Latest General Knowledge MCQ – Online Quiz Questions
1. Who wrote the famous novel “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”?
(a) Rudyard Kipling
(b) John Keats
(c) Lewis Carroll
(d) H G Wells
Answer: Lewis Carroll
2. Who was the first to complete the circumnavigation of Earth?
(a) Francis Drake
(b) Columbus
(c) Magellan
(d) Vasco da Gama
Answer: Magellan
3. The Nobel prize was instituted by which country?
(a) USA
(b) UK
(c) Russia
(d) Sweden
Answer: Sweden
4. Which of the following is an award instituted by UNESCO?
(a) Kalinga Award
(b) Pulitzer prize
(c) Stirling prize
(d) Pritzker prize
Answer: Pritzker prize
5. Magsaysay award is given by
(a) USA
(b) UK
(c) Malaysia
(d) Philippines
Answer: Philippines
6. Which of the following organisations is not associated with the UNO?
(a) ILO
(b) WHO
(c) ASEAN
(d) All of the above
Answer: ASEAN
7. Where is the headquarters of UNESCO situated?
(a) Rome
(b) Geneva
(c) New York
(d) Paris
Answer: Paris
8. The five permanent members of UN Security Council are
(a) Japan, West Germany, USSR, UK and USA
(b) Canada, China, France, USSR and USA
(c) Germany, China, USSR, UK and USA
(d) China, France, USSR, UK and USA
Answer: China, France, USSR, UK and USA
9. Which of the following is the headquarters of World Trade Organisation (WTO)?
(a) New York
(b) Geneva
(c) Madrid
(d) Paris
Answer: Geneva
10. The Great Victoria Desert is located in
(a) Canada
(b) West Africa
(c) Australia
(d) North America
Answer: Australia
11. Which of the following is tropical grassland?
(a) Taiga
(b) Savannah
(c) Pampas
(d) Prairies
Answer: Savannah
12. The humidity of the air depends upon
(a) Temperature
(b) Location
(c) Weather
(d) All of the above
Answer: All of the above
13. Who invented the ball point pen?
(a) Waterman Brothers
(b) Bicc Brothers
(c) Biro Brothers
(d) Wright Brothers
Answer: Biro Brothers
14. Which scientist discovered the radioactive element radium?
(a) Isaac Newton
(b) Albert Einstein
(c) Benjamin Franklin
(d) Marie Curie
Answer: Marie Curie
15. Who invented Dynamite?
(a) Sir Alexander Graham Bell
(b) Benjamin Franklin
(c) Thomas Alva Edison
(d) Alfred B. Nobel
Answer: Alfred B. Nobel
16. Who is the father of English Poetry?
(a) Charles Dickens
(b) John Milton
(c) Geoffrey Chaucer
(d) William Wordsworth
Answer: Geoffrey Chaucer
17. Who wrote the novel War and Peace?
(a) Leo Tolstoy
(b) Mahatma Gandhi
(c) Charles Dickens
(d) Rudyard Kipling
Answer: Leo Tolstoy
18. Who was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize?
(a) Marie Curie
(b) Bertha von Suttner
(c) Selma Lagerlöf
(d) Grazia Deledda
Answer: Marie Curie
19. Who is called as “The Father of History”?
(a) Euclid
(b) Herodotus
(c) Aristotle
(d) Julius Caesar
Answer: Herodotus
20. Who wrote the novel “Anna Karenina”?
(a) Lewis Carroll
(b) Leo Tolstoy
(c) Victor Hugo
(d) Boris Pasternak
Answer: Leo Tolstoy
21. Who wrote the novel “A Farewell to Arms”?
(a) Charles Dickens
(b) Ernest Hemingway
(c) Thomas Hardy
(d) Aldous Leonard Huxley
Answer: Ernest Hemingway
22. Who wrote the controversial novel “The Satanic Verses”?
(a) William Golding
(b) Gunnar Myrdal
(c) Salman Rushdie
(d) Agatha Christie
Answer: Salman Rushdie
23. Who is the author of the novel Les
Misérables?
(a) Victor Hugo
(b) ALium tofler
(c) G.Wynne
(d) Agatha Christie
Answer: Victor Hugo
24. Who wrote the book ‘Gulliver’s Travels’?
(a) Jonathan Swift
(b) Charles Dickens
(c) Charles Lamb
(d) Alexandra Dumas
Answer: Jonathan Swift
25. Who wrote the book ‘Tom Sawyer’?
(a) William Shakespeare
(b) John Ruskin
(c) Mark Twain
(d) Leo Tolstoy
Answer: Mark Twain
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