Comprehensive General Knowledge Questions and Answers

Earth is called:
(a) Yellow planet (b) Red Planet
(c) Green Planet (d) Blue Planet
Answer: (d)

The capital of Czech Republic:
(a) Prague (b) Berlin
(c) Reykjavik (d) Athens
Answer: (a)

Kalaalit Nunat is the official name of ….. in native language:
(a) Greenland (b) Denmark
(c) Iceland (d) Norway
Answer: (a)

‘7 Race Course Road’ is the official residence of …… of India.
(a) President (b) Prime Minister
(c) Speaker (d) Leader of opposition
Answer: (b)

The country helped for the construction of Bokaro steel plant:
(a) Japan (b) Former Soviet Union
(c) USA (d) Canada
Answer: (b)

Which soil is also known as ‘Regur soil’?
(a) Laterite (b) Red soil
(c) Black soil (d) Alluvial soil
Answer: (c)

Indira Sagar dam is in:
(a) Narmada (b) Tapti
(c) Kshipra (d) Ganga
Answer: (a)

Trishna National Park is in:
(a) Tripura (b) Manipur
(c) Meghalaya (d) Nagaland
Answer: (a)

Kalimpong is a hill station in:
(a) West Bengal (b) Uttar Pradesh
(c) Uttarakhand (d) Himachal Pradesh
Answer: (a)

The distance between the rails in broad gauge line:
(a) 1.67 m (b) 1.4 m
(c) 1 m (d) 762 mm
Answer: (a)

Who sacked Nalanda University in the 12th century?
(a) Sher Shah (b) Bakthiyar Khilji
(c) Balban (d) Iltutmish
Answer: (b)

Who led Swethambara sect of Jainism after schism?
(a) Bhadrabahu (b) Jamali
(c) Kharavela (d) Sthulabahu
Answer: (d)

The founder of the Satavahana dynasty:
(a) Dantidurga (b) Simuka
(c) Simhavishnu (d) Vasudeva
Answer: (b)

What was the real name of Sher Shah?
(a) Ulugh Khan (b) Nasiruddin
(c) Farid (d) Salim
Answer: (c)

Guru Nanak was born in:
(a) 1469 (b) 1539
(c) 1479 (d) 1459
Answer: (a)

The Viceroy when Muslim League was formed in 1906:
(a) Minto II (b) Hardinge II
(c) Chelmsford (d) Chelmsford
Answer: (a)

The first person to appear on the stamp of independent India:
(a) Nehru (b) Sardar Patel
(c) Mahatma Gandhi (d) Rajendraprasad
Answer: (c)

Who was known as ‘the lion of Punjab’?
(a) Bhagat Singh (b) Lajpat Rai
(c) Ajith Singh (d) Chandrasekhar Azad
Answer: (b)

In which year Gandhiji withdrew from active politics and devoted himself to constructive programmes?
(a) 1934 (b) 1935
(c) 1936 (d) 1937
Answer: (a)

The first session of the Constituent Assembly was held in:
(a) 1944 (b) 1945
(c) 1946 (d) 1947
Answer: (c)

The President of India who signed the declaration of internal emergency:
(a) Rajendraprasad (b) Dr. Radhakrishnan
(c) Fakruddin Ali Ahmed (d) None of these
Answer: (c)

Whose resting place is ‘Veer Bhumi’?
(a) Indira Gandhi (b) Rajiv Gandhi
(c) Lal Bahadur Shastri (d) Narasimha Rao
Answer: (b)

Rajya Sabha was formed on 3rd April, ……
(a) 1947 (b) 1948
(c) 1950 (d) 1952
Answer: (d)

The law-making procedure in India has been copied from:
(a) Ireland (b) USA
(c) Britain (d) Canada
Answer: (c)

Fourteen Indian banks were nationalised in:
(a) 1980 (b) 1949
(c) 1959 (d) 1969
Answer: (d)

Who invented the mobile phone?
(a) Martin Cooper (b) Sorenson
(c) Cockerel (d) J.J. Thomson
Answer: (a)

Paleontology is related to:
(a) Soil (b) Fossils
(c) Stamps (d) Drugs
Answer: (b)

The author of Jurassic Park:
(a) Michael Crichton (b) H.G. Wells
(c) Arthur Conan Doyle (d) Aldous Huxley
Answer: (a)

The first American to get a Nobel Prize (1906):
(a) Sinclair Lewis (b) Woodrow Wilson
(c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Theodore Roosevelt
Answer: (d)

The day on which Magsaysay Awards are distributed:
(a) December 11 (b) December 10
(c) August 31 (d) July 31
Answer: (c)

Number of permanent members in the UN Security Council:
(a) 5 (b) 10
(c) 15 (d) 6
Answer: (a)

World Haemophilia Day:
(a) April 27 (b) April 7
(c) April 17 (d) April 18
Answer: (c)

Who said, “Work like a bull; live like a hermit”?
(a) Gandhiji (b) Winston Churchill
(c) Edison (d) B.R. Ambedkar
Answer: (d)

The first test-tube baby in the world was born in:
(a) 1978 (b) 1979
(c) 1980 (d) 1981
Answer: (a)

In which book is ‘Sher Khan’ a character?
(a) Jungle Book (b) Kim
(c) Moby Dick (d) Robinson Crusoe
Answer: (a)

The first modem was invented by:
(a) Bell Company (b) Microsoft
(c) Apple (d) Lenovo
Answer: (a)

Number of hydrogen atoms in a water molecule:
(a) 1 (b) 2
(c) 3 (d) 4
Answer: (b)

The process of extracting pure water from sea water is:
(a) Fragmentation (b) Combustion
(c) Distillation (d) Evaporation
Answer: (c)

Which is known as ‘Yellow Cake’?
(a) Titanium dioxide (b) Lead trioxide
(c) Uranium oxide (d) None of these
Answer: (c)

Pineapple was brought to India by the:
(a) Dutch (b) Portuguese
(c) French (d) British
Answer: (b)

Plant that produces fruits once in life:
(a) Coffee (b) Tea
(c) Magnolia (d) Plantain
Answer: (d)

The wood used for making ‘Veena’ and ‘Tamburu’:
(a) Jackfruit tree (b) Teak
(c) Mahogany (d) Deodar
Answer: (a)

The largest lizard:
(a) Crocodile (b) Komodo Dragon
(c) Goliath beetle (d) Anaconda
Answer: (b)

Which organism has the heaviest brain?
(a) Elephant (b) Hippopotamus
(c) Sperm Whale (d) Rhinoceros
Answer: (c)

In which continent can Yak be seen?
(a) Africa (b) Asia
(c) Europe (d) Australia
Answer: (b)

Degrees of longitude are …… km apart at the equator:
(a) 111 (b) 100
(c) 90 (d) 89
Answer: (a)

The only country in the Indian subcontinent which does not share a border with China:
(a) Myanmar (b) Bhutan
(c) Nepal (d) Bangladesh
Answer: (d)

The second smallest nation in the world by population:
(a) San Marino (b) Tuvalu
(c) Nauru (d) Palau
Answer: (b)

In which language was ‘Jana Gana Mana’ originally composed?
(a) Bengali (b) Hindi
(c) Urdu (d) English
Answer: (a)

The largest district in India:
(a) Leh (b) Jaisalmer
(c) Kachchh (d) Medinipur
Answer: (a)