Geography Quiz 3

Geography Quiz 3

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1. Name the second-longest river in Asia which is known as the Yellow River

Yangtze River
Euphrates
Huang He
Han River

2. Nepal is home to the world's tallest mountain. Which mountain

Mount Kilimanjaro
Mount Everest
Mount McKinley
Mount Rainier

3. The largest river island in the world

Majuli
Montr5eal
Lulu Island
Hisingen

4. The time between high tide and low tide, when the water level is falling, is called

Ebb tide
Flood tide
Slack tide
Phase tide

5. The world's largest mangrove forest is

Pichavaram
Sundarbans
Iriomote Island
Sicao Wetlands

6. What's the World's Biggest Glacier?

Lambert glacier
Diamond Glacier
Shackleton Glacier
Reedy Glacier

7. Which country has the largest coastline?

USA
Australia
India
Canada

8. About how much of the wold's land area is tropical rainforest?

2 per cent
7 per cent
10 per cent
15 per cent

9. Birr is the currency of which country?

Ethiopia
Scandinavia
Switzerland
Eritrea

10. Magyars are the people of which country

Serbia
Uruguay
Romania
Hungary

Environment Quiz 22

Environment Quiz 22

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1. The Kyoto Protocol was initially adopted in the year

1997
1998
1999
1996

2. The origin of the phrase 'think globally, act locally' can be traced to

The Rio Earth Summit
The Stockholm Conference
The Vienna Conference
The Johannesburg Summit

3. The World Summit on Sustainable Development or WSSD is also referred to as

Rio +10
The Stockholm Conference
The Vienna Conference
The Aarhus Conference

4. These pesky species have an excellent sense of taste and a good memory. They can identify certain substances, including poisons, after just a tiny taste of it.

Rats
Ants
House Fly
Bats

5. This insect can lift 20 times its own body weight.

Ants
Bedbugs
House Fly
Cockroach

6. This small creature can jump up to 8 inches high- 150 times its own height. (If you could do this, you would be able to leap over even tall skyscrapers!)

Ants
Flea
Grasshoppers
Bedbugs

7. UNCED stands for

UN Conference on Environment and Development
UN Council for Education and Development
UN Charter on Empowerment of Developing Countries
UN Council fo Employment of Downtrodden

8. Wangari Maathai an environmentalist and first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize died on 25 September 2011 in Nairobi. Which African country did she belong to?

Ghana
Kenya
Sudan
Uganda

9. What are the winds blowing down the slope of a mountain is known as?

Land Breeze
Katabatic wind
Adiabatic winds
Downside breeze

10. What is the study of birds known as?

Entomology
Ornithology
Orthopterology
Dipterology

Environment Quiz 21

Environment Quiz 21

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1. A large collection of ice or a frozen river that moves slowly down a mountain is called

Estuary
Glacier
Lagoon
Strait

2. A semi-enclosed coastal body of water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea is called

Estuary
Canal
Moat
Swamp

3. Carbon monoxide is

Colorless
Odorless
Toxic
All the above

4. G77 is the term used to refer to

Developing Countries
Developed Countries
African Subcontinent
Islands in the Atlantic Ocean

5. Idnetify the group of compounds extensively used in refrigeration and aerosol sprays

Chloroflurocarbons
Chlorocarbon
Flourides
None of the above

6. Landlocked waterbody often has very high level of salinity. Which of the following waterbodies is reported to have the highest salinity?

Red Sea
Arabian Sea
Dead Sea
North Sea

7. Myrmecology is the study of

Grasshoppers
Ants
Bees
Insects

8. Stars are self-luminous bodies containing a hot and glowing gas inside them. Which is this gas?

Nitrogen
Halogen
Hydrogen
Argon

9. The Clean Air Act, 1956, was passed as a result of which environment catastophe?

Great London Smog
Bhopal Gas Tragedy
Exxon valdez oil spill
Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster

10. The Kyoto Protocol measures a state's greenhouse gas reductions against which baseline year?

1998
1990
1995
1985

Cinema Quiz 3 - Indian Cinema Quiz

Cinema Quiz 3 - Indian Cinema Quiz

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1. Born as Shree Amma Yanger Ayyapan, she started her career as a child actor at the age of four in Tamil movie and was called the first female superstar of Hindi cinema

Sridevi
Madhuri Dixit
Hema Malini
Jaya Prada

2. In which year the National Awards for Cinema were constituted?

1950
1952
1957
1954

3. Which Indian film director was awarded Oscar for lifetime achievement in 1991?

Dada Saheb Phalke
Satyajit Ray
Amitabh Bachan
Ramesh Sippy

4. Which is the first indigenously made 70 mm film in India?

Kagaz Ke Phool
Sholay
Around the World
Padayottam

5. What was the first Indian film to be nominated for an Oscar?

Mother India
Sholay
The World of Apu
Madhumati

6. Who won Dada Saheb Falke award for the year 2007 (55th award)?

Manna Dey
Mukesh
Amitabh Bachan
Alka Yagnik

7. Pather Panchali is a 1955 Indian Bengali-language drama film directed by Satyajit Ray and produced by the Government of West Bengal. Do you know who the Music Director of the film was?

Pandit Ravi Shankar
Bappi Lahari
Salil Chowdhury
Pritam Chakraborty

8. Who among the following has got the maximum number of National Film Award for Best Actor (Rajat Kamal) to his credit?

Kamal Hasan
Mammootty
Mohanlal
Amitabh Bachan

9. Name the first recipient of Rajat Kamal Award for Best Actor when it was instituted in 1968 as the "Bharat Award for the Best Actor"

Ashok Kumar
Uttam Kumar
Utpal Dutt
Sanjeev Kumar

10. Name the only personality from Malayalam Film Industry to have won the prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke Award?

Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Aravindan
KG George
MT Vasudevan Nair

Science Quiz 9 - Chemistry Quiz

General Science Quiz 9 - Chemistry Quiz

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1.When a gas is turned into a liquid, the process is called

Evaporation
Melting
Deposition
Condensation

2. Which one of the following is known as "fool's gold"?

Coal tar
Lignite
Pyrite
Ilmenite

3. What is the common name of the mineral kaolin?

China clay
Benzene
Asphalt
Chalk

4. The non-metal elements in Group 7 are known as the halogens. Which is the most reactive halogen?

Chlorine
Iodine
Bromine
Flouorine

5. Monazite is the ore of

Iron
Thorium
Silver
Aluminium

6. Aqua regia or the royal water that can dissolve noble metals like gold and platinum is a mixture of

nitric acid and hyd
sulphuric acid and hydrochloric
nitric acid and sulphuric acid
sulphuric acid and citric acid

7. Which chemical element is commonly known as quicksilver and was formerly named hydrargyrum?

Silver
Aluminium
Mercury
Platinum

8. A colloid is a mixture in which one substance of microscopically dispersed insoluble particles is suspended throughout another substance. What do you call a colloid formed by the mixture of two or more liquids?

Sol
Emulsion
Aerosol
Foam

9. What is the heaviest naturally occurring element?

Platinum
Diamond
Uranium
Osmium

10. Which is called Brown Coal?

Iron
Copper
Graphite
Lignite

Current Affairs Quiz 7

Current Affairs Quiz 7
Latest questions on Current Awareness

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1. Who won Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for Cricketer of the Year (ICC Cricketer of the Year) 2016?

Virat Kohli
Ravichandran Ashwin
Quinton de Kock
Carlos Brathwaite

2. Name the recipient of the 2016 SASTRA-Ramanujan award for mathematics

Maksym Radziwill
Jacob Tsimerman
James Maynard
Peter Scholze

3. Who won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award 2016?

Alistair Brownlee
Nick Skelton
Jessica Ennis-Hill
Andy Murray

4. Which one of the following won the Hero Indian Super League (ISL) 2016?

Kerala Blasters
Chennaiyin FC
Atletico de Kolkata
Delhi Dynamos

5. Name the recipient of Jnanpith Award 2016

Shankha Ghosh
Raghuveer Chaudhari
Bhalchandra Nemade
Kedarnath Singh

6. Where is India's maiden Indian Institute of Skills is proposed to be established?

Lucknow
Bangalore
Varanasi
Kanpur

7. Who won the 2016 Men's Hockey Junior World Cup?

Belgium
India
Germany
Australia

8. Amina Mohammed, named recently as the UN's Deputy Secretary-General is the Environment Minister of which country?

Nigeria
Iran
Syria
Bangladesh

9. Which Indian player scored a triple centure in his test cricket debut in 2016?

K L Rahul
Shreyas Iyer
Karun Nair
Manish Pandey

10. Who among the following has topped in the Forbes list of The World's Most Powerful People?

Donald Trump
Vladimir Putin
Angela Merkel
Xi Jinping

General Science Quiz 8

General Science Quiz 8

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1. Around the North Pole fo Earth, tiny electrically charged particles high in the atmosphere react with rays from the sun to create beautiful sheets of light. These are called

Aurora Borealis
Aurora Australis
Aurora Solaris
None of the above

2.Which of the following parts of the sun is easily visible only during a total solar eclipse?

core
Corona
photosphere
sunspots

3.Pollination by birds is called

Entomophily
Ornithophily
Hydrophily
Anemophily

4.The fastest-running terrestrial animal is

Pronghorn
Lion
Cheetah
Blackbuck

5.Yeast, used in making bread is a

Alga
Fungus
Bacteria
Virus

6.Titan is the largest natural satellite of planet

Saturn
Jupiter
Mars
Venus

7.Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award is given in the field of

Medicine
Science
Mathematics
Social Sciences

8.Frogs are nocturnal. What does nocturnal mean?

mostly active during the day
mostly active in the rain
mostly active in hot temperatures
mostly active at night

9.The atmosphere is made of many gases. What is the percentage of Nitrogen in the atmosphere?

80
78
70
65

10.The natural process of the atmosphere heating through the trapping of re-radiated infrared radiation is known as

the green house effect
thermal inversion
solar heating
global warming

Sports Quiz 6

Sports Quiz - General Sports

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1. A velodrome is the arena for which of the following sports?

Boxing
Judo
Cycling
Skating

2. Pugilism refers to which one of the following sports?

Taekwondo
Boxing
Tennis
Archery

3. With which one of the following sports will you associate the "three seconds rule"?

Badminton
Volleyball
Basketball
Football

4. Medley is a combination of four different swimming styles breaststroke, backstroke, butterfly stroke, and freestyle into one race. Which stroke comes first in the order?

Breaststroke
Butterfly
Backstroke
Freestyle

5. Albatrosses are large seabirds. To which sport/game is the term "albatross" associated?

Football
Rugbie
Cricket
Golf

6. With which one of the following will you associate Thomas Cup?

Basketball
Cricket
Tennis
Badminton

7. Ghulam Muhammad of Amritsar, Punjab is known as "The Great Gama". He was a

Boxer
Wrestler
Cricketer
Gambler

8. Where is Tata Archery Academy located?

New Delhi
Jabalpur
Jamshedpur
Lucknow

9. What is the duration of a football match?

45 minutes
80 minutes
60 minutes
90 minutes

10. How many playing members (in court) will be there in a volleyball team?

12
6
7
5

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Literary Quiz (Books Quiz) 9

Literature Quiz 9

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1. Great American Novel and a treasure of world literature. The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael, and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod. Name the book

Treasure Island
Moby Dick
Sindbad the Sailor
20000 Leagues Under the Sea

2. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is the story of a monster which is considered to be one of the earliest science fiction. Do you know the author of the book?

Mary Shelley
P.B Shelley
Stephen King
R.L Stine

3. An Indian writer in English, notable for his depiction of the lives of the poorer castes in traditional Indian society and known as India’s Charles Dickens. Who is he?

Ruskin Bond
Vikram Seth
R.K Narayan
Mulk Raj Anand

4. Oedipus is a name immortalized forever in psychoanalytic theory, by Sigmund Freud for Oedipus complex. Who wrote the Greek Drama of Oedipus Rex?

Homer
Euripides
Sophocles
Herodotus

5. He is a not the hero of our story, but the villain who is the leader of a gang of children whom he teaches to make their livings by pick pocketing and other criminal activities in exchange for a roof over their heads. Who is he?

Fagin
Captain Hook
Quilp
Voldemort

6. Ebenezer Scrooge, Bob Cratchit and Jacob Marley are all characters from a famous Dickens novel. Name the novel

Christmas Carol
A Tale of Two Cities
Oliver Twist
Pickwick Pepper

7. A book by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre, it describes the events in the Indian independence movement in 1947-48.

India Wins Freedom
The Freedom Struggle
Freedom at Midnight
Long Walk To Freedom

8. An Indian author of British descent, he is a recipient of Padma Shri and Padmabhushan. In 1992 he received the Sahitya Akademi award for English writing, for his short stories collection, "Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra". Who is he?

Mulk Raj Anand
R.K Narayan
Vikram Seth
Ruskin Bond

9. This book is written by India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru during his imprisonment in 1942-1946 at Ahmednagar. Can you name it?

Discovery of India
Glimpses of World History
Letters From: A Father To His Daughter
Words Of Freedom: Ideas Of A Nation

10. India Wins Freedom is an autobiographical narrative of India’s freedom struggle. Who is the author?

Jawaharlal Nehru
Mahatma Gandhi
Lala Lajpat Rai
Maulan Abul Kalam Azad

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Literary Quiz (Books Quiz) - 8

Literature Quiz 8

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1. Which character from the Jungle Book was raised by wolves?

Mowgli
Chil
Bagheera
Akela

2. What is the name of the young hero in "Treasure Island"?

Jack Higgins
Jim Hawkins
Tarzan
Tintin

3. In the series of children's "Noddy" books, what is the name of the policeman?

Mr. Plod
Mr. Todd
Mr. Big Ears
Mr. Sparks

4. What does the "J" stand for in author J. K. Rowling's name?

Jacquiline
Joanne
John
Johan

5. Name the author of Goosebumps, Fear Street who is called the "Stephen King of children's literature?

Hans Anderson
J.K Rowling
R.L Stine
Enid Blyton

6. This trilogy is about a quest to destroy the One Ring which has evil power. It takes place in Middle Earth, among many amazing creatures and people. Identify the book.

The Ring of Solomon
Young Samurai: The Ring Of Fire
Ring For Jeeves
The Lord of the Rings

7. Originally written in Portuguese by Paulo Coelho this has been translated into 67 languages, winning the Guinness World Record for most translated book by a living author.

Brida
The Alchemist
The Zahir
Eleven Minutes

8. The autobiography of this Magsasay Award winning Police Woman, titled “I Dare It's Always Possible' has been a source of inspiration to the youngsters. Who is she?

R. Sreelekha
Kiran Bedi
B Sandhya
G Thilakavathy

9. This is a novel about the events in the life of a young girl in her grandfather's care, in the Swiss Alps. It was written as a book "for children and those who love children". It had two sequels, but not written by the original author. Name the book.

Heidi
Emma
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anna Karenina

10. The hero of our story was raised in the African jungles by the Mangani great apes and first appeared in 1914 followed by some 25 sequels. Who is he?

Tarzan
George of the Jungle
Kevin Sack
Mowgli