General Knowledge Quiz 30

General Knowledge Quiz 30

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1. The Battle of the Somme, also known as the Somme Offensive, was a battle of the First World War fought on both sides of the upper reaches of the River Somme. Where is this river located?

France
United Kingdom
Germany
Italy

2. Forest Whitaker won Best Actor at the Academy Awards for his performance as a historical personality in the film "The Last King of Scotland". Which character was played by him in the movie?

Adolf Hitler
Idi Amin
Robert Mugabe
Saddam Hussein

3. Pol Pot was a politician and revolutionary who led the Khmer Rouge from 1963 until 1997 and took part in orchestrating the purest genocide in the Cold War era. Can you name the county?

Uganda
Rwanda
Armenia
Cambodia

4. Which country gifted "the Statue of Liberty" to United States?

United Kingdom
Russia
France
Germany

5. La Giovane Italia (Young Italy) was a poltical movement for Italian youth founded in 1831. Who was the founder?

Giuseppe Mazzini
Benito Mussolini
Guiseppe Garibaldi
Lord Acton

6. Mustafa Kemal was the first President of which one of the following countries?

Iran
Egypt
Turkey
Indonesia

7. The Pulitzer Prize winning writer William Saroyan has written a short story entitled "The Lion of Judah" about the emperor Haile Selassie. Which country's emperor was Haile Selassie?

Tunisia
Ethiopia
Zambia
Liberia

8. The Triple Alliance was a secret agreement between three countries and was formed in 1882. Which one of the following countries was NOT part of the Triple Alliance?

Austria-Hungary
Italy
Russia
Germany

9. The Sistine Chapel, in Vatican City is famous for the paintings that decorate the interior , particularly the ceiling. Which famous artist painted the ceiling?

Pablo Picasso
Leonardo da Vinci
Vinent van Gogh
Michelangelo

10. "Rights of Man", a book which posits that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard the natural rights of its people, is written by

Edmund Burke
Thomas Muir
Thomas Paine
Bertrand Russel

Environment Quiz 56

Environment Quiz 56

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1. Name the first person to walk to both Poles

Robert Swan
Ben Saunders
Sir Ernest Shackleton
Robert Falcon Scott

2. What is the scientific study of the movement, distribution, and quality of water on Earth and other planets called?

Limnology
Autecology
Hydrogeology
Hydrology

3. What is the study of inland waters called?

Hydroecology
Oceanology
Limnology
Lithology

4. When is Wold Water Day celebrated?

April 22
March 22
December 22
June 22

5. What was the theme of World Water Day 2017?

Why waste water?
Water and Jobs
Water and Sustainable Development
Water and Energy

6. What is the ecological region at the lowest level of a body of water such as an ocean or a lake called?

Benthic Zone
Cold Seeps
Demersal Zone
Oceanic Zone

7. Where is the Anti-Atlas or Little Atlas mountain range?

Morocco
Algeria
Tunisia
Australia

8. The Johore Strait, the international strait in Southeast Asia, separates which of the following countries?

Singapore and Myanmar
Philippines and Malaysia
Singapore and Malaysia
Indonesia and Brunei

9. Which is the world's longest estuary (the tidal mouth of a large river, where the tide meets the stream)?

Gulf of Ob
Yenisei Gulf
Gulf of Saint Lawrence
Thames Estuary

10. What is the fossilized animal dung called?

Paleofeces
Fecalith
Coprolite
Gastrolith

India Quiz 65 (Great Personalities Quiz)

India Quiz 65 (Great Personalities Quiz)

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1. "The status of women should also be raised and women should be trained to take a larger and a more intelligent interest in public affairs". Who said this?

Mahatma Gandhi
Jawaharlal Nehru
Bal Gangadar Tilak
Subhash Chandra Bose

2. Which Chola emperor built a new capital city called Gangaikonda Cholapuram to commemorate his victory over Mahipala, the Pala king of Bengal?

Rajendra Chola I
Rajaraja Chola I
Virarajendra Chola
Kulothunga Chola I

3. He was born in Almora, India and won Nobel Prize in 1902. Who was he?

Rabindranath Tagore
C V Raman
Ronald Ross
Amartya Sen

4. Who among the following is the main proponent of Vishishtadvaita?

Swaminarayan
Sri Sankaracharya
Ramanuja
Pillai Lokacharya

5. The Shore Temple is one of the oldest structural stone temples of South India. Name the ruler of Pallava Kingdom who initiated the work

Mahendravarman I
Simhavarman III
Narasimhavarman II
Aparajitavarman

6. Who is known as the Napoleon of India?

Samudragupta
Vikramaditya
Chandragupta Maurya
Maharaja Ranjit Singh

7. Nasir-ud-Din Muḥammad was the original name of this Mughal emperor. Who was he?

Akbar
Babur
Shahjahan
Humayun

8. Who is known as the "father of Indian nationalism"?

Mahatma Gandhi
Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Lala Lajpat Rai
Bal Gangadar Tilak

9. Who founded the Satyashodhak Samaj (Society of Seekers of Truth) in 1837?

Jyotirao Phule
Swami Dayanand Saraswari
Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Annie Besant

10. The original name of the work which is a commentary on the Bhagavad Gita, is Bhavarth Deepika. But it is popularly known in another name after its creator. Identify the work

Amarakosha
Ashtavakra Gita
Civaka Cintamani
Dnyaneshwari

Environment Quiz 55

Environment Quiz 55

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1. A uniform worldwide change in sea level caused especially by fluctuations in the amount of water taken up by continental and polar icecaps, or by a change in the capacity of ocean basins is called

Eustasy
Global Warming
High tide
Tsunami

2. Where is the Sunda Trench, earlier known as the Java Trench, located?

Pacific Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
Indian Ocean
Atlantic Ocean

3. World Habitat Day is celebrated on

First Monday of November
First Monday of October
First Monday of December
First Sunday of November

4. What is the theme for World Habitat Day 2 October 2017?

Housing Policies: Affordable Homes
Public Spaces for All
Better City, Better Life
Changing Cities, Building Opportunities

5. Which country launched the world's first climate-smart snow leopard landscape management plan?

India
Bangladesh
Bhutan
Nepal

6. Where is the headquarters of Forest Survey of India (FSI)?

New Delhi
Kolkatta
Dehradun
Bangalore

7. Name the noble gas which was discovered by William Ramsay and named by him to mean "Foreign" or "Stranger"

Xenon
Neon
Krypton
Argon

8. The word inselberg was coined in 1900 by geologist Wilhelm Bornhardt. What is an inselberg?

Iceberg
Small mountain
Insect
Island

9. Global Environment Outlook (GEO) is a series of reports on the environment issued periodically by which one of the following agencies?

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

10. Which one of the following is considered as the "Queen of Herbs"?

Mint
Parsley
Thyme
Tulsi

India Quiz 64

India Quiz 64

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1. Prarthana Samaj, or "Prayer Society" in Sanskrit, was a movement for religious and social reform in Bombay founded in 1867. Name the founder

Swami Dayandanda Saraswati
Swami Vivekananda
Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Atmaram Pandurang

2. Prithviraj Raso, an epic poem in Brajbhasa about the life of the Chahamana king Prithviraj Chauhan was written by

Bharavi
Magha
Amar Sinha
Chand Bardai

3. Mul Shankar was the original name of which Indian religious leader and scholar?

Swami Dayanand Saraswari
Swami Vivekananda
Sri Ramakrishna Paramahans
Naryana Guru

4. Which Mughal emperor banned music in his empire?

Akbar
Shahjahan
Aurangazeb
Jahangir

5. Which Indian ruler has been called a 'Prince of Moneyers' for carrying out several monetary experiments?

Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq
Muhammad bin Tughluq
Alauddin Khalji
Qutub ud-Din Aybak

6. Khudai Khidmatgar, the servants of God, represented a non-violent struggle against the British Empire. Who was the leader of the struggle?

Maualana Abul Kalam Azad
Muhammed Ali Jinnah
Syed Mohammad Sharfuddin Quadri
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

7. Which city was founded by Sultan of Delhi Feroz Shah Tughlaq and named in memory of his cousin, Muhammad bin Tughluq?

Tughlakabad
Jaunpur
Ferozabad
Muzaffarnagar

8. The Uttar Pradesh government has renamed Kanpur Airport in 2017 to pay respect to which leader for the contribution for the independence of India?

Govind Ballabh Pant
Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari
Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya
Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi

9. Which famous recipient of "Kaisar-i-Hind Medal" returned the medal in 1920 as part of the national campaign protesting the Jallianwala Bagh massacre and in support of the Khilafat Movement?

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Raja Ravi Verma
Khan Bahadur Sher Jang
Rabindranath Tagore

10. Who among the following was known as Manikarnika in her childhood?

Annie Besant
Rani Lakshmibai
Rani Gaidinliu
Lakshmi Sahgal

India Quiz 63

India Quiz 63

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1. Which is the first capital of Chalukyas that is known as the "one of the cradles of Indian temple architecture"?

Aihole
Kalayani
Badami
Mount Abu

2. The inscription found at Meguti Temple, Aihole is popularly known as Aihole inscriptions was written by which one of the followings poets?

Banabhatta
Amara Sinha
Rajasekhara
Ravikirti

3. The Paris Indian Society was an Indian nationalist organisation founded in 1905 at Paris. Who among the following was the founder?

Lala Hardayal
Madam Bhikaji Cama
Subhash Chandra Bose
Vijayalakshmi Pandit

4. Who among the following gave the call "Go Back to the Vedas"?

Swami Vivekananda
Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Swami Dayanand Saraswati
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

5. Gaudiya Vaishnavism is a Vaishnava religious movement founded by

Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa
Chaithanya Mahabprabhu
Swami Vivekananda
Swami Abhedananda

6. Regarded as the "Father of Qawwali", this poet is referred to as "the parrot of India". Who is he>

Amir Khusrow
Kabir
Faizi
Sarmad Kashani

7. Name the Sikh guru who was publicly beheaded in 1675 on the orders of Mughal emperor Aurangazeb in Delhi for refusing to convert to Islam

Guru Har Gobind
Guru Tegh Bahadur
Guru Arjan Dev
Guru Ram Das

8. "Bachittar Natak" is the memoir and autobiography of which one of the following Sikh gurus?

Guru Tegh Bahadur
Guru Angad Dev
Guru Gobind Singh
Guru Har Krishan

9. Who was nicknamed the "Frontier Gandhi" in British India?

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Lala Lajpat Rai
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Muhammed Ali Jinnah

10. Rabindranath Tagore renounced his knighthood in response to which historical incident?

Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
Chauri-Chaura Incident
Wagon Tragedy
World War I

General Knowledge Quiz 29

General Knowledge Quiz 29

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1. The first Indian women to receive the Raman Magsaysay Award was

Kiran Bedi
M S Subbalakshmi
Mother Teresa
M S Kamaladevi

2. Onake Obavva (18th Century) was a woman who fought the forces of Hyder Ali. Name the fort that is famous by her legend

Bida Fort
Chitradurga Fort
Gulbarga Fort
Kittur Fort

3. Who proposed the economic theory "Functional Finance"?

Adam Smith
Abba P. Lerner
Adolf Wagner
Amartya Sen

4. Kalgoorlie and Coolgardie, the places famous for gold mines, are located in which country?

South Africa
Australia
United Kingdom
USA

5. Which country's currency was "Drachma"?

Greece
France
Italy
Denmark

6. Which capital city is known as the "City of Mosques"?

Kabul
Baghdad
Dhaka
Kuwait city

7. "Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic" is a Buddhist temple. Where is it located?

Nepal
Thailand
Bhutan
Sri Lanka

8. The name of this country was formerly "Siam" which was supposed to be derived from the Sanskrit word "Syama" or from Chinese "Xian". Which country we are referring to?

Nepal
Bhutan
Thailand
Senegal

9. Which is the largest silver producing country in the world?

China
Mexico
Peru
Australia

10. The highest mountain in Europe is in Russia. Name the mountain

Mount Elbrus
Mount Narodnaya
Mount Yamantau
Belukha Mountain