Quiz Questions

General Knowledge Quiz Part 1

General Knowledge 1 – 10
1) What is the name given to wooden carving?
Answer: Xylography.
2) Intelligence agency of UK?
Answer: MI5.
3) Name the nuclear plant that closed for ever in Ukrain.
Answer: Chernobyl.
4) What is the basic principle of Miss Universe Competition?
Answer: Beauty with brains.
5) What is Heliport?
Answer: Airport of Helicopter.
6) Haiti is an independent country of this seashore. Name the seashore.
Answer: Caribbean sea.
7) Which ex-president of America had given the leadership in the peace activities of Haiti in 1994?
Answer: Jimmy Carter.
8) Name the Indonesian president who formed the movement called West Pacific Forum?
Answer: Abdurrahman Wahid.
9) Which section of United Nations Organization stands against the pollution?
Answer: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
10) How many countries had sign in UNEP?
Answer: 120.
GK Questions Part 2
General Knowledge 11 – 20
11) Who came into power in Canada continuously for the third time?
Answer: Jean Chretien.
12) Which country’s capital is Ottawa?
Answer: Canada.
13) A city of one mile width and two miles length as 177 canals of 28 miles length. Name the city.
Answer: Venice.
14) Fianna Fail is a political party. Name the country where it belongs.
Answer: Ireland.
15) In which day ‘Good Friday Agreement’ was signed?
Answer: April 10, 1998.
16) The force which forms under the earth region causes earthquake. Name this earth region?
Answer: Hypocentre.
17) According to the laws of Israel, if a Prime Minister resigns his post, within which period a new Prime
Minister should be appointed?
Answer: 60 days.
18) Write the scientific name of lie detector which uses by the police for proving lies?
Answer: Polygraph.
19) What is the name of military intelligence organization of Israel?
Answer: Mossad.
20) Which president of Pakistan did issue the order of exilement of Nawaz Sharif?
Answer: Muhammad Rafiq Tarar.
General Knowledge Quiz Part 3
General Knowledge 21 – 30
21) A military group of Chile killed 73 political prisoners in 1973. This incident is known as _?
Answer: Caravan of Death.
22) Which democratic republic has given the right for ‘mercy killing’?
Answer: Netherlands.
23) Which planet has the feeling that sun rises in the west?
Answer: Venus.
24) Which scientist got a record of patents for his discoveries?
Answer: Thomas Alva Edison.
25) Which virus causes bleeding in the body due to the destruction of blood vessels?
Answer: Ebola virus.
26) Name the top most civilian award of America?
Answer: Presidential Medal of Freedom.
27) In which place of Russia the body of Lenin is embalmed?
Answer: Red Square.
28) Who discovered Walkman?
Answer: Akio Morita.
29) Where is the longest highway tunnel of the world situated?
Answer: Norway.
30) Which woman is selected in US Senate firstly?
Answer: Hillary Rodham Clinton.
General Knowledge Quiz Part 4
General Knowledge 31 – 40
31) Which country has the world’s one-fourth oil reserve?
Answer: Saudi Arabia.
32) What is the old name of Taiwan?
Answer: Formosa.
33) Which is the dangerous mark of the Richter scale which records earthquake?
Answer: 6 and above.
34) Which is the largest internet complex of America?
Answer: America On-line.
35) Name the biggest cement producers of the world?
Answer: Lafarge, France.
36) Name the first monkey born on genetic technology?
Answer: ANDI.
37) What is Ganymede?
Answer: A moon of Jupiter.
38) Which is the largest moon of the solar system?
Answer: Ganymede.
39) Who is known as African Gandhi?
Answer: Kenneth Kaunda.
40) Who wrote ‘A Brief History of Time’?
Answer: Stephen Hawking.
General Knowledge Quiz Part 5
General Knowledge 51 – 50
41) Which country is known as ‘Economic Power House of Europe’?
Answer: Germany.
42) Who wrote Galileo‘s Daughter?
Answer: Dava Sobel.
43) Which day is celebrated as International Customs Day?
Answer: January 26.
44) Name the highest town of Europe?
Answer: Daos.
45) Who discovered Richter scale?
Answer: Charles F. Richter.
46) Where is the headquarters of International Press Institutes?
Answer: Vienna, Austria.
47) Who discovered the genetic code of rice?
Answer: Scientists of Torrey Mesa Research Institute, America.
48) What is the national emblem of New Zealand?
Answer: Kiwi.
49) What is ‘Hey You’?
Answer: A computer virus.
50) Who is Anna Kournikova?
Answer: A Russian tennis player.
General Knowledge Quiz Part 6
General Knowledge 51 – 60
51) ‘Triple Therapy drug cocktail’ is a medicine to this disease. Which disease?
Answer: AIDS.
52) Which award is known as the Nobel Prize in music?
Answer: Polar Music Prize.
53) Who is the most famous Pole-vaulter of the world?
Answer: Sergey Bubka (Ukraine)
54) After observation of wild life of this island Charles Darwin derived the theory of Evolution. Name this
island?
Answer: Galapagos Islands, at distance of 965 km from Ecuador.
55) Which day is celebrated ad ‘World Mother-Tongue Day’?
Answer: February 21.
56) What is the official name of North Korea?
Answer: Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
57) Which country is known as Hermit Kingdom?
Answer: Korea.
58) Which are the official languages of Switzerland?
Answer: German, French and Italian.
59) Which is the biggest city of Washington State?
Answer: Seattle.
60) Who is known as the father of Modern Turkey?
Answer: Kemal Mustafa.

General Knowledge Quiz Part 7

General Knowledge 61 – 7
61) Which mathematical engineer of America is known as Father of Information Technology?
Answer: Claude Shannon.
62) Who is the father of Green Revolution?
Answer: Norman Borlaug.
63) Which country’s capital is ‘Bogota’?
Answer: Colombia.
64) International Woman’s Day?
Answer: March 8.
65) World Handicapped Day?
Answer: March 15.
66) World Forest Conservation Day?
Answer: March 21.
67) World Water Conservation Day?
Answer: March 22.
68) World Atmospheric Day?
Answer: March 23.
69) World Tuberculosis Abolishment Day?
Answer: March 24.
70) World Oceanography Day?
Answer: April 5.
General Knowledge Quiz Part 8
General Knowledge 71 – 80
71) World Haemophilia Day?
Answer: April 17.
72) World Heritage Day?
Answer: April 18.
73) In which country the first modernized census conducted?
Answer: America.
74) In which yearly book, UNO publishes its census report?
Answer: Demographic yearbook.
75) Which is the purest water of nature?
Answer: Rain water.
76) “Baby is a book. Teacher should study each pages of this book” who said this?
Answer: Rousseau.
77) Who formulated the principle ‘Tech through play’?
Answer: Froebel.
78) Who prepared intelligence test firstly?
Answer: Alfred Binet.
79) Which country’s airline is KLM?
Answer: Holland.
80) Name the pope who had visited most countries?
Answer: John Paul II.
General Knowledge Quiz Part 9
General Knowledge 81 – 90
81) What is the name of Australian Airlines?
Answer: Qantas Airways.
82) Which country’s airlines is Druk Air?
Answer: Bhutan.
83) Which woman had controlled space shuttle firstly?
Answer: Eileen Collins.
84) Which woman had walked in space firstly?
Answer: Valentina Tereshkova.
85) Name the oldest man who had gone to space?
Answer: John Glenn.
86) The next day of Christmas commonly known as?
Answer: Boxing day.
87) In which country the barter system has started?
Answer: Europe and South Africa.
88) What is known as ‘Perfume Ball’ in cricket?
Answer: The bounced ball at the height of nose-level of batsman.
89) Who developed the first computer languages BASIC?
Answer: John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz.
90) Father of Zoology?
Answer: Aristotle.
General Knowledge Quiz Part 10
General Knowledge 91 – 100

91) Which is the biggest mosque of the world?

Answer: Al-Haram Mosque, Mecca.
92) Name the headquarters of INTERPOL?
Answer: Lyon, France.
93) In the production of coconuts in world, which country ranks top?
Answer: Philippines.
94) Which is the largest consumer country of gold?
Answer: India.
95) Name the dance movement of honeybees to inform others about the presence of food?
Answer: Waggle dance.
96) Which star is exploded itself and puts the material into space?
Answer: Supernova.
97) Who derived the first theory on a universe which expands gradually?
Answer: Arthur Eddington.
98) Who was the first woman high court judge of New Zealand?
Answer: Dame Silvia Rose Cartwright.
99) World’s coldest desert Gobi belongs to which country?
Answer: Mongolia.
100) Name the official residence of French President?
Answer: Elysee Palace.