GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUIZ 5 (With Answers)
GENERAL
KNOWLEDGE QUIZ 5
by Santosh Kumar Biswa, Damphu
Central School, Bhutan
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General
Knowledge Quiz 21
1.
What is the last letter of the Greek
alphabet?
2.
In which country did the
‘sauna’ originate?
3.
Name the tallest tower in
the world.
4.
Name the world tallest
office building.
5.
Who discovered Ice Cream?
6.
In which country military
service is compulsory for women?
7.
What is the Quick Silver?
8.
Which country is the first
country to issue stamps?
9.
Who was the first Emperor of
Germany?
10. Name the Pakistani President who died in an air crash.
11. Name the first university established in the world.
12. Who was El CID?
13. What are the two crown dependencies of the British Isles?
14. When did Akbar die?
15. Who was responsible for India-Bengal partition in 1905?
16. When did a Tsunami cause havoc in South and South East Asia?
17. When did Al-Qaida attack WTC in New York?
18. When was Kalpana Chawla killed in the space shuttle?
19. Who won the Presidential vote in Afghanistan on 14th October,
2004?
Answer
1. Omega
2. Finland
3. C. N. Tower, Toronto, Canada
4. Sears Tower, Chicago
5. Gerald Tisyum
6. Israel
7. Mercury
8. Britain
9. Wilhelm
10. Zia-ul-Huq
11. Nalanda University
12. The 11th-century Spanish military leader Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar
13. Isle of Mann & Channel Isles
14. 1605
15. Lord Curzon
1. 16.26th December, 2004
16. 21st Sept, 2001
17. 1st February, 2003
18. Hamid Karzai
19. Panchsheel agreement
General
Knowledge Quiz 22
1.
When was the English East
India Company established in India?
2.
When did Pascal invent the first calculating machine?
3.
Who discovered the basic theorem of quadratic residues
relating to the concept of congruence in number theory in 1795?
4.
What is the name of the
Detective Agency of China?
5.
Name the Egyptian Queen who
married her brother?
6.
Alexander, the Great King
was from which country?
7.
Who was considered as
“Bloody Mary”?
8.
Name the king who owned 413
beds.
9.
Who was the woman president
of Bangladesh in 1996?
10. What is another name of the 14th Dalai Lama?
11. What is the colour of the Red Cross Flag in Muslim countries?
12. Which country’s national emblem is the Pomegranate?
13. Name the national emblems of Scotland.
14. What colour is vermilion a shade of?
15. Who betrayed Jesus to the Romans?
16. Who did Kingdom Brunel design the first Iron ship the Great Britain?
17. Where in France do claret wines come from?
18. With what first name Portugal has had six Kings?
19. When was the first electric Underground railway opened in London?
20. What digit does not exist in Roman Numerals?
Answer
1. 1600
2. 1645
3. Carl Friedrich Gauss
4. Central External Liaison Department
5. Cleopatra (Married to Ptolemy)
6. Macedon
7. Mary I, Queen of England
8. Louis XIV of France
9. Sheikh Hasina Wajed
10. Tenzin Gyatso
11. A red crescent on a white background
12. Spain
13. The thistle
14. Red
15. Judas Iscariots
16. 1845
17. Bordeaux
18. John
19. 1890
20. 0 (Zero)
General
Knowledge Quiz 23
1.
How many signs are there in
Zodiac signs?
2.
Name all Zodiac signs.
3.
What number did Adolf Hitler
believe possessed supernatural power?
4.
What do you mean by
Krakatau?
5.
Name the philosopher who
founded Buddhism in India?
6.
What was the only religion
in Japan prior to the 6th century AD?
7.
What do you mean by
Shintoism?
8.
Name the Asian kingdom which
was formerly known as Siam.
9.
Name
the western Asia’s longest river.
10. Name the original inhabitants of India.
11. Where do Calypsos and Steel Bands come from?
12. In which country is a tea-drinking a ceremonial ritual?
13. From which ancient alphabet do all the modern European alphabets derive?
14. Name two ancient cities in the Indus Valley discovered by excavation
15. What was the name given by foreigners to the Emperor of Japan?
16. When did the League of Nations come into existence formally?
17. When was American Independence declared?
18. When was the Magna Carta signed?
19. When was the President of the U.S.A, John F. Kennedy shot to death?
20. What is a Neo-Liberal theory of Democracy?
Answer
1. 12 (Twelve)
2. Aries, Pisces, Cancer, Capricorn, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Taurus,
Sagittarius, Aquarius, Gemini and Scorpio
3. 7 (Seven)
4. A small volcanic island in Indonesia between Java and Sumatra
5. Siddhartha Gautama
6. Shintoism
7. The ancient indigenous religion of Japan lacking formal dogma;
characterized by a veneration of nature spirits and of ancestors
8. Thailand
9. Euphrates
10. Dravidians
11. West Indies
12. Japan
13. The Phoenician alphabet
14. Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa
15. The Mikado
16. 13th January, 1920
17. 4th July, 1776
18. 15th June, 1215
19. 22nd November, 1963
20. Modification of classical theory of democracy
General
Knowledge Quiz 24
1.
Name the world's largest
crude exporter.
2.
Name the chief of ULFA (Assam,
India)?
3.
Where was the chief of ULFA
arrested in 2009?
4.
Which planet is called as
Red Planet?
5.
Which reptile is
proverbially known for its power of changing colour?
6.
Name the first men to fly in
a balloon?
7.
Where did the first hot-air
balloon flight take place in 1793?
8.
Who first sailed the solo
trip alone around the world in 1895?
9.
Who was the sixteenth President of the
United States who led the country to victory during the American Civil War?
10. Which country is the largest coffee growing country
in the world?
11. Name the first President of Egypt.
12. Name the India's
first nuclear powered submarine.
13. What species of fish is used to produce bloaters?
14. Which bird lays its eggs in other bird’s nests?
15. How many propellers did Titanic have?
16. What is the Earth’s most abundant metal?
17. Who wrote Harry Potter?
18. Which country is also known as "country
of Copper"?
19. Who initiated the Fifth French Republic?
20. Name the person who was called the “Laughing Philosopher”.
Answer
1. Russia
2. Arabind Rajkhowa
3. Bangladesh
4. Mars
5. The Chameleon
6. The Montgolfier brothers
7. Philadelphia, USA
8. Captain Joshua Slocum of America
9. Abraham Lincoln
10. Brazil
11. Mohammed Nequib
12. INS Chakra
13. Herring - smoked
14. The Cuckoo
15. Three
16. Aluminium
17. JK Rowling
18. Zambia
19. De Gaulle
20. Democritus
General
Knowledge Quiz 25
1.
Which British Minister was
nicknamed “Dizzy”?
2.
Name the world's
second-largest country in land area.
3.
Name the largest living
bird.
4.
Which nationality was
Christopher Columbus?
5.
What would a cartographer
make?
6.
Name the oldest commercial
whiskey distiller.
7.
What does MGM stand for?
8.
Which is the most widely
grown vegetables in the world?
9.
When there are two full
moons in the same month, what is the second called?
10. Where was the first British colony in America?
11. Who won the first American Idol?
12. Name the animal that lays eggs.
13. What was the first James Bond Film?
14. When was Alexander Graham Bell? When?
15. Where was the world’s first chemistry lab set up?
16. Name the country who introduced the world’s first diesel loco.
17. When the world’s first Diesel Loco was introduced?
18. In which war was Operation Desert
Storm?
19. When was the world’s first Television set sold?
20. What is the green pigment in plants called?
Answer
1. Benjamin Disraeli
2. Canada
3. Ostrich
4. Italian
5. Maps
6. Bushmills
7. Metro Goldwyn & Mayer
8. Potato
9. Blue Moon
10. Roanoke Island, 1585
11. Kelly Clarkson
12. Duck billed platypus
13. Dr No
14. Edinburgh, 1847
15. Netherlands, 1650
16. Germany
17. 1912
18. Gulf War
19. 1928
20. Chlorophyll
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