Some General Knowledge Questions For You

1. The African leader referred to as KK
2. ‘RMB’ is the currency of (Liberia/China/ Ras-al Khaimah)
3. The author of The Kite Runner
4. Who called India a ‘functional anarchy’?
5. Ugyen Wangchuck was the first King of …………..
6. Which award is known as the Green Oscar?
7. The world’s largest concentration of elephants in the wild is in
8. When is the next annualar solar eclipse due?
9. Amylum is the technical name of
10. India’s first cooperative for writers
11. A.R. Rahman’s First Hollywood film
12. The first cinematographer to win Phalke Award
13. ‘Project Arrow’ relates to (it is/IIMs/rockets/post offices)
14. A Person of 90 is a
15. India’s first National Security Advisor
16. ‘Love means never having to say you’re sorry’. Whose words?
17. The fifth Currency in the world to get its own symbol
18. The historic discovery made on jan 28, 1820
19. Spaniards discovered America, the Dutch found what?
20. Superior General of Missionaries of Charity
21. Kishan Shrikanth directed this film when he was 9 years old
22. What was special about the Oscar won by Sidney Howard in1940
23. The poorest state in the Arab world
24. The country with the world’s second largest Muslim Population
25. What is the Mother City to South Africans?
26. The world’s most consumed drink after water
27. The youngest artist to win Grammy album of the year
28. Archbishop Desmond Tutu calls South Africa the ……….. nation
29. The Indian state where the Chief Ministerwas wlwcted by lottery
30. Who got Oscar nomination 16 times
31. The richest individual sporting Event in India
32. How was Chile spelt on the 2008 batch of 50 peso coins?
33. A lunar year is about ……….. days
34. Britain’s equivalent of American IVY League
35. The world’s longest work of literature
36. Hafrium is :  A. a metal,  B. the handle of a knife , C. a poem D. a war dance
37. About whom did Abraham Lincoln remark ‘the little lady who wrote the book tht made this great war’?
38. The Edgar Allen Poe poem with the haunting repetition of the world ‘nevermore’
39. Who was behind the Davos business conference of 1971?
40. ‘Fragrant meat’ has been eaten in China for thousands of years. What is it?
41. Holden Caulifield is the famous narrator of the novel
42. The Arabic word used to describe washing the face, arms, and legs before prayers
43. The creator of the Institition Lalakshtra
44. Who wrote: I’ve measured out my life with coffee spoons?
45. which country’s national rugby team is called springboats?
46. Of Which element is 99 the atomic number
47. The First American President to be impeached
48. Caffelatte in Italian means
49. AYUSH Clinic. Expand AYUSH
50. Total number of daily railway travelers in India

Ans : 1. Kanneth Kaunda; 2.China; 3. Khaled Hosseini;4. J.K.Galbraith; 5.Bhutan; 6.Whitley Golden Award; 7.The Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu- 8000 elephants; 8.In 3014; 9.Starch;10.Sahitya Pravartaka Co-operative Society, Kottayam; 11.Couples Retreat; 12.V.K. Murthy; 13.Post offices; 14.Nonagenarian;15.Brajesh Mishra; 16.Erich Segal; 17.Rupee; 18.Discovery of Antartica; 19.Australia; 20.Sister Prema; 21.C/o.Footpath; 22.The First Posthumous Oscar; 23.Yemen; 24.India; 25.Cape Town; 26.Tea; 27.Taylor Swift; 28.Rainbow;29.Meghalaya, 1978, D.D. Pugh; 30. Meryl Streep; 31.The Derby; 32.Chiie; 33.354;34.Russel Group of universities; 35.Mahabharata; 36.a; 37.Mrs. Harriet Beacher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin; 38.The Raven; 39.Prof.Klaus Schwab at University of Geneva; 40.Dog meat; 41.The Catcher in the Rye; 42. Wudu; 43.  Rukmini Devi Arundale; 44.Eliot; 45. South Africa; 46. Einsteinium; 47. Andrew Johnson; 48. Cofee-milk; 49. Ayurveda, Yoga, Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy; 50.1.30 Cr;