Basic General Knowledge Questions with Answers
1. In which Indian museum can you see the finest collection of the country’s art in the world?
Answer: The National Museum of India.
2. In which country can you see a unique replica of the original Parthenon in Greece?
Answer: USA.
3. Which is the largest post office in Asia?
Answer: Mumbai.
4. The Art of arranging dance movements is called:
Answer: Choreography.
5. The American President who was not elected by Popular Vote:
Answer: Gerald Ford.
6. Which Indian city in the state of Gujarat is named after Mahatma Gandhi, the father of the Indian Nation?
Answer: Gandhinagar.
7. ‘Old Glory’ is the name of which country’s flag?
Answer: United States.
8. More cars are produced in this American city than anywhere else in the U.S. Which is why it is called “Motor City”. Name it:
Answer: Detroit.
9. If, in France, you used the ‘Chemin de fer’, what would you be doing?
Answer: Travelling on a railway train.
10. Where would you be if you were traveling by the highest railway in the world?
Answer: Peru.
11. What is the London underground railway commonly called?
Answer: The Tube.
12. If you paid your fare in yen to travel by monorail to the airport, which city would you be visiting?
Answer: Tokyo.
13. In which country would you drive down an Autobahn?
Answer: Germany.
14. Name the mode of transport, both San Francisco and Kolkata have in common:
Answer: Tram Cars.
15. The Ringstrasse is a famous boulevard in this Austrian city. Name it:
Answer: Vienna.
Basic General Knowledge Questions with Answers Part 2 (Questions 15-30)
16. This fabulous city boasts of 378 bridges. Can you name it?
Answer: Venice.
17. In which Asian country can you get around in the seven-seater ‘jitney’ bus?
Answer: Israel.
18. Which city is said to have the most impressive boulevards and avenues in the world?
Answer: Paris.
19. What is the name given to the Paris underground railway?
Answer: The Metro.
20. In which German city is ‘Kurfürstendamm’ a famous boulevard?
Answer: Berlin.
21. When was the National Dairy Development Board established?
Answer: In 1965.
22. Which point is farthest north?
Answer: The northernmost point in Minnesota.
23. Gregor Mendel’s laws of heredity are based on:
Answer: Probability theory.
24. Which country possesses Easter Island?
Answer: Chile.
25. How does supersonic plane fly?
Answer: With the speed greater than the speed of sound.
26. Which city is farthest north?
Answer: Rome.
27. Which was the first submarine to be propelled by nuclear power?
Answer: Nautilus.
28. In which Caribbean country, located on the island of Hispaniola, did Francois Duvalier establish a dictatorship in 1957?
Answer: Haiti.
29. “Cecil B. DeMille, Rather against his will With persuaded to leave Moses Out of The War of Roses” Who wrote this?
Answer: Nicolas Bentley.
30. The island of Gozo is the second largest island of which island country?
Answer: Malta.
Basic General Knowledge Questions with Answers Part 3 (Questions 31-50)
31. According to astrology enemy planet of Mars:
Answer: Mercury.
32. Which U.S. state does not border Tennessee?
Answer: West Virginia.
33. In which combustion engine is needed boiler, furnace and condenser?
Answer: In external combustion engine.
34. The cities of Manizales, Cartagena and Bucaramanga are located in which country?
Answer: Colombia.
35. Which name indicates all the eight fold paths of Buddha?
Answer: Astangika-marga.
36. Where is the Thar desert?
Answer: India.
37. Who described ‘Mona Lisa’ as older than the rocks among which she sits?
Answer: Walter Pater.
38. Which water body surrounds most of India?
Answer: Indian Ocean.
39. What musical term is used to describe a male voice between tenor and bass?
Answer: Baritone.
40. The Syrian Desert lies within Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and which other country?
Answer: Iraq.
41. Who was the President of France during the period of 1974-1981?
Answer: Valéry Giscard d’Estaing.
42. The drug lovastatin helps to:
Answer: Lower cholesterol.
43. Name the Islands made up of 9 coral atolls, which is situated in the west of Pacific Ocean:
Answer: Ellice Islands.
44. What word describes the tendency of alcohol to evaporate quickly?
Answer: Volatility.
45. Who said Peasant societies are Part societies and Past Culture?
Answer: A. L. Kroeber.
46. What sauce do you make by adding white wine, vinegar and tarragon to hollandaise?
Answer: Bernaise.
47. Which religion’s observances are known as the “Five Pillars of Faith”, binding to all adult male believers?
Answer: Islam.
48. The Vistula, Oder and Narew are chief rivers found in this European nation:
Answer: Poland.
49. Accepting houses in England are specialized firms which perform the function of:
Answer: Accepting bills of exchange.
50. Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg and _______ were the three men in “Three Men and a Baby.”
Answer: Ted Danson.