GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUIZ 6 (With Answers)
GENERAL
KNOWLEDGE QUIZ 6
by Santosh Kumar Biswa, Damphu
Central School, Bhutan
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General
Knowledge Quiz 26
1.
Who is the director of the
movie Jurassic Park?
2.
What is Rambo's first name?
3.
Which alcoholic spirit is
derived from juniper berries?
4.
Where did the ukulele
originate?
5.
From which country does
Sherry originate?
6.
What does the Dell Company
make?
7.
How many pillars are there
in the House of Wisdom?
8.
Name the cat that has no
tail.
9.
Who killed Dr. Martin Luther
King?
10. Name the only mammal that can fly.
11. According to physicists, what is the fastest moving thing in the
universe?
12. Who is the most photographed woman in the world?
13. How many years are celebrated in a Sesquicentennial?
14. Which is the fourth largest Navy in the world?
15. What instrument is used to measure earthquakes?
16. Name all the UN Security Council's five members.
17. Who wrote the book Mein Kemp?
18. How many symbols are there in the Chinese calendar?
19. In which city id Karl Marx buried?
20. How many digits are there in a Visa Card number?
Answer
1. Stephen Spielberg
2. John
3. Gin
4. Hawaii
5. Spain
6. Computers
7. Seven
8. Manx
9. James Earl Ray
10. The bat
11. The electron
12. Princess Diana
13. 150
14. Disneyland
15. Seismograph
16. China, US, Russia, Britain, and France
17. Adolph Hitler
18. 12
19. London
20. 16
General
Knowledge Quiz 27
1.
Who was the first person to
lead a successful expedition to the South Pole?
2.
Name the oldest Satellite
orbiting the earth?
3.
Who is considered to be the
‘Father of Modern astronomy’?
4.
When was Albert Einstein
born?
5.
When did Albert Einstein
die?
6.
Where was Albert Einstein
born?
7.
Where did Albert Einstein
die?
8.
Which
country never had a colony in North America?
9.
Of which country was Nanjing
the capital of from 1928 to 1949?
10. When was Malaysia formed?
11. Who was the young girl, whose diary, written during World War II became
world-famous?
12. What was the age of Robert Patch of US when he invented the toy truck?
13. Name the song composer who started to compose music at the age of 5?
14. Who is known as the Iron Man of India?
15. Name the first Indian woman to be crowned as ‘Miss World’.
16. Who was Michael Jackson?
17. Where was the 2008 NAM summit recently held?
18. What is hypotension?
19. Who claimed “History is bunk”?
20. Who was the Little Tramp?
Answer
1. Ronald Amundsen, a Norwegian
2. The Moon
3. Nicolas Copernicus
4. 14th March, 1879
5. 18th April, 1955
6. Born Ulm, Germany
7. Princeton, USA
8. Germany
9. Republican China
10. 1963
11. Anne Frank
12. 5 year old child
13. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
14. Sardar Vallabhai Patel
15. Rita Faria
16. A reputed Pop singer
17. Tehran
18. Low blood pressure
19. Henry Ford
20. Charlie Chaplin
General Knowledge Quiz 28
1.
Who was famously known as
The Maid of Orleans?
2.
Who was famously known as
The Bard of Avon?
3.
Who was famously known as
The Lady with the Lamp?
4.
Who was famously known as
Lady Bird?
5.
Who was famously known as
Satchmo?
6.
What does the term
'somniloquy' mean?
7.
Name the first USA president
to have born in hospital.
8.
Name the first woman
President of the UN General Assembly.
9.
Name the first Indian to win
the World Food Prize?
10. When is the International Day for the Elderly observed?
11. When was the Magna Carta signed?
12. Who was the first to add fruit to commercially produced yogurt in the
U.S. in 1946?
13. Who invented that the ‘tin can’ for preserving food in 1810?
14. What do you mean by aglets?
15. Name the tallest freestanding sculpture in the world.
16. How many years are there in quinquennium?
17. Which country issued a stamp in 1973 that looked like a record and
actually would play the Bhutanese national anthem if placed on a record player?
18. What is the full name of Titanic Ship?
19. Name the driest place on earth.
20. Which city is the capital city of Korea for more than 600 years?
Answer
1. Joan of Arc
2. William Shakespeare
3. Florence Nightingale
4. Claudia Taylor Johnson
5. Louis Armstrong
6. Talking while asleep
7. Jimmy Carter
8. Vijaya Lakshmi Pundit
9. MS Swaminathan
10. 1st October
11. 1215
12. Danon Yogurt
13. Peter Durand
14. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces
15. The Chief Crazy Horse, South Dakota, USA
16. Five years
17. Bhutan
18. R.M.S. Titanic, which stands for Royal Mail Steamship
19. Calama, Atacama Desert, Chile
20. Seoul
General Knowledge Quiz 29
1.
Name the first practical
helicopter invented in 1936.
2.
What was the original name
of the citrus soda "7 UP"?
3.
When citrus soda "7
UP" was created?
4.
Name the first U.S.
President to have a Christmas tree in the White House.
5.
Who built the highest bridge
in the world is located in the Himalayan Mountains in 1982?
6.
Who was the first Ronald
McDonald?
7.
Name the world’s tallest
free fall rollercoaster? From what height does it drop?
8.
How many verses are there in
the Greek National Anthem?
9.
Who was king of England at
the time of the War of Independence?
10. Who built the Crystal Palace?
11. When was the Crystal Palace built?
12. Which army was headed by General John Gowans?
13. How many strings does a
violin have?
14. Who is known as the Holy
Pontiff?
15. Which explorer discovered the sea-route to India by rounding the Cape of
Good Hope?
16. Name the lowest mountain range in the world.
17. Where is the Angel Falls located?
18. Where is the Victoria Falls located?
19. What was the old name of tomato?
20. Which is the most densely populated Island in the world?
Answer
1. The German Focke-Wulf Fw 61
2. Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda
3. 1929
4. Franklin Pierce
5. Indian Army, 5,600 meters above sea level
6. Weatherman Willard Scott
7. The Giant Drop, Australia, 120 meters
8. 158 verses
9. George III
10. Joseph Paxton
11. 1851
12. The Salvation Army
13. Four
14. The Pope
15. Vasco de Gama
16. The Buena Bhaile
17. Venezuela
18. Rhodesia
19. Love apple
20. Honshu
General Knowledge Quiz 30
1.
What single name is most
commonly applied to Holy Roman Emperor Charles the Great?
2.
Name the first woman to
receive the Medal of Honour.
3.
Who said: "I'm the
president of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more
broccolis"?
4.
What civil rights leader did
Dorothy Parker leave the bulk of her estate to?
5.
Name Italian reformer who
has given her name to a system of educating young children?
6.
When was the first wholly
Indian test-tube baby born at KEM Hospital, Bombay?
7.
When did the First war of
Indian Independence take place?
8.
When did the Chauri - Chaura
incidence take place in India?
9.
Who published an essay on conic sections using the methods of
Gerard Desargues and deserted the field of mathematics in 1647?
10. Who proved the
possibility of constructing a 17-sided regular polygon with the help of a ruler
and compass only in 1796?
11. Name the Detective Agencies of Pakistan?
12. Name the Mongol Emperor, Patron of Marco Polo, who conquered China?
13. Name the Roman Emperor who made his horse a senator?
14. Which three US presidents received the Peace Nobel Price?
15. On which country’s flag can you see the “Star of David”?
16. Who invented vacuum in 1872?
17. When was Tarzan created?
18. Who created Tarzan?
19. What is mainly extracted from pitchblende?
20. Name the first test tube baby born in 1978?
Answer
1. Charlemagne
2. Dr. Mary Edwards Walker
3. George Bush
4. Martin Luther King Jr.
5. Maria Montessori
6. 7th August, 1986
7. 1857-1858
8. 1922
9. Blaise Pascal
10. Carl Friedrich
Gauss
11. I.S.I (Inter Services Intelligence)
12. Kublai Khan
13. Caligula
14. Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter
15. Israel
16. James Dewer
17. 1914
18. Edgar Rice Burroughs
19. Uranium
20. Louise Brown
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