Literary Quiz 16: Books and Authors

Literature Quiz 16: Books and Authors 1. Who was the first recipient of Sahitya Akademi Award in Hindi for his work "Him Taringini" in 1955? Amritlal Nagar Makhanlal Chaturvedi Amarkant Naresh Mehta 2. Who translated Bhagavad Gita first into English? Barbara Stoler Miller Aldous...

Environment Quiz 35

Environment Quiz 35 1. Which one of the following are the world's largest monkeys? Mandrill Baboon Macaque Talapoin 2. Being one of the 21 breeding sites existing in India, this village in Karnataka is named after the painted stork in Kannada language. It is...

Literary Quiz 15: Books and Authors

Literary Quiz 15: Books and Authors 1. "The Boys from Syracuse" is a famous musical and the first one based on a Shakespearean play. Name the play All's Well That Ends Well As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Twelfth Night 2. When is World Poetry Day celebrated? April...

General Knowledge Quiz 15: Great Personalities Quiz

General Knowledge Quiz 15: Great Personalities Quiz 1. Who is credited as the father of analytical geometry? Rene Descartes Euclid Archimedes Fibonacci 2. He is the first Australian to have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (1973). Who is he? J M Coetzee Peter...

Environment Quiz 34

Environment Quiz 34 1. Which is the highest mountain in the Alps? Mont Blanc Eiger Monte Rosa Dent Blanche 2. Which one of the following was named by Carl Lanneus with the latin term meaning "Rose of China"? Hibiscus Dahlia Camelia Lisianthus 3. Which Indian state...

Science Quiz 22: General Science Quiz

Science Quiz 22: General Science Quiz 1. Which one of the following is NOT an explosive? RDX HMX DDT TNT 2. What is the colour of the flight recorder, commonly known as the black box? Black Red Green Orange 3. Who named the chemical element Oxygen? Carl Wilhelm Scheele Joseph...

India Quiz 46

India Quiz 46 1. Which state in India stands first in the total scheduled caste (SC) population? Uttar Pradesh West Bengal Punjab Haryana 2. Which is India's longest railway tunnel? Pir Panjal Karbude Nathuwadi Parchuri 3. Which one of the following states has the...