GK Questions for Reference

1.Indian state that has the world's first green legislature building.
2. the largest spirits company in the world.
3. President Barak Obama's annual salary.
4. What is the "Tourin Shroud"?
5. The global Big Four auditing firms
6. Fatima, the author of 'Songs of Blood and Sword" Fatima is the niece of
7. The Footballer nicknamed"Flea"
8. The first-ever "Managing India" award from AIMA went to
9. What percent of the global population are refugees?
10. The Schengen Agreement was signed in 1990. Where is Schengen?
11. How many countries are included in Schengen Agreement?
12. The new height of Everest as accepted by the US National Geographic Society?
13. The Governor who caused a flutter in 1993 by dramatically removing the back robes at the Indain Science Congress session?
14. An area of land where wild animals live in safety is a
15. The richest Rajya Sabha member on the basis of assets declared
16. Africa's oldesr republic
17. Which of the these is the name of a British rock group?
 A. Queen Elizebeth ; B. United Band; C. Queen D. King's Queen
18. Who set Olympics record for 5000 and 10000 metre races at Helsinki and ran the fastest marathon ever run to that time?
19. The first group to broadcast a concert on the internet .
20. Genge Fo founded the Society of Friends. Its more common name.
21. Leader of the Indian team that first ascended Mount Everest.
22. What was special about the conquest of the Mrigthuni Peak(22,490) in 1964?
23. What kind of a meusem was Shankar Kendra set up in Ahmedabad in 1975?
24. Rabindranath Tagore's father
25. The year Indira Gandhi was born
26. The former British PM who is the patron of a charity working for good governance in Africa.
27. Ragtime is : a. An early form of jazz; b. a wild plant; c. a South Asian dish; d. a Powerful storm
28. A unit for measuring the effect of radiation. The word ends with 'd'
29. Vicerine is
30. In Arabian Night, Old man of the sea clung to the back of
31. Music: What is LSO?
32. Raillery is : a. level crossing; b. a teasing remark about a person; c. railway tracks; d. the study of history of railways
33. The world's largest bunker port by volume
34. Ambedkar Nagar district is in
35. The senir politian who used to be known as "Babuji"
36. What did Gillette invent?
37. In the case of a cheque, a bank is usually the (drawer/drawee/ payee).
38. A dramatist is (an actor/a play wright)
39. Which of these means a sharp bend in a road" : (dogtag/dogleg/catwalk/ceasefire)
40. Anti-tax  crusader Fred ONeal registered the 'Tea Party' as a Florida political party in Aug. 2009. The name is an acronym for
41. The two south Asian families that have produced two PMs each
42. What did  Hernando De Soto discover?
43. Jozef Pilsidski is hailed as the architect of ……. Independence.
44. The prize money of DSC prize for south Asian Literature.
45. ‘Solo’, the novel by Rana Dasgupta, who has won the commonwealth writers’ Best prize, is set in which country?
46.Old Man River is the name for
47. Tamil Actor Vijayakanth, known as Captain, has acted in 140 films and in 98 of them he has played a
48. The world’s single largest coal producer
49. St. Pancras is the main London
50. Which University had its first convocation on April 16, 2010?

Ans : 1. Tamil Nadu;2. Diageo;3.$400,000; 4. said to be the burial cloth of Christ; 5. PWC, KPMG,EXY, Deloitte; 6. Benazir Bhutto; 7. Lonel Messi; 8. R.P. Goenka; 9. 3; 10. In Luxembourg; 11. 25; 12. 8,850; 13. C.Subramaniam; 14. Game reserve; 15. Rahul Bajaj; 16. Liberia; 17. Queen; 18. Emi Zatopek; 19. Rolling Stones; 20. Quakers; 21. Commander M.S.Kohli; 22. the first peak to be climbed by women only; 23.the first kite museum; 24. Debendranath Tagore; 25. 1917; 26. Tony Blair; 27. a; 28. rad; 29. Viceroy’s wife; 30. Sinbad; 31. London Symphony Orchestra; 32. b; 33. Singapore; 34. U.P; 35.  Jagivan Ram; 36. the safety razor; 37. drawee; 38. playwright; 39. dog-leg; 40. ‘Taxed Enough Already’; 41. Gandhi family and Bhutto family; 42. the Mississippi River; 43. Polish; 44. $50,000; 45. Bulgaria; 46. the Mississippi; 47. Police Officer; 48. Coal India Ltd; 49. terminal; 50. University of Saramsa.