Thursday, November 8, 2012

General Knowledge

General Knowledge

  1. The Southern – most Arabic speaking town in the world.                  Juba
  2. The book that won 'Booker of the Booker' award.                 Salman Rushdie's book Midnight's Children.
  3. The oldest national song in the world is that of                                Japan
  4. World Day against the Death Penalty                                                Oct 10.
  5. Vietnam's national flower                                                                  Lotus
  6. The first Indian to win Gandhi Peace Prize                                         Baba Amte
  7. Bugatti is part of the ….. group                                                           Volkswagen
  8. Macrobiotics is the study of prolonging                                             life
  9. The minister who removed his robe in Bhopal to prove his point in favour of an Indian dress at convocation.                                                                                                 Jairam Ramesh
  10. Who said necessity in the mother of invention?                                Plato
  11. The only Sikh ruler of Punjab                                                              Ranjit Singh
  12. Gyanpith Award prize Money                                                  Rs. 7 lakh
  13. The country with the highest number of banks per capital                Luxembourg
  14. Who won Bharat Ratna on his 100th birthday                                     D. K. Karve
  15. Who was known as Malik Abdul Aziz while in jail?                            Mike Tyson
  16. The country that had six different national anthems since WWII     Romania
  17. The national flag of Pakistan was designed by                                  Muhammad Ali Jinnah
  18. Blean is the scientific measure of                                                      luminosity
  19. The chief exporter of cumin                                                                Iran
  20. The world busiest port.                                                                       Singapore
  21. The 14th point in 'The Fourteen Points proposed by Woodrow Wilson death with                The establishment of the league of Nations.
  22. Antrix Corporation Ltd. is the commercial wing of the                       ISRO
  23. South Africans whose family originally came from the Neatherlands           Boers
  24. The first Indian winner of Pulitzer                                                      Gobind Bihari Lal
  25. Who died on Feb. 22, 1944 in Age Khan Place at Pune?                    Kasturba Gandhi.
  26. Manikarnika was the original name of                                               Rani Lakshmi of Jhansi
  27. Abbotabad, near Islamabad where bin Laden was killed, is name after       Major James Abbott, the colonial of the town.
  28. A company, Pink Ladies Cabs, was created in London in 2005 to provide safe transport driven by women.
  29. Uddham Singh was hanged in 1940 for killing Punjab Lt. Governor.             Sir Micheal O. Dyer.
  30. Who founded the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata ?                              P.C. Mahalanobis

       

 

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