1000 General Knowledge Questions and Answers – GK Quiz

 

1. What is a doggerel?

Answer: Poem

It is a loosely structured verse with comic effect.

 

2. “Running Out of Fools” and “Chain of Fools” are two bluesy hits recorded by:

Answer: Aretha Franklin

These recordings remain among her most popular.

 

3. In music, what lead singer of The Doors was arrested for indecent exposure during a concert in Miami?

Answer: Jim Morrison

 

4. Which of the following casino games is also known as the “one-armed bandit”?

Answer: Slot machine

 

5. What is the mean January temperature in the Arctic?

Answer: Minus 33 F

 

6. Plants that reproduce using seeds are:

Answer: Conifers and flowering plants

 

7. Which South American city is the fourth largest on the continent, following Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, and Rio de Janeiro?

Answer: Lima, Peru

 

8. The film “Dangerous Liaisons” is a costume drama set in 18th-century:

Answer: France

Glenn Close and John Malkovich star as the villainous schemers in this 1988 film.

 

9. What company amalgamated with Goldsborough & Co. in 1888?

Answer: Mort & Co.

 

10. Who was the King of Sparta?

Answer: Menelaus

 

11. Which planet has a red spot?:

Answer: Jupiter

 

12. What is the ratio of the speed of a gust of wind to non-gusting wind speed in an urban area?

Answer: 2:1

1.6:1 in rural areas

 

13. Which is the oldest ‘stock exchange of India?

Answer: Bombay Stock Exchange

 

14. Which branch of science has four fundamental principles: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division?

Answer: Arithmetical

 

15. Which are Tile earliest Buddhist literature that deal with the stories of the various birth of Buddha?

Answer: Jatakas

 

16. Dr. M. S. Swaminathan distinguished himself in which field?

Answer: Agriculture

 

17. Containing 18 museums, what Washington D.C. institution bears the nickname “American’s Attic”?

Answer: Smithsonian Institute

 

18. In which year was the first no confidence motion moved in the Lok Sabha after independence?

Answer: 1963

 

19. Which hot and dry winds that help in the ripening or grapes in the Alps region?

Answer: Foehn

 

20. Martin Luther King became involved in the boycott. What was the fine he received?

Answer: $500

 

21. Where would you generally not find coral reefs?

Answer: Off the Iberian Peninsula

 

 

22. If a substance does not dissolve, it is termed:

Answer: Insoluble

 

23. In 1954, English athlete Roger Bannister became the first person on record to do what in less than four minutes?

Answer: Run a mile

 

24. Which contemporary pop singer, who once performed as half of a musical duo with her spouse, was born Anna Mae Bullock?

Answer: Tina Turner

Tina Turner, born Anna Mae Bullock in 1937, performed with her then-husband Ike Turner in the Ike and Tina Turner Review from 1960 to 1976.

 

25. Following oxygen, which is the most common element in the earth’s crust?

Answer: Silicon

 

26. Who was the first black entertainer to win an Emmy?

Answer: Harry Belafonte

 

27. Pick the correct statement:

Answer: The umbra is the inner, central part of a sunspot. The penumbra is the outer part of a sunspot.

 

28. The unaltered remains of fossilised animals include:

Answer: Mummified and frozen remains

 

29. What is the capital city of the European Union?

Answer: Brussels

 

30. Which fruit has the least nutritional value?

Answer: Apple

The others are excellent sources of vitamins A or C.  Apple skins have a small dose of vitamin C.

 

31. Insects outnumber all other animals by:

Answer: 4 to 1

 

32. Which populous country is over 3′ million square miles in area, of which two-thirds is either mountains or desert?

Answer: China

 

33. Which delivery company is famous for the slogan “When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight”?

Answer: Federal Express

 

34. The theory that the universe is continually being created at various parts of the universe is the:

Answer: Steady State Theory

 

35. Over the past century, which European county has been most seismically active?

Answer: Greece

 

36. Contestants in the Olympic Games of ancient Greece competed naked.

Answer: True

 

37. If a car brakes suddenly, the first movement of the passengers is to:

Answer: Continue to move forward at the same speed

 

38. What was the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution?

Answer: Delaware

 

39. A substance that conducts very little electricity is known as what?

Answer: An Insulator

 

40. What do you call a grouping of deer?

Answer: A herd of deer

 

41. Where is Apalachicola?

Answer: Florida

 

42. Where did Walt Disney’s seven dwarfs work?

Answer: They worked in the mines, digging for diamonds. They sang “Heigh-ho” on their way to and from the mines. They also liked to whistle while they worked.

 

43. Which type of composition usually denotes work for solo instrument, although can also be a piece for violin and piano?

Answer: Sonata

 

44. Which nation completes this list of WWII’s “big four”: USA, USSR, Great Britain and ?

Answer: China

 

45. Was the first FA Cup Final held in: (a) 1868, (b) 1872 or (c) 1876?

Answer: (b) 1872.

 

46. What are Newton’s Three Laws of Motion?

Answer: 1) An object at rest tends to stay at rest and an object in motion tends to stay in motion. 2) Acceleration is produced when a force acts upon a mass, and the greater the mass, the greater the amount of force required to accelerate it. 3) Every action has an equal and opposite re-action.

 

47. Which Italian city was buried, along with Herculaneum, when Vesuvius erupted in AD 79?

Answer: Pompeii

 

48. Lake Eyre lies within which Australian state?

Answer: South Australia

 

49. In order for oxidation to occur, this process must also take place:

Answer: Reduction

The two reactions occur simultaneously and in chemically equivalent quantities.

 

50. What percentage of the mass in the universe is attributed to “Dark Matter”, or matter that we have yet to account for and remains unseen to our eyes.

Answer: 90%

 

General Knowledge Questions and Answers Part 2

 

51. Of which country is the French president co-prince?

Answer: Andorra

 

52. Bond length is the distance between two electrons joined in a chemical bond.

Answer: False

 

53. Which continent is adjacent to the Benguela Current?

Answer: Africa

 

54. Who invented the hovercraft?

Answer: Sir Christopher Cockerell.

 

55. Who were the three presidents to have the unfortunate circumstance of having been born after the death of their father?

Answer: Bill Clinton

Rutherford B. Hayes

Andrew Jackson

 

56. In 122, what Roman Emperor built a 72 mile wall in Northern Britian?

Answer: Hadrian

Hadrian’s Wall, as it comes to be known, is intended to keep the Picts and other tribes at bay.

 

57. In television, “I Love Trash” is the favorite song of what green Sesame Street character that lives in a garbage can?

Answer: Oscar the Grouch

 

58. Who replaced Winston Churchill as Prime Minister of Great Britain in 1945?

Answer: Clement Attlee

 

59. Which African nation has the highest GNP per capita?

Answer: Gabon

Gabon’s GNP is about $4,000 per year, their oil reserves, minerals, and logging industry help imporve conditions.

 

60. Which gave an impetus to the growth of militant nationalism on a widespread scale?

Answer: Partition of Bengal

 

61. Why was the Panchayati Raj System adopted?

Answer: Decentralise the power of democracy

 

62. In colourful diamond, Why are different colours present?

Answer: Due to impurities

 

63. From the view of International economy, What does third World imply?

Answer: The developing countries

 

64. Which is a land-locked country?

Answer: Zimbabwe

 

65. The ruler of which State was removed from power by the British on the pretext of misgovernance?

Answer: Awadh

 

66. With which field was Satyajit Ray associated?

Answer: Direction of films

 

67. Which plant is referred to as a living fossil?

Answer: Gingko

 

68. How long did the Constituent Assembly take to finally pass the Constitution?

Answer: About 3 years since Dec 9, 1946

 

69. What is the country through which both Equator and Tropic of Capricorn pass?

Answer: Brazil

 

70. From where did the Quit India Movement start?

Answer: Bombay on Aug. 8, 1942

 

71. Which physical quantities have the same dimensions?

Answer: Momentum and impulse

 

72. In which year did UN establish the UN Conference on Trade and Development?

Answer: 1964

 

73. Which Committee was formed to suggest means for eradicating black money?

Answer: Cheiliah Committee

 

74. The Karakoram Highway connects which pairs of countries?

Answer: China-Pakistan

 

75. Which Indian revolutionary helped Subhash Chandra Bose in raising ‘Indian National Army’ ?

Answer: Rasbehari Bose

 

76. Which crop would be preferred for sowing in order to enrich the soil with nitrogen?

Answer: Gram

 

77. Who was the President of the Constituent Assembly?

Answer: Dr. Rajendra Prasad

 

78. What is the number of unpaired electrons in carbon atom?

Answer: 2

 

79. Which latitude passes through India?

Answer: Tropic of Cancer

 

80. Who propounded that ‘destiny determines everything, man is powerless?

Answer: Ajivakas

 

81. Which is UN Programme and not special agency?

Answer: UNEP

 

82. Who is the author of the famous novel ‘Gone with the Wind’?

Answer: Charles Dickens

 

83. Which mammal rolls itself into ball at the time of danger?

Answer: Hedgehog

 

84. Which State has the largest forest area. ?

Answer: Gujarat

 

85. Sufi Kalam, a type of devotional music, is the characteristic of which state?

Answer: Kashmir

 

86. Which Directive Principle of State Policy has NOT been implemented so far?

Answer: Uniform civil code for the citizens

 

87. When some detergent is added to water, what will be the surface tension?

Answer: Increases

 

88. What is the situation with increasing unemployment and inflation termed?

Answer: Stagflation

 

89. Port Blair – the capital of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, is located in which island?

Answer: South Andaman

 

90. What was the original name of Tansen, the most famous musician at the court of Akbar?

Answer: Ramtanu Pande

 

91. Which Sanskrit poet called as the Indian Shakespeare?

Answer: Kalidas

 

92. How many chamber are found in the heart of frog?

Answer: 3

 

93. Which amendments accorded precedence to Directive Principle over Fundamental Rights?

Answer: 42nd Amendment

 

94. Which is the biggest lake in India?

Answer: Chilka Lake

 

95. Which Indian ruler established embassies in foreign countries. on modern lines?

Answer: Tipu Sultan

 

96. In an atom the order of filling up of the orbitals is governed by which principle?

Answer: Aufbau principle

 

97. Which decade is celebrated as United Nations Decade for Women?

Answer: 1976-1985

 

98. Which agency has the power to declare any industrial unit as a potentially sick unit?

Answer: BIFR

 

99. Which are the west-flowing rivers of southern Indian which flow into Arabian Sea?

Answer: Narmada and Tapti

 

100. When was the Indus Valley Civilization flourished?

Answer: During 2500-1750 B.C

 

General Knowledge Questions and Answers Part 3

 

101. Sex determination of child is done by whose chromosome?

Answer: Father

 

102. Who is authorised to decide over a dispute regarding disqualification of a member of Parliament?

Answer: President

 

103. Who firstly demonstrated experimentally the existence of electromagnetic wave?

Answer: Hertz

 

104. Which is not essentially a species of the Himalayan vegetation?

Answer: Mahogany

 

105. What are the main channels of our knowledge about the Indus Valley Civilization?

Answer: Archaeological excavations

 

106. When is International Human Solidarity Day observed?

Answer: December 20

 

107. The United Nations declared 2001 as which International Year?

Answer: International Year of Volunteers

 

108. What is the effect of overseretion of harmone from pituitary gland?

Answer: Increase growth in lenght

 

109. Which type of forest covers the maximum area in India?

Answer: Tropical moist deciduous forest

 

110. What was the rate of land revenue as ‘given in the dharma shastras ?

Answer: 1/6

 

111. The Lok Sabha is called in session for at least how many times in a year’?

Answer: Thrice

 

112. Heating pyrites in air to remove sulphur is known as which name?

Answer: Roasting

 

113. If the cash-reserve ratio is lowered by the Central bank, what will be its effect on credit creation?

Answer: Increase

 

114. The Matatila multipurpose project is located in which state?

Answer: Uttar Pradesh

 

115. What did the name ‘Ratnakara’ denoted In ancient Indian historical geography?

Answer: The Indian Ocean

 

116. ‘Queen’s berry Rules’ is the name. give to the rules in which game?

Answer: Boxing

 

117. By whom the concept of survival of the fittest as advanced?

Answer: Herbert Spencer

 

118. When can the salaries of High Court judges be reduced?

Answer: During a Financial Emergency

 

119. Which shipyard is known for the manufacture of bargets, coasters and dredgers?

Answer: Garden Reach Shipyard

 

120. In which country was Buddhism first propogated outside India?

Answer: Srilanka

 

121. There is no net transfer of energy by the particles of the medium in which waves?

Answer: Stationary waves

 

122. Jaspal Rana is a distinguished athlete in which game?

Answer: Shooting

 

123. Which provides the largest part of the demand for loanable funds in India?

Answer: Corporate businesses

 

124. Moho discontinuity lies at the depth of approximately howmany kilometers?

Answer: 400 km

 

125. Who was well-known patron of the Mahayana of Buddhism?

Answer: Kanishka

 

126. From the evolutionary point of view, which is the most primitive animal?

Answer: Turtle

 

127. By whom are the Chief Justice and other Judges of the High Court are appointed?

Answer: President

 

128. What is reduction of oxide with carbon at high temperature called?

Answer: Smelting

 

129. Which is the higest plateau in the world?

Answer: Pamir Plateau

 

130. Who authored the Tamil epic ‘Silappadikaram’ ?

Answer: Ilango

 

131. S. Vijaya Lakshmi and Nisha Mohita are associated with which game?

Answer: Chess

 

132. How many gold medals did India win at the XIth Asian Games?

Answer: One

 

133. At what level does the Natura 2000 network operate?

Answer: European

 

134. Which atmospheric layer that reflects radio waves is called?

Answer: Ionosphere

 

135. How is Manimekalai is looked?

Answer: As the Odyssey of Tamil

 

136. Where can the report of the UPSC discussed?

Answer: In Parliament before being accepted

 

137. Conversion of chemical energy into electrical energy occurs in which thing?

Answer: Battery

 

138. What is the main source of revenue to meet different expenditures?

Answer: Internal borrowings

 

139. What is a line on a map which joins places having the same rainfall called?

Answer: Isohyet

 

140. Which Gupta king is famous for his courageous stand against the Hunas?

Answer: Skanda Gupta

 

141. Which game is Davis Cup associated with?

Answer: Tennis

 

142. When did the last female Alpine ibex disappear in France?

Answer: 2000

 

143. To whom is the resignation letter of a State Public Service Commission member addressed?

Answer: Governor

 

144. Equatorial forest of the Amazon basin is known as by which name?

Answer: Selvas

 

145. To which work is Devichandraguptam related?

Answer: Chandra Gupta II

 

146. Purification of petroleum is carried out by which method?

Answer: Fractional distillation

 

147. Saraswati Samman is given annually for outstanding contribution to which field?

Answer: Literature

 

148. From which sector is the largest contribution in India’s National Income?

Answer: Tertiary sector

 

149. Thick stems and thorny wax coated leaves are commonly found in which area?

Answer: Deserts

 

150. Who is most famous for” the establishment of an elaborate system of municipal administration?

Answer: Chandragupta Maurya

 

General Knowledge Questions and Answers Part 4

 

151. What is the short upper part of the human intestine next to the stomach?

Answer: Duodenum

 

152. Which is the State having the largest population of scheduled castes?

Answer: Utter Pradesh

 

153. Where will be the Time period in a vibration magnetometer infinite?

Answer: At magnetic pole

 

154. Which is considered to cause an adverse of effect on Indian monsoon?

Answer: El-nino

 

155. Which lake is the largest in North America?

Answer: Lake Superior

Lake Superior, the largest lake in North America, and the second-largest lake in the world, has a surface area of 31,700 square miles.

 

156. Who was the first Indian to be honoured with a lifetime achievement Oscar Award?

Answer: Satyajit Roy

 

157. What can be the maximum length of a cricket bat?

Answer: 32”

 

158. Which technique can be used to establish the paternity of a child?

Answer: Quantitative analysis of DNA

 

159. Which region does not receives much rainfall in the south-west monsoon season?

Answer: Tamil Nadu coast

 

160. By whom was the city of Agra founded in 1504?

Answer: Sikandar Lodi

 

 

 

161. Which country has the briefest Constitution in the world?

Answer: USA

 

162. Which petroleum refinery product has the lowest boiling point?

Answer: Gasoline

 

163. In which policy India opted for ‘Mixed Economy’?

Answer: Industrial Policy of 1948

 

164. In which state has India’s largest private sector sea port been commissioned recently?

Answer: Andhra Pradesh

 

165. By whom was the ‘Shahnama’ written?

Answer: Firdausi

 

166. What is the distance between popping crease and stumps on cricket pitch?

Answer: 3½ ft

 

167. By whom was Gene first isolated?

Answer: Hargobind Khurana

 

168. Who was the Chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Indian Constitution?

Answer: B. R. Ambedkar

 

169. Which is the longest national Highway in India?

Answer: NH 7

 

170. In which region of India was the Suharawadi order of Sufism popular?

Answer: Punjab and Sind

 

171. By which impact is Nuclear fission is caused ?

Answer: Neutron

 

172. Which was the first woman to climb Mount Everest?

Answer: Junko Tabei

 

173. What is the task of the Planning Commission?

Answer: Preparation of the plan

 

174. How many PIN CODE Zone divided in the country?

Answer: 8

 

175. By whom was the Bhakti Movement first organised?

Answer: Ramananda

 

176. By whom was Insulin discovered?

Answer: Dr. F G. Banting

 

177. How long did the Constituent Assembly take to finally pass the Constitution?

Answer: About 3 years since Dec 9, 1946

 

178. Which is purest form of iron?

Answer: Wrought iron

 

179. Automatic approval upto 51 % in the enfrastructure seety was given in which year?

Answer: 1991

 

180. During which reign was the East India Company founded in London?

Answer: Akbar

 

181. Who was known as ‘Lady with Lamp’?

Answer: Florence Nightingale

 

182. Which Indian origin immigrants became the Governor of Louisiana province of the USA in 2007?

Answer: Bobby Jindal

 

183. From which part of the plant is turmeric obtained?

Answer: Stem

 

184. In order of their distances from the Sun, which planet lie between Mars and Uranus?

Answer: Jupiter and Saturn

 

185. Which Rajput dynasties did not surrender to Akbar?

Answer: Sisodiya

 

186. How type of right is Right to Information?

Answer: Fundamental right

 

187. Which is used as a coolant in nuclear reactors?

Answer: Liquid sodium

 

188. What does M3 include?

Answer: M1 + T.D

 

189. Comets revolve around which body?

Answer: Sun

 

190. Where was Shivaji crowned as an independent king?

Answer: Raigarh

 

191. Meghnad Saha is known for his contribution in which field?

Answer: Physics

 

192. Which part of cinchona plant yields quinine?

Answer: Bark

 

193. Which right conferred by the Constitution of India is also available to non-citizens?

Answer: Freedom to speech

 

194. Which layer of the earth is believed to have the heaviest mineral materials of highest density?

Answer: Central core

 

195. Which saint name is associated with Shivaji ?

Answer: Ram Das

 

196. Liquefied Petroleum Gas consists of mainly which gases?

Answer: Methane, butane and propane

 

197. ‘Kandla’ situated on the Gulf of Kachchh is well known for which purpose?

Answer: Export processing zone

 

198. Which Mahatma Gandhi series of currency notes issued by the RBI has “ecology” depicted on it ?

Answer: Rs. 100

 

199. The mapping of which part of earth is most difficult?

Answer: Interior of the Earth

 

200. By whom wasIsland of Bombay was given to the English Prince Charles II as dowry?

Answer: Portuguese

 

General Knowledge Questions and Answers Part 5

 

201. Which cytoplasmic organelles are treated as prokaryotic cells within the eukaryotic cells?

Answer: Glyoxysomes

 

202. What is the minimum age for election/appointment as member of the Rajya Sabha ?

Answer: 30 years

 

203. When milk is churned, how does the cream separate from it?

Answer: Due to the centrifugal force

 

204. In USA, which region receives heavy rainfall throughout the year under the influence of Westerlies?

Answer: North-western

 

205. Which first Europeans came to India?

Answer: Portuguese

 

206. When did man first land on moon ?

Answer: 1969

 

207. Which is the secondary source of light in a fluorescent lamp?

Answer: Mercury vapour

 

208. Archaeopteryx had which reptilian characters?

Answer: Clawed wings, teeth on jaw, tail

 

209. Which cold and dense air blowing down the mountain slope during the night?

Answer: Katabatic wind

 

210. When was the monopoly of East India Company in trade brought under the control of the British Crown?

Answer: 1773 A.D.

 

211. What is the minimum age for being the member of the Parliament?

Answer: 25 years

 

212. Which elements is obtained from sea weeds?

Answer: Iodine

 

213. Which is the regulatory authority for giving clearance for External Commercial borrowing?

Answer: RBI

 

214. Where are Grasses almost absent?

Answer: In tropical wet-evergreen forest

 

215. Who was impeached in England for his actions in India?

Answer: Warren Hastings

 

216. By using which technique, is DNA fingerprint done?

Answer: Southern Blotting

 

217. Which Bacteria convert atmospheric nitrogen into nitrogenous compound?

Answer: Nitrogen fixing bacteria

 

218. Which was the first woman Governor of a State in free India?

Answer: Mrs. Sarojini Naidu

 

219. Which ecosystem covers the largest area of the earth’s surface?

Answer: Marine Ecosystem

 

220. During which movement was ‘Mahatma’ added before Gandhiji’s name?

Answer: Champaran satyagraha

 

221. Sound travels faster in which thing?

Answer: Iron than in air

 

222. Who was the first General-Secretary of the Indian National Congress?

Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji

 

223. From when was the Zero Base Budgeting in India first experimented?

Answer: April, 1987

 

224. Rainfall in the doldrums is of the nature of which precipitation?

Answer: Orographic precipitation

 

225. Which first Indian leader to undergo imprisonment in 1882?

Answer: Vijiaraghavachari

 

226. Which type of microorganism is most widely used in industries?

Answer: Bacteria, microalgae and fungi.

 

227. What is the maximum number of elected members in a State Assembly?

Answer: 500

 

228. In fireworks, how is the green flame produced?

Answer: Because of barium

 

229. Which term for natural vegetation is associated with Siberia?

Answer: Taiga

 

230. During the Indian Freedom struggle, who started a journal “The Indian Sociologist” ?

Answer: Shyamji Krishna Varma

 

231. Person is called ‘Desert Fox’?

Answer: Gen. Rommel

 

232. National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation is known what?

Answer: NACMF

 

233. Water will be absorbed by root hairs, then how is when the external medium?

Answer: Hypotonic

 

234. Which is not an important factor of climate of an area?

Answer: Longitude

 

235. By whom was the Home Rule Movement in India was started?

Answer: Annie Besant and Tilak

 

236. By whom are Zonal Council provided?

Answer: By Parliamentary Act

 

237. Who does a liquid drop tend to assume a spherical shape?

Answer: Surface tension

 

238. With which Economic growth is usually coupled?

Answer: Inflation

 

239. Where is the thermal equator found?

Answer: North of the geographical equator

 

240. After whose name was a women’s division of the Indian National Army named?

Answer: Rani Jhansi

 

241. The United Nations declared 2013 as the International Year of which coperation?

Answer: Water Cooperation

 

242. What is an instrument for measuring the rate of transpiration?

Answer: Potometer

 

243. By whom was an inter-State Council set up in 1990 under Article 263 of the Constitution?

Answer: President

 

244. Which reflects back more sunlight as compared to other three ?

Answer: Land covered with fresh snow

 

245. Who started the newspaper Shome Prakash?

Answer: Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

 

246. Which substance does not have a melting point?

Answer: Glass

 

247. How many votes are entitled for members of the UN Economic and Social Council?

Answer: One vote

 

248. In India, in which industry are maximum number of workers employed?

Answer: Textile industry

 

249. Which is the soil formed by wind dust in and around hot deserts?

Answer: Loess soil

 

250. In whose court was a Chinese embassy sent by Tang emperor?

Answer: Harshavardhana

 

General Knowledge Questions and Answers Part 6

 

251. For which snake is the diet mainly composed of their snakes?

Answer: Kinqcobra

 

252. On which date India became a Sovereign, democratic republic?

Answer: Jan 26, 1950

 

253. What minimum number of non-zero non-collinear vectors is required to produce a zero vector?

Answer: 3

 

254. Where are Niagara Falls?

Answer: U.S.A.

 

255. Which inscription mentions Pulkesin II’s military success against Harshavardhana?

Answer: Aihole Inscription

 

256. What is the present strength of members in the Economic and Social Council of the UN body?

Answer: 54

 

257. Which book was written by Graham Greene?

Answer: The Power and Glory

 

258. What structure is common to both earthworm and cockroach?

Answer: Ventral nerve cord

 

259. Which Strait connecting Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal?

Answer: Palk Strait

 

260. Chandragupta Maurya figures prominently in whose book?

Answer: Vishakhdatta

 

261. Which act made the Indian Legislature bicameral?

Answer: Government of India Act, 1919

 

262. By which a mixture of sand and naphthalene can be separated?

Answer: Sublimation

 

263. The ‘Uruguay Round’ negotiations resulted in the establishment of which organization?

Answer: WTO

 

264. Durand line is the border common to which two countries?

Answer: Pakistan and Afghanistan

 

265. Who stated that there was no slavery in India ?

Answer: Megasthenes

 

266. Which flim was made by Satyajit Ray for Children?

Answer: Sonar Killa

 

267. Which part of human brain is the regulating centre for swallowing and vomating?

Answer: Medulla oblangata

 

268. What is the duration of proclamation of Financial Emergency?

Answer: At the first instance two months

 

269. Which set of countries are completely surrounded by land?

Answer: Mongolia, Zambia, Bolivia

 

270. Which ruler had granted Diwani to the East India company?

Answer: Shah Alam II

 

271. By which Radio waves of constant amplitude can be generated?

Answer: Oscillator

 

272. When is International Day of Peace, recognized by the UN is observed?

Answer: September 21

 

273. In which year was ‘Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana’ launched?

Answer: 2005

 

274. Where is the southernmost point of India located?

Answer: Great Nicobar

 

275. Which factory in Bengal, the was established by the Portuguese?

Answer: Hoogly

 

276. Which is used to know the development of foetus in uterus?

Answer: Ultrasound

 

277. During the proclamation of National Emergency which articls can not be suspended?

Answer: Articles 20 and 21

 

278. Which oil is used in the floatation method for the purification of ores?

Answer: Pine oil

 

279. What is the name of the group of languages spoken by the largest number of people in India?

Answer: Indo-Aryan

 

280. Which was the first metal used by man?

Answer: Copper

 

281. When is International Day for Tolerance, recognized– the UN is observed?

Answer: November 16

 

282. Which is the only golfer to win the Masters Tournament six times?

Answer: Jack Nicklaus

 

283. Who published the book ‘Origin of species by natural selection in 1859’?

Answer: Darwin

 

284. By which name does the Brahmaputra enter into India?

Answer: Dihang

 

285. In which Aryans first settled?

Answer: Punjab

 

286. At present the Rajya Sabha consists of howmany members?

Answer: 245

 

287. Which mirror is to be used to obtain a parallel beam of light from a small lamp ?

Answer: Concave mirror

 

288. In which year was Minimum inflation in post economic reform?

Answer: 1999-2000

 

289. The Tibetan river ‘Tsangpo’ enters India through which State?

Answer: Arunachal Pradesh

 

290. On which thing did the Buddhism and Jainism both give stress?

Answer: Non-violence

 

291. The Asian Games were held in Delhi for the first time in which year?

Answer: 1951

 

292. Which is most primitive ancestor of man ?

Answer: Australopithecus

 

293. Who was the first speaker of the Lok Sabha?

Answer: Malgaonkar

 

294. In which city of India, the diurnal range of temperature is maximum?

Answer: New Delhi

 

295. To whom the Sarnath’s Lion Capital attributed?

Answer: Ashoka

 

296. What is the Number of water molecules present in Mohr ’s salt?

Answer: 8

 

297. The Dronacharya Award for Sports coaches was instituted in which year?

Answer: 1985

 

298. What does Inflation imply?

Answer: Rise in general price index

 

299. In which season is the frequency of tropical cyclones in the Bay of Bengal maximum?

Answer: After summer

 

300. Which silver coins Issued by the Guptas?

Answer: Rupayaka

 

General Knowledge Questions and Answers Part 7

 

301. Which is considered a hot-spot of biodiversity in India?

Answer: Western Ghats

 

302. What does the special status of Jammu and Kashmir imply?

Answer: A separate Constitution

 

303. Why are Metals good conductor of heat than insulator?

Answer: They contain free electrons

 

304. Where is pearl fishing well developed in India?

Answer: Off the coast at Rameshwaram

 

305. By whom was the rare work on architecture, Samarangana Sutradhara written?

Answer: Bhoja Paramara

 

306. Who was the first Indian to win the World Amateur Billiards title?

Answer: Wilson Jones

 

307. Who was the first asian to have received the Nobel Prize?

R.N. Tagore

 

308. Which of a species describes the tropic function it fills in its environment?

Answer: Niche

 

309. What is the most important item of export among marine products from India?

Answer: Shrimp

 

310. Who was the first Sultan of Delhi to introduce the practice of ‘Sijda’ ?

Answer: Balban

 

311. To whom is the Chief Minister of a State responsible?

Answer: Governor

 

312. A mixture of camphor and benzoic acid can be easily separated by which method?

Answer: Chemical method

 

313. Which is the oldest ‘stock exchange of India?

Answer: Bombay Stock Exchange

 

314. What is the approximate equatorial circumference of the earth?

Answer: 40,000 km

 

315. Which Sultan of Delhi imposed Jazfya on the Brahmins also ?

Answer: Firoz Tughlaq

 

316. Who got the ‘Bharat Ratna’ award, before becoming the President of India?

Answer: Dr. Zakir Hussain

 

317. Which vitamin is generally excreted by humans in urine?

Answer: Vitamin C

 

318. What is the source of maximum income to Panchayati Raj?

Answer: Government grants

 

319. Which is present in the largest amount in terms of percent by mass in the earth’s crust?

Answer: Oxygen

 

320. The Mansabdari system introduced by Akbar from which system was it borrowed from?

Answer: Mongolia

 

321. If a material, placed in a magnetic field is thrown out of it, then how is the material?

Answer: Diamagnetic

 

322. Who became the first Indian to take 16 wickets in a single test match?

Answer: Narendra Hirwani

 

323. Stock Exchanges play a role in an economy how may itbe termed?

Answer: Useful but need strict regulation

 

324. Which is the highest lake above the sea level in the world?

Answer: Lake Titicaca

 

325. The Maratha power reached the zenith of its glory during which reign?

Answer: Shivaji

 

326. A person who lives exclusively on milk, egg and bread is likey to become a victim of which desease?

Answer: Scurvy

 

327. Which is at the apex of the-three tier system of Panchayati Raj ?

Answer: Zila Parishad

 

328. In organic compound, halogens are estimated by which method?

Answer: Carius method

 

329. Which is the example of crater lake?

Answer: Oregon

 

330. The ‘Misl’ of which Ranjit Singh was the leader?

Answer: Sukerchakia

 

331. Where is the headquarters of International Olympic Committee?

Answer: At Lausanne (Switzerland)

 

332. Who is the author of the book ‘My Country, My Life’ ?

Answer: L.K. Advani

 

333. Which is known as ‘graveyard of RBCs’?

Answer: Spleen

 

334. Exceptionally high rainfall is recorded in regions owing to which effect?

Answer: Orographic effect

 

335. Which Land tenure systems was introduced by Lord Cornwallis?

Answer: Zamindari

 

336. Which can impose reasonable restrictions on the Fundamental Rights of the Indian citizens?

Answer: Parliament

 

337. If the temperature of a semiconductor rises, what is its resistivity?

Answer: Decrease

 

338. CENVAT is associated with which rate?

Answer: Rate of indirect tax

 

339. In which country has maximum damage to the forests been caused by acid rain?

Answer: Poland

 

340. By whom was Swaraj as a national demand first made?

Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji

 

341. Who is the author of the book ‘Glimpses of World History’ ?

Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru

 

342. Which are the glands of the body which pour their seretions directly into the blood stream?

Answer: Endocrine glands

 

343. The Fundamental Right to Property has been deleted by the which Amendment Act?

Answer: 44th

 

344. Which state is with the largest area under waste land?

Answer: Jammu and Kashmir

 

345. On which basis Montague-Chelmsford Report formed?

Answer: The Government of India Act, 1919

 

346. Which is the second most abundant metal in the earth’s crust?

Answer: Iron

 

347. The Vivekananda Rock Memorial is situated at which place?

Answer: Kanyakumari

 

348. Taxation and the government’s expenditure policy are dealt under under which policy?

Answer: Fiscal policy

 

349. Which is the highest peak in Andaman and Nicobar Islands?

Answer: Saddle Peak

 

350. Who attended the Second Round Table Conference as the representative of the Congress?

Answer: Gandhiji

 

General Knowledge Questions and Answers Part 8

 

351. A typical human ribcage consists of how many ribs?

Answer: 24

 

352. To whom the Vice-President’s letter of resignation is to be addressed?

Answer: President

 

353. ‘mho’ is the unit of which unit?

Answer: Specificresistance

 

354. Which reservoir is constructed on Chambal?

Answer: Gandhi Sagar

 

355. Which were the patrons of Sangam, an assembly of Tamil poets?

Answer: Pandya

 

356. Geeta Chandran is well known by which name?

Answer: Bharatnatyam dancer

 

357. Which plant is preferred for mixed cropping in order to enhance the bioavailability of nitrogen?

Answer: Gram

 

358. Which cell organelle is responsible for cellular respiration?

Answer: Mitochondrium

 

359. Which state was in the development of hydroelectricity the pioneering state?

Answer: Karnataka

 

360. Which dynasty did rule over Magadha after Nanda dynasty?

Answer: Maurya

 

361. Who has the authority to remove the Vice-President from his office before the expiry of his term?

Answer: Parliament

 

362. Which is the most malleable metal?

Answer: Gold

 

363. For internal financing of Five Year Plans, the government depends on which source?

Answer: Taxation only

 

364. The altitudes of heavenly bodies appear to be greater than they actually are. Why is this?

Answer: Atmospheric refraction

 

Answer: 365. During the Mughal period which trader first came to India?

Answer: English

 

366. A Fortgotten Empire’, written by the renowned historian Robert Sewell, is about which Empire?

Answer: Vijaynagar Empire

 

377. Which group of plant produce naked seed?

Answer: Gymnosperm

 

368. What is the maximum strength of the nominated members in both the Houses of Parliament?

Answer: 14

 

369. Who discovered the laws of planetary orbits?

Answer: Johannes Kepler

 

370. Which God lost his importance as the first deity during the Later Vedic period?

Answer: Varuna

 

371. Who gave the first experimental value of G?

Answer: Cavendish

 

372. Photochemical smog occurs in which climage?

Answer: Warm, dry and sunny climate

 

373. What is the Planning Commission?

Answer: An Advisory body’

 

374. What do the surface of Earth that lies between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic, of Capricorn?

Answer: Torrid Zone

 

375. Which is the most important divinity of Rigveda?

Answer: Varuna

 

376. Which communicable disease is caused by bacteria?

Answer: Leprosy

 

377. Who is considered the guardian of the Public Purse?

Answer: Comptroller and Auditor General

 

378. What is the conversion of Fe++ to Fe+++?

Answer: Oxidation

 

379. What percentage of insolation is received by the earth’s surface?

Answer: 47%

 

380. Who was the famous Indo-Greek king who embraced Buddhism?

Answer: Menander

 

381. If a ship moves from freshwater into seawater, what will happen?

Answer: It will rise a little higher

 

382. Which was the first National Security Advisor of India who died recently?

Answer: Brajesh Mishra

 

383. What is the first compound which is fixed during photosynthesis?

Answer: Glucose

 

384. At low elevation which cloud are to be found?

Answer: Nimbus

 

385. During which reign did both Vardhaman Mahavira and Gautama Buddha preach their doctrines?

Answer: Bimbisara

 

386. Which Union Territory attained statehood in February, 1987 ?

Answer: Goa

 

387. The escape velocity from the surface of the earth does not depend on which body?

Answer: Mass of the body

 

388. In India, which first bank of limited liability managed by Indians and founded in 1881?

Answer: Oudh Commercial Bank

 

389. Which colour types do not indicate fair or fine weather?

Answer: Cumulonimbus

 

390. What is the name by which Ashoka is generally referred to in his inscriptions?

Answer: Priyadarsi

 

391. A. Nageshwara Rao is associated with which field?

Answer: A. Motion Picture

 

392. To which are Phototrophic and Geotropic movements linked?

Answer: Auxin

 

393. On which date was the State of Bombay was bifurcated into Maharashtra and Gujarat?

Answer: May 1, in the year 1960

 

394. A place having an average annual temperature of 27°C and an annual rainfall of over 200 cm.where is this?

Answer: Singapore

 

395. Which region did not form the part of Ashoka’s empire?

Answer: Madras

 

396. Which is the most unreactive gas?

Answer: Hydrogen

 

397. When was Inter-Governmental Authori on Development come into existence?

Answer: 21st March, 1996

 

398. Which rural bank has been named after a river?

Answer: Varada Grameen Bank

 

399. In which type of climate does the temperature never rise above 10°C throughout the year?

Answer: Tundra Climate

 

400. Which Gupta ruler was equally great in the art of peace, wars and personal accomplishment?

Answer: Chandragupta-II

 

General Knowledge Questions and Answers Part 9

 

401. Which substance found in blood which helps in cloting?

Answer: Fibrinogen

 

402. How can a major portion of the Constitution be amended?

Answer: By two-thirds majority

 

403. What is the product of the time period of a wave and its frequency?

Answer: Unity

 

404. Which is the major oil producing area in U.S.A.?

Answer: Texas-Louisiana belt

 

405. Who contributed the Chalukya in Western India?

Answer: Guptas

 

406. When was Lake Chad Basin Commission founded?

Answer: 22nd May, 1964

 

407. The popular TV. serial ‘Neem ka Ped’ was written by which author?

Answer: Rahi Masoom Raza

 

408. Which Constitutional Amendments banned the floor crossing in Parliament?

Answer: 52nd

 

409. Which country leads the world in the export of oil?

Answer: Saudi Arabia

 

410. The Kalachuri era counted from A.D. 248 what was mostly in currnet?

Answer: Andhra

 

411. What is the name of the scientist who stated that matter can be converted into energy?

Answer: Einstein

 

412. By whom was the first estimate of national income in India made?

Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji

 

413. ‘Asian Drama’, by Gunnar Karl Myrdal, is a book on which subjects?

Answer: Economics

 

414. Where do the Earthquakes rarely occur?

Answer: Brazil

 

415. Kamarupa is the old name of which state?

Answer: Assam

 

416. What is in a healthy person rate of heart beat on one minute?

Answer: 72 times

 

417. When is the Constitution of India designed to work as a unitary government?

Answer: In times of Emergency

 

418. With the rise of temperature, what happens in the speed of sound in a gas?

Answer: Increases

 

419. Mostly in which region do Earthquakes and volcanoes occur?

Answer: Folded and faulted region

 

420. Which region of northern India was not included in the empire of Ala-ud-din Khalji ?

Answer: Kashmir

 

421. Which decade is celebrated as decade of Action for road safety?

Answer: 2011-2020

 

422. What is the sum total of incomes received for the services of labour, land or capital in a country?

Answer: National income

 

423. Myxoedema is disorder produed due to hypersecretion of which gland?

Answer: Thyroid

 

424. In which country is the world’s highest waterfall?

Answer: Venezuela

 

425. Who destroyed the group of Forty Nobles?

Answer: Balban

 

426. From which of the country, Constitution of India has adopted fundamental duties?

Answer: Erstwhile USSR

 

427. The isotopes of chlorine with mass number 35 and 37 exist in which ratio?

Answer: 3:1

 

428. Which decade is celebrated as United Nations decade on biodiversity?

Answer: 2011-2020

 

429. One will NOT have to pass through the Suez Canal while going from Bombay to which canal?

Answer: Suez

 

430. Who built Char Minar?

Answer: Quli Qutb Shah

 

431. International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, is observed on which date?

Answer: December 2

 

432. What does protein deficiency in children usually between the age of 1 to 3 year cause?

Answer: Kwashiorkor

 

433. Who was the member of the Rajya Sabha when first appointed as the Prime Minister of India?

Answer: Indira Gandhi

 

434. Which country has the highest average of road length on per thousand square kilometer area basis?

Answer: Japan

 

435. On the ruins of which Hindu kingdom was the kingdom of Golconda founded?

Answer: Kakatiyas

 

436. When the radius of the T.G. coil is decreased, what does happen in its sensitiveness?

Answer: Increases

 

437. Unemployment occurs when workers move from one job to another job?

Answer: Frictional unemployment

 

438. The United Nations declared 2014 as which International Year?

Answer: Crystallography

 

439. Which continent has the lowest birth and death rates ?

Answer: Europe

 

440. Where is Buland Darwaza situated?

Answer: Fatehpur Sikri

 

441. Which disease is caused by bacteria and spread though faecal matter by houseflies?

Answer: Typhoid

 

442. Who is the ex-officio Chairman of Rajya Sabha?

Answer: Vice-President

 

443. Which colloids are solvent loving colloids?

Answer: Lyophilic

 

444. Among the Union Territories of India, which one has the largest size?

Answer: Pondicherry

 

445. During which reign was the Purana Qila constructed?

Answer: Sher Shah

 

446. Which Australian player was known as ‘Fruitfly’ amongst the rest of the team?

Answer: Merv Hughes

 

447. Which type of unemployment mostly found in India?

Answer: Disguised

 

448. What is a glass sided tank, bowl in which aquatic animals live?

Answer: Aquarium

 

449. Where are Shevaroy Hills located?

Answer: Tamil Nadu

 

450. By whom was the Sikh Khalsa founded?

Answer: Guru Gobind Singh

 

General Knowledge Questions and Answers Part 10

 

451. Under which act was the Supreme Court set up?

Answer: Regulating Act

 

452. The resistance of material increases with temperature. What is this?

Answer: Metal

 

453. Pravin Arnre and Vinod Kambli played for which province in South Africa?

Answer: Boland

 

454. Kodaikanal, the famous hill-station of South India, is situated on which hills?

Answer: Palni hills

 

455. On 13th April of which year Guru Gobind Singh established Khalsa?

Answer: 1699

 

456. The Olympic Museum was opened at which place?

Answer: Lausanne

 

457. The word “biodiversity” is a combination of which two words?

Answer: Biology and diversity

 

458. Which Judge of the Supreme Court was unsuccessfully sought to be impeached?

Answer: Justice Ramaswami

 

459. Which relates to the formation of the Himalayas?

Answer: Folding of the geosyncline

 

460. The Maratha power reached its zenith during which Peshwaship?

Answer: Balaji II

 

461. Which material is very hard and very ductile?

Answer: Nichrome

 

462. Which is called a ‘banker’s cheque’ ?

Answer: Demand draft

 

463. With Which game/sport is ‘Popping crease’ associated?

Answer: Cricket

 

464. Which lake in India has the highest water salinity?

Answer: Sambhar

 

465. In which year did the Peshwa became the official head of Maratha administration?

Answer: 1748 A.D.

 

466. Bhopal gas tragedy struck in the year 1984 due to the leakage of which gas?

Answer: Methyl-iso-cyanate

 

467. Which was an associate State of India before becoming a full fledged State?

Answer: Sikkim

 

468. Einstein’s mass energy relation is given by which expression?

Answer: E = mc2

 

469. Which is the first company-managed major port in India?

Answer: Ennore

 

470. Which Governor of Bengal committed suicide in 1774 ?

Answer: Robert Clive

 

471. Pulitzer prize is awarded for outstanding work in which field?

Answer: Literature and Journalism

 

472. Bouncing of cheques has become an offence. What is the punishment for the same?

Answer: 6 months imprisonment

 

473. All of the organisms living in a particular area, what do they make up?

Answer: A biological community

 

474. How can fertility of soil be improved?

Answer: By adding living earthworms

 

475. By whom was the Vernacular Press Act was passed?

Answer: Lord Lytton

 

476. By whom is Recognition to a political party accorded?

Answer: By the Election Commission

 

477. Which was the scientist who was responsible for the rejection of vital force theory?

Answer: Lavoisier

 

478. Which award is associated with Agriculture?

Answer: Bourlog Award

 

479. What type of farming is practised in the densely populated regions of the world?

Answer: Intensive farming

 

480. In which year Delhi became the capital of India?

Answer: 1911

 

481. Who has taken maximum wickets in one-day internationals?

Answer: Mutthiah Muralitharan

 

482. By which fission does Leishmania, the causative agent of kala-azar, multiply asexually?

Answer: By binary fission

 

483. From which date shall the tenure of every Panchayat be for five years?

Answer: From the date of its first meeting

 

484. The last three digits of a PIN code represent?

Answer: Sorting district

 

485. Who was the Viceroy of India at the time of Jallianwala Bagh Massacre?

Answer: Lord Chelmsford

 

486. Which rays will deflect in electric field?

Answer: Cathode rays

 

487. Why is the Gross National Income always more than Net National Income?

Answer: Direct taxes

 

488. In which country was the 2010 Football World Cup held?

Answer: South Africa

 

489. Nal Sarovar Bird Sanctuary is located in which state?

Answer: Gujarat

 

490. What was the first venture of Gandhiji in all-India politics?

Answer: Rowlatt Satyagraha

 

491. Which disease is caused by the bite of a mad dog?

Answer: Hydrophobia

 

492. Which is not the concern of the local government?

Answer: Public Utility Services

 

493. Most of hydrocarbons from petroleum are obtained by which method?

Answer: Fractional distillation

 

494. Which current is produced by upwelling of water off the coast of Chile and Peru?

Answer: Humboldt Current

 

495. During the reign of which Indian National Congress banned and over 1,20,000 persons were arrested?

Answer: Lord Willingdon

 

496. The Musalman, the handwritten daily newspaper in circulation since 1927, is published from which place?

Answer: Chennai

 

497. Under VAT, how many slabs are there?

Answer: 4

 

498. From the biological evolutionary point of view, the human heart is close to the heart of which animal?

Answer: Pig

 

499. Where does the cold Labrador current bring nine months winter?

Answer: Eastern Newfoundland

 

500. Who led the agitation against the Partition of Bengal (1905) ?

Answer: Surendranath Banerjee

 

General Knowledge Questions and Answers Part 11

 

501. In which year was the Constituent Assembly which framed the Constitution for Independent India set up?

Answer: 1946

 

502. The mass-energy relation is the outcome of which teory?

Answer: Special theory of relativity

 

503. Who is the author of the book ‘India Remembered’?

Answer: Pameia Mountbatten

 

504. Local thunderstorms ‘Norwesters’ are prominent in which state?

Answer: West Bengal

 

505. Who among the following had led the Swadeshi Movement in Delhi?

Answer: Syed Haider Raza

 

506. What are the total members of Security Council–

Answer: 15

 

507. Wisdom teeth normally grow during the which age?

Answer: 17-30 years

 

508. Who presided over the inaugural meeting of the Constituent Assembly of India?

Answer: Sachidananda Sinha

 

509. If the atmosphere is cooled, what is its capacity for water vapour?

Answer: Lowered

 

510. A Buddhist Council during the reign of Kanishka was held at which place?

Answer: Kashmir

 

511. Which alloy used in making heating elements for electric heating devices?

Answer: Nichrome

 

512. By which ministry is Economic survey published?

Answer: Ministry of Finance

 

513. Which organ of UNO is considered as world parliament?

Answer: General Assembly

 

514. A majority of the population of New found land are engaged in which profession?

Answer: Fishing

 

515. Which dynasty was associated with Gandhara school of Art?

Answer: Kushans

 

516. Which disease is characterised by inflammation of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord?

Answer: Meningitis

 

517. Between which a government is federal or unitary on the basis of relations?

Answer: Centre and States

 

518. Which purified oil does Aviation fuel for jet aeroplanes consist?

Answer: Kerosene

 

519. Which country produced 127 lakh metric tones fish in 2010?

Answer: Japan

 

520. Who was appointed by Ashoka to administer justice in his empire?

Answer: Rajuka

 

521. Which is the first multipurpose river valley project of independent India?

Answer: Damodar Valley Corporation

 

522. Who was the first Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission of India?

Answer: Shri V. T. Krishnamachari

 

523. What is Amnesia?

Answer: Related to loss of memory

 

524. Recently reserves of diamond have been reported in Madhya Pradesh from which place?

Answer: Devbhog

 

525. By which name was Chanakya known in his childhood?

Answer: Vishnugupta

 

526. The Ninth Schedule was added by which Amendment?

Answer: First

 

527. The filament of an electric bulb is made of which metal?

Answer: Tungsten

 

528. Who is associated with Tashkent Agreement?

Answer: Lal Bahadur Shastri

 

529. Which metal is used for generation of Nuclear Power?

Answer: Uranium

 

530. In India, where did the Dutch establish their earliest factory?

Answer: Masulipattanam

 

531. Which two countries follow China and India in the decreasing order of their populations?

Answer: USA and Indonesia

 

532. What is the normal cholesterol level in human blood?

Answer: 180-200 mg%

 

533. Which was the first woman film star nominated/ elected to the Rajya Sabha?

Answer: Nargis Dutt

 

534. Anantapur district in Andhra Pradesh is famous for which metal?

Answer: Gold

 

535. Which was the first fort constructed by the British in India?

Answer: Fort St. George

 

536. On which conservation law, does a rocker work?

Answer: Angular momentum

 

537. To which duties is the system of value added taxation applicable?

Answer: Excise duties

 

538. Ogaden region has been a source of conflict between which countries?

Answer: Ethiopia and Somalia

 

539. Silver is obtained from the lead & Zinc ares of Zawar mines in which city?

Answer: Udaipur

 

540. In Indus Valley, which one indicates the commercial and economic development?

Answer: Seals

 

541. What is Syrinx?

Answer: Voice box in Birds

 

542. By whom is the Speaker of the Lok Sabha is elected?

Answer: All the members of Lok Sabha

 

543. Which is the best conductor of electricity ?

Answer: Silve

 

544. Which of the planets is nearest to the earth?

Answer: Venus

 

545. In which year was the Indus Valley Civilisation discovered?

Answer: 1921

 

546. Which first woman to become a Chief Minister of any State in India?

Answer: Sucheta Kripalani

 

547. Howmany of Banks were nationalised since 1969?

Answer: 20

 

548. Which modification of root does not store food?

Answer: Stilt

 

549. Which planet is known as the Earth’s Twin?

Answer: Venus

 

550. Purushsukta is a part of which veda?

Answer: Rigveda

 

General Knowledge Questions and Answers Part 12

 

551. What does the special status of Jammu and Kashmir imply?

Answer: A separate Constitution

 

552. Through which material does sound travel slowest?

Answer: Wood

 

553. What are the brothers Umakant and Ramakant Gundecha?

Answer: Dhrupad vocalists

 

554. How much the equatorial circumference is greater than the polar circumference?

Answer: Approximately 68 km

 

555. Which was common both to the Harappan society and the Rigvedic society?

Answer: Horses

 

556. Which UN agency has its headquarters at Paris?

Answer: UNESCO

 

557. Vegetative propagation by stem cutting is generally foundation of which plant?

Answer: Sugarcane

 

558. To whom is the Chief Minister of a State responsible?

Answer: Governor

 

559. What is the distance of the equator from either of the poles?

Answer: 10,002 km

 

560. Who was the President of the First Buddhist Council held at Rajagriha?

Answer: Mahakassapa

 

561. By which method is the age of most ancient geological formations estimated?

Answer: C4 method

 

562. Which tax is levied by the Union and collected and appropriated by the States?

Answer: Stamp Duties

 

563. Ban-Ki-Moon the Secretary general of UNO belongs to which country?

Answer: South Korea

 

564. Which layer of the atmosphere provides ideal conditions for flying of jet aeroplanes?

Answer: Stratosphere

 

565. In which state had Gautama Buddha had attained Mahaparinirvan?

Answer: Malia

 

566. Most of the plants obtain nitrogen from the soil in which from?

Answer: Nitrates

 

567. Who is the Father of local self government in India?

Answer: Lord Ripon

 

568. If the temperature inside a room is increased, what will be the relative humidity?

Answer: Decrease

 

569. Which constituents of the atmosphere causes greatest changes in climate and weather?

Answer: Water Vapour

 

570. Who was the last ruler of Sunga dynasty?

Answer: Devabhuti

 

571. What was the pen name of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhaye?

Answer: Kamla Kant

 

572. Which is not a direct tax?

Answer: Tax on entertainment

 

573. Which fungus is responsible for disease late blight of potato?

Answer: Phytophthora infestans

 

574. Which type of forest belt supplies most of the world’s requirement of newsprint?

Answer: Coniferous forest

 

575. Who were the first to establish trade contacts with the Roman empire?

Answer: Tamils

 

576. With which amendment act has Panchayati Raj received constitutional status?

Answer: 73rd

 

577. Which polymer is used for making bulletproof material?

Answer: Polyethylene

 

578. ‘Man-The Maker of His Own Destiny’ book was written by which person?

Answer: Swami Vivekananda

 

579. Which climatic type suffers change due to shifting of the World’s Pressure Belts?

Answer: Monsoon

 

580. Who is considered to be the father of Ayurveda ?

Answer: Charaka

 

581. The United Nations declared 2012 as the International Year of which thing?

Answer: Cooperatives

 

582. Which gland is both exo and endocrine gland?

Answer: Pancreas

 

583. By whom was the Constitution of India adopted?

Answer: Constituent Assembly

 

584. By which the maximum amount of energy in the present day world is provided?

Answer: Coal

 

585. In ancient India, Nalanda University was a great centre for the study of which religion?

Answer: Mahayana Buddhism

 

586. The first law of thermodynamics is concerned with the conservation of which thing?

Answer: Energy

 

587. Which state produces maximum Soya bean?

Answer: Madhya Pradesh

 

588. When is World Day for Water, recognized by the UN observed?

Answer: March 22

 

589. Which country is rich in oil?

Answer: Indonesia

 

590. By whom was the first Muslim invasion of India lead?

Answer: Muharnmad-bin-Oasim

 

591. Which blood vessel bringing blood into Bowman’s capsule?

Answer: Afferent arteriole

 

592. When was the Constituent Assembly for undivided India first met?

Answer: 9th December, 1946

 

593. Which are macro-nutrients provided by inorganic fertilizers?

Answer: Nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium

 

594. Which proper order of seismic waves as they are received at seismograph station?

Answer: P-wave, S-wave, L-wave

 

595. The Arab conquest of Sind took place in which year?

Answer: 712 A.D.

 

596. The United Nations declared 4th week of September which week?

Answer: Peace Week

 

597. What percentage of country’s demand for natural rubber is met by in indigenous production?

Answer: 97%

 

598. Which causes the disease syphilis?

Answer: Bacteria

 

599. Which European country has over 200 volcanoes, many of them still active?

Answer: Iceland

 

600. Which was the medieval ruler who was the first to establish a ministry of agriculture?

Answer: Mohammad Bin Tughlaq

 

General Knowledge Questions and Answers Part 13

 

601. Which right conferred by the Constitution of India is also available to non-citizens?

Answer: Freedom to speech

 

602. What is the relative permeability of a paramagnetic material?

Answer: Greater than unity

 

603. The United Nations declared 2008 as which International Year?

Answer: Planet Earth

 

604. On which thing Erosion of soil by a river mainly depends?

Answer: Its speed at which it flows

 

605. What was the main basis of social organization in India during the early medieval period?

Answer: Caste

 

606. Which country stood second in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics medal tally?

Answer: US

 

607. Where is the national institute of nutrition located?

Answer: Hyderabad

 

608. Which is a human right as well as a fundamental right under the Constitution of India?

Answer: Right to Education

 

609. What is the average salt content in a litre of sea water?

Answer: 35 gm

 

610. Why is Sher Shah is well known for his administrative skill,?

Answer: Land revenue system

 

611. In which Tyndall effect is not observed?

Answer: Sugar solution

 

612. Which can be used for checking inflation temporarily?

Answer: Decrease in money supply

 

613. Dhyan Chand’s name is associated with which game?

Answer: Badminton

 

614. Which are the “Horn of Africa”?

Answer: Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia

 

615. By whom was the Sarak-i-Azam which ran from the Indus to Sonargaon (in Bangladesh) built?

Answer: Sher Shah

 

616. Which is Nuclease enzyme begin its attack from free end of polynucleotide?

Answer: Exonuclease

 

617. After howmany years One-third of the members of the Rajya Sabha retire?

Answer: Second year

 

618. A soap bubble is given negative charge then what happen in its radius?

Answer: Increases

 

619. Israel has common borders with which countries?

Answer: Lebanon, Syria, Turkey and Jordan

 

620. The Upanishads were translated into Persian by the orders of which rular?

Answer: Dara Shikoh

 

621. The World Food Prize is given by which organisation/world bodie?

Answer: Kraft general foods

 

622. Who are not protected against inflation?

Answer: Agricultural farmers

 

623. For which is the southern blot technique used for the detection?

Answer: DNA

 

624. Which is the State with the largest area under waste land?

Answer: Jammu and Kashmir

 

625. ‘Padmavat’ of Malik Muhammad Jaisi, a notable, work in Hindi, was completed during which reign?

Answer: Sher Shah

 

626. A Money Bill passed by the Lok Sabha has to be passed/returned by Rajya Sabha within howmany days?

Answer: 14 days

 

627. What dose not contain a hydrophobic structure?

Answer: Rubber

 

628. How many Nobel Prizes have been awarded so far to Indian citizens?

Answer: 3

 

629. In which is the largest population of Scheduled Tribes?

Answer: Madhya Pradesh

 

630. Who commanded the Maratha army in the third battle of Panipat ?

Answer: Sadashiv Rao Bhau

 

631. Tejaswini Sawant is the first Indian woman to be crowned World Champion in which sports?

Answer: Shooting

 

632. Which is the richest source of ascorbic acid?

Answer: Guava

 

633. Which worm reach into intestine of human by eating leaf?

Answer: Tape worm

 

634. Palghat joins which states?

Answer: Kerala and Tamil Nadu

 

635. In which year was Bombay was acquired by the English from the Portuguese?

Answer: 1662

 

636. How can a Change in distribution of powers between the Centre and the States be done?

Answer: Amending the Constitution

 

637. Which is electrical circuits used to get smooth de output from a rectified circuit called?

Answer: Filter

 

638. By which bill does the government make arrangement for the collection of revenues for a year?

Answer: Finance Bill

 

639. Which forms the western boundary of the Indian sub-continent?

Answer: Hindukush

 

640. Uplift of the backward classes was the main programme of which famay?

Answer: Satyashodhak Samaj

 

641. Which international tennis event is played on a grass court?

Answer: Wimbeldon

 

642. By which would Desert plants be characterised?

Answer: By sunken stomata

 

643. The distribution of power between Centre and the States is based on which scheme?

Answer: Government of India Act, 1935

 

644. Which soil is best suited for cotton?

Answer: Regur

 

645. By whom was the practice of Sati was declared illegal?

Answer: Lord William Bentinck

 

646. What is the most satisfactory method for separating sugars?

Answer: Chromatography

 

647. Who is the author of ‘Business @ Speed of Thought?

Answer: Bill Gates

 

648. Which is the ‘basis for determining the national income?

Answer: Production of goods and services

 

649. On the basis of the process of their formation, which soil is formed differently from the other three?

Answer: Regur

 

650. Which helped to develop close ties between the government and the masses?

Answer: Ryotwari Settlement

 

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651. Alzheimer’s disease in human beings is characterised by which degeneration?

Answer: Degeneration of nerve cells

 

652. Which Amendment provided for an authoritative version of the Constitution in Hindi?

Answer: 58th

 

653. The absorption of radio waves by the atmosphere depends on which thing?

Answer: Their frequency

 

654. Which crop requires continuous semiaquatic condition for cultivation?

Answer: Rice

 

655. Who was the leader to have the unique distinction of firing the first shot in the rebellion of 1857?

Answer: Mangal Pande

 

656. ‘Na Khatma Hone Wali Kahani’ is the autobiography of which person?

Answer: V. P. Singh

 

657. The world famous ‘Khajuraho’ sculptures are located in which State?

Answer: Madhya Pradesh

 

658. Why is the yellow colour of urine?

Answer: Due to the presence of urochrome

 

659. Which stare is the largest producer of coffee?

Answer: Karnataka

 

660. In the Interim Government formed in the year 1946, who held the portfolio of Defence?

Answer: Baldev Singh

 

661. After howmany years is the President of USA is elected?

Answer: 4 years

 

662. Which enzyme changes maltose into glucose?

Answer: Maltose

 

663. Economic Planning is a subject of which list?

Answer: Union List

 

664. On planet Earth, where is no centrifugal force?

Answer: At the Poles

 

665. From where did Mahatma Gandhi start his historic Dandi March?

Answer: Sabarmati Ashram

 

666. Who is considered as the inventor of the World Wide Web (WWW) ?

Answer: Tim Berners-Lee

 

667. Which of the following will provide maximum roughage to our diet, if taken in equal mass?

Answer: Cabbage

 

668. Which Act gave representation to Indians for the first time in the Legislature?

Answer: Government of India Act, 1935

 

669. Which planet has the longest day and the shortest year?

Answer: Mercury

 

670. Who first voiced the idea of a separate Muslim state in India?

Answer: Mohammad Iqbal

 

671. Which polymer is widely used for making bullet proof material?

Answer: Polyethylene

 

672. Which was the crop during the 13th and 14th Centuries A.D. the Indian peasants did not cultivate?

Answer: Maize

 

673. What is the mean of ‘Take off stage’ in an economy?

Answer: Steady growth begins

 

674. The equator cuts through which island?

Answer: Borneo

 

675. Who was responsible for the integration of Indian Princely States?

Answer: Sardar Patel

 

676. Which three important micronutrients are essential for humans?

Answer: Copper, zinc and iodine

 

677. By which act did the Crown take the Government of India into its own hands?

Answer: Government of India Act, 1858

 

678. What are Carbon, diamond and graphite together called?

Answer: Allotropes

 

679. Which city is associated with the river Mekong?

Answer: Phnom-Penh

 

680. By which was Yavanika (Curtain) introduced in Indian theatre?

Answer: Greeks

 

681. What is the name given to an almost circular coral reef inside which there is a lagoon?

Answer: Atoll

 

682. Chocolates can be bad for health because of a high content of which element?

Answer: Nickel

 

683. In which Photosynthesis occurs?

Answer: Chloroplast

 

684. Which are the important species of the Mediterranean biome?

Answer: Pine, cedar, fir

 

685. At which place was the headless statue of Kanishka found?

Answer: Mathura

 

686. Who has the power to form a new State within the Union of India?

Answer: President

 

687. By whom was Electron first identified?

Answer: J. J. Thomson

 

688. When was EXIM Bank set-up?

Answer: 1982

 

689. The annual average rate of net plant production is highest in which forests?

Answer: Temperate forest

 

690. The religious literature of the Jains at the early stage was written in which language?

Answer: Ardhamagadhi

 

691. Which animal can tolerate more summer heat?

Answer: Donkey

 

692. What is the estimation of age of woody plant by counting annual ring?

Answer: Dendrochronology

 

693. In whom the executive authority of the Union is vested by the Constitution?

Answer: President

 

694. Kula, Kufri, Kajjair and Dalhousie are all tourists place of which state?

Answer: Himachal Pradesh

 

695. Of which Religion-wise the sculpture were found at Kankali tila in Mathura?

Answer: Jaina

 

696. Galvanised iron sheets have a coating of which metal?

Answer: Zinc

 

697. By whom was the famous ‘Kirti Stambha’ at Chittor built?

Answer: Rana Kumbha

 

698. Which is at the apex of Industrial Finance in India?

Answer: Industrial Development Bank of India

 

699. Which state receives rainfall from north-east monsoons?

Answer: Tamil Nadu

 

700. Where are the traces of Portuguese culture found in India?

Answer: Goa

 

General Knowledge Questions and Answers Part 15

 

701. Soft drinks such as cocoa contain singnificant quantities of which thing?

Answer: Caffein

 

702. By whom is the Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee of the Parliament appointed?

Answer: Speaker of Lok Sabha

 

703. How must be the The lines of force of a uniform magnetic field?

Answer: Parallel to each other

 

704. The Varansi Kanyakumari National Highway is called which national highway?

Answer: NH 7

 

705. Which of the British Officials defeated Portuguese at Sowlley ?

Answer: Thomas Best

 

706. Name of S. Chandrashekhar is associated with which subject?

Answer: Astrophysics

 

707. Which is the official language of Central Bank of West African Bank?

Answer: French

 

708. What is the transfer of pollengrain from pollensac to stigma called?

Answer: Pollination

 

709. What is in terms of the railway system India’s position in the world?

Answer: Fourth

 

710. Where was the first iron and steel industry of India established?

Answer: Jamshedpur

 

711. Who decides whether a particular bill is a Money Bill or not?

Answer: Speaker of Lok Sabha

 

712. Chlorophyll is a naturally occuring chelate compound in, what is the which the central metal in this?

Answer: Magnesium

 

713. What is the most appropriate measure of a country’s economic growth?

Answer: Per capita real income

 

714. Which is the brightest planet?

Answer: Venus

 

715. Who used the phrase ‘Un-British’ to criticize the English colonial control of India?

Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji

 

716. Which is UN special agency and not programme?

Answer: UNDP

 

717. What is the Study of integrated use of microbiology, biochmistry and engineering?

Answer: Biotechnology

 

718. Where is In the Constitution of India, the word ‘Federal’ used?

Answer: Nowhere

 

719. Which planet takes the same number of days for rotation and revolution?

Answer: Venus

 

720. Which element of Hinduism was practised in the Indus Valley Civilization?

Answer: Cult of Shiva

 

721. When a ray of light is going from one medium to another, how is its frequency?

Answer: Frequency remains same

 

722. Who is the author of “The Kalam effect: My years with the president”?

Answer: P.M. Nayer

 

723. CENVAT is associated with which rate?

Answer: Rate of indirect tax

 

724. At the summer solstice, which latitude will have the longest night?

Answer: 60°S

 

725. What was the script of Indus Valley Civilization?

Answer: Undeciphered

 

726. Which branch of science deals with the study of tissue found in the body of organism?

Answer: Histology

 

727. By whom is Recognition to a political party accorded?

Answer: By the Election Commission

 

728. For which thing is Washing soda the common name?

Answer: Sodium carbonate

 

729. Through where does the Tropic of Cancer passes?

Answer: India and Saudi Arabia

 

730. What are Brahmanas ?

Answer: Texts on sacrificial rituals

 

731. Who is the author of the book ‘Freedom from Fear’?

Answer: Aung San Suukyi

 

732. When is Doctor’s Day, Bidhan Chandra Roy Birth Day is observed?

Answer: July 1

 

733. Which hormone is injected into cow and buffalow during milking?

Answer: Oxytocin

 

734. What happens when a sudden fall in the barometric reading?

Answer: Storm

 

735. What is the meaning of ‘Buddha’?

Answer: The Enlightened one

 

736. Which Amendment provided for an authoritative version of the Constitution in Hindi?

Answer: 58th

 

737. Heat given to an ideal gas under isothermal conditions is used in which work?

Answer: In doing external work

 

738. How long does India’s economic zone extend miles off its coast?

Answer: 200

 

739. How is the Relative humidity of the atmosphere directly affected?

Answer: Change in atmospheric temperature

 

740. Kautilya was the Prime Minister of which Indian ruler ?

Answer: Chandragupta Maurya

 

741. When is World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, recognized by the UN observed?

Answer: October 27

 

742. Maximum nutritive element aborbed by blood from which part of alimentary canal?

Answer: Small intestine

 

743. Under whose signature are the members of All-India Services appointed?

Answer: President

 

744. Which climate best suited for horticulture?

Answer: Mediterranean

 

745. Before ascending the Maurya throne, How was Ashoka served?

Answer: As a Viceroy of Taxila

 

746. From which one among the following water sources, the water is likely to be contaminated with fluoride?

Answer: Ground water

 

747. In which year did the first modem Olympic Games take place?

Answer: 1896

 

748. Which neighbouring country has objections on Indian Baglihar Hydro-electric Project?

Answer: Pakistan

 

749. Which region does not receive most of its rainfall during winter?

Answer: Central North America

 

750. What were the two colossal images of the Buddha at Bamiyan?

Answer: Works of the Gupta Art

 

General Knowledge Questions and Answers Part 16

 

751. Which genetic disease is sex -linked ?

Answer: Royal haemophilia

 

752. What is the part of the Constitution that reflects the mind and ideals of the framers?

Answer: Preamble

 

753. When will a hot body radiate maximum energy?

Answer: If its surface is black and rough

 

754. Which African country is richer than others in gold and diamond?

Answer: Zaire

 

755. Who has been called the ‘Napoleon of India’ ?

Answer: Samudragupta

 

756. Yondieki who set up a new world record in 10,000 meters race, belongs to which country?

Answer: Kenya

 

757. How many players are there on each side in a women’s Basketball game?

Answer: 6

 

758. Who proved that DNA is the basic genetic material?

Answer: Hershey and Chase

 

759. Which is the leading producer of sulphur?

Answer: U.S.A.

 

760. During the reign of which Pallava ruler did the Chinese pilgrim Hieun Tsang visit Kanchi?

Answer: Narasimhavaram

 

761. What does the Preamble of our Constitution contin?

Answer: The spirit of the Constitution

 

762. Which will you put into pure water in order to pass electric current through it?

Answer: Lemon Juice

 

763. Of the various ways of financing government’s investment expenditure, what is the least inflationary?

Answer: Taxation

 

764. In which country are ‘Dykes’ especially constructed?

Answer: Norway

 

765. What was Sher Shah’s real name?

Answer: Farid

 

766. Where did the 1st ODI match was played in India?

Answer: Ahmedabad

 

767. “Green house effect” with respect to global warming refers to which effect?

Answer: Warming effect

 

768. Which State has the largest percentage of reserved parliamentary seats?

Answer: Uttar Pradesh

 

769. For which landform is Colorado in U.S.A. famous?

Answer: Grand Canyon

 

770. Which battle was fought in 1192 A.D. ?

Answer: Second Battle of Tarain

 

771. Which language was used in the literature of Sangam period?

Answer: Tamil

 

772. What is the wavelength of visible spectrum?

Answer: 3900-7600 A

 

773. The fragments of which comet system collided with Jupiter in July 1994 ?

Answer: Shoemaker-Levy 9

 

774. The National Housing Bank was set up in India as a wholly-owned subsidiary of which bank?

Answer: Reserve Bank of India

 

775. Wine production is mainly carried out in natural region?

Answer: Mediterranean region

 

776. Which was the most important factor in transforming ancient Indian society into feudal society?

Answer: Practice of land grants

 

777. Which animal resembles most to human beings in terms of physical and mental capabilities?

Answer: Chimpanzee

 

778. From where can a Member of Parliament claim immunity?

Answer: From civil cases only

 

779. Salts of which element pre vide colours to fireworks?

Answer: Strontiur and barium

 

780. Where are the Postaz temperate grassland?

Answer: Hungary

 

781. Which was the Chola king who conquered the northern part of Sri Lanka and made it a province of his empire?

Answer: Rajaraja

 

782. Where is the largest automobile manufacturing centre in the world located?

Answer: Detroit

 

783. ORT (Oral Rehydration Therapy) is associated with the treatment of which disease?

Answer: Diarrhea

 

784. To suspect HIV/AIDS in a young individual, which symptom is mostly associated with?

Answer: Chronic diarrhoea

 

785. Which is the chief industry of Afghanistan?

Answer: Carpet making

 

786. Why did Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq transfer his capital from Delhi to Daulatabad?

Answer: To control South India better

 

787. With which the executive power relating to concurrent subjects remain?

Answer: The Centre

 

788. We cannot see during a fog. why?

Answer: Because of scattering of light

 

789. Which situation makes a firm most efficient?

Answer: Lowest average costs

 

790. Silk textiles are mainly produced in which countries?

Answer: China and India

 

791. The Portuguese traveller, Nuniz visited Vijayanagar during the reign of which rular?

Answer: Achyuta Raya

 

792. Which type of coal is difficult to light in the open air?

Answer: Peat

 

793. Leukaemia or blood cancer is characterised by abnormal increase of which cells?

Answer: White blood cells

 

794. Howmany subjects are in the Union list?

Answer: 97 subjects

 

795. Which instrument instrument used for recording earthquake waves?

Answer: Seismograph

 

796. Which Mughalemperor gave land for the construction of the Golden Temple at Amritsar?

Answer: Akbar

 

797. What does Oxidation involve?

Answer: Loss of electrons

 

798. Among South Asian countries which one is the Maternal Mortality Ratio (per 1,000 live births) lowest?

Answer: Bangladesh

 

799. What is meant by ‘Underwriting’, the term frequently used in financial sector?

Answer: Under valuation of the assets

 

800. ‘Caldera’ is a feature associated with which thing?

Answer: Volcanoes

 

General Knowledge Questions and Answers Part 17

 

801. Which Part of plant is important for the life cycle of plant?

Answer: Flower

 

802. By which committee were Mandai Panchayats recommended?

Answer: Ashok Mehta Committee

 

803. What will be If a pendulum clock be taken from the earth to a revolving artificial satellite?

Answer: It will stop altogether

 

804. Which city is associated with the river Mekong?

Answer: Phnom-Penh

 

805. Which decisive battle was fought during the Third Carnatic War between the English and the French?

Answer: Wandiwash

 

806. Coolgardie lies in the Australian province of which direction?

Answer: Western Australia

 

807. Gum Gopi Krishna was a maestro of which dance form?

Answer: Kathak

 

808. Which is an insectivorous plant?

Answer: Pitcher plant

 

809. A ship met with an accident at 30°E and 35°N. Where was the ship was sailing?

Answer: Mediterranean

 

810. Under the leadership of which Guru did the Sikh become a political and military force?

Answer: Guru Gobind Singh

 

 

811. A far-sighted person has a near point at 100 cm. What must be the power of the correcting lens?

Answer: +3.0 D

 

812. Which Indian was honoured by the World Statesman Award, 2012?

Answer: Stephen Harper

 

813. By which band is Monetary policy regulated?

Answer: Central Bank

 

814. Strait of Florida runs in between which water bodies?

Answer: Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico

 

815. During whose reign did the Mongols first invade India?

Answer: Iltutmish

 

816. What is the green color of plants produced from organelles?

Answer: Chloroplasts

 

817. According to which system are the members of the Rajya Sabha elected?

Answer: Single Transferable Vote System

 

818. Which fuel causes minimum environmental pollution?

Answer: Hydrogen

 

819. Which Strait separates Asia from North America?

Answer: The Bering Strait

 

820. Who was contemporary of Namdev?

Answer: Sena

 

821. The ODI Player of the Year 2012’ Award was given by ICC to which India cricketer?

Answer: Virat Kohli

 

822. Who has created world record in the men’s 100 metres sprint event at 2008 Olympic Games?

Answer: Usain Bolt

 

823. Which ceil organelles function as the power house of a living cell ?

Answer: Mitochondria

 

824. Which States of the U.S.A. are attached to Mexico?

Answer: California and Texas

 

825. Who was the earliest Sufi Saint to have settled at Ajmer?

Answer: Sheikh Moinuddin Chisti

 

826. The members of the State Legislative Assembly are elected for what period?

Answer: 5 years

 

827. How many image can a man see if he stands between two plane mirrors inclined at an angle of 60°?

Answer: 5

 

828. What is the basic attribute of a formal organization?

Answer: Rules and regulations

 

829. Khartoum is situated at the confluence of which rivers?

Answer: White Nile and Blue Nile

 

830. Under which reign did Mughal Empire extend up to Tamil territory in the South?

Answer: Aurangzeb

 

831. The Winter Olympic came into being in which year?

Answer: 1924

 

832. By which Transfer of genetic information from one generation to the other is accomplished?

Answer: By transfer RNA

 

833. Which One feature is distinguishing the Rajya Sabha from the vidhan Parishad?

Answer: Indirect election

 

834. Which is the suthernmost city?

Answer: Raipur

 

835. Which Rajput mansabdar revolted against Aurangzeb ?

Answer: Durgadas Rathore

 

836. Which hydrocarbon is mainly present in gobar gas?

Answer: Methane

 

837. Who wrote the book Babubivah?

Answer: Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

 

838. If the price of an inferior good falls, what about its demand?

Answer: Remains constant

 

839. Which gulf would have to be crossed to reach Sri Lanka from Nagercoil ?

Answer: Gulf of Mannar

 

840. Which was the last governor of Bengal appointed by the Mughal emperor?

Answer: Murshid Quli Khan

 

841. Alpha-keratin is a protein present in which thing?

Answer: Wool

 

842. Where was the first session of the Constituent Assembly held?

Answer: New Delhi

 

843. Which used as ‘a moderator in nuclear reactor?

Answer: Graphite

 

844. Which planet looks reddish in the night sky?

Answer: Mars

 

845. What was the source of the blue gem stone, lapis lazuli, for the people of Harappan culture?

Answer: Afghanistan

 

846. Sachin Tendulkar scored his 100th international century against which’ country ?

Answer: Bangladesh

 

847. In baseball, the two opposing teams consist of howmany players?

Answer: 9 players each

 

848. The improper function of which results in condition ‘Myxedema’ in human beings?

Answer: Thyroid gland

 

849. In 1610, Galileo Galilei discovered four moons of which planet?

Answer: Jupiter

 

850. In the Vedic society, which was the term used to denote a group of families?

Answer: Grama

 

General Knowledge Questions and Answers Part 18

 

851. Who was the Chairman’ of the Union Constitution Committee of the Constituent Assembly?

Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru

 

852. Which element that does not occur in nature but can be produced artificially?

Answer: Plutonium

 

853. When had India a plan holiday?

Answer: After the drought of 1966

 

854. How are Latitude and Longitude?

Answer: Perpendicular to each other

 

855. Which Philosophy holds that the world is created and maintained by Universal Law?

Answer: Jain Philosophy

 

856. Which book is authored by V.S. Naipaul ?

Answer: A House for Mr. Biswas

 

857. Which can be used for biological control of mosquitoes?

Answer: Gambusia

 

858. Which proclamation of National Emergency automatically suspends?

Answer: Right to freedom

 

859. The latitude of a place is the same as which place?

Answer: Celestial pole

 

860. What was the script used in the earliest Tamil inscriptions?

Answer: Brahmi

 

861. In which technology do Cryogenic engines find applications?

Answer: Rocket technology

 

862. Shovna Narayan is a reputed personality in which field?

Answer: Classical dance

 

863. During which Plan did prices show a decline?

Answer: First

 

864. Which instrument used for finding out wind-direction?

Answer: Wind vane

 

865. Which ports handled the north Indian trade during the Gupta period?

Answer: Broach

 

866. Which vitamin is considered to be a hormone?

Answer: D

 

867. On the basis of financial crisis howmany times has emergency been declared by the President of India?

Answer: Not even once

 

868. Which is the element found on the surface of the moon?

Answer: Titanium

 

869. Why is ‘Beaufort Scale’ used ?

Answer: To measure wind velocity

 

870. Which Tomar ruler is credited to have established Delhi?

Answer: Anangpal

 

871. ‘My Music, My Life’ is the autobiography of which person?

Answer: Pt. Ravi Shankar

 

872. Which was the first talkie film of India?

Answer: Alam Ara

 

873. Through which Translocation of food materials in plants takes place?

Answer: Phloem

 

874. When does Relative humidity decreases?

Answer: With increased temperature

 

875. Who was the Sultan of Delhi who is reputed to have built the biggest network of canals in India?

Answer: Feroze Shan Tughlaq

 

876. What type of Party system has been evolved in India?

Answer: Multi-Party

 

877. A man with a dark skin, in comparison with a man with a white skin, What will experience?

Answer: Less heat and less cold

 

878. Which bank is the Banker of the Banks?

Answer: RBI

 

879. Where are a large number of species are found within a small unit of area?

Answer: Wet evergreen equatorial forests

 

880. Krishnadeva Raya wrote a famous work, namely Amuktamalyada, in which language?

Answer: Telugu

 

881. Folk painting ‘Madhubani’ is famous in which state?

Answer: Bihar

 

882. Which is the tree requiring minimum water for its growth?

Answer: Babul

 

883. Which post does the Constitution of India does not mention?

Answer: The Deputy Prime Minister

 

884. Which country is the largest producer of Bauxite?

Answer: Australia

 

885. Which Indian rulers was a contemporary of Akbar?

Answer: Rani Durgawati

 

886. How are Oxygen and ozone?

Answer: Allotropes

 

887. From where did India introduce cultivation of tobacco/tapioca/ pineapple?

Answer: South America

 

888. When was the Reserve Bank of India taken over by the Government?

Answer: 1948

 

889. Which is found on the western coast of continents between 30° and 40° latitudes?

Answer: Mediterranean Climate Region

 

890. Which school of paintings developed independently during the Mughal Period?

Answer: The Bijapur School

 

891. In which is ‘Foot and Mouth Disease’ found?

Answer: Cattle

 

892. Who decides the number of Judges in a High Court?

Answer: President

 

893. What denotes the smallest temperature?

Answer: 1° on the Kelvin scale

 

894. In which latitudes largest quantities of bauxite is found?

Answer: Tropical latitudes

 

895. Which was the first English ship that came to India?

Answer: Red Dragon

 

896. Which tree, once very popular in social forestry, is now taken to be environmental hazard?

Answer: Eucalyptus

 

897. Foot-and-Mouth disease in animals, a current epidemic in some parts of the world, By which is this caused?

Answer: Bacterium

 

898. In which animal is respiration done by skin?

Answer: Frog

 

899. The Ruhr-Westphalia region is a famous industrial region of which country?

Answer: Germany

 

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900. Which was the first newspaper to be published in India?

Answer: Bengal Gazette

 

901. With which does the power to extend or restrict the jurisdiction of the High Court rest?

Answer: With the Parliament

 

902. ‘Gobar gas’ contains mainly which gas?

Answer: Methane

 

903. Which is the biggest Public Sector undertaking in the country?

Answer: Railways

 

904. Which rocks is transformed into marble?

Answer: Limestone

 

905. Which ‘Englishmen was fellow of Gandhiji in South Africa?

Answer: Polak

 

906. By which number the quality of gasoline’ sample is determined?

Answer: By its octane number

 

907. Due to bite of mad dog the disease hydrophobia is caused by which virus?

Answer: Rabies virus

 

908. Who appoints the Chief Election Commissioner of India?

Answer: President

 

909. What is the principal reason for the formation of metamorphic rocks?

Answer: Extreme heat and pressure

 

910. Who said “I therefore want freedom immediately, this very night, before dawn if it can be had”?

Answer: Mahatma Gandhi

 

911. A temperature at which both the Fahrenheit and the centigrade scales have the same value?

Answer: -40°

 

912. With which is the ‘Tennis court oath’ associated?

Answer: French Revolution

 

913. Which is the tax that takes away a higher proportion of one’s income as the income rises?

Answer: Progressive tax

 

914. Where is the Sargasso sea located?

Answer: North Atlantic Ocean

 

915. Who com merited that Cripps Mission was a postdated cheque on a crashing bank?

Answer: Mahatma Gandhi

 

916. Medicine for epilepsy is obtain from which lichen?

Answer: Parmelia

 

917. Up to howmuch age can the Members of the Union Public Service Commission function?

Answer: 65 years

 

918. Which type of glass is used for making glass reinforced plastic?

Answer: Quartz glass

 

919. Which is the greatest known ocean depth (which lies in the Pacific Ocean)?

Answer: 11,033 m

 

920. At which one place did Mahatma Gandhi first start his Satyagraha in India?

Answer: Champaran

 

921. With which country is “Orange’ Revolution” associated?

Answer: Ukraine

 

922. With which field was Pandit Bhimsen Joshi associated?

Answer: Music’s

 

923. What percentage of water is lost during transpiration?

Answer: 99%

 

924. Which is the most populous city in the world?

Answer: Tokyo

 

925. By which ruler was the practice of military governorship first introduced in India?

Answer: Greeks

 

926. Which country has the briefest Constitution in the world?

Answer: USA

 

927. When temperature is gradually decreased, what is the specific heat of substance?

Answer: Decreased

 

928. What is the mean of Invisible Export?

Answer: Export Services

 

929. Which is the country with the highest density of population in Europe?

Answer: Netherlands

 

930. Bhakt Tukaram was a contemporary of which Mughal emperor?

Answer: Jahangir

 

931. Who was the first person to cross the Alps with army?

Answer: Hannibal

 

932. What is the loss of water in the form of water drops called?

Answer: Guttation

 

933. Who was made the Home Minister when Jawaharlal Nehru formed the Interim Government in 1946 ?

Answer: Sardar Patel

 

934. Which foreign country is closest to Andarnan Islands?

Answer: Myanmar

 

935. Who was called Zinda Pir (living saint) in Mughal India?

Answer: Aurangzeb

 

936. Which metal is non toxic in nature?

Answer: Gold

 

937. Which is the latest addition to the list of UNESCO’s world heritage sites in India?

Answer: Red Fort

 

938. Which committee was assigned to recommend reforms in the insurance sector?

Answer: Malhotra Committee

 

939. Which State shares boundaries with the maximum number of other States of India ?

Answer: Assam

 

940. The first railway line in India was opened in which year?

Answer: 1853

 

941. What is Study of growth and development of embryo?

Answer: Embryology

 

942. What is the minimum permissible age for employment in any factory or mine?

Answer: 14 years

 

943. Angular separation between two colours of the spectrum depends upon which thing?

Answer: Angle of deviation

 

944. Which mountain range stretches from Gujarat in west to Delhi in the north?

Answer: Aravallis

 

945. In which nomad man started settling?

Answer: Neolithic Age

 

946. Where is the headquarter of International atomic Energy Agency is located?

Answer: Vienna

 

947. The book ‘Diplomatic Encounter’ has been written by which author?

Answer: Arundhati Roy

 

948. What is the Study of pulse and arterial blood pressure called?

Answer: Sphygmology

 

949. The Himalayas are formed of parallel fold ranges of which the oldest range?

Answer: The Great Himalayan Range

 

950. Rigveda is divided into 10 books. Which books are the oldest?

Answer: Second and seventh

 

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951. Who is competent to prescribe conditions as for acquiring Indian citizenship?

Answer: Parliament

 

952. Which is the element that has the highest first ionization potential?

Answer: Nitrogen

 

953. During which Plan did prices show a decline?

Answer: First

 

954. Which state has the largest number of salt lakes in India?

Answer: Rajasthan

 

955. Who was the last of the 24th Jain Tirthankaras?

Answer: Mahavira

 

956. Who is the author of the book ‘The Rights of Man’?

Answer: Thomas Paine

 

957. What is considered as the easily digestable source of protein?

Answer: Soyabean

 

958. When the Vice-President acts as President he gets the emoluments of which post?

Answer: President

 

959. Which port especially developed for exporting iron ore to Japan?

Answer: Paradeep

 

960. Which site, where Ashokan pillars exist, has the bull capital?

Answer: Rampurva

 

961. Total internal reflection of light is possible when light enters from which thing?

Answer: Water to air

 

962. The book ‘Worshipping False Gods’s is written by which person?

Answer: Arun Shourie

 

963. When was the Rolling plan designed?

Answer: 1978-83

 

964. Which is a global biodiversity hotspot in India?

Answer: Western Ghats

 

965. During which reign was Kalidasa lived?

Answer: Chandragupta II

 

966. In the human body, cowper’s glands form a part of which system?

Answer: Reproductive system

 

967. The resolution for removing the Vice-President of India can be moved in which sabha?

Answer: Rajya Sabha alone

 

968. Which transition metal is in liquid state?

Answer: Mercury

 

969. Which type of forest exhibits highest bio-diversity ?

Answer: Tropical rain forest

 

970. Which Rashtrakuta ruler established a victory pillar in Rameshwaram ?

Answer: Krishna III

 

971. Who directed the famous T.V. serial ‘Tandoori Nights’?

Answer: Saeed Jaffrey

 

972. The UNESCO declared 2011 as which International Year?

Answer: International Year of Chemistry

 

973. In absence of ribosome in cell which function does not takes place?

Answer: Protein synthesis

 

974. Where are Tapovan and Vishnugarh Hydroelectric Projects located?

Answer: Uttarakhand

 

975. Who was the last ruler of the Tughlaq dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate ?

Answer: Nasir-ud-din-Mahmud

 

976. To whom does the Public Accounts Committee submit its report?

Answer: The Speaker of the Lok Sabha

 

977. If a bar magnet is cut length wise into 3 parts, what will the total number of poles be?

Answer: 6

 

978. Why does the Issue Department of the RBI maintain a against printing of note?

Answer: Minimum Reserve System

 

979. With which river is the Omkareshwar Project associated?

Answer: Narmada

 

980. The ruler which was not invited to join the confederacy to fight against Vijaynagar in the battle of Talikota?

Answer: Berar

 

981. The United Nations declared 2010 as which International Year?

Answer: Rapprochement of Cultures

 

982. Which tissue take part in healing the wounds?

Answer: Epithelium tissue

 

983. Which is the highest and final judicial tribunal in respect of the Constitution of India?

Answer: Supreme Court

 

984. What is the state the main activity associated with the fold mountain?

Answer: Earthquakes

 

985. Who was the Afghan ruler of India whose administrative system was emulated by the British?

Answer: Sher Shah

 

986. Temporary hardness of water is due to the presence of which thing?

Answer: Magnesium bicarbonate

 

987. Regatta is associated with which sports event?

Answer: Rowing

 

988. Rupee was devalued by what percent in July 1991?

Answer: 20 Percent

 

989. What is the term as the drainage pattern developed on folded sedimentary rocks?

Answer: Trellis

 

990. Whose tomb is ‘Biwi Ka Maqbara’?

Answer: Aurangzeb’s wife

 

991. Which energy do not have the problem of pollution?

Answer: Sun

 

992. When was the Madras State renamed Tamil Nadu?

Answer: 1969

 

993. What is a suitable unit for expressing electric field strength?

Answer: N/C

 

994. Rotation of the earth causes deflection of wind by which force?

Answer: Coriolis force

 

995. Who organised a Maratha confederacy against the English leading to the Third Anglo Maratha War?

Answer: The Peshwa

 

996. Which woman has become the highest individual scorer in an innings in Tests?

Answer: Kiran Baloch

 

997. What is the name of the person that controls a football match?

Answer: An umpire

 

998. Which air pollutant affect the nervous system of man?

Answer: Lead

 

999. Which is the chief characteristics of wet and dry tropics?

Answer: Constant heating

 

1000. By whom was Shuddhi movement (conversion of non-Hindus to Hinduism) started?

Answer: Swami Dayanand Saraswati