GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUIZ 8 (With Answers)
GENERAL
KNOWLEDGE QUIZ 8
by Santosh Kumar Biswa, Damphu
Central School, Bhutan
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General
Knowledge Quiz 36
1.
Which country has the
world's largest McDonalds?
2.
What is the name of the
milky fluid produced by rubber trees?
3.
What is the purpose of an
analgesic drug?
4.
In which country is illegal
to own a red car?
5.
When was the postal code
introduced in Ottawa, Ontario?
6.
Name the person who led a
military campaign (1000 men with red shirts), leading to the unification of
Italy?
7.
Name the first woman to
climb Mount Everest?
8.
When is the World Population
Day observed?
9.
Name the train service
between India and Bangladesh.
10. When is the Earth Day observed?
11. When did the Norman Conquest of England take place?
12.
When was the League of Nations formed?
13. In which year was United Kingdom formed?
14. Name the last Governor of Hong Kong?
15. Which Airbus id nicknamed as Fat Albert?
16. When was the first lighthouse in Boston, USA built?
17. When was the movie ‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’ made?
18. Name the only state having one syllable name.
19. What is an average life of a mosquito?
20. Name the first person to born in Antarctica in 1978?
Answer
1. Beijing, China
2. Latex
3. Pain killer
4. Shanghai, china
5. 1971
6. Giuseppe Garibaldi
7. Junko Tabei
8. 11th July
9. The Maitreyi Express
10. 22nd April
11. 1066
12. 1920
13. 1707
14. Christopher Patten
15. Boeing 737, China
16. 1716
17. 1991
18. Maine
19. Two weeks
20. Emilio Marco Palma
General
Knowledge Quiz 37
1.
Who was ordained as a
Presbyterian minister in 1963?
2.
Who set up the first fashion
house in 1858?
3.
What do you mean by
Psycho-Kinesis?
4.
Who founded Hollywood in
1888?
5.
Name the first battle in the
English Civil War.
6.
Name the president who was
shot to death while walking to California Governor Jerry Brown's office?
7.
Which alphabet does not
appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements?
8.
What is the name of the
oldest surviving printed book (868 A.D) in China?
9.
Name the most dangerous
insect in the world.
10. When was the first mosque in the United States built?
11. From which two Asian countries does an equator pass?
12. How many dialects does the Chinese language have?
13. Which bottom-feeding fish originated in China?
14. Name the Marine molluscs which can change its gender?
15. Which people traditionally smoke a pipe of peace?
16. In which Italian city is La Scala opera house?
17. Who speaks Mandarin language?
18. What is Assegai?
19. Which country tested Sajjil-2 long-range missile recently?
20. When did the last emperor of China ascend the
throne?
Answer
1. Mister Rogers
2. Charles Worth
3. The ability of moving objects through psychic power
4. Harvey and Daedal Wilcox
5. The Battle of Edge hill
6. President Gerald Ford
7. The letter ‘J’
8. The Diamond Sutra
9. The common housefly
10. 1893
11. Indonesia and Republic of Kiribati
12. Seven
13. Carp
14. An oyster
15. The Red Indians
16. Milan
17. Chinese
18. The spear used by the Masai warriors of Africa
19. Iran
20. 1909
General
Knowledge Quiz 38
1.
Name
the Roman general who conquered Gaul in the First Century B.C.
2.
What are the Detective
Agencies of India?
3.
What is a female ferret
called?
4.
What was the end product of
the so-called Manhattan Project?
5.
Name the Albanian Nun who
founded the Missionaries of Charity in India in 1948?
6.
What colour is the hammer
and sickle on the Soviet flag?
7.
What is the life span of a
dragonfly?
8.
Which is the lonely island
in the world?
9.
Where is FAO located?
10. Where is International Civil Aviation Organization located?
11. Where was the Mohenjo-Daro ruins found?
12. When was the first crossword puzzle in the world published?
13. In which newspaper was the first crossword puzzle in the world
published?
14. Who was the founder of the kindergarten education system?
15. Who discovered the sea route to India via the Cape of Good Hope?
16. Whose dissertation
revealed the first evidence of the fundamental theorem of algebra in 1799?
17. Who is referred as The Iron Duke?
18. What are the caves at Lascaux famous for?
19. How many strings does a
bass guitar usually have?
20. What was the classical
standard language of ancient India?
Answer
1. Julius Caesar
2. Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Research & Analysis Wing
(RAW), and Intelligence Bureau (IB)
3. A Jill
4. Atomic bomb
5. Mother Teresa
6. Gold
7. Seven weeks
8. Tristan-da cunha
9. Rome and London
10. Montreal
11. Larkand District of Sind, Pakistan
12. 1924
13. London Sunday Express
14. German educator Friedrich Froebel
15. Vasco-da-Gama
16. Carl Friedrich
Gauss
17. The Duke of Wellington
18. Prehistoric Cave Paintings
19. Four
20. Sanskrit
General
Knowledge Quiz 39
1.
Where is the headquarters of the
International Red Cross Society?
2.
What is the world’s largest bird of prey?
3.
When was Ashoka’s reign in
India?
4.
When was Taj Mahal built?
5.
Who ascended the Chrysanthemum
Throne in Japan after the death of Emperor Hirohito?
6.
Which king of England
refused his Queen’s entry to his coronation?
7.
Who was the chancellor of
Germany in 2005?
8.
Who was the president of
India in 2007?
9.
To what family of plant does
broccoli belongs?
10. Where is Negev desert?
11. Name the first men to fly in a powered aircraft.
12. When did the famous “Orient Express” make its last run?
13. Name a revolutionary
figure and former Prime Minister of Cuba who served the country from 1959 to
1976.
14. Name the country which is
the largest producer of tin in the world.
15. Name the first man to reach
North Pole.
16. Where is the permanent
secretariat of the SAARC located?
17. Which scientist first studied the world of microscopic life?
18. When did Bhutan establish diplomatic relations with Singapore?
19. When did the World Great Mathematicians Blaise Pascal die?
20. Where was the World Great Mathematicians Blaise Pascal born?
Answer
1. Geneva
2. Californian Condor
3. 269-232 B.C
4. 1631
5. Emperor Akihito
6. George IV
7. Angela Merkel
8. Pratibha Devisingh Patil
9. Cabbage
10. Israel
11. Wright brothers, Orville Wright and Wilfred Wright
12. September 2, 1939
13. Fidel Castro
14. China
15. Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary
16. Kathmandu
17. Leeuwenhoek
18. Sept 23, 2002
19. 19th Aug, 1662
20. Born Clermont-Ferrand, France
General
Knowledge Quiz 40
1.
What name is given to the
study of the flight of projectiles?
2.
Who was once known as the
King of Soul, and now as the Godfather of Soul?
3.
Among whom was the shortest
war in the history in 1896?
4.
Which countries were
destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius?
5.
Name the Intelligence Agency
of Egypt?
6.
Which American state is
nicknamed The Diamond State?
7.
When
did Brunei become independent?
8.
Where
was Christopher Columbus from?
9.
Who traditionally fly ‘a
single cedar tree on its flag’?
10. Name the biggest island of
the world.
11. Name the first British
University to admit women for degree courses.
12. Who was a
bibliographer, professor of International law and senator in the Belgium
legislature who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1913?
13. Name the only bird that gives us leather?
14. Name the lightest metal?
15. Who created Dolly, the first cloned sheep?
16. What is Odontology?
17. What is the real name of the actress Whoopi Goldberg?
18. What is the decomposition point of Olive oil?
19. What has teeth located in a bone in their throat?
20. Name the first country to send a man into space?
Answer
1. Ballistics
2. James Brown
3. Zanzibar and England
4. Pompeii and Herculaneum
5. Mukhbarat
6. Delaware
7. 1984
8. Genoa
9. Sea Pirates
10. Greenland
11. London University
12. Henri La Fontaine
13. Ostrich
14. Lithium
15. Ian Wilmot
16. The science dealing with the study of teeth
17. Caryn Elaine Johnson
18. 220 degrees Celsius
19. Minnows (Very small European freshwater fish common in gravelly streams)
20. Soviet Union
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