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General Knowledge Questions


The general knowledge questions and answers for you to test your knowledge about the current affairs.

Question : Who has been appointed the National Security Adviser by the UPA Government?


Answer : J. N. Daxit

Question : Who is the new Chief Minister of Karnataka?


Dharam Singh

Question : Who among the following has won the Miss Universe 2004 crown?


Answer : Jennifer Hawkins

Question : Which cricketer holds the world record of maximum number of sixes in Tests?


Answer : Chris Carins (New Zealand)

Question : Who has been appointed the new Chief Justice of India?


Answer : Justice R. C. Lahoti

Question : Which sports persons got the honour of lighting the Olympic flame at the Major Dhyan Chand Stadium in New Delhi recently?


Answer : Anjali Bhagwat

Question : Which planet crossed the face of the sun (in transit) after 122 years recently?


Answer : Venus

Question : Which country was readmitted to the Commonwealth recently?    Answer : Pakistan

Question : Who won the men’s singles title of the French Open 2004?
Answer : Gaston Gaudio

Question : Who is India’s first Woman Grand Master in Chess?


Answer : Koneru Humpy

Question : How can the age of the tree be determined?


Answer : Counting the annual growth rings of its stem

Question : Where is the Lingaraja Temple built during the medieval period?


Answer : Bhubaneswar

Question : Which Delhi Sultans is known for introducing market control mechanism?


Answer : Alauddin Khalji

Question : Which mountain peaks of the Himalayas is NOT in India?


Answer : Annapurna

Question : Who is the author of the book, “The Man Who Divided India”?


Answer : Rafiq Zakaria

General Knowledge Test

General Knowledge Test


The most easiest general knowledge questions answers that can help you test your IQ level.

Question : What country produces Rioja wines?


Answer: Spain

Question : Who was the favourite daughter of Shakespeare’s King Lear?


Answer : Cordelia

Question : Which is the brightest star?


Answer: Sirius

Question : Which star has collapsed into itself? Answer : Black Hole

Question : Which is the heaviest star?
Answer : HDE 269810 IN Magellanic Cloud

Question : Which Australkian city includes the suburbs of Cottesloe and Subiaco? Answer : Perth

Question : Who discovered Oxygen in 1774?
Answer : Joseph Priestly

Question : Name the author of A Town Like Alice


Answer : Nevil Shute

Question : How many Earth years does it take Pluto to orbit the sun?


Answer : 248

Question : What name is given to the central part of a fleshy fruit, containing the seeds?


Answer : The core

Question: What letter appears to the right of Y on a keyboard?


Answer : U

Question : What is it that makes soda water fizz?


Answer : Carbon Dioxide

Question : What disease is the Sabin Vaccine used to prevent?


Answer : Polio

Question : Name the actor grandfather of Drew Barrymore.


Answer : John Barrymore

Question : Who is the female host of the television show, Better Homes and Gardens? Answer : Noni Hazlehurst



Question: Which comedian once said, “A well-balanced person has a drink in each hand”?
Answer: Billy Connolly

Geographical Sobriquets

Geographical Sobriquets


Geographical Sobriquets

Surname

Name

Bengal’s Sorrow

Damodar River

Blue Mountains

Nilgiri Hills

City of Sky-scrapers

New York

City of Seven Hills

Rome

City of Dreaming Spires

Oxford

City of  palaces

Kolkata

City of Golden Gate

San Francisco

City of Magnificent Buildings

Washington D.C.

City of Eternal Springs

Quito(S.America)

China’s Sorrow

Hwang Ho

Cockpit of Europe

Belgium

Dark Continent

Africa

Emerald Isle

Ireland

Eternal City

Rome

Empire City

New York

Forbidden City

Lhasa (Tibet)

Garden City

Chicago

Gate of Tears

Strait of Bab-el Mandeb

Gateway  of India

Mumbai

Gift of the Nile

Eqypt

Granite City

Aberdeen (Scotland)

Hermit Kingdom

Korea

Herring Pond

Atlantic Ocean

Holy Land

Jerusalem

Island Continent

Australia

Island of Cloves

Zanzibar

Isle of Pearls

Bahrein (Peesian Gulf)

Key of the Mediterranean

Gibralter

Land of Cakes

Scotland

Land of Golden Fleece

Australia

Land of Maple Leaf

Canada

Land of Midnight Sun

Norway

Land of the Thousand Lakes

Finland

Land of the Thunderbolt

Bhutan

Land of white Elephant

Thailand

Land of Five Rivers

Punjab

Land of Thousand Elephants

Laos

Land of Rising Sun

Japan

Loneliest Island

Tristan De Gunha (Mid-Atlantic)

Manchester of Japan

Osaka

Pillars of Hercules

Strait of Gibraltar

Pearl of the Antilles

Cuba

Playground of Europe

Switzerland

Quaker City

Philadelphia

Queen of the Adriatic

Venice

Roof of the World

The Pamirs

Rose Pink City

Jaipur

Sugar bowl of the World

Cuba

Venice of the North

Stockholm

Windy City

Chicago

Whirteman’s grave

Guinea Coast of Africa

Yellow River

Huang Ho (China)

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