GK- QUESTION & ANSWERS

Prepared by = Nirav Makadiya(TY.BT) (Guided by –Asst. prof. Jigar Mehta CCSIT College(Junagadh)

PART : 1

Q-1. How high is mount Kilirnanjaro?

Ans : 5894 meters.

Q-2. What is Seismology?

Ans : The study of Earthquakes.

Q-3. which is the country that first played chess?Ans : India.

Q-4. Who was famous as the black pearl?Ans : Pele.

Q-5. Where is the Nehru mountaineering institute situated?

Ans : Mahidanda.

Q-6. what is geodesy?Ans : The science of measuring the earth.

Q-7. Who was James Hutton?Ans : The founder of modern geology.

Q-8. How far is the nearest star?Ans : 4.3 light years.

Q-9. Which is the oldest game in the world?Ans : Polo.

Q-10. Who is known as the chess king?Ans : Boby fisher.

Q-11. Which is the biggest water snake?Ans : Annoconda.

Q-12. What is the encephalograph?Ans : Technique of X-ray.

Q-13. Name India’s first rocket and tell its launching station ?

Ans : Rohini-75.

Q-14. What is mach number? Ans : It is a ratio.

Q-15. What is transistor? Who invented it?Ans : Electronic device.

Q-16. Which was the first rocket to launch on the moon?

Ans : Luna-II

Q-17. Who was the first Indian F.R.S. (fellow of royal society) ?

Ans : Adeshir karsetji.

Q-18. Which is the largest flying bird?Ans : Albatross.

Q-19. Who invented logarithm?Ans : John Napeir.

Q-20.What is amalgum?Ans : When Hg is mixed with any other metal.

Q-21. Which indian king did the ancient greeks refer to as sandrocottus?

Ans : Chandragupta Maurya.

Q-22. Which modern city was founded by the generals of emperor Akbar as the mughal capital of the bangal province in 1608?

Ans : Dacca.

Q-23. Which Indian litterateur was conferred the little of honorary commander of the British Empire in 1992?

Ans : Nirad C. Chaudhuri.

Q-24. Which kushan king prescribed over the fourth Buddhist council, held in Kashmir, where it split into Mahayana and Hinayana sects?

Ans : Kanishka.

Q-25. Which element discovered in 1950, is named after university town in California where it was discovered?

Ans : Berkelium.

Q-26. What name is given to the professional who analyses election trends and predict results?

Ans : Psephologist.

Q-27. What is the name of the Indian Navy’s first in indagenous missible boat?

Ans : Vibhuti.

Q-28. Which city in Pakistan was called Lyallpur until 1979?

Ans : Faisalabad.

Q-29. What name was given to the first series of satellites launched in 1957 by the erstwhile soviet union?

Ans : Sputnik.

Q-30. Who has been chosen businessman of the century by the renowned magazine fortune?

Ans : Henry Ford.

Q-31. Which is the world’s largest ocean and who named it?

Ans : The pacific, named by Ferdinand Magellan.

Q-32. Which is the largest desert?Ans : The Sahara.

Q-33. What is the capital of Indonesia?Ans : Jakarta.

Q-34. On what river does Ahmadabad stand?Ans : River Sabarmati.

Q-35. Which is the tallest active geyser in the world?

Ans : ‘Steamboat Geyser’.

Q-36. Which is the largest continent?Ans : Asia.

Q-37. What is the capital of Ethiopia?Ans : Addis Ababa.

Q-38. Which city is called lake city in India?Ans : Udaipur.

Q-39. Name the ‘pink city’ of India? Ans : Jaipur.

Q-40. on which river surat is situated?Ans : River Tapi.

Q-41. Which sea has no coast?Ans : The Sargasso Sea.

Q-42. What is studied in science of somatology?Ans : The body.

Q-43. Who invented Braille?Ans : Louis Braille.

Q-44. Who was the man of destination?Ans : Napolean.

Q-45. Which city is nick named the city of light?Ans : Paris.

Q-46. What is the chemical symbol for iodine?Ans : I

Q-47. What is an emnet?Ans : An ant.

Q-48. What is kendo?Ans : The Japanese art of Sword fighting.

Q-49. Who invented the rocking chair?Ans : Benjamin Franklin.

Q-50. Who invented the telegraph?Ans : Samuel Morse.

Q-51. What are the yellow pages?Ans : Telephone directory.

Q-52. What is Mr. Gorbachev’s perestroika?Ans : Economic restructuring.

Q-53. Why was president Anwar al-sadat assassinated in 1981?

Ans : Muslim fundamentalists didn’t like his method of making a peace.

Q-54. In which year did Sikkim become the 22nd state of India?

Ans : 1975.

Q-55. How long was the Berlin wall?Ans : 47 km.

Q-56. What is the 38th parallel?Ans : The line dividing North-Korea from

South- Korea.

Q-57. Who were the central powers in World War?

Ans : Germany, Austria-Hungary & Turky.

Q-58. When was the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima?

Ans : 6th August,1945.

Q-59. Where was the battle of Waterloo fought in which Napoleon was finally defeated?

Ans : Near Brussels Belgium.

Q-60. How old was Akbar when he was proclaimed king?

Ans : 13

Q-61. What are Rajput miniature paintings of music called?

Ans : Raagmala.

Q-62. Who wrote the novel ‘Rajmohan’s wife’ ?Ans : Bankimchandra C.hattopadhaya.

Q-63. Who wrote the poem “Akash Vani”?Ans : Rabindranath Tagore.

Q-64. Who was the first Indian badminton player to reach the finals of the All England championship?

Ans : Vijau Medgavkar in 1947.

Q-65. What was the first ashram founded by Gandhi in South Africa?

Ans : phoneix farm in 1904.

Q-66. Which is the highest peak in the Aravallis in Rajasthan?

Ans : Gurusikhan peak.

Q-67. Who was the captain of the first official cricket test in 1932 between india and England?

Ans : The Maharaja of Porabandar.

Q-68. Which Gujarati town is known for its patola weavers?

Ans : Pattan.

Q-69. What are the weavers of Kanchipuram called?

Ans : Salgars.

Q-70.Where is the largest telescope of Asia is situated?

Ans : Kavalur, Tamilnadu.

Q-71. Who discovered the planet ‘Pluto’?Ans : Doomburk.

Q-72. Which religion movement led to the rise of protestantism?

Ans : The Reformation.

Q-73. Who haded the first globe circling voyage?Ans : Ferdinand Megellan.

Q-74. In whose period Hieun -t-sang visited India?

Ans : Harshavardhan.

Q-75. Who wrote the first novel in English in India?

Ans : Bankim Chandra Chatterji.

Q-76. Who was the author of ‘India wins freedom’ and which year it was published?

Ans : Abdul Kalam Azad in 1982.

Q-77.Who invented the magnetic compass?Ans : Chinese.

Q-78.Who was the first woman to orbit the earth?

Ans : Valentina tereshkova.

Q-79. How much % of the land on earth is in form of deserts?

Ans : 10%

Q-80. What do you know about ‘tundra’?Ans : It is full of trees.

Q-81. How is an Indian elephant different from an African elephant?

Ans : African female elephant has tusks but indian female elephant has no tusks.

Q-82. What is the chemical name of Globar’s salt?

Ans : Sodium Sulphate.

Q-83. Who invented vaccine for rabies?Ans : Louis Pasteur.

Q-84. ‘the oval’ a cricket ground is in which country?

Ans : England.

Q-85. Which was the first country to use postage stamps?

Ans : Britain.

Q-86. What is the name of Russian’s news agency?

Ans : Tass.

Q-87. At which height the baskets are placed in basket ball game?

Ans : 3 meters.

Q-88. What is the usage of pluviometer?Ans : To measure rain.

Q-89. Who is the roman God of water?Ans : Neptune.

Q-90. What is kalology?Ans : The study of human beauty

Q-91. On which riverbank does Delhi stand?Ans : Yamuna.

Q-92. Which part is affected by Rickets disease?Ans : Bones.

Q-93. Who was the first woman flew in space?Ans : Velentina Tereshkov of Russia in 1963.

Q-94. What is an astronomical unit?Ans : The distance covered by light in 8.3

minutes.

Q-95. What is ‘ooze’?Ans : Deposits found at the deep ocean seas.

Q-96. Which city is called as an ‘Eternal city’?Ans : Rome.

Q-97. Who is the father of nuclear science?Ans : Ernest Rutherford.

Q-98. Which organ will be affected by cholera bacteria?

Ans : The intestine.

Q-99. What is the unit of heat energy?Ans : Calories.

Q-100. What is the medical term of the disease ‘Chicken fox’?

Ans : Varicella.