1000 General Knowledge Questions and Answers – GK Quiz
- What is a doggerel?
Answer: Poem
It is a loosely structured verse with comic effect.
- “Running Out of Fools” and “Chain of Fools” are two bluesy hits recorded by:
Answer: Aretha Franklin
These recordings remain among her most popular.
- In music, what lead singer of The Doors was arrested for indecent exposure during a concert in Miami?
Answer: Jim Morrison
- Which of the following casino games is also known as the “one-armed bandit”?
Answer: Slot machine
- What is the mean January temperature in the Arctic?
Answer: Minus 33 F
- Plants that reproduce using seeds are:
Answer: Conifers and flowering plants
- Which South American city is the fourth largest on the continent, following Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, and Rio de Janeiro?
Answer: Lima, Peru
- 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.
- What company amalgamated with Goldsborough & Co. in 1888?
Answer: Mort & Co.
- Who was the King of Sparta?
Answer: Menelaus
- Which planet has a red spot?:
Answer: Jupiter
- 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
- Which is the oldest ‘stock exchange of India?
Answer: Bombay Stock Exchange
- Which branch of science has four fundamental principles: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division?
Answer: Arithmetical
- Which are Tile earliest Buddhist literature that deal with the stories of the various birth of Buddha?
Answer: Jatakas
- Dr. M. S. Swaminathan distinguished himself in which field?
Answer: Agriculture
- Containing 18 museums, what Washington D.C. institution bears the nickname “American’s Attic”?
Answer: Smithsonian Institute
- In which year was the first no confidence motion moved in the Lok Sabha after independence?
Answer: 1963
- Which hot and dry winds that help in the ripening or grapes in the Alps region?
Answer: Foehn
- Martin Luther King became involved in the boycott. What was the fine he received?
Answer: $500
- Where would you generally not find coral reefs?
Answer: Off the Iberian Peninsula
- If a substance does not dissolve, it is termed:
Answer: Insoluble
- In 1954, English athlete Roger Bannister became the first person on record to do what in less than four minutes?
Answer: Run a mile
- 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.
- Following oxygen, which is the most common element in the earth’s crust?
Answer: Silicon
- Who was the first black entertainer to win an Emmy?
Answer: Harry Belafonte
- Pick the correct statement:
Answer: The umbra is the inner, central part of a sunspot. The penumbra is the outer part of a sunspot.
- The unaltered remains of fossilised animals include:
Answer: Mummified and frozen remains
- What is the capital city of the European Union?
Answer: Brussels
- 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.
- Insects outnumber all other animals by:
Answer: 4 to 1
- Which populous country is over 3′ million square miles in area, of which two-thirds is either mountains or desert?
Answer: China
- Which delivery company is famous for the slogan “When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight”?
Answer: Federal Express
- The theory that the universe is continually being created at various parts of the universe is the:
Answer: Steady State Theory
- Over the past century, which European county has been most seismically active?
Answer: Greece
- Contestants in the Olympic Games of ancient Greece competed naked.
Answer: True
- If a car brakes suddenly, the first movement of the passengers is to:
Answer: Continue to move forward at the same speed
- What was the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution?
Answer: Delaware
- A substance that conducts very little electricity is known as what?
Answer: An Insulator
- What do you call a grouping of deer?
Answer: A herd of deer
- Where is Apalachicola?
Answer: Florida
- 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.
- Which type of composition usually denotes work for solo instrument, although can also be a piece for violin and piano?
Answer: Sonata
- Which nation completes this list of WWII’s “big four”: USA, USSR, Great Britain and ?
Answer: China
- Was the first FA Cup Final held in: (a) 1868, (b) 1872 or (c) 1876?
Answer: (b) 1872.
- 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.
- Which Italian city was buried, along with Herculaneum, when Vesuvius erupted in AD 79?
Answer: Pompeii
- Lake Eyre lies within which Australian state?
Answer: South Australia
- In order for oxidation to occur, this process must also take place:
Answer: Reduction
The two reactions occur simultaneously and in chemically equivalent quantities.
- 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
- Of which country is the French president co-prince?
Answer: Andorra
- Bond length is the distance between two electrons joined in a chemical bond.
Answer: False
- Which continent is adjacent to the Benguela Current?
Answer: Africa
- Who invented the hovercraft?
Answer: Sir Christopher Cockerell.
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- Who replaced Winston Churchill as Prime Minister of Great Britain in 1945?
Answer: Clement Attlee
- 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.
- Which gave an impetus to the growth of militant nationalism on a widespread scale?
Answer: Partition of Bengal
- Why was the Panchayati Raj System adopted?
Answer: Decentralise the power of democracy
- In colourful diamond, Why are different colours present?
Answer: Due to impurities
- From the view of International economy, What does third World imply?
Answer: The developing countries
- Which is a land-locked country?
Answer: Zimbabwe
- The ruler of which State was removed from power by the British on the pretext of misgovernance?
Answer: Awadh
- With which field was Satyajit Ray associated?
Answer: Direction of films
- Which plant is referred to as a living fossil?
Answer: Gingko
- How long did the Constituent Assembly take to finally pass the Constitution?
Answer: About 3 years since Dec 9, 1946
- What is the country through which both Equator and Tropic of Capricorn pass?
Answer: Brazil
- From where did the Quit India Movement start?
Answer: Bombay on Aug. 8, 1942
- Which physical quantities have the same dimensions?
Answer: Momentum and impulse
- In which year did UN establish the UN Conference on Trade and Development?
Answer: 1964
- Which Committee was formed to suggest means for eradicating black money?
Answer: Cheiliah Committee
- The Karakoram Highway connects which pairs of countries?
Answer: China-Pakistan
- Which Indian revolutionary helped Subhash Chandra Bose in raising ‘Indian National Army’ ?
Answer: Rasbehari Bose
- Which crop would be preferred for sowing in order to enrich the soil with nitrogen?
Answer: Gram
- Who was the President of the Constituent Assembly?
Answer: Dr. Rajendra Prasad
- What is the number of unpaired electrons in carbon atom?
Answer: 2
- Which latitude passes through India?
Answer: Tropic of Cancer
- Who propounded that ‘destiny determines everything, man is powerless?
Answer: Ajivakas
- Which is UN Programme and not special agency?
Answer: UNEP
- Who is the author of the famous novel ‘Gone with the Wind’?
Answer: Charles Dickens
- Which mammal rolls itself into ball at the time of danger?
Answer: Hedgehog
- Which State has the largest forest area. ?
Answer: Gujarat
- Sufi Kalam, a type of devotional music, is the characteristic of which state?
Answer: Kashmir
- Which Directive Principle of State Policy has NOT been implemented so far?
Answer: Uniform civil code for the citizens
- When some detergent is added to water, what will be the surface tension?
Answer: Increases
- What is the situation with increasing unemployment and inflation termed?
Answer: Stagflation
- Port Blair – the capital of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, is located in which island?
Answer: South Andaman
- What was the original name of Tansen, the most famous musician at the court of Akbar?
Answer: Ramtanu Pande
- Which Sanskrit poet called as the Indian Shakespeare?
Answer: Kalidas
- How many chamber are found in the heart of frog?
Answer: 3
- Which amendments accorded precedence to Directive Principle over Fundamental Rights?
Answer: 42nd Amendment
- Which is the biggest lake in India?
Answer: Chilka Lake
- Which Indian ruler established embassies in foreign countries. on modern lines?
Answer: Tipu Sultan
- In an atom the order of filling up of the orbitals is governed by which principle?
Answer: Aufbau principle
- Which decade is celebrated as United Nations Decade for Women?
Answer: 1976-1985
- Which agency has the power to declare any industrial unit as a potentially sick unit?
Answer: BIFR
- Which are the west-flowing rivers of southern Indian which flow into Arabian Sea?
Answer: Narmada and Tapti
- When was the Indus Valley Civilization flourished?
Answer: During 2500-1750 B.C
General Knowledge Questions and Answers Part 3
- Sex determination of child is done by whose chromosome?
Answer: Father
- Who is authorised to decide over a dispute regarding disqualification of a member of Parliament?
Answer: President
- Who firstly demonstrated experimentally the existence of electromagnetic wave?
Answer: Hertz
- Which is not essentially a species of the Himalayan vegetation?
Answer: Mahogany
- What are the main channels of our knowledge about the Indus Valley Civilization?
Answer: Archaeological excavations
- When is International Human Solidarity Day observed?
Answer: December 20
- The United Nations declared 2001 as which International Year?
Answer: International Year of Volunteers
- What is the effect of overseretion of harmone from pituitary gland?
Answer: Increase growth in lenght
- Which type of forest covers the maximum area in India?
Answer: Tropical moist deciduous forest
- What was the rate of land revenue as ‘given in the dharma shastras ?
Answer: 1/6
- The Lok Sabha is called in session for at least how many times in a year’?
Answer: Thrice
- Heating pyrites in air to remove sulphur is known as which name?
Answer: Roasting
- If the cash-reserve ratio is lowered by the Central bank, what will be its effect on credit creation?
Answer: Increase
- The Matatila multipurpose project is located in which state?
Answer: Uttar Pradesh
- What did the name ‘Ratnakara’ denoted In ancient Indian historical geography?
Answer: The Indian Ocean
- ‘Queen’s berry Rules’ is the name. give to the rules in which game?
Answer: Boxing
- By whom the concept of survival of the fittest as advanced?
Answer: Herbert Spencer
- When can the salaries of High Court judges be reduced?
Answer: During a Financial Emergency
- Which shipyard is known for the manufacture of bargets, coasters and dredgers?
Answer: Garden Reach Shipyard
- In which country was Buddhism first propogated outside India?
Answer: Srilanka
- There is no net transfer of energy by the particles of the medium in which waves?
Answer: Stationary waves
- Jaspal Rana is a distinguished athlete in which game?
Answer: Shooting
- Which provides the largest part of the demand for loanable funds in India?
Answer: Corporate businesses
- Moho discontinuity lies at the depth of approximately howmany kilometers?
Answer: 400 km
- Who was well-known patron of the Mahayana of Buddhism?
Answer: Kanishka
- From the evolutionary point of view, which is the most primitive animal?
Answer: Turtle
- By whom are the Chief Justice and other Judges of the High Court are appointed?
Answer: President
- What is reduction of oxide with carbon at high temperature called?
Answer: Smelting
- Which is the higest plateau in the world?
Answer: Pamir Plateau
- Who authored the Tamil epic ‘Silappadikaram’ ?
Answer: Ilango
- S. Vijaya Lakshmi and Nisha Mohita are associated with which game?
Answer: Chess
- How many gold medals did India win at the XIth Asian Games?
Answer: One
- At what level does the Natura 2000 network operate?
Answer: European
- Which atmospheric layer that reflects radio waves is called?
Answer: Ionosphere
- How is Manimekalai is looked?
Answer: As the Odyssey of Tamil
- Where can the report of the UPSC discussed?
Answer: In Parliament before being accepted
- Conversion of chemical energy into electrical energy occurs in which thing?
Answer: Battery
- What is the main source of revenue to meet different expenditures?
Answer: Internal borrowings
- What is a line on a map which joins places having the same rainfall called?
Answer: Isohyet
- Which Gupta king is famous for his courageous stand against the Hunas?
Answer: Skanda Gupta
- Which game is Davis Cup associated with?
Answer: Tennis
- When did the last female Alpine ibex disappear in France?
Answer: 2000
- To whom is the resignation letter of a State Public Service Commission member addressed?
Answer: Governor
- Equatorial forest of the Amazon basin is known as by which name?
Answer: Selvas
- To which work is Devichandraguptam related?
Answer: Chandra Gupta II
- Purification of petroleum is carried out by which method?
Answer: Fractional distillation
- Saraswati Samman is given annually for outstanding contribution to which field?
Answer: Literature
- From which sector is the largest contribution in India’s National Income?
Answer: Tertiary sector
- Thick stems and thorny wax coated leaves are commonly found in which area?
Answer: Deserts
- Who is most famous for” the establishment of an elaborate system of municipal administration?
Answer: Chandragupta Maurya
General Knowledge Questions and Answers Part 4
- What is the short upper part of the human intestine next to the stomach?
Answer: Duodenum
- Which is the State having the largest population of scheduled castes?
Answer: Utter Pradesh
- Where will be the Time period in a vibration magnetometer infinite?
Answer: At magnetic pole
- Which is considered to cause an adverse of effect on Indian monsoon?
Answer: El-nino
- 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.
- Who was the first Indian to be honoured with a lifetime achievement Oscar Award?
Answer: Satyajit Roy
- What can be the maximum length of a cricket bat?
Answer: 32”
- Which technique can be used to establish the paternity of a child?
Answer: Quantitative analysis of DNA
- Which region does not receives much rainfall in the south-west monsoon season?
Answer: Tamil Nadu coast
- By whom was the city of Agra founded in 1504?
Answer: Sikandar Lodi
- Which country has the briefest Constitution in the world?
Answer: USA
- Which petroleum refinery product has the lowest boiling point?
Answer: Gasoline
- In which policy India opted for ‘Mixed Economy’?
Answer: Industrial Policy of 1948
- In which state has India’s largest private sector sea port been commissioned recently?
Answer: Andhra Pradesh
- By whom was the ‘Shahnama’ written?
Answer: Firdausi
- What is the distance between popping crease and stumps on cricket pitch?
Answer: 3½ ft
- By whom was Gene first isolated?
Answer: Hargobind Khurana
- Who was the Chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Indian Constitution?
Answer: B. R. Ambedkar
- Which is the longest national Highway in India?
Answer: NH 7
- In which region of India was the Suharawadi order of Sufism popular?
Answer: Punjab and Sind
- By which impact is Nuclear fission is caused ?
Answer: Neutron
- Which was the first woman to climb Mount Everest?
Answer: Junko Tabei
- What is the task of the Planning Commission?
Answer: Preparation of the plan
- How many PIN CODE Zone divided in the country?
Answer: 8
- By whom was the Bhakti Movement first organised?
Answer: Ramananda
- By whom was Insulin discovered?
Answer: Dr. F G. Banting
- How long did the Constituent Assembly take to finally pass the Constitution?
Answer: About 3 years since Dec 9, 1946
- Which is purest form of iron?
Answer: Wrought iron
- Automatic approval upto 51 % in the enfrastructure seety was given in which year?
Answer: 1991
- During which reign was the East India Company founded in London?
Answer: Akbar
- Who was known as ‘Lady with Lamp’?
Answer: Florence Nightingale
- Which Indian origin immigrants became the Governor of Louisiana province of the USA in 2007?
Answer: Bobby Jindal
- From which part of the plant is turmeric obtained?
Answer: Stem
- In order of their distances from the Sun, which planet lie between Mars and Uranus?
Answer: Jupiter and Saturn
- Which Rajput dynasties did not surrender to Akbar?
Answer: Sisodiya
- How type of right is Right to Information?
Answer: Fundamental right
- Which is used as a coolant in nuclear reactors?
Answer: Liquid sodium
- What does M3 include?
Answer: M1 + T.D
- Comets revolve around which body?
Answer: Sun
- Where was Shivaji crowned as an independent king?
Answer: Raigarh
- Meghnad Saha is known for his contribution in which field?
Answer: Physics
- Which part of cinchona plant yields quinine?
Answer: Bark
- Which right conferred by the Constitution of India is also available to non-citizens?
Answer: Freedom to speech
- Which layer of the earth is believed to have the heaviest mineral materials of highest density?
Answer: Central core
- Which saint name is associated with Shivaji ?
Answer: Ram Das
- Liquefied Petroleum Gas consists of mainly which gases?
Answer: Methane, butane and propane
- ‘Kandla’ situated on the Gulf of Kachchh is well known for which purpose?
Answer: Export processing zone
- Which Mahatma Gandhi series of currency notes issued by the RBI has “ecology” depicted on it ?
Answer: Rs. 100
- The mapping of which part of earth is most difficult?
Answer: Interior of the Earth
- By whom wasIsland of Bombay was given to the English Prince Charles II as dowry?
Answer: Portuguese
General Knowledge Questions and Answers Part 5
- Which cytoplasmic organelles are treated as prokaryotic cells within the eukaryotic cells?
Answer: Glyoxysomes
- What is the minimum age for election/appointment as member of the Rajya Sabha ?
Answer: 30 years
- When milk is churned, how does the cream separate from it?
Answer: Due to the centrifugal force
- In USA, which region receives heavy rainfall throughout the year under the influence of Westerlies?
Answer: North-western
- Which first Europeans came to India?
Answer: Portuguese
- When did man first land on moon ?
Answer: 1969
- Which is the secondary source of light in a fluorescent lamp?
Answer: Mercury vapour
- Archaeopteryx had which reptilian characters?
Answer: Clawed wings, teeth on jaw, tail
- Which cold and dense air blowing down the mountain slope during the night?
Answer: Katabatic wind
- When was the monopoly of East India Company in trade brought under the control of the British Crown?
Answer: 1773 A.D.
- What is the minimum age for being the member of the Parliament?
Answer: 25 years
- Which elements is obtained from sea weeds?
Answer: Iodine
- Which is the regulatory authority for giving clearance for External Commercial borrowing?
Answer: RBI
- Where are Grasses almost absent?
Answer: In tropical wet-evergreen forest
- Who was impeached in England for his actions in India?
Answer: Warren Hastings
- By using which technique, is DNA fingerprint done?
Answer: Southern Blotting
- Which Bacteria convert atmospheric nitrogen into nitrogenous compound?
Answer: Nitrogen fixing bacteria
- Which was the first woman Governor of a State in free India?
Answer: Mrs. Sarojini Naidu
- Which ecosystem covers the largest area of the earth’s surface?
Answer: Marine Ecosystem
- During which movement was ‘Mahatma’ added before Gandhiji’s name?
Answer: Champaran satyagraha
- Sound travels faster in which thing?
Answer: Iron than in air
- Who was the first General-Secretary of the Indian National Congress?
Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji
- From when was the Zero Base Budgeting in India first experimented?
Answer: April, 1987
- Rainfall in the doldrums is of the nature of which precipitation?
Answer: Orographic precipitation
- Which first Indian leader to undergo imprisonment in 1882?
Answer: Vijiaraghavachari
- Which type of microorganism is most widely used in industries?
Answer: Bacteria, microalgae and fungi.
- What is the maximum number of elected members in a State Assembly?
Answer: 500
- In fireworks, how is the green flame produced?
Answer: Because of barium
- Which term for natural vegetation is associated with Siberia?
Answer: Taiga
- During the Indian Freedom struggle, who started a journal “The Indian Sociologist” ?
Answer: Shyamji Krishna Varma
- Person is called ‘Desert Fox’?
Answer: Gen. Rommel
- National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation is known what?
Answer: NACMF
- Water will be absorbed by root hairs, then how is when the external medium?
Answer: Hypotonic
- Which is not an important factor of climate of an area?
Answer: Longitude
- By whom was the Home Rule Movement in India was started?
Answer: Annie Besant and Tilak
- By whom are Zonal Council provided?
Answer: By Parliamentary Act
- Who does a liquid drop tend to assume a spherical shape?
Answer: Surface tension
- With which Economic growth is usually coupled?
Answer: Inflation
- Where is the thermal equator found?
Answer: North of the geographical equator
- After whose name was a women’s division of the Indian National Army named?
Answer: Rani Jhansi
- The United Nations declared 2013 as the International Year of which coperation?
Answer: Water Cooperation
- What is an instrument for measuring the rate of transpiration?
Answer: Potometer
- By whom was an inter-State Council set up in 1990 under Article 263 of the Constitution?
Answer: President
- Which reflects back more sunlight as compared to other three ?
Answer: Land covered with fresh snow
- Who started the newspaper Shome Prakash?
Answer: Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
- Which substance does not have a melting point?
Answer: Glass
- How many votes are entitled for members of the UN Economic and Social Council?
Answer: One vote
- In India, in which industry are maximum number of workers employed?
Answer: Textile industry
- Which is the soil formed by wind dust in and around hot deserts?
Answer: Loess soil
- In whose court was a Chinese embassy sent by Tang emperor?
Answer: Harshavardhana
General Knowledge Questions and Answers Part 6
- For which snake is the diet mainly composed of their snakes?
Answer: Kinqcobra
- On which date India became a Sovereign, democratic republic?
Answer: Jan 26, 1950
- What minimum number of non-zero non-collinear vectors is required to produce a zero vector?
Answer: 3
- Where are Niagara Falls?
Answer: U.S.A.
- Which inscription mentions Pulkesin II’s military success against Harshavardhana?
Answer: Aihole Inscription
- What is the present strength of members in the Economic and Social Council of the UN body?
Answer: 54
- Which book was written by Graham Greene?
Answer: The Power and Glory
- What structure is common to both earthworm and cockroach?
Answer: Ventral nerve cord
- Which Strait connecting Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal?
Answer: Palk Strait
- Chandragupta Maurya figures prominently in whose book?
Answer: Vishakhdatta
- Which act made the Indian Legislature bicameral?
Answer: Government of India Act, 1919
- By which a mixture of sand and naphthalene can be separated?
Answer: Sublimation
- The ‘Uruguay Round’ negotiations resulted in the establishment of which organization?
Answer: WTO
- Durand line is the border common to which two countries?
Answer: Pakistan and Afghanistan
- Who stated that there was no slavery in India ?
Answer: Megasthenes
- Which flim was made by Satyajit Ray for Children?
Answer: Sonar Killa
- Which part of human brain is the regulating centre for swallowing and vomating?
Answer: Medulla oblangata
- What is the duration of proclamation of Financial Emergency?
Answer: At the first instance two months
- Which set of countries are completely surrounded by land?
Answer: Mongolia, Zambia, Bolivia
- Which ruler had granted Diwani to the East India company?
Answer: Shah Alam II
- By which Radio waves of constant amplitude can be generated?
Answer: Oscillator
- When is International Day of Peace, recognized by the UN is observed?
Answer: September 21
- In which year was ‘Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana’ launched?
Answer: 2005
- Where is the southernmost point of India located?
Answer: Great Nicobar
- Which factory in Bengal, the was established by the Portuguese?
Answer: Hoogly
- Which is used to know the development of foetus in uterus?
Answer: Ultrasound
- During the proclamation of National Emergency which articls can not be suspended?
Answer: Articles 20 and 21
- Which oil is used in the floatation method for the purification of ores?
Answer: Pine oil
- What is the name of the group of languages spoken by the largest number of people in India?
Answer: Indo-Aryan
- Which was the first metal used by man?
Answer: Copper
- When is International Day for Tolerance, recognized– the UN is observed?
Answer: November 16
- Which is the only golfer to win the Masters Tournament six times?
Answer: Jack Nicklaus
- Who published the book ‘Origin of species by natural selection in 1859’?
Answer: Darwin
- By which name does the Brahmaputra enter into India?
Answer: Dihang
- In which Aryans first settled?
Answer: Punjab
- At present the Rajya Sabha consists of howmany members?
Answer: 245
- Which mirror is to be used to obtain a parallel beam of light from a small lamp ?
Answer: Concave mirror
- In which year was Minimum inflation in post economic reform?
Answer: 1999-2000
- The Tibetan river ‘Tsangpo’ enters India through which State?
Answer: Arunachal Pradesh
- On which thing did the Buddhism and Jainism both give stress?
Answer: Non-violence
- The Asian Games were held in Delhi for the first time in which year?
Answer: 1951
- Which is most primitive ancestor of man ?
Answer: Australopithecus
- Who was the first speaker of the Lok Sabha?
Answer: Malgaonkar
- In which city of India, the diurnal range of temperature is maximum?
Answer: New Delhi
- To whom the Sarnath’s Lion Capital attributed?
Answer: Ashoka
- What is the Number of water molecules present in Mohr ’s salt?
Answer: 8
- The Dronacharya Award for Sports coaches was instituted in which year?
Answer: 1985
- What does Inflation imply?
Answer: Rise in general price index
- In which season is the frequency of tropical cyclones in the Bay of Bengal maximum?
Answer: After summer
- Which silver coins Issued by the Guptas?
Answer: Rupayaka
General Knowledge Questions and Answers Part 7
- Which is considered a hot-spot of biodiversity in India?
Answer: Western Ghats
- What does the special status of Jammu and Kashmir imply?
Answer: A separate Constitution
- Why are Metals good conductor of heat than insulator?
Answer: They contain free electrons
- Where is pearl fishing well developed in India?
Answer: Off the coast at Rameshwaram
- By whom was the rare work on architecture, Samarangana Sutradhara written?
Answer: Bhoja Paramara
- Who was the first Indian to win the World Amateur Billiards title?
Answer: Wilson Jones
- Who was the first asian to have received the Nobel Prize?
R.N. Tagore
- Which of a species describes the tropic function it fills in its environment?
Answer: Niche
- What is the most important item of export among marine products from India?
Answer: Shrimp
- Who was the first Sultan of Delhi to introduce the practice of ‘Sijda’ ?
Answer: Balban
- To whom is the Chief Minister of a State responsible?
Answer: Governor
- A mixture of camphor and benzoic acid can be easily separated by which method?
Answer: Chemical method
- Which is the oldest ‘stock exchange of India?
Answer: Bombay Stock Exchange
- What is the approximate equatorial circumference of the earth?
Answer: 40,000 km
- Which Sultan of Delhi imposed Jazfya on the Brahmins also ?
Answer: Firoz Tughlaq
- Who got the ‘Bharat Ratna’ award, before becoming the President of India?
Answer: Dr. Zakir Hussain
- Which vitamin is generally excreted by humans in urine?
Answer: Vitamin C
- What is the source of maximum income to Panchayati Raj?
Answer: Government grants
- Which is present in the largest amount in terms of percent by mass in the earth’s crust?
Answer: Oxygen
- The Mansabdari system introduced by Akbar from which system was it borrowed from?
Answer: Mongolia
- If a material, placed in a magnetic field is thrown out of it, then how is the material?
Answer: Diamagnetic
- Who became the first Indian to take 16 wickets in a single test match?
Answer: Narendra Hirwani
- Stock Exchanges play a role in an economy how may itbe termed?
Answer: Useful but need strict regulation
- Which is the highest lake above the sea level in the world?
Answer: Lake Titicaca
- The Maratha power reached the zenith of its glory during which reign?
Answer: Shivaji
- A person who lives exclusively on milk, egg and bread is likey to become a victim of which desease?
Answer: Scurvy
- Which is at the apex of the-three tier system of Panchayati Raj ?
Answer: Zila Parishad
- In organic compound, halogens are estimated by which method?
Answer: Carius method
- Which is the example of crater lake?
Answer: Oregon
- The ‘Misl’ of which Ranjit Singh was the leader?
Answer: Sukerchakia
- Where is the headquarters of International Olympic Committee?
Answer: At Lausanne (Switzerland)
- Who is the author of the book ‘My Country, My Life’ ?
Answer: L.K. Advani
- Which is known as ‘graveyard of RBCs’?
Answer: Spleen
- Exceptionally high rainfall is recorded in regions owing to which effect?
Answer: Orographic effect
- Which Land tenure systems was introduced by Lord Cornwallis?
Answer: Zamindari
- Which can impose reasonable restrictions on the Fundamental Rights of the Indian citizens?
Answer: Parliament
- If the temperature of a semiconductor rises, what is its resistivity?
Answer: Decrease
- CENVAT is associated with which rate?
Answer: Rate of indirect tax
- In which country has maximum damage to the forests been caused by acid rain?
Answer: Poland
- By whom was Swaraj as a national demand first made?
Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji
- Who is the author of the book ‘Glimpses of World History’ ?
Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru
- Which are the glands of the body which pour their seretions directly into the blood stream?
Answer: Endocrine glands
- The Fundamental Right to Property has been deleted by the which Amendment Act?
Answer: 44th
- Which state is with the largest area under waste land?
Answer: Jammu and Kashmir
- On which basis Montague-Chelmsford Report formed?
Answer: The Government of India Act, 1919
- Which is the second most abundant metal in the earth’s crust?
Answer: Iron
- The Vivekananda Rock Memorial is situated at which place?
Answer: Kanyakumari
- Taxation and the government’s expenditure policy are dealt under under which policy?
Answer: Fiscal policy
- Which is the highest peak in Andaman and Nicobar Islands?
Answer: Saddle Peak
- Who attended the Second Round Table Conference as the representative of the Congress?
Answer: Gandhiji
General Knowledge Questions and Answers Part 8
- A typical human ribcage consists of how many ribs?
Answer: 24
- To whom the Vice-President’s letter of resignation is to be addressed?
Answer: President
- ‘mho’ is the unit of which unit?
Answer: Specificresistance
- Which reservoir is constructed on Chambal?
Answer: Gandhi Sagar
- Which were the patrons of Sangam, an assembly of Tamil poets?
Answer: Pandya
- Geeta Chandran is well known by which name?
Answer: Bharatnatyam dancer
- Which plant is preferred for mixed cropping in order to enhance the bioavailability of nitrogen?
Answer: Gram
- Which cell organelle is responsible for cellular respiration?
Answer: Mitochondrium
- Which state was in the development of hydroelectricity the pioneering state?
Answer: Karnataka
- Which dynasty did rule over Magadha after Nanda dynasty?
Answer: Maurya
- Who has the authority to remove the Vice-President from his office before the expiry of his term?
Answer: Parliament
- Which is the most malleable metal?
Answer: Gold
- For internal financing of Five Year Plans, the government depends on which source?
Answer: Taxation only
- 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
- A Fortgotten Empire’, written by the renowned historian Robert Sewell, is about which Empire?
Answer: Vijaynagar Empire
- Which group of plant produce naked seed?
Answer: Gymnosperm
- What is the maximum strength of the nominated members in both the Houses of Parliament?
Answer: 14
- Who discovered the laws of planetary orbits?
Answer: Johannes Kepler
- Which God lost his importance as the first deity during the Later Vedic period?
Answer: Varuna
- Who gave the first experimental value of G?
Answer: Cavendish
- Photochemical smog occurs in which climage?
Answer: Warm, dry and sunny climate
- What is the Planning Commission?
Answer: An Advisory body’
- What do the surface of Earth that lies between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic, of Capricorn?
Answer: Torrid Zone
- Which is the most important divinity of Rigveda?
Answer: Varuna
- Which communicable disease is caused by bacteria?
Answer: Leprosy
- Who is considered the guardian of the Public Purse?
Answer: Comptroller and Auditor General
- What is the conversion of Fe++ to Fe+++?
Answer: Oxidation
- What percentage of insolation is received by the earth’s surface?
Answer: 47%
- Who was the famous Indo-Greek king who embraced Buddhism?
Answer: Menander
- If a ship moves from freshwater into seawater, what will happen?
Answer: It will rise a little higher
- Which was the first National Security Advisor of India who died recently?
Answer: Brajesh Mishra
- What is the first compound which is fixed during photosynthesis?
Answer: Glucose
- At low elevation which cloud are to be found?
Answer: Nimbus
- During which reign did both Vardhaman Mahavira and Gautama Buddha preach their doctrines?
Answer: Bimbisara
- Which Union Territory attained statehood in February, 1987 ?
Answer: Goa
- The escape velocity from the surface of the earth does not depend on which body?
Answer: Mass of the body
- In India, which first bank of limited liability managed by Indians and founded in 1881?
Answer: Oudh Commercial Bank
- Which colour types do not indicate fair or fine weather?
Answer: Cumulonimbus
- What is the name by which Ashoka is generally referred to in his inscriptions?
Answer: Priyadarsi
- A. Nageshwara Rao is associated with which field?
Answer: A. Motion Picture
- To which are Phototrophic and Geotropic movements linked?
Answer: Auxin
- On which date was the State of Bombay was bifurcated into Maharashtra and Gujarat?
Answer: May 1, in the year 1960
- A place having an average annual temperature of 27°C and an annual rainfall of over 200 cm.where is this?
Answer: Singapore
- Which region did not form the part of Ashoka’s empire?
Answer: Madras
- Which is the most unreactive gas?
Answer: Hydrogen
- When was Inter-Governmental Authori on Development come into existence?
Answer: 21st March, 1996
- Which rural bank has been named after a river?
Answer: Varada Grameen Bank
- In which type of climate does the temperature never rise above 10°C throughout the year?
Answer: Tundra Climate
- 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
- Which substance found in blood which helps in cloting?
Answer: Fibrinogen
- How can a major portion of the Constitution be amended?
Answer: By two-thirds majority
- What is the product of the time period of a wave and its frequency?
Answer: Unity
- Which is the major oil producing area in U.S.A.?
Answer: Texas-Louisiana belt
- Who contributed the Chalukya in Western India?
Answer: Guptas
- When was Lake Chad Basin Commission founded?
Answer: 22nd May, 1964
- The popular TV. serial ‘Neem ka Ped’ was written by which author?
Answer: Rahi Masoom Raza
- Which Constitutional Amendments banned the floor crossing in Parliament?
Answer: 52nd
- Which country leads the world in the export of oil?
Answer: Saudi Arabia
- The Kalachuri era counted from A.D. 248 what was mostly in currnet?
Answer: Andhra
- What is the name of the scientist who stated that matter can be converted into energy?
Answer: Einstein
- By whom was the first estimate of national income in India made?
Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji
- ‘Asian Drama’, by Gunnar Karl Myrdal, is a book on which subjects?
Answer: Economics
- Where do the Earthquakes rarely occur?
Answer: Brazil
- Kamarupa is the old name of which state?
Answer: Assam
- What is in a healthy person rate of heart beat on one minute?
Answer: 72 times
- When is the Constitution of India designed to work as a unitary government?
Answer: In times of Emergency
- With the rise of temperature, what happens in the speed of sound in a gas?
Answer: Increases
- Mostly in which region do Earthquakes and volcanoes occur?
Answer: Folded and faulted region
- Which region of northern India was not included in the empire of Ala-ud-din Khalji ?
Answer: Kashmir
- Which decade is celebrated as decade of Action for road safety?
Answer: 2011-2020
- What is the sum total of incomes received for the services of labour, land or capital in a country?
Answer: National income
- Myxoedema is disorder produed due to hypersecretion of which gland?
Answer: Thyroid
- In which country is the world’s highest waterfall?
Answer: Venezuela
- Who destroyed the group of Forty Nobles?
Answer: Balban
- From which of the country, Constitution of India has adopted fundamental duties?
Answer: Erstwhile USSR
- The isotopes of chlorine with mass number 35 and 37 exist in which ratio?
Answer: 3:1
- Which decade is celebrated as United Nations decade on biodiversity?
Answer: 2011-2020
- One will NOT have to pass through the Suez Canal while going from Bombay to which canal?
Answer: Suez
- Who built Char Minar?
Answer: Quli Qutb Shah
- International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, is observed on which date?
Answer: December 2
- What does protein deficiency in children usually between the age of 1 to 3 year cause?
Answer: Kwashiorkor
- Who was the member of the Rajya Sabha when first appointed as the Prime Minister of India?
Answer: Indira Gandhi
- Which country has the highest average of road length on per thousand square kilometer area basis?
Answer: Japan
- On the ruins of which Hindu kingdom was the kingdom of Golconda founded?
Answer: Kakatiyas
- When the radius of the T.G. coil is decreased, what does happen in its sensitiveness?
Answer: Increases
- Unemployment occurs when workers move from one job to another job?
Answer: Frictional unemployment
- The United Nations declared 2014 as which International Year?
Answer: Crystallography
- Which continent has the lowest birth and death rates ?
Answer: Europe
- Where is Buland Darwaza situated?
Answer: Fatehpur Sikri
- Which disease is caused by bacteria and spread though faecal matter by houseflies?
Answer: Typhoid
- Who is the ex-officio Chairman of Rajya Sabha?
Answer: Vice-President
- Which colloids are solvent loving colloids?
Answer: Lyophilic
- Among the Union Territories of India, which one has the largest size?
Answer: Pondicherry
- During which reign was the Purana Qila constructed?
Answer: Sher Shah
- Which Australian player was known as ‘Fruitfly’ amongst the rest of the team?
Answer: Merv Hughes
- Which type of unemployment mostly found in India?
Answer: Disguised
- What is a glass sided tank, bowl in which aquatic animals live?
Answer: Aquarium
- Where are Shevaroy Hills located?
Answer: Tamil Nadu
- By whom was the Sikh Khalsa founded?
Answer: Guru Gobind Singh
General Knowledge Questions and Answers Part 10
- Under which act was the Supreme Court set up?
Answer: Regulating Act
- The resistance of material increases with temperature. What is this?
Answer: Metal
- Pravin Arnre and Vinod Kambli played for which province in South Africa?
Answer: Boland
- Kodaikanal, the famous hill-station of South India, is situated on which hills?
Answer: Palni hills
- On 13th April of which year Guru Gobind Singh established Khalsa?
Answer: 1699
- The Olympic Museum was opened at which place?
Answer: Lausanne
- The word “biodiversity” is a combination of which two words?
Answer: Biology and diversity
- Which Judge of the Supreme Court was unsuccessfully sought to be impeached?
Answer: Justice Ramaswami
- Which relates to the formation of the Himalayas?
Answer: Folding of the geosyncline
- The Maratha power reached its zenith during which Peshwaship?
Answer: Balaji II
- Which material is very hard and very ductile?
Answer: Nichrome
- Which is called a ‘banker’s cheque’ ?
Answer: Demand draft
- With Which game/sport is ‘Popping crease’ associated?
Answer: Cricket
- Which lake in India has the highest water salinity?
Answer: Sambhar
- In which year did the Peshwa became the official head of Maratha administration?
Answer: 1748 A.D.
- Bhopal gas tragedy struck in the year 1984 due to the leakage of which gas?
Answer: Methyl-iso-cyanate
- Which was an associate State of India before becoming a full fledged State?
Answer: Sikkim
- Einstein’s mass energy relation is given by which expression?
Answer: E = mc2
- Which is the first company-managed major port in India?
Answer: Ennore
- Which Governor of Bengal committed suicide in 1774 ?
Answer: Robert Clive
- Pulitzer prize is awarded for outstanding work in which field?
Answer: Literature and Journalism
- Bouncing of cheques has become an offence. What is the punishment for the same?
Answer: 6 months imprisonment
- All of the organisms living in a particular area, what do they make up?
Answer: A biological community
- How can fertility of soil be improved?
Answer: By adding living earthworms
- By whom was the Vernacular Press Act was passed?
Answer: Lord Lytton
- By whom is Recognition to a political party accorded?
Answer: By the Election Commission
- Which was the scientist who was responsible for the rejection of vital force theory?
Answer: Lavoisier
- Which award is associated with Agriculture?
Answer: Bourlog Award
- What type of farming is practised in the densely populated regions of the world?
Answer: Intensive farming
- In which year Delhi became the capital of India?
Answer: 1911
- Who has taken maximum wickets in one-day internationals?
Answer: Mutthiah Muralitharan
- By which fission does Leishmania, the causative agent of kala-azar, multiply asexually?
Answer: By binary fission
- From which date shall the tenure of every Panchayat be for five years?
Answer: From the date of its first meeting
- The last three digits of a PIN code represent?
Answer: Sorting district
- Who was the Viceroy of India at the time of Jallianwala Bagh Massacre?
Answer: Lord Chelmsford
- Which rays will deflect in electric field?
Answer: Cathode rays
- Why is the Gross National Income always more than Net National Income?
Answer: Direct taxes
- In which country was the 2010 Football World Cup held?
Answer: South Africa
- Nal Sarovar Bird Sanctuary is located in which state?
Answer: Gujarat
- What was the first venture of Gandhiji in all-India politics?
Answer: Rowlatt Satyagraha
- Which disease is caused by the bite of a mad dog?
Answer: Hydrophobia
- Which is not the concern of the local government?
Answer: Public Utility Services
- Most of hydrocarbons from petroleum are obtained by which method?
Answer: Fractional distillation
- Which current is produced by upwelling of water off the coast of Chile and Peru?
Answer: Humboldt Current
- During the reign of which Indian National Congress banned and over 1,20,000 persons were arrested?
Answer: Lord Willingdon
- The Musalman, the handwritten daily newspaper in circulation since 1927, is published from which place?
Answer: Chennai
- Under VAT, how many slabs are there?
Answer: 4
- From the biological evolutionary point of view, the human heart is close to the heart of which animal?
Answer: Pig
- Where does the cold Labrador current bring nine months winter?
Answer: Eastern Newfoundland
- Who led the agitation against the Partition of Bengal (1905) ?
Answer: Surendranath Banerjee
General Knowledge Questions and Answers Part 11
- In which year was the Constituent Assembly which framed the Constitution for Independent India set up?
Answer: 1946
- The mass-energy relation is the outcome of which teory?
Answer: Special theory of relativity
- Who is the author of the book ‘India Remembered’?
Answer: Pameia Mountbatten
- Local thunderstorms ‘Norwesters’ are prominent in which state?
Answer: West Bengal
- Who among the following had led the Swadeshi Movement in Delhi?
Answer: Syed Haider Raza
- What are the total members of Security Council–
Answer: 15
- Wisdom teeth normally grow during the which age?
Answer: 17-30 years
- Who presided over the inaugural meeting of the Constituent Assembly of India?
Answer: Sachidananda Sinha
- If the atmosphere is cooled, what is its capacity for water vapour?
Answer: Lowered
- A Buddhist Council during the reign of Kanishka was held at which place?
Answer: Kashmir
- Which alloy used in making heating elements for electric heating devices?
Answer: Nichrome
- By which ministry is Economic survey published?
Answer: Ministry of Finance
- Which organ of UNO is considered as world parliament?
Answer: General Assembly
- A majority of the population of New found land are engaged in which profession?
Answer: Fishing
- Which dynasty was associated with Gandhara school of Art?
Answer: Kushans
- Which disease is characterised by inflammation of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord?
Answer: Meningitis
- Between which a government is federal or unitary on the basis of relations?
Answer: Centre and States
- Which purified oil does Aviation fuel for jet aeroplanes consist?
Answer: Kerosene
- Which country produced 127 lakh metric tones fish in 2010?
Answer: Japan
- Who was appointed by Ashoka to administer justice in his empire?
Answer: Rajuka
- Which is the first multipurpose river valley project of independent India?
Answer: Damodar Valley Corporation
- Who was the first Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission of India?
Answer: Shri V. T. Krishnamachari
- What is Amnesia?
Answer: Related to loss of memory
- Recently reserves of diamond have been reported in Madhya Pradesh from which place?
Answer: Devbhog
- By which name was Chanakya known in his childhood?
Answer: Vishnugupta
- The Ninth Schedule was added by which Amendment?
Answer: First
- The filament of an electric bulb is made of which metal?
Answer: Tungsten
- Who is associated with Tashkent Agreement?
Answer: Lal Bahadur Shastri
- Which metal is used for generation of Nuclear Power?
Answer: Uranium
- In India, where did the Dutch establish their earliest factory?
Answer: Masulipattanam
- Which two countries follow China and India in the decreasing order of their populations?
Answer: USA and Indonesia
- What is the normal cholesterol level in human blood?
Answer: 180-200 mg%
- Which was the first woman film star nominated/ elected to the Rajya Sabha?
Answer: Nargis Dutt
- Anantapur district in Andhra Pradesh is famous for which metal?
Answer: Gold
- Which was the first fort constructed by the British in India?
Answer: Fort St. George
- On which conservation law, does a rocker work?
Answer: Angular momentum
- To which duties is the system of value added taxation applicable?
Answer: Excise duties
- Ogaden region has been a source of conflict between which countries?
Answer: Ethiopia and Somalia
- Silver is obtained from the lead & Zinc ares of Zawar mines in which city?
Answer: Udaipur
- In Indus Valley, which one indicates the commercial and economic development?
Answer: Seals
- What is Syrinx?
Answer: Voice box in Birds
- By whom is the Speaker of the Lok Sabha is elected?
Answer: All the members of Lok Sabha
- Which is the best conductor of electricity ?
Answer: Silve
- Which of the planets is nearest to the earth?
Answer: Venus
- In which year was the Indus Valley Civilisation discovered?
Answer: 1921
- Which first woman to become a Chief Minister of any State in India?
Answer: Sucheta Kripalani
- Howmany of Banks were nationalised since 1969?
Answer: 20
- Which modification of root does not store food?
Answer: Stilt
- Which planet is known as the Earth’s Twin?
Answer: Venus
- Purushsukta is a part of which veda?
Answer: Rigveda
General Knowledge Questions and Answers Part 12
- What does the special status of Jammu and Kashmir imply?
Answer: A separate Constitution
- Through which material does sound travel slowest?
Answer: Wood
- What are the brothers Umakant and Ramakant Gundecha?
Answer: Dhrupad vocalists
- How much the equatorial circumference is greater than the polar circumference?
Answer: Approximately 68 km
- Which was common both to the Harappan society and the Rigvedic society?
Answer: Horses
- Which UN agency has its headquarters at Paris?
Answer: UNESCO
- Vegetative propagation by stem cutting is generally foundation of which plant?
Answer: Sugarcane
- To whom is the Chief Minister of a State responsible?
Answer: Governor
- What is the distance of the equator from either of the poles?
Answer: 10,002 km
- Who was the President of the First Buddhist Council held at Rajagriha?
Answer: Mahakassapa
- By which method is the age of most ancient geological formations estimated?
Answer: C4 method
- Which tax is levied by the Union and collected and appropriated by the States?
Answer: Stamp Duties
- Ban-Ki-Moon the Secretary general of UNO belongs to which country?
Answer: South Korea
- Which layer of the atmosphere provides ideal conditions for flying of jet aeroplanes?
Answer: Stratosphere
- In which state had Gautama Buddha had attained Mahaparinirvan?
Answer: Malia
- Most of the plants obtain nitrogen from the soil in which from?
Answer: Nitrates
- Who is the Father of local self government in India?
Answer: Lord Ripon
- If the temperature inside a room is increased, what will be the relative humidity?
Answer: Decrease
- Which constituents of the atmosphere causes greatest changes in climate and weather?
Answer: Water Vapour
- Who was the last ruler of Sunga dynasty?
Answer: Devabhuti
- What was the pen name of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhaye?
Answer: Kamla Kant
- Which is not a direct tax?
Answer: Tax on entertainment
- Which fungus is responsible for disease late blight of potato?
Answer: Phytophthora infestans
- Which type of forest belt supplies most of the world’s requirement of newsprint?
Answer: Coniferous forest
- Who were the first to establish trade contacts with the Roman empire?
Answer: Tamils
- With which amendment act has Panchayati Raj received constitutional status?
Answer: 73rd
- Which polymer is used for making bulletproof material?
Answer: Polyethylene
- ‘Man-The Maker of His Own Destiny’ book was written by which person?
Answer: Swami Vivekananda
- Which climatic type suffers change due to shifting of the World’s Pressure Belts?
Answer: Monsoon
- Who is considered to be the father of Ayurveda ?
Answer: Charaka
- The United Nations declared 2012 as the International Year of which thing?
Answer: Cooperatives
- Which gland is both exo and endocrine gland?
Answer: Pancreas
- By whom was the Constitution of India adopted?
Answer: Constituent Assembly
- By which the maximum amount of energy in the present day world is provided?
Answer: Coal
- In ancient India, Nalanda University was a great centre for the study of which religion?
Answer: Mahayana Buddhism
- The first law of thermodynamics is concerned with the conservation of which thing?
Answer: Energy
- Which state produces maximum Soya bean?
Answer: Madhya Pradesh
- When is World Day for Water, recognized by the UN observed?
Answer: March 22
- Which country is rich in oil?
Answer: Indonesia
- By whom was the first Muslim invasion of India lead?
Answer: Muharnmad-bin-Oasim
- Which blood vessel bringing blood into Bowman’s capsule?
Answer: Afferent arteriole
- When was the Constituent Assembly for undivided India first met?
Answer: 9th December, 1946
- Which are macro-nutrients provided by inorganic fertilizers?
Answer: Nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium
- Which proper order of seismic waves as they are received at seismograph station?
Answer: P-wave, S-wave, L-wave
- The Arab conquest of Sind took place in which year?
Answer: 712 A.D.
- The United Nations declared 4th week of September which week?
Answer: Peace Week
- What percentage of country’s demand for natural rubber is met by in indigenous production?
Answer: 97%
- Which causes the disease syphilis?
Answer: Bacteria
- Which European country has over 200 volcanoes, many of them still active?
Answer: Iceland
- 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
- Which right conferred by the Constitution of India is also available to non-citizens?
Answer: Freedom to speech
- What is the relative permeability of a paramagnetic material?
Answer: Greater than unity
- The United Nations declared 2008 as which International Year?
Answer: Planet Earth
- On which thing Erosion of soil by a river mainly depends?
Answer: Its speed at which it flows
- What was the main basis of social organization in India during the early medieval period?
Answer: Caste
- Which country stood second in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics medal tally?
Answer: US
- Where is the national institute of nutrition located?
Answer: Hyderabad
- Which is a human right as well as a fundamental right under the Constitution of India?
Answer: Right to Education
- What is the average salt content in a litre of sea water?
Answer: 35 gm
- Why is Sher Shah is well known for his administrative skill,?
Answer: Land revenue system
- In which Tyndall effect is not observed?
Answer: Sugar solution
- Which can be used for checking inflation temporarily?
Answer: Decrease in money supply
- Dhyan Chand’s name is associated with which game?
Answer: Badminton
- Which are the “Horn of Africa”?
Answer: Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia
- By whom was the Sarak-i-Azam which ran from the Indus to Sonargaon (in Bangladesh) built?
Answer: Sher Shah
- Which is Nuclease enzyme begin its attack from free end of polynucleotide?
Answer: Exonuclease
- After howmany years One-third of the members of the Rajya Sabha retire?
Answer: Second year
- A soap bubble is given negative charge then what happen in its radius?
Answer: Increases
- Israel has common borders with which countries?
Answer: Lebanon, Syria, Turkey and Jordan
- The Upanishads were translated into Persian by the orders of which rular?
Answer: Dara Shikoh
- The World Food Prize is given by which organisation/world bodie?
Answer: Kraft general foods
- Who are not protected against inflation?
Answer: Agricultural farmers
- For which is the southern blot technique used for the detection?
Answer: DNA
- Which is the State with the largest area under waste land?
Answer: Jammu and Kashmir
- ‘Padmavat’ of Malik Muhammad Jaisi, a notable, work in Hindi, was completed during which reign?
Answer: Sher Shah
- A Money Bill passed by the Lok Sabha has to be passed/returned by Rajya Sabha within howmany days?
Answer: 14 days
- What dose not contain a hydrophobic structure?
Answer: Rubber
- How many Nobel Prizes have been awarded so far to Indian citizens?
Answer: 3
- In which is the largest population of Scheduled Tribes?
Answer: Madhya Pradesh
- Who commanded the Maratha army in the third battle of Panipat ?
Answer: Sadashiv Rao Bhau
- Tejaswini Sawant is the first Indian woman to be crowned World Champion in which sports?
Answer: Shooting
- Which is the richest source of ascorbic acid?
Answer: Guava
- Which worm reach into intestine of human by eating leaf?
Answer: Tape worm
- Palghat joins which states?
Answer: Kerala and Tamil Nadu
- In which year was Bombay was acquired by the English from the Portuguese?
Answer: 1662
- How can a Change in distribution of powers between the Centre and the States be done?
Answer: Amending the Constitution
- Which is electrical circuits used to get smooth de output from a rectified circuit called?
Answer: Filter
- By which bill does the government make arrangement for the collection of revenues for a year?
Answer: Finance Bill
- Which forms the western boundary of the Indian sub-continent?
Answer: Hindukush
- Uplift of the backward classes was the main programme of which famay?
Answer: Satyashodhak Samaj
- Which international tennis event is played on a grass court?
Answer: Wimbeldon
- By which would Desert plants be characterised?
Answer: By sunken stomata
- The distribution of power between Centre and the States is based on which scheme?
Answer: Government of India Act, 1935
- Which soil is best suited for cotton?
Answer: Regur
- By whom was the practice of Sati was declared illegal?
Answer: Lord William Bentinck
- What is the most satisfactory method for separating sugars?
Answer: Chromatography
- Who is the author of ‘Business @ Speed of Thought?
Answer: Bill Gates
- Which is the ‘basis for determining the national income?
Answer: Production of goods and services
- On the basis of the process of their formation, which soil is formed differently from the other three?
Answer: Regur
- Which helped to develop close ties between the government and the masses?
Answer: Ryotwari Settlement
General Knowledge Questions and Answers Part 14
- Alzheimer’s disease in human beings is characterised by which degeneration?
Answer: Degeneration of nerve cells
- Which Amendment provided for an authoritative version of the Constitution in Hindi?
Answer: 58th
- The absorption of radio waves by the atmosphere depends on which thing?
Answer: Their frequency
- Which crop requires continuous semiaquatic condition for cultivation?
Answer: Rice
- Who was the leader to have the unique distinction of firing the first shot in the rebellion of 1857?
Answer: Mangal Pande
- ‘Na Khatma Hone Wali Kahani’ is the autobiography of which person?
Answer: V. P. Singh
- The world famous ‘Khajuraho’ sculptures are located in which State?
Answer: Madhya Pradesh
- Why is the yellow colour of urine?
Answer: Due to the presence of urochrome
- Which stare is the largest producer of coffee?
Answer: Karnataka
- In the Interim Government formed in the year 1946, who held the portfolio of Defence?
Answer: Baldev Singh
- After howmany years is the President of USA is elected?
Answer: 4 years
- Which enzyme changes maltose into glucose?
Answer: Maltose
- Economic Planning is a subject of which list?
Answer: Union List
- On planet Earth, where is no centrifugal force?
Answer: At the Poles
- From where did Mahatma Gandhi start his historic Dandi March?
Answer: Sabarmati Ashram
- Who is considered as the inventor of the World Wide Web (WWW) ?
Answer: Tim Berners-Lee
- Which of the following will provide maximum roughage to our diet, if taken in equal mass?
Answer: Cabbage
- Which Act gave representation to Indians for the first time in the Legislature?
Answer: Government of India Act, 1935
- Which planet has the longest day and the shortest year?
Answer: Mercury
- Who first voiced the idea of a separate Muslim state in India?
Answer: Mohammad Iqbal
- Which polymer is widely used for making bullet proof material?
Answer: Polyethylene
- Which was the crop during the 13th and 14th Centuries A.D. the Indian peasants did not cultivate?
Answer: Maize
- What is the mean of ‘Take off stage’ in an economy?
Answer: Steady growth begins
- The equator cuts through which island?
Answer: Borneo
- Who was responsible for the integration of Indian Princely States?
Answer: Sardar Patel
- Which three important micronutrients are essential for humans?
Answer: Copper, zinc and iodine
- By which act did the Crown take the Government of India into its own hands?
Answer: Government of India Act, 1858
- What are Carbon, diamond and graphite together called?
Answer: Allotropes
- Which city is associated with the river Mekong?
Answer: Phnom-Penh
- By which was Yavanika (Curtain) introduced in Indian theatre?
Answer: Greeks
- What is the name given to an almost circular coral reef inside which there is a lagoon?
Answer: Atoll
- Chocolates can be bad for health because of a high content of which element?
Answer: Nickel
- In which Photosynthesis occurs?
Answer: Chloroplast
- Which are the important species of the Mediterranean biome?
Answer: Pine, cedar, fir
- At which place was the headless statue of Kanishka found?
Answer: Mathura
- Who has the power to form a new State within the Union of India?
Answer: President
- By whom was Electron first identified?
Answer: J. J. Thomson
- When was EXIM Bank set-up?
Answer: 1982
- The annual average rate of net plant production is highest in which forests?
Answer: Temperate forest
- The religious literature of the Jains at the early stage was written in which language?
Answer: Ardhamagadhi
- Which animal can tolerate more summer heat?
Answer: Donkey
- What is the estimation of age of woody plant by counting annual ring?
Answer: Dendrochronology
- In whom the executive authority of the Union is vested by the Constitution?
Answer: President
- Kula, Kufri, Kajjair and Dalhousie are all tourists place of which state?
Answer: Himachal Pradesh
- Of which Religion-wise the sculpture were found at Kankali tila in Mathura?
Answer: Jaina
- Galvanised iron sheets have a coating of which metal?
Answer: Zinc
- By whom was the famous ‘Kirti Stambha’ at Chittor built?
Answer: Rana Kumbha
- Which is at the apex of Industrial Finance in India?
Answer: Industrial Development Bank of India
- Which state receives rainfall from north-east monsoons?
Answer: Tamil Nadu
- Where are the traces of Portuguese culture found in India?
Answer: Goa
General Knowledge Questions and Answers Part 15
- Soft drinks such as cocoa contain singnificant quantities of which thing?
Answer: Caffein
- By whom is the Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee of the Parliament appointed?
Answer: Speaker of Lok Sabha
- How must be the The lines of force of a uniform magnetic field?
Answer: Parallel to each other
- The Varansi Kanyakumari National Highway is called which national highway?
Answer: NH 7
- Which of the British Officials defeated Portuguese at Sowlley ?
Answer: Thomas Best
- Name of S. Chandrashekhar is associated with which subject?
Answer: Astrophysics
- Which is the official language of Central Bank of West African Bank?
Answer: French
- What is the transfer of pollengrain from pollensac to stigma called?
Answer: Pollination
- What is in terms of the railway system India’s position in the world?
Answer: Fourth
- Where was the first iron and steel industry of India established?
Answer: Jamshedpur
- Who decides whether a particular bill is a Money Bill or not?
Answer: Speaker of Lok Sabha
- Chlorophyll is a naturally occuring chelate compound in, what is the which the central metal in this?
Answer: Magnesium
- What is the most appropriate measure of a country’s economic growth?
Answer: Per capita real income
- Which is the brightest planet?
Answer: Venus
- Who used the phrase ‘Un-British’ to criticize the English colonial control of India?
Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji
- Which is UN special agency and not programme?
Answer: UNDP
- What is the Study of integrated use of microbiology, biochmistry and engineering?
Answer: Biotechnology
- Where is In the Constitution of India, the word ‘Federal’ used?
Answer: Nowhere
- Which planet takes the same number of days for rotation and revolution?
Answer: Venus
- Which element of Hinduism was practised in the Indus Valley Civilization?
Answer: Cult of Shiva
- When a ray of light is going from one medium to another, how is its frequency?
Answer: Frequency remains same
- Who is the author of “The Kalam effect: My years with the president”?
Answer: P.M. Nayer
- CENVAT is associated with which rate?
Answer: Rate of indirect tax
- At the summer solstice, which latitude will have the longest night?
Answer: 60°S
- What was the script of Indus Valley Civilization?
Answer: Undeciphered
- Which branch of science deals with the study of tissue found in the body of organism?
Answer: Histology
- By whom is Recognition to a political party accorded?
Answer: By the Election Commission
- For which thing is Washing soda the common name?
Answer: Sodium carbonate
- Through where does the Tropic of Cancer passes?
Answer: India and Saudi Arabia
- What are Brahmanas ?
Answer: Texts on sacrificial rituals
- Who is the author of the book ‘Freedom from Fear’?
Answer: Aung San Suukyi
- When is Doctor’s Day, Bidhan Chandra Roy Birth Day is observed?
Answer: July 1
- Which hormone is injected into cow and buffalow during milking?
Answer: Oxytocin
- What happens when a sudden fall in the barometric reading?
Answer: Storm
- What is the meaning of ‘Buddha’?
Answer: The Enlightened one
- Which Amendment provided for an authoritative version of the Constitution in Hindi?
Answer: 58th
- Heat given to an ideal gas under isothermal conditions is used in which work?
Answer: In doing external work
- How long does India’s economic zone extend miles off its coast?
Answer: 200
- How is the Relative humidity of the atmosphere directly affected?
Answer: Change in atmospheric temperature
- Kautilya was the Prime Minister of which Indian ruler ?
Answer: Chandragupta Maurya
- When is World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, recognized by the UN observed?
Answer: October 27
- Maximum nutritive element aborbed by blood from which part of alimentary canal?
Answer: Small intestine
- Under whose signature are the members of All-India Services appointed?
Answer: President
- Which climate best suited for horticulture?
Answer: Mediterranean
- Before ascending the Maurya throne, How was Ashoka served?
Answer: As a Viceroy of Taxila
- From which one among the following water sources, the water is likely to be contaminated with fluoride?
Answer: Ground water
- In which year did the first modem Olympic Games take place?
Answer: 1896
- Which neighbouring country has objections on Indian Baglihar Hydro-electric Project?
Answer: Pakistan
- Which region does not receive most of its rainfall during winter?
Answer: Central North America
- What were the two colossal images of the Buddha at Bamiyan?
Answer: Works of the Gupta Art
General Knowledge Questions and Answers Part 16
- Which genetic disease is sex -linked ?
Answer: Royal haemophilia
- What is the part of the Constitution that reflects the mind and ideals of the framers?
Answer: Preamble
- When will a hot body radiate maximum energy?
Answer: If its surface is black and rough
- Which African country is richer than others in gold and diamond?
Answer: Zaire
- Who has been called the ‘Napoleon of India’ ?
Answer: Samudragupta
- Yondieki who set up a new world record in 10,000 meters race, belongs to which country?
Answer: Kenya
- How many players are there on each side in a women’s Basketball game?
Answer: 6
- Who proved that DNA is the basic genetic material?
Answer: Hershey and Chase
- Which is the leading producer of sulphur?
Answer: U.S.A.
- During the reign of which Pallava ruler did the Chinese pilgrim Hieun Tsang visit Kanchi?
Answer: Narasimhavaram
- What does the Preamble of our Constitution contin?
Answer: The spirit of the Constitution
- Which will you put into pure water in order to pass electric current through it?
Answer: Lemon Juice
- Of the various ways of financing government’s investment expenditure, what is the least inflationary?
Answer: Taxation
- In which country are ‘Dykes’ especially constructed?
Answer: Norway
- What was Sher Shah’s real name?
Answer: Farid
- Where did the 1st ODI match was played in India?
Answer: Ahmedabad
- “Green house effect” with respect to global warming refers to which effect?
Answer: Warming effect
- Which State has the largest percentage of reserved parliamentary seats?
Answer: Uttar Pradesh
- For which landform is Colorado in U.S.A. famous?
Answer: Grand Canyon
- Which battle was fought in 1192 A.D. ?
Answer: Second Battle of Tarain
- Which language was used in the literature of Sangam period?
Answer: Tamil
- What is the wavelength of visible spectrum?
Answer: 3900-7600 A
- The fragments of which comet system collided with Jupiter in July 1994 ?
Answer: Shoemaker-Levy 9
- The National Housing Bank was set up in India as a wholly-owned subsidiary of which bank?
Answer: Reserve Bank of India
- Wine production is mainly carried out in natural region?
Answer: Mediterranean region
- Which was the most important factor in transforming ancient Indian society into feudal society?
Answer: Practice of land grants
- Which animal resembles most to human beings in terms of physical and mental capabilities?
Answer: Chimpanzee
- From where can a Member of Parliament claim immunity?
Answer: From civil cases only
- Salts of which element pre vide colours to fireworks?
Answer: Strontiur and barium
- Where are the Postaz temperate grassland?
Answer: Hungary
- Which was the Chola king who conquered the northern part of Sri Lanka and made it a province of his empire?
Answer: Rajaraja
- Where is the largest automobile manufacturing centre in the world located?
Answer: Detroit
- ORT (Oral Rehydration Therapy) is associated with the treatment of which disease?
Answer: Diarrhea
- To suspect HIV/AIDS in a young individual, which symptom is mostly associated with?
Answer: Chronic diarrhoea
- Which is the chief industry of Afghanistan?
Answer: Carpet making
- Why did Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq transfer his capital from Delhi to Daulatabad?
Answer: To control South India better
- With which the executive power relating to concurrent subjects remain?
Answer: The Centre
- We cannot see during a fog. why?
Answer: Because of scattering of light
- Which situation makes a firm most efficient?
Answer: Lowest average costs
- Silk textiles are mainly produced in which countries?
Answer: China and India
- The Portuguese traveller, Nuniz visited Vijayanagar during the reign of which rular?
Answer: Achyuta Raya
- Which type of coal is difficult to light in the open air?
Answer: Peat
- Leukaemia or blood cancer is characterised by abnormal increase of which cells?
Answer: White blood cells
- Howmany subjects are in the Union list?
Answer: 97 subjects
- Which instrument instrument used for recording earthquake waves?
Answer: Seismograph
- Which Mughalemperor gave land for the construction of the Golden Temple at Amritsar?
Answer: Akbar
- What does Oxidation involve?
Answer: Loss of electrons
- Among South Asian countries which one is the Maternal Mortality Ratio (per 1,000 live births) lowest?
Answer: Bangladesh
- What is meant by ‘Underwriting’, the term frequently used in financial sector?
Answer: Under valuation of the assets
- ‘Caldera’ is a feature associated with which thing?
Answer: Volcanoes
General Knowledge Questions and Answers Part 17
- Which Part of plant is important for the life cycle of plant?
Answer: Flower
- By which committee were Mandai Panchayats recommended?
Answer: Ashok Mehta Committee
- What will be If a pendulum clock be taken from the earth to a revolving artificial satellite?
Answer: It will stop altogether
- Which city is associated with the river Mekong?
Answer: Phnom-Penh
- Which decisive battle was fought during the Third Carnatic War between the English and the French?
Answer: Wandiwash
- Coolgardie lies in the Australian province of which direction?
Answer: Western Australia
- Gum Gopi Krishna was a maestro of which dance form?
Answer: Kathak
- Which is an insectivorous plant?
Answer: Pitcher plant
- A ship met with an accident at 30°E and 35°N. Where was the ship was sailing?
Answer: Mediterranean
- Under the leadership of which Guru did the Sikh become a political and military force?
Answer: Guru Gobind Singh
- A far-sighted person has a near point at 100 cm. What must be the power of the correcting lens?
Answer: +3.0 D
- Which Indian was honoured by the World Statesman Award, 2012?
Answer: Stephen Harper
- By which band is Monetary policy regulated?
Answer: Central Bank
- Strait of Florida runs in between which water bodies?
Answer: Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico
- During whose reign did the Mongols first invade India?
Answer: Iltutmish
- What is the green color of plants produced from organelles?
Answer: Chloroplasts
- According to which system are the members of the Rajya Sabha elected?
Answer: Single Transferable Vote System
- Which fuel causes minimum environmental pollution?
Answer: Hydrogen
- Which Strait separates Asia from North America?
Answer: The Bering Strait
- Who was contemporary of Namdev?
Answer: Sena
- The ODI Player of the Year 2012’ Award was given by ICC to which India cricketer?
Answer: Virat Kohli
- Who has created world record in the men’s 100 metres sprint event at 2008 Olympic Games?
Answer: Usain Bolt
- Which ceil organelles function as the power house of a living cell ?
Answer: Mitochondria
- Which States of the U.S.A. are attached to Mexico?
Answer: California and Texas
- Who was the earliest Sufi Saint to have settled at Ajmer?
Answer: Sheikh Moinuddin Chisti
- The members of the State Legislative Assembly are elected for what period?
Answer: 5 years
- How many image can a man see if he stands between two plane mirrors inclined at an angle of 60°?
Answer: 5
- What is the basic attribute of a formal organization?
Answer: Rules and regulations
- Khartoum is situated at the confluence of which rivers?
Answer: White Nile and Blue Nile
- Under which reign did Mughal Empire extend up to Tamil territory in the South?
Answer: Aurangzeb
- The Winter Olympic came into being in which year?
Answer: 1924
- By which Transfer of genetic information from one generation to the other is accomplished?
Answer: By transfer RNA
- Which One feature is distinguishing the Rajya Sabha from the vidhan Parishad?
Answer: Indirect election
- Which is the suthernmost city?
Answer: Raipur
- Which Rajput mansabdar revolted against Aurangzeb ?
Answer: Durgadas Rathore
- Which hydrocarbon is mainly present in gobar gas?
Answer: Methane
- Who wrote the book Babubivah?
Answer: Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
- If the price of an inferior good falls, what about its demand?
Answer: Remains constant
- Which gulf would have to be crossed to reach Sri Lanka from Nagercoil ?
Answer: Gulf of Mannar
- Which was the last governor of Bengal appointed by the Mughal emperor?
Answer: Murshid Quli Khan
- Alpha-keratin is a protein present in which thing?
Answer: Wool
- Where was the first session of the Constituent Assembly held?
Answer: New Delhi
- Which used as ‘a moderator in nuclear reactor?
Answer: Graphite
- Which planet looks reddish in the night sky?
Answer: Mars
- What was the source of the blue gem stone, lapis lazuli, for the people of Harappan culture?
Answer: Afghanistan
- Sachin Tendulkar scored his 100th international century against which’ country ?
Answer: Bangladesh
- In baseball, the two opposing teams consist of howmany players?
Answer: 9 players each
- The improper function of which results in condition ‘Myxedema’ in human beings?
Answer: Thyroid gland
- In 1610, Galileo Galilei discovered four moons of which planet?
Answer: Jupiter
- In the Vedic society, which was the term used to denote a group of families?
Answer: Grama
General Knowledge Questions and Answers Part 18
- Who was the Chairman’ of the Union Constitution Committee of the Constituent Assembly?
Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru
- Which element that does not occur in nature but can be produced artificially?
Answer: Plutonium
- When had India a plan holiday?
Answer: After the drought of 1966
- How are Latitude and Longitude?
Answer: Perpendicular to each other
- Which Philosophy holds that the world is created and maintained by Universal Law?
Answer: Jain Philosophy
- Which book is authored by V.S. Naipaul ?
Answer: A House for Mr. Biswas
- Which can be used for biological control of mosquitoes?
Answer: Gambusia
- Which proclamation of National Emergency automatically suspends?
Answer: Right to freedom
- The latitude of a place is the same as which place?
Answer: Celestial pole
- What was the script used in the earliest Tamil inscriptions?
Answer: Brahmi
- In which technology do Cryogenic engines find applications?
Answer: Rocket technology
- Shovna Narayan is a reputed personality in which field?
Answer: Classical dance
- During which Plan did prices show a decline?
Answer: First
- Which instrument used for finding out wind-direction?
Answer: Wind vane
- Which ports handled the north Indian trade during the Gupta period?
Answer: Broach
- Which vitamin is considered to be a hormone?
Answer: D
- On the basis of financial crisis howmany times has emergency been declared by the President of India?
Answer: Not even once
- Which is the element found on the surface of the moon?
Answer: Titanium
- Why is ‘Beaufort Scale’ used ?
Answer: To measure wind velocity
- Which Tomar ruler is credited to have established Delhi?
Answer: Anangpal
- ‘My Music, My Life’ is the autobiography of which person?
Answer: Pt. Ravi Shankar
- Which was the first talkie film of India?
Answer: Alam Ara
- Through which Translocation of food materials in plants takes place?
Answer: Phloem
- When does Relative humidity decreases?
Answer: With increased temperature
- Who was the Sultan of Delhi who is reputed to have built the biggest network of canals in India?
Answer: Feroze Shan Tughlaq
- What type of Party system has been evolved in India?
Answer: Multi-Party
- A man with a dark skin, in comparison with a man with a white skin, What will experience?
Answer: Less heat and less cold
- Which bank is the Banker of the Banks?
Answer: RBI
- Where are a large number of species are found within a small unit of area?
Answer: Wet evergreen equatorial forests
- Krishnadeva Raya wrote a famous work, namely Amuktamalyada, in which language?
Answer: Telugu
- Folk painting ‘Madhubani’ is famous in which state?
Answer: Bihar
- Which is the tree requiring minimum water for its growth?
Answer: Babul
- Which post does the Constitution of India does not mention?
Answer: The Deputy Prime Minister
- Which country is the largest producer of Bauxite?
Answer: Australia
- Which Indian rulers was a contemporary of Akbar?
Answer: Rani Durgawati
- How are Oxygen and ozone?
Answer: Allotropes
- From where did India introduce cultivation of tobacco/tapioca/ pineapple?
Answer: South America
- When was the Reserve Bank of India taken over by the Government?
Answer: 1948
- Which is found on the western coast of continents between 30° and 40° latitudes?
Answer: Mediterranean Climate Region
- Which school of paintings developed independently during the Mughal Period?
Answer: The Bijapur School
- In which is ‘Foot and Mouth Disease’ found?
Answer: Cattle
- Who decides the number of Judges in a High Court?
Answer: President
- What denotes the smallest temperature?
Answer: 1° on the Kelvin scale
- In which latitudes largest quantities of bauxite is found?
Answer: Tropical latitudes
- Which was the first English ship that came to India?
Answer: Red Dragon
- Which tree, once very popular in social forestry, is now taken to be environmental hazard?
Answer: Eucalyptus
- Foot-and-Mouth disease in animals, a current epidemic in some parts of the world, By which is this caused?
Answer: Bacterium
- In which animal is respiration done by skin?
Answer: Frog
- The Ruhr-Westphalia region is a famous industrial region of which country?
Answer: Germany
General Knowledge Questions and Answers Part 19
- Which was the first newspaper to be published in India?
Answer: Bengal Gazette
- With which does the power to extend or restrict the jurisdiction of the High Court rest?
Answer: With the Parliament
- ‘Gobar gas’ contains mainly which gas?
Answer: Methane
- Which is the biggest Public Sector undertaking in the country?
Answer: Railways
- Which rocks is transformed into marble?
Answer: Limestone
- Which ‘Englishmen was fellow of Gandhiji in South Africa?
Answer: Polak
- By which number the quality of gasoline’ sample is determined?
Answer: By its octane number
- Due to bite of mad dog the disease hydrophobia is caused by which virus?
Answer: Rabies virus
- Who appoints the Chief Election Commissioner of India?
Answer: President
- What is the principal reason for the formation of metamorphic rocks?
Answer: Extreme heat and pressure
- Who said “I therefore want freedom immediately, this very night, before dawn if it can be had”?
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
- A temperature at which both the Fahrenheit and the centigrade scales have the same value?
Answer: -40°
- With which is the ‘Tennis court oath’ associated?
Answer: French Revolution
- Which is the tax that takes away a higher proportion of one’s income as the income rises?
Answer: Progressive tax
- Where is the Sargasso sea located?
Answer: North Atlantic Ocean
- Who com merited that Cripps Mission was a postdated cheque on a crashing bank?
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
- Medicine for epilepsy is obtain from which lichen?
Answer: Parmelia
- Up to howmuch age can the Members of the Union Public Service Commission function?
Answer: 65 years
- Which type of glass is used for making glass reinforced plastic?
Answer: Quartz glass
- Which is the greatest known ocean depth (which lies in the Pacific Ocean)?
Answer: 11,033 m
- At which one place did Mahatma Gandhi first start his Satyagraha in India?
Answer: Champaran
- With which country is “Orange’ Revolution” associated?
Answer: Ukraine
- With which field was Pandit Bhimsen Joshi associated?
Answer: Music’s
- What percentage of water is lost during transpiration?
Answer: 99%
- Which is the most populous city in the world?
Answer: Tokyo
- By which ruler was the practice of military governorship first introduced in India?
Answer: Greeks
- Which country has the briefest Constitution in the world?
Answer: USA
- When temperature is gradually decreased, what is the specific heat of substance?
Answer: Decreased
- What is the mean of Invisible Export?
Answer: Export Services
- Which is the country with the highest density of population in Europe?
Answer: Netherlands
- Bhakt Tukaram was a contemporary of which Mughal emperor?
Answer: Jahangir
- Who was the first person to cross the Alps with army?
Answer: Hannibal
- What is the loss of water in the form of water drops called?
Answer: Guttation
- Who was made the Home Minister when Jawaharlal Nehru formed the Interim Government in 1946 ?
Answer: Sardar Patel
- Which foreign country is closest to Andarnan Islands?
Answer: Myanmar
- Who was called Zinda Pir (living saint) in Mughal India?
Answer: Aurangzeb
- Which metal is non toxic in nature?
Answer: Gold
- Which is the latest addition to the list of UNESCO’s world heritage sites in India?
Answer: Red Fort
- Which committee was assigned to recommend reforms in the insurance sector?
Answer: Malhotra Committee
- Which State shares boundaries with the maximum number of other States of India ?
Answer: Assam
- The first railway line in India was opened in which year?
Answer: 1853
- What is Study of growth and development of embryo?
Answer: Embryology
- What is the minimum permissible age for employment in any factory or mine?
Answer: 14 years
- Angular separation between two colours of the spectrum depends upon which thing?
Answer: Angle of deviation
- Which mountain range stretches from Gujarat in west to Delhi in the north?
Answer: Aravallis
- In which nomad man started settling?
Answer: Neolithic Age
- Where is the headquarter of International atomic Energy Agency is located?
Answer: Vienna
- The book ‘Diplomatic Encounter’ has been written by which author?
Answer: Arundhati Roy
- What is the Study of pulse and arterial blood pressure called?
Answer: Sphygmology
- The Himalayas are formed of parallel fold ranges of which the oldest range?
Answer: The Great Himalayan Range
- Rigveda is divided into 10 books. Which books are the oldest?
Answer: Second and seventh
General Knowledge Questions and Answers Part 20
- Who is competent to prescribe conditions as for acquiring Indian citizenship?
Answer: Parliament
- Which is the element that has the highest first ionization potential?
Answer: Nitrogen
- During which Plan did prices show a decline?
Answer: First
- Which state has the largest number of salt lakes in India?
Answer: Rajasthan
- Who was the last of the 24th Jain Tirthankaras?
Answer: Mahavira
- Who is the author of the book ‘The Rights of Man’?
Answer: Thomas Paine
- What is considered as the easily digestable source of protein?
Answer: Soyabean
- When the Vice-President acts as President he gets the emoluments of which post?
Answer: President
- Which port especially developed for exporting iron ore to Japan?
Answer: Paradeep
- Which site, where Ashokan pillars exist, has the bull capital?
Answer: Rampurva
- Total internal reflection of light is possible when light enters from which thing?
Answer: Water to air
- The book ‘Worshipping False Gods’s is written by which person?
Answer: Arun Shourie
- When was the Rolling plan designed?
Answer: 1978-83
- Which is a global biodiversity hotspot in India?
Answer: Western Ghats
- During which reign was Kalidasa lived?
Answer: Chandragupta II
- In the human body, cowper’s glands form a part of which system?
Answer: Reproductive system
- The resolution for removing the Vice-President of India can be moved in which sabha?
Answer: Rajya Sabha alone
- Which transition metal is in liquid state?
Answer: Mercury
- Which type of forest exhibits highest bio-diversity ?
Answer: Tropical rain forest
- Which Rashtrakuta ruler established a victory pillar in Rameshwaram ?
Answer: Krishna III
- Who directed the famous T.V. serial ‘Tandoori Nights’?
Answer: Saeed Jaffrey
- The UNESCO declared 2011 as which International Year?
Answer: International Year of Chemistry
- In absence of ribosome in cell which function does not takes place?
Answer: Protein synthesis
- Where are Tapovan and Vishnugarh Hydroelectric Projects located?
Answer: Uttarakhand
- Who was the last ruler of the Tughlaq dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate ?
Answer: Nasir-ud-din-Mahmud
- To whom does the Public Accounts Committee submit its report?
Answer: The Speaker of the Lok Sabha
- If a bar magnet is cut length wise into 3 parts, what will the total number of poles be?
Answer: 6
- Why does the Issue Department of the RBI maintain a against printing of note?
Answer: Minimum Reserve System
- With which river is the Omkareshwar Project associated?
Answer: Narmada
- The ruler which was not invited to join the confederacy to fight against Vijaynagar in the battle of Talikota?
Answer: Berar
- The United Nations declared 2010 as which International Year?
Answer: Rapprochement of Cultures
- Which tissue take part in healing the wounds?
Answer: Epithelium tissue
- Which is the highest and final judicial tribunal in respect of the Constitution of India?
Answer: Supreme Court
- What is the state the main activity associated with the fold mountain?
Answer: Earthquakes
- Who was the Afghan ruler of India whose administrative system was emulated by the British?
Answer: Sher Shah
- Temporary hardness of water is due to the presence of which thing?
Answer: Magnesium bicarbonate
- Regatta is associated with which sports event?
Answer: Rowing
- Rupee was devalued by what percent in July 1991?
Answer: 20 Percent
- What is the term as the drainage pattern developed on folded sedimentary rocks?
Answer: Trellis
- Whose tomb is ‘Biwi Ka Maqbara’?
Answer: Aurangzeb’s wife
- Which energy do not have the problem of pollution?
Answer: Sun
- When was the Madras State renamed Tamil Nadu?
Answer: 1969
- What is a suitable unit for expressing electric field strength?
Answer: N/C
- Rotation of the earth causes deflection of wind by which force?
Answer: Coriolis force
- Who organised a Maratha confederacy against the English leading to the Third Anglo Maratha War?
Answer: The Peshwa
- Which woman has become the highest individual scorer in an innings in Tests?
Answer: Kiran Baloch
- What is the name of the person that controls a football match?
Answer: An umpire
- Which air pollutant affect the nervous system of man?
Answer: Lead
- Which is the chief characteristics of wet and dry tropics?
Answer: Constant heating
- By whom was Shuddhi movement (conversion of non-Hindus to Hinduism) started?
Answer: Swami Dayanand Saraswati
