Saturday, October 27, 2012

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUESTIONS

1. After whose name America is name   (Vespucci)

 

2. Who discover Victoria Falls in Africa?          (David Livingstone)

 

3. Who was the first person to sail around the earth or circumnavigate the Earth? ( Ferdinanel Magellan)

 

4. Who was the first Englishman to sail around the world?          (Francis Drake)

 

5. Under whose patronage Marco Polo remain in China for 24 years.    (Kublai Khan, the Mongol ruler)

 

6. Who was first person to reach South Pole? (Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer)

 

7. Who was first person to reach North Pole ? (Robert Edwin Peary)

 

8. Who discovered America? (Columbus Chrsitopher in 1492)

 

9. Who discovered sea – route to India (Vasco – de – Gama, 1498)

 

10. Who was First Gyanpith Award Indian recipient?  (G. Sankara Kurup in Malayalam)

 

11. Who was First Hindi poet / Scholar winner of Gyanpith Award? (Sumitranandan Pant)

 

12. Who was First Urdu poet / Scholar winner of Gyanpith Award ? (Firaq Gorakhpuri)

 

13. Who was First Indian to receive Booker Prizes? (V. S. Naipaul for In a Free State)

 

14. Who was the First Indian to receive Ramon Magsaysay Awardees? (Vinoba Bhave in 1958 Community Leader)

 

15. Who was First women to receive Gyanpith award? (Ashapurna Devi , Bengali)

 

16. Which Movie was awarded First Oscar ? (Wings 1928)

 

17. In which year movie Gandhi was awarded Oscar ? (1982)

 

18. Into USSR Treaty signed in 1971 between Indira Gandhi & …..     (Leonid Brezhnev)

 

19. What was original profession of Benjamin Franklin ? (Printer)

 

20. What was original Profession of William Wordsworth (Stamp Distributor)

 

21. Who was First Women Prime Minister in the World ? (Sirimavo Bandaranaika , Srilanka 1960 – 1965)

 

22. Who was First Women President in the world? (Maria Isabel Peron)

 

23. Who killed or assassinated John F. Kennedy? (Lee Harvey Oswald)

 

24. Who is author of 'The Republic' (Plato)

 

25. Who is author of 'A Brief History of Time'?  (Stephen Hawking)

 

26. Name the First Satellite went to Space? (Sputnik 1957)

 

27. Name First Cosmonaut (Yuri Gagarin 1961 Vostok)

 

28. First successful Lunar Probe? (Apollo XI , 21 July 1969)

 

29. First Woman in Space? (Valentina Tereshkova , June 16, 1963)

 

30. First Women to walk in Space (Svetlana Savitskaya)

 

31. Who was First American female into space (Sally Ride)

 

32. Who was First Female Tourist ? (Anousheh Ansari)

 

33. Who is author of book Fall of Sparrow? (Salim Ali)

 

34. Winston Churchil received Nobel Prize for …. (Literature)

 

35. Blue tooth named after …. (Viking king Harold blue tooth a Danish king who conquered Norway)   

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