Top 105 General Awareness (GK) Questions and Answers
General Awareness (GK) Questions and Answers Part 1 (Questions 1-25)
1) What is meant by FRAX?
Answer: Diagnostic tool used to evaluate the 10 year probability of bone fracture risk.
2) Who wrote the book “Old path white clouds: Walking in the footsteps of the Buddha”?
Answer: Thich Nhat Hanh.
3) Who is Elena Ferrante?
Answer: Pseudonym for an Italian Novelist.
4) Name the measurement of radiation.
Answer: Roentgen.
5) What do we mean by Capex?
Answer: Expense where the benefit continues over a long period rather than being exhausted in a short period.
6) What is meant by Galaxy Note 7?
Answer: Android phablet smartphone produced and marketed by Samsung Electronics.
7) Which is the largest wireless carrier in USA?
Answer: Verizon Communications Inc.
8) What is meant by Google Pixel?
Answer: Line of consumer electronic devices from Google that run Chrome OS or Android operating system.
9) What is meant by Japanese encephalitis?
Answer: Diseases caused by the mosquito borne Japanese encephalitis virus.
10) What is meant by Workday?
Answer: On demand financial management and human capital management software vendor.
11) Who got Nobel prize for literature in 2016?
Answer: Bob Dylan.
12) Who is the executive director of UNDP?
Answer: Erik Solheim.
13) Name the new secretary general of UNO.
Answer: Antonio Guterres.
14) Who is the world’s longest reigning monarch?
Answer: Bhumibol Adulyadej.
15) What is meant by Geographical Information System?
Answer: System designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage and present spatial or geographical data.
16) Which day is observed as International Student’s Day?
Answer: October 15.
17) What is meant by nano flake?
Answer: An uneven piece of material with one dimension.
18) Where was the eighth BRICS summit held.
Answer: Bernaulim.
19) Name the currency of China Yuan.
Answer: Renminbi.
20) What is meant by point of care testing?
Answer: Medical diagnostic testing at or near the point of care-that is at the time and place of patient care.
21) Where is New Development Bank of BRICS headquartered?
Answer: Shanghai.
22) Which is the world’s largest container shipping company?
Answer: Maersk Line.
23) What is meant by BBIN.
Answer: (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal) Sub regional architecture of countries in South Asia.
24) Who is the first song writer to win Nobel prize for literature?
Answer: Bob Dylan.
25) What do we mean by Shenzhou?
Answer: Spacecraft developed and operated by China to support its manned space flight program.
General Awareness (GK) Questions and Answers Part 2 (Questions 26-50)
26) What is meant by NASDAQ?
Answer: American stock exchange.
27) What is meant by Huntington’s disease?
Answer: Inherited disorder that results in the death of brain cells.
28) What is meant by geotagging?
Answer: Process of adding geographical identification metadata to various media such as a geotagged photograph, video, websites, SMS messages and QR codes.
29) Name three payment gateways operating from India.
Answer: RuPay, Visa and MasterCard.
30) What is meant by Compound Annual Growth Rate?
Answer: Business and investing specific term for the geometric progression ratio that provides a constant rate of return over the time period.
31) What is Hulu?
Answer: American subscription video on demand service owned by Hulu LLC, a joint venture with the Walt Disney Company, 21st Century, Comcast and Time Warner.
32) What is meant by NAFTA(North American Free Trade Agreement)?
Answer: Agreement signed by Canada, Mexico and the United States creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America.
33) Which US State is called as the “Sunshine state”?
Answer: Florida.
34) Barbara Williams was in the news recently. Who is she?
Answer: American actress.
35) Who is Carlos Alberto?
Answer: Brazilian footballer.
36) Which virus causes bird flu?
Answer: H5N8.
37) What is meant by H5N1?
Answer: Sub type of the influenza A virus which can cause illness in humans and many other animal species.
38) Where is Belfort situated?
Answer: France.
39) Where is the oldest library in the world located?
Answer: Morocco.
40) Tim Cook was in the news recently. Who is he?
Answer: Chief Executive Officer of Apple Inc.
41) What is meant by Man Booker prize?
Answer: Literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the UK.
42) Name the Man Booker Prize winner of 2016.
Answer: Paul Beatty.
43) Which country has the highest share of women parliamentarians in the world?
Answer: Rwanda.
44) Steve McCurry was in the news recently. Who is he?
Answer: American photographer who has worked in photojournalism and editorial.
45) Who is John Key?
Answer: New Zealand Prime Minister.
46) Who bagged Sakharov Human Rights Prize in 2016?
Answer: Nadia Murad and Lamia Haji Bashar.
47) Who is the current President of Asian Development Bank?
Answer: Take Hiko Nakao.
48) Which is the world’s cheapest car?
Answer: Tata Nano.
49) What is meant by disaster recovery?
Answer: Set of policies and procedures to enable the recovery or continuation of vital technology infrastructure.
50) Who won the Saul Bellow award in 2016?
Answer: Toni Morrison.
General Awareness (GK) Questions and Answers Part 3 (Questions 51-75)
51) World’s tallest man record is upto 251cm from which country?
Answer: Turkey.
52) What movie cast included James Garner, Richard Attenbourough, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasance, James Coburn, Gordon Jackson, Angus McPhee among many others?
Answer: The Great Escape.
53) Term of office of the President of Finland is _?
Answer: 6 years.
54) If you suffer from epistaxis what is wrong?
Answer: Nosebleed.
55) Dipa Karmakar is related to which Sport?
Answer: Gymnastics.
56) In which book would you find the manservant Pas Partout?
Answer: Around the world in 80 days.
57) Who presented India on the World map for the first time?
Answer: Ptolemy.
58) What animals name translates as water horse?
Answer: Hippopotamus.
59) Andromeda is related to _?
Answer: Galaxy.
60) In Greek mythology who killed the Gorgon?
Answer: Perseus.
61) Apogee is the farthest distance between _ and _?
Answer: Moon and Earth.
62) Which two metals are alloyed to make pewter?
Answer: Tin and Lead.
63) The first modern Olympic Games are held in which country?
Answer: Greece.
64) In 1899 the Eastman company in the USA produced first what?
Answer: Kodak 1 (hand held roll film cam).
65) Which radioactive element is used for diagnosing thyroid disorders?
Answer: Iodine.
66) What links Sarte, Neitzsche, Russell and Decartes?
Answer: Philosophers.
67) Ink is created by the chemical reaction between _ and iron(II) sulfate in an aqueous solution?
Answer: Tannic Acid.
68) In 1643 Evangalisa Torichelli invented the first what?
Answer: Barometer.
69) The blood in human body is filtered by the body over how many times per day?
Answer: 300 times.
70) Which Spanish painter has first exhibition at 16, also 4 year blue?
Answer: Pablo Picasso.
71) Quantum theory of radiation is given by _?
Answer: Max Planck.
72) Where did the mutineers of the Bounty settle?
Answer: Pitcairn Islands.
73) World Environment Day is observed every year on?
Answer: June 5.
74) What is the longest river in Italy?
Answer: Po.
75) First World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) was held in which country?
Answer: Istanbul, Turkey.
General Awareness (GK) Questions and Answers Part 4 (Questions 76-105)
76) What does a polyandric women have more than one of?
Answer: Husband.
77) Fascism believed in leadership of _?
Answer: One Man.
78) What links Brazil, Uruguay, Mozambique and Angola?
Answer: Colonies of Portugal.
79) Man Booker Prize for 2015 is awarded to?
Answer: Marlon James.
80) What is the American equivalent of the Irish Poteen?
Answer: Moonshine.
81) Headquarters of International Olympic Committee?
Answer: Lausanne, Switzerland.
82) Who was the last king of Troy killed by Achilles son Pyrrhus?
Answer: Priam.
83) Which are the imaginary lines which join places with same cloud cover?
Answer: Isonephs.
84) In 1911 the archaeologist Hiram Bingham discovered what lost city?
Answer: Machu Picchu.
85) ENIAC is?
Answer: An electronic computer.
86) Who won the Superbowl in 1989?
Answer: San Francisco 49ers.
87) The total population divided by available arable land area is referred to as?
Answer: Population density.
88) Who wrote the book Billy Budd also Moby Dick?
Answer: Herman Melville.
89) Oncogenes are associated with _?
Answer: Cancer.
90) Which highwayman rode the horse Black Bess?
Answer: Dick Turpin.
91) Blue colour of sky is due to phenomenon of _?
Answer: Scattering.
92) Barry Allen was the alter ego of which DC comic superhero?
Answer: The Flash.
93) Inflation is caused by?
Answer: Increase in money supply and decrease in production.
94) In 1901 which brand of car was seen for the first time?
Answer: Mercedes.
95) Amalgam is?
Answer: Alloy with mercury.
96) Brisbane is the state capital of which SE Australian state?
Answer: Queensland.
97) Uber Cup is associated with which game?
Answer: Badminton.
98) In Norse mythology what is the name of the ultimate battle?
Answer: Ragnarok.
99) Meteorites are the heavenly bodies that _?
Answer: Burn brightly on entering the Earth’s atmosphere.
100) In 1890 the first electric what opened in London?
Answer: Underground railway.
101) What do we refer by Triumph Bonneville?
Answer: Standard motor cycle featuring a parallel twin four stroke engine and manufactured in three generations over three separate production runs.
102) Which is the world’s first vaccine to fight against tape worm in pigs?
Answer: CYSWAX.
103) What is meant by Cysticercosis?
Answer: Tissue infection caused by the young form of the pork tapeworm.
104) Who is the current Director General of World Trade Organization?
Answer: Roberto Azevedo.
105) What is meant by Trans Pacific partnership?
Answer: Trade agreement among twelve of the Pacific RIM countries.