General Knowledge Questions and Answers, Current Affairs, Gk, Quizzes : 2014

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

General knowledge question answer

1. Full form of SLR – Statuatory Liquidity Ratio

2. CRR is kept with‐ RBI

3. Which country changes their national flag recently: New
Zealand

4. If liquidity exceeds what RBI will do ? – Increase the
Repo rates and subsequently all other rates will
increase.

5. World’s highest building‐ Burj khaleefa

General knowledge questions answers

1. At which rate reserve bank give loans to commercial
bank: Repo rate
2. Foreign currency exchanged rate is called: Forex rate or
Foreign Exchange rate
3. Who won national women football
championship: Manipu
4. APJ Abdul Kalam was awarded with Knighthood Award.
Knighthood Award was given in which field: awarded on
merit, for exceptional achievement or service.
5. World environment day celebrated on‐ 5th Jun
6. MICR code consists of _____ digits‐ 9 digits
7. What is the Name of Chief justice of India? – R M Lodha

General knowledge

1 . Who is new Army Chief of India: Lt. Gen Dalbir Singh
Suhag
2. What is Bancassurance: the selling of life assurance and
other insurance products and services by banking
institutions.
3. Cities where 10 Rs plastic notes will be introduced for
field trial: Jaipur, Shimla, Bhubaneshwar, Mysore and
Cochin.
4. Flying test bed aircraft developed by HAL and handed
over to DRDO ‐ NABHRATHNA
5. Second Indian firm to be featured in Forbes Global 2000
list: SBI (State Bank of India)
6. Finance Ministry directed all PSBs to maintain what %of
CASA: 40%
7. Author of Book: The Himalayan Face off: Shishir Gupta

General Knowledge Questions

1 . Nuclear security summit held in: Hague (Netherland)
2. RuPay card developed by: National Payment
Corporation of India (NPCI)
3. Committee to review Governance of Boards of Banks in
India: PJ Nayak
4. Which satellite is launched by India in recent
month: IRNSS – 1B
5. Playing to win book author: Saina Nehwal
6. What is Stale Cheque: A cheque that’s date is past 3
months is considered stale and will often not be
honored for cash or deposit at a bank.

General knowledge questions and answers

1. Narendra Modi was sworn in as India: 15th PM
2. First White Label ATM 'Indicash' unveiled by: Tata
Communication Payment Solutions Ltd.
3. Anti‐Terrorism Day: 21 May
4. Inflation in India is measured in: CPI
5. Maximum allowable transaction limit at a time in case of
NEFT? – No limit
6. After its ten and half years service in orbit, on 1st April
2014 ISRO decommissioned which Communication
Satellite: INSAT 3E
7. Winner of Thomas cup 2014: Japan
8. Youngest female climber in the world to scale Mount
Everest: Malavath Purna
9. Pulitzer Prize 2014 winner ‐Vijay Seshadri
10. Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2013‐ Gulzar

Abbreviation

IOD- Indian Ocean Dipole
 ICANN- Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
 IMD- Indian Meteorological Department
 RRTS- Regional Rapid Transit System
 READ Alliance- Read, Engage, Achieve, Dream
 URWSSP- Uttarakhand Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project
 MRWSSP- Maharashtra Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project
 UDWDP- Uttarakhand Decentralised Watershed Development Project
 CCI- Competition Commission of India
 OVL- ONGC Videsh Limited
 DGCA- The Directorate General of Civil Aviation
 SDMC- South Delhi Municipal Corporation
 IIC- India International Centre
 AIBA- International Boxing Association (amateur) or AIBA
 LTTE- Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
 SOD- Super Oxide Dismutase
 COAS- Chief of Army Staff
 IRENA- International Renewable Energy Agency
 UNESCO- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
 IAEA- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
 NFSA- National Food Security Act
 UNEP- United Nations Environment Programme
 TNCA- Tamil Nadu Cricket Association
 NDMA- National Disaster Management Authority
 MPA- Marine Protected Area
 NMLP- Narmada-Malwa-Gambhir Link Project
 OHCHR- Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights
 OSCE- Organization for Security and Co-operation
 DRSC- District-level Road Safety Committees

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