capital of the World"?
12. What was the first known contraceptive used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C?
13. Who invented the word housekeeping?
14. What did Ancient Egyptians used to help preserve mummies?
15. Name the hottest chilli in the world.
16. Which alphabet has only 12 letters?
17. Which city was originally called as Edo?
18. Name three places where there are no ants.
19. What is the length of river Nile?
20. To what direction do bats turn when exiting a cave?
Answer
1. Ladee
2. 1874
3. Berne
4. Winston Churchill
5. Metternich
6. 1948
7. Goa
8. Arabic
9. St. George
10. Rhodesia
11. The town of Churchill, Manitoba, located in Canada
12. Crocodile dung
13. Shakespeare
14. The spice Thyme
15. The Tezpur chilli pepper
16. The Hawaiian alphabet
17. The city of Tokyo
18. Iceland, Antarctica and Greenland
19. 6,690 kilometres
20. Left
General
Knowledge Quiz 20
1.
Name the only animal (Not
humans) that can get leprosy.
2.
Name the first British ship
that used the SOS distress signal.
3.
Name the first toilet ever
seen on television.
4.
Name the first planet in our
solar system to be discovered by mathematics.
5.
What price did USA give to
Russia for Alaska for an acre?
6.
Name the first president to
display fireworks at the White House.
7.
When was the first Wal-Mart
opened?
8.
Where was the first Wal-Mart
opened?
9.
How do Dolphins hear?
10. What is a Joey?
11. When did China begin producing toilet paper for use by its Emperors?
12. Name the highest mountain in the Western Hemisphere?
13. What percent of protein does snake venom have?
14. Who designed the dome of St. Peter's, Rome?
15. What was Commonwealth day called before 1958?
16. What's the world’s most popular Non Alcoholic Drink?
17. Who is the 43rd President of USA?
18. Name the person who thought of Daylight Savings Time.
19. Who put the first self-propelled vehicle on the moon?
20. What is the length of the Great Wall of China?
Answer
1. Armadillo
2. Titanic
3. Leave It to Beaver
4. Neptune
5. 2 cents an acre
6. President John Adams
7. 1962
8. Rogers, Arkansas
9. By having sound waves transmit through their skull to their inner ear
region
10. A baby kangaroo
11. 1391
12. Mount Aconcagua (Argentina), 22,834 feet above sea level
13. 90% protein
14. Michelangelo
15. Empire Day
16. Coffee
17. George W Bush
18. William Willett
19. Former USSR
20. 3460 Km
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