General Knowledge Questions and Answers, Current Affairs, Gk, Quizzes

Wednesday, August 6, 2014

General Knowledge Questions and Answers 5

1 In which cartoon series do the characters Chef and
Cartman appear?
2 Who wrote Great Expectations?
3 What is a champignon?
4 In which country is the port of Dieppe?
5 What does an ammeter measure?
6 What was the full name of the US president known as
LBJ?
7 What is the common name for ethanoic acid?
8 What name was given to the literary movement in the
USA in the 1950s of which William Burroughs and
Jack Kerouac were prominent writers?
9 About 70 per cent of Venezuela’s total oil production is
obtained in and around which lake?
10 What nationality is author Gabriel Garcia Marquez?
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Quiz 15
ANSWERS:
1 Switzerland, 2 Measure for Measure, 3 Maharajah, 4 The Bay of Pigs,
5 Leon, 6 Walter de la Mare, 7 Baseball, 8 Dialysis, 9 Hilaire Belloc, 10 The
Pilgrim Fathers.

General Knowledge Questions and Answers 4

1 What name is more commonly given to a tree of the
genus Taxus?
2 What is the only form of gambling permitted in the
British armed forces?
3 What is the name of Katharina’s younger sister in
Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew?
4 In The Pilgrim’s Progress, what is the name of the
hero?
5 In which novel by George du Maurier does the
character Svengali appear?
6 Which island is also called Rapa Nui and Isla de
Pascua?
7 Which Hebrew prophet picked up the mantle as
successor to Elijah?
8 In Mary Shelley’s novel, what is the first name of
Dr Frankenstein?
9 To which novel by Robert Louis Stevenson is Catriona
the sequel?
10 What is the subtitle of Dvorák’s Symphony No 9 in E

minor?
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Quiz 14
ANSWERS:
1 South Park, 2 Charles Dickens, 3 An edible fungus, 4 France, 5 Electrical
current, 6 Lyndon Baines Johnson, 7 Acetic acid, 8 The Beat Movement,
9 Lake Maracaibo, 10 Colombian.

General Knowledge Questions and Answers 3

1 Which colour is produced by adding together yellow
and cyan?
2 Which disease carried by bark beetles was first
described in The Netherlands in 1919?
3 What was invented by Sir Frank Whittle in 1930?
4 On which area of the moon did Armstrong, Aldrin and
Collins make their landing on 20 July 1969?
5 For which film did Steven Spielberg win an Oscar for
Best Director at the 1999 Academy Awards?
6 What is the British English word for the eggplant?
7 Which French town on the Scarpe River gave its name
to a type of tapestry?
8 Which musical set in the slums of New York is based
on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet?
9 The movie Apocalypse Now is based on the book
Heart of Darkness by which author?
10 The Quarrymen was the original name of which pop
group?
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Quiz 13
ANSWERS:
1 Yew, 2 Bingo, 3 Bianca, 4 Christian, 5 Trilby, 6 Easter Island, 7 Elisha,
8 Victor, 9 Kidnapped, 10 From the New World.

General Knowledge Questions and Answers 2

1 Who succeeded Yuri Andropov as leader of the Soviet
Union in 1984?
2 What was the name of the submarine in the TV series
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea?
3 Which actor played James Bond in GoldenEye?
4 With which Italian motor company is the Agnelli family
associated?
5 Of which Canadian province is St John’s the capital?
6 Which English adventurer and courtier to Elizabeth I
was executed in 1618?
7 In which country did the rottweiler originate?
8 Which Pulp Fiction actor starred in the remake of the
movie Shaft?
9 Who wrote the novel Roots: The Saga of an American
Family?
10 Which Turkish dish comprises thin layers of filo pastry
containing nuts and honey?
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Quiz 12
ANSWERS:
1 Green, 2 Dutch Elm Disease, 3 The jet engine, 4 Sea of Tranquility,
5 Saving Private Ryan, 6 Aubergine, 7 Arras, 8 West Side Story, 9 Joseph
Conrad, 10 The Beatles.

General Knowledge Questions and Answers 1

1 What is corium?
2 Which Stanley Kubrick film was based on a Stephen
King novel and starred Jack Nicholson?
3 ‘Indices’ is the plural of which word?
4 Zr is the symbol of which chemical element?
5 Which drug is known in Australia as ‘twang’?
6 To which part of the body does the adjective ‘rhinal’
refer?
7 What was the name of the character played by Tracey
Ullman in the television drama series Ally McBeal?
8 In which play by Shakespeare does the character
Beatrice appear?
9 Which US state is further east: Ohio or Wyoming?
10 ‘Bitser’ is an Australian word for which animal?
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Quiz 11
ANSWERS:
1 Konstantin Chernenko, 2 Seaview, 3 Pierce Brosnan, 4 Fiat,
5 Newfoundland, 6 Sir Walter Raleigh, 7 Germany, 8 Samuel L Jackson,
9 Alex Haley, 10 Baklava.

General knowledge quiz questions

1.Which bank cannot issue certificate of deposit – RRB’s
and local area bank

2. What is term deposit ? – Fixed Deposits and Recurring
Deposit.

3. Fastest mode of transaction: RTGS

4. International Women’s day is celebrated on: 8th March

5. RBI measure to liquidate the market: Repo rate

General knowledge quiz

1. Fastest mode of transfer ‐ through mobile mode
2. Minimum limit in RTGS – 2 Lakh
3. New Pakistan Envoy to India‐ Abdul Basit
4. Australian swimmer who under gone shoulder surgery –
Ian Thorpe
5. Ranbaxy is the company of – Sun Pharma