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Some GK Questions with Answers in English – Random GK Quiz
Some GK Questions with Answers in English Part 1
Some GK Questions 1-20
1) Who wrote Northanger Abbey?
Answer: Jayne Austin.
2) Hermann Scheer (Germany) received right Livelihood Award in 1999 for?
Answer: His indefatigable work for thepromotion of solar energy worldwide.
3) Who ran through the streets naked crying Eureka?
Answer: Archimedes.
4) Germany signed the Armistice Treaty on ____ and World War I ended.
Answer: November 11, 1918.
5) Who composed the Brandeberg concertos full names?
Answer: Johan Sebastian Bach.
6) Frederick Sanger is a twice recipient of the Nobel Prize for?
Answer: Chemistry in 1958 and 1980.
7) Who won the World Series in 1987?
Answer: Minnesota twins.
8) The ozone layer restricts _?
Answer: Ultraviolet radiation.
9) What is the correct term of address to the Pope?
Answer: Your Holiness.
10) Eugenics is the study of _?
Answer: Altering human beings by changing their genetic components.
11) In which city was Alexander Graham Bell born in 1847?
Answer: Edinburgh.
12) During World War II, when did Germany attack France?
Answer: 1940.
13) Who composed the ballets Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker?
Answer: Tchaikovsky.
14) Euclid was?
Answer: Greek mathematician.
15) AG Bell opened school in Boston in 1872 for Teachers of what?
Answer: The Deaf.
16) Ecology deals with?
Answer: Relation between organisms and their environment.
17) Benjamin Kubelsky 1894 fame as what comedian?
Answer: Jack Benny.
18) Filaria is caused by _?
Answer: Mosquito.
19) In the Old Testament what book comes between Obadiah.
Answer: Micah Jonah.
20) Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL) was established in?
Answer: 1957.
Some GK Questions with Answers in English Part 2
Some GK Questions 21-40
21) Robin Williams dressed in drag for which 1993 film?
Answer: Mrs. Doubtfire.
22) DRDL stands for?
Answer: Defence Research and Development Laboratory.
23) Which chess piece could be a member of the church?
Answer: Bishop.
24) FRS stands for?
Answer: Fellow of Royal Society.
25) Which German word means lightning war used in WW2?
Answer: Blitzkrieg.
26) Escape velocity of a rocket fired from the earth towards the moon is a velocity to get rid of the _?
Answer: Earth’s gravitational pull.
27) Broccoli belongs to what family of plants?
Answer: Cabbage.
28) Coral reefs in India can be found in?
Answer: Rameshwaram.
29) Who designed the first Iron ship the Great Britain in 1845?
Answer: I. Kingdom Brunel.
30) For safety, the fuse wire used in the mains for household supply of electricity must be made of metal having?
Answer: Low melting point.
31) Economic goods are _?
Answer: All commodities that are limited in quantity as compared to their demand.
32) Whose boat Bluebird was recently raised from Coniston water?
Answer: Donald Campbell.
33) During World War I Germany was defeated in the Battle of Verdun on the western front and Romania declared war on the eastern front in the year?
Answer: 1916 AD.
34) in 1951 which (of two) car companies introduced power steering?
Answer: Buick Chrysler.
35) Hamid Karzai was chosen president of Afghanistan in?
Answer: 2002.
36) Who wrote Catch 22 (both names)?
Answer: Joseph Heller.
37) Durand Cup is associated with the game of?
Answer: Football.
38) Which country set up the world’s first chemistry lab in 1650?
Answer: Netherlands.
39) Headquarters of UNO are situated at?
Answer: New York, USA.
40) What links the names Botvinik, Tal, Karpov, Fischer?
Answer: Chess World Champs.
Some GK Questions with Answers in English Part 3
Some GK Questions 41-60
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41) First International Peace Congress was held in London in?
Answer: 1843.
42) What is the national flower of Japan?
Answer: Chrysanthemum.
43) For seeing objects at the surface of water from a submarine under water, the instrument used is?
Answer: Periscope.
44 Bombardier Billy Wells was seen on many Rank films. why?
Answer: Hit Gong.
45) G-15 is an economic grouping of _?
Answer: Third World Nations.
46) Where in France do claret wines come from?
Answer: Bordeaux.
47) Fathometer is used to measure?
Answer: Ocean depth.
48) What did mathematician John Napier invent in 1614?
Answer: Logarithms.
49) For galvanizing iron which metal is used?
Answer: Zinc.
50) What was the world’s first high level programming language 1957?
Answer: IBM FORTRAN.
51) Which country’s lower house of Parliament is called Wolesi Jirga?
Answer: Afghanistan.
52) Consumption was the former name of which disease?
Answer: Tuberculosis.
53) Hockey was introduced in the Asian Games in?
Answer: 1958 in Tokyo.
54) Which American state is nicknamed The Diamond State?
Answer: Delaware.
55) Who was chosen for the UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance and Non-Violence in 2002, but was allowed to accept the prize only in November 2011?
Answer: Aung San Suu Kyi (Myanmar).
56) What are the Sirocco, Mistral and Chinook?
Answer: Winds.
57) ESCAP stands for?
Answer: Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific.
58) Who wrote about Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory?
Answer: Roald Dahl.
59) Which day is observed as the International Day for Tolerance?
Answer: November 16.
60) Who, at USA customs declared, nothing but my genius?
Answer: Oscar Wilde.
Some GK Questions with Answers in English Part 4
Some GK Questions 61-80
61) Firdausi was a _?
Answer: Poet.
62) Issur Danielovitch became famous a who?
Answer: Kirk Douglas.
63) Scientists have found the best evidence yet for water just beneath
the surface of Europa. Europa is the icy moon of which planet?
Answer: Jupiter.
64) Who sailed in the Golden Hind?
Answer: Sir Francis Drake.
65) Himalayan Mountaineering Institute is at?
Answer: Darjeeling.
66) What was the name of the plantation in Gone with the Wind?
Answer: Tara.
67) Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was arrested for electoral fraud. She was the President of _ country?
Answer: Philippines.
68) Who won the 1988 Superbowl?
Answer: Washington Redskins.
69) Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit was _?
Answer: A German Physicist.
70) Which group believes in The Great Architect of the Universe?
Answer: Freemasons.
71) Sarath Fonseka was sentenced to spend three more years in
prison in November 2011. He is the former army chief of _ country?
Answer: Sri Lanka.
72) Robert Alan Zimmerman real name of who?
Answer: Bob Dylan.
73) During the first crusade, crusaders reached Jerusalem and captured it in?
Answer: 1099 AD.
74) Processed Galena produces which metal?
Answer: Lead.
75) Which was the first non-Arab state to recognize the Palestine
Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1975?
Answer: India.
76) Who wrote Gulliver’s Travels (both names)?
Answer: Jonathon Swift.
77) Dr. Linus Carl Pauling is the only person to have won two Nobel prizes individually for _?
Answer: Chemistry in 1954, Peace Prize in 1962.
78) What is a Ha Ha?
Answer: Sunken Fence.
79) For purifying drinking water alum is used?
Answer: For coagulation of mud particles.
80) In Japan what is Seppuku (Hari Kari)
Answer: Suicide.
Some GK Questions with Answers in English Part 5
Some GK Questions 81-100
81) Who won the Men’s singles title at the Hong Kong Open
badminton championships in November 2011?
Answer: Lin Dan.
82) Who discovered blood circulation?
Answer: William Harvey.
83) East Timor, which became the 191st member of the UN, is in the continent of _?
Answer: Asia.
84) The dunnock is another name for which common bird?
Answer: Hedge Sparrow.
85) Which city will host the 2018 Commonwealth Games?
Answer: Gold Coast (Australia).
86) If someone said they were from Hellas. which country?
Answer: Greece.
87) Free surface of a liquid behaves like a sheet and tends to contract to the smallest possible area due to the _?
Answer: Force of cohesion.
88) Who was the son of Zeus and Maia, Gods Messenger?
Answer: Hermes.
89) The term Bull’s eye is associated with which sports?
Answer: Shooting.
90) Roy Scherer jr became famous as who?
Answer: Rock Hudson.
91) GNLF stands for?
Answer: Gorkha National Liberation Front.
92) Who wrote Brave New World (full name)?
Answer: Aldus Huxley.
93) The Doing Business Report (DBR) is released every year by which institution?
Answer: World Bank.
94) What links Calabria, Liguria, Puglia and Veneto?
Answer: Regions of Italy.
95) Excessive secretion from the pituitary gland in the children results in _?
Answer: increased height.
96) Which city in Rajasthan has riding breeches named after it?
Answer: Jodhpur.
97) Which country’s currency is called Yen?
Answer: Japan.
98) Portugal has had six Kings with what first name?
Answer: John.
99) Fa-Hien was?
Answer: The first Buddhist pilgrim of China to visit India during the reign of Chandragupta Vikramaditya.
100) What martial arts name means gentle way?
Answer: Judo.
