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100 GK Short Question and Answer – Short GK Quiz
GK Short Question and Answer Part 1
GK Short Question 1-25
1) What is 55 in Roman Numerals?
Answer: LV.
2) La Giaconda is better known as what?
Answer: Mona Lisa.
3) What colour do you get by mixing blue and yellow?
Answer: Green.
4) Which country had The Dauphin as a ruler?
Answer: France.
5) What is the capital of Switzerland?
Answer: Berne.
6) Who did Michael Caine play in the Ipcress File (both names)?
Answer: Harry Palmer.
7) Name 3 US States that start with the letter I?
Answer: Illinois, Indiana, Idaho, Iowa.
8) Who won Euro song contest Save All Your Kisses for Me?
Answer: Brotherhood of Man.
9) What animal is the symbol of the World Wildlife Fund?
Answer: Panda.
10) Which country had the guns of Navarone installed?
Answer: Turkey.
11) How many zeros are there in a trillion?
Answer: 12.
12) Ichthyology study what?
Answer: Fish.
13) What colour are the 5 Olympic rings?
Answer: Black, blue, red, green, yellow.
14) What is a Winston Churchill?
Answer: Cigar.
15) What number do the Roman numerals CD represent?
Answer: 400.
16) What type of acid is used in car batteries?
Answer: Sulfuric.
17) What is the capital of Columbia?
Answer: Bogota.
18) It’s a flock of sheep what’s a group of owls called?
Answer: Parliament.
19) How many squares are there on a chess board?
Answer: 64.
20) What animal would you find in a form?
Answer: Hare.
21) What colour are a baby’s eyes at birth?
Answer: Blue.
22) Who in books and films was the man of bronze?
Answer: Doc Savage.
23) In which year did man first land on the moon?
Answer: 1969.
24) Who was Stan Laurels partner?
Answer: Oliver Hardy.
25) Which planet is the fifth from the sun?
Answer: Jupiter.
GK Short Question and Answer Part 2
GK Short Question 26-50
Answering Assignment Questions
26) What kind of food is Cullen skink?
Answer: Fish.
27) What is 40% of 40?
Answer: 16.
28) What is classified by the A B O system?
Answer: Blood Groups.
29) What is the capital of Peru?
Answer: Lima.
30) What plant does the Colorado beetle attack?
Answer: Potato.
31) What do the letters BBC stand for?
Answer: British Broadcasting Corporation.
32) Where did the Pied Piper play?
Answer: Hamlin.
33) In which year did the Channel Tunnel open?
Answer: 1994.
34) To where in France do the sick make pilgrimages?
Answer: Lourdes.
35) What is the legal drinking age in the USA?
Answer: 21.
36) In which city was the famous black hole?
Answer: Calcutta.
37) How many men have walked on the moon?
Answer: 12.
38) Christopher Cockerel invented what?
Answer: Hovercraft.
39) From which country does Nokia, the mobile phone company, originate?
Answer: Finland.
40) Ray Bolger played who in The Wizard of Oz?
Answer: Scarecrow.
41) What is the capital of Turkey?
Answer: Ankara.
42) Sabotage is French. What did the saboteurs use?
Answer: Shoes (sabot means shoe).
43) Which is heavier, gold or silver?
Answer: Gold.
44) Which part of the human body contains the most gold?
Answer: Toenails.
45) How many legs does a butterfly have?
Answer: 6.
46) If you had rubella what would you have caught?
Answer: German Measles.
47) Which is the biggest state in the U.S.A.?
Answer: Alaska.
48) Mohs scale hardest substance is diamond. what’s the softest?
Answer: Talc.
49) What is the capital city of Norway?
Answer: Oslo.
50) Who or what lives in a formicarium?
Answer: Ants.
GK Short Question and Answer Part 3
GK Short Question 51-75
51) First human heart transplant operation conducted by Dr. Christiaan Barnard on Louis Washkansky, was conducted in?
Answer: 1967.
52) Grand Central Terminal, Park Avenue, New York is the world’s _?
Answer: largest railway station.
53) Eric Arthur Blaire was the real name of which author?
Answer: George Orwell.
54) Georgia, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan became the members of UNO in?
Answer: 1992.
55) Names Baker Cook obvious what did Cordwainer do?
Answer: Shoemaker.
56) Epsom (England) is the place associated with?
Answer: Horse racing.
57) Which country do Sinologists study?
Answer: China.
58) Entomology is the science _ studies?
Answer: Insects.
59) Rudy Stevens became famous under which name?
Answer: Barbara Stanwyck.
60) Golf player Vijay Singh belongs to which country?
Answer: Fiji.
61) Which non alcoholic cordial is made from pomegranates?
Answer: Grenadine.
62) During eleventh Antarctic Expedition in Nov. 1991/March 1992 ____ was installed.
Answer: SODAR (SOnic Detection And Ranging).
63) What is Orchesis either professional or amateur?
Answer: Art of Dancing.
64) Each year World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day is celebrated on?
Answer: May 8.
65) Taken literally what should you see in a Hippodrome?
Answer: Horses.
66) Film and TV institute of India is located at?
Answer: Pune (Maharashtra).
67) Who wrote the Man in the Iron Mask?
Answer: Alexander Dumas.
68) Hitler party which came into power in 1933 is known as?
Answer: Nazi Party.
69) Which 1993 Disney film starred Bet Middler as a witch?
Answer: Hocus Pocus.
70) First Afghan War took place in?
Answer: 1839.
71) Who piloted the first flight across the English channel?
Answer: Louis Bleriot.
72) Fire temple is the place of worship of which of the following religion?
Answer: Zoroastrianism (Parsi Religion).
73) What was the first James Bond film?
Answer: Dr No.
74) First China War was fought between?
Answer: China and Britain.
75) What 1991 film won best film, actor, actress, director Oscars?
Answer: Silence of the Lambs.
GK Short Question and Answer Part 4
GK Short Question 76-100
76) Garampani sanctuary is located at?
Answer: Diphu, Assam.
77) What was the capital of Ethiopia?
Answer: Addis Ababa.
78) Guarantee to an exporter that the importer of his goods will pay immediately for the goods ordered by him, is known as?
Answer: Letter of Credit (L/C).
79) Aescapalious emblem staff snake Greek Roman god of what?
Answer: Medicine.
80) Gravity setting chambers are used in industries to remove?
Answer: Suspended particulate matter.
81) Giacomo Agostini – 122 Grand Prix 15 world titles what sport?
Answer: Motorcycle Racing.
82) Fastest shorthand writer was?
Answer: Dr. G. D. Bist.
83) What is the largest state in the USA?
Answer: Alaska.
84) Federation Cup, World Cup, Allywyn International Trophy and Challenge Cup are awarded to winners of?
Answer: Volleyball.
85) Led Deighton trilogy Game Set Match What 3 Capitals?
Answer: Berlin MexicoLondon.
86) Eritrea, which became the 182nd member of the UN in 1993, is in the continent of?
Answer: Africa.
87) Alan Stuart Konigsberg famous as who?
Answer: Woody Allen.
88) Famous sculptures depicting art of love built some time in 950 AD – 1050 AD are?
Answer: Khajuraho temples.
89) Which human rights organisation founded 1961 got Nobel 1977?
Answer: Amnesty International.
90) FFC stands for?
Answer: Film Finance Corporation.
91) Whose autobiography was The long walk to Freedom?
Answer: Nelson Mandela.
92) Gulf cooperation council was originally formed by?
Answer: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates.
93) What was discovered in 1922 by Howard Carter?
Answer: Tutankamen tomb.
94) Exposure to sunlight helps a person improve his health because?
Answer:The ultraviolet rays convert skin oil into Vitamin D.
95) Clyde Tonbaugh discovered what planet in 1930?
Answer: Pluto.
96) Friction can be reduced by changing from
Answer: Sliding to rolling.
97) Who won the women’s heptathlon at Seoul in 1988?
Answer: Jackie Joyner Kersey.
98) For the Olympics and World Tournaments, the dimensions of basketball court are?
Answer: 28 m x 15 m.
99) Who wrote the Opera Madam Butterfly?
Answer: Puccini.
100) What links Goa, Kerala, Assam, Bihar?
Answer: India.
