GK Quiz -General Knowledge Quiz
In this post, a set of general knowledge questions are given below. Try to practice the same in 10 minutes.
For each correct answer to be given one mark and 0.33 mark to be deducted for each wrong answer. No negative marks for unattended questions.
If the score is 21 or above- very good. 15 -20- Good. below 15 needs improvement through extensive reference.
1. Marry Todd was the wife of:
(a) Abraham Lincoln
(b) Napoleon (c) Socretes
(d) Albert Einstein
2. Vinson Massif is the highest elevation in:
(a) Antarctica (b) Australia
(c) North America (d) South America
3. Vladimir I. Ulyanov was popularly known as:
(a) Lenin (b) Maxim Gorkey
(c) Karl Marx (d) Joseph Stallin
4. The Governor General who introduced
Permanent Settlement in Bengal:
(a) Wellesley (b) Dalhousie
(c) Canning (d) Cornwallis
5. The old name of Ho Chi Minh City:
(a) Saigon (b) Taipei
(c) Kyoto (d) Hanoi
6. An organism that completely depends other living organisms for food:
(a) Parasite (b) Vector
(c) Causative organism
(d) Omivorous
7. Who is the authority to nominate 12 persons to Rajya Sabha?
(a) Prime Minister (b) Vice President
(c) President (d) Speaker
8. The place where Bhagirati and Alakananda meet:
(a) Prayag (b) Karnaprayag
(c) Devaprayag (d) Rudraprayag
9. The tomb of Babur is in:
(a) Lahore (b) Delhi
(c) Kabul (d) Sikandra
10. Antarctica Study centre in India is situated at:
(a) Goa (b) New Delhi
(c) Visakhapatnam (d) Tutucorin
11. What is known as ‘king of hobbies’?
(a) Coin collection (b) Stamp collection
(c) reading (d) travelling
12. The old name of ‘Rashtrapathi Bhavan’:
(a) Viceregal palace
(b) Executive Mansion
(c) Imperial palace (d) none of these
13. Who said “Take care to get what you like, or you will be forced to like what you get”?
(a) William Shakespeare
(b) George Bernard Shaw(c) Edmund Burke (d) John Keats
14. The U.N.Charter has ….. Articles
(a) 100 (b) 144
(c) 111 (d) 99
15. In which country Charles Darwin was born?
(a) USA (b) France
(c) Spain (d) England
16. The gas discovered by the British chemists Sir William Ramsay and Morris Travers in 1898:
(a) Neon (b) Chlorine
(c) Oxygen (d) Radon
17. The largest city in the Indus Valley:
(a) Mohanjedaro (b) Harappa
(c) Lothal (d) Kalibangan
18. In which language ‘Hortus Malabaricus’ was originally compiled?
(a) Spanish (b) English
(c) Latin (d) Portuguese
19. In America, the Civil War started in:
(a) 1865 (b) 1862
(c) 1863 (d) 1861
20. Hideki Tojo was the premier of ….. during
the Second World War:
(a) China (b) Japan
(c) Germany (d) Taiwan
21. The theory of expanding universe was first propounded by:
(a) Hubble (b) Newton
(c) Kepler (d) Copernicus
22. The market condition in which there are only two buyers of a particular goods or service:
(a) Duopoly (b) Duopsony
(c) Laissez Faire (d) Monoploly
23. The last Tsar ruler of Russia:
(a) Ivan IV (b) Nicholas I
(c) Nicholas II (d) Louis XIV
24. The mean depth of the hydrosphere is:
(a) 3,554 m (b) 6020 m
(c) 4523 m (d) 5534 m
25. The Asian Turkey and European Turkey
are separated by the strait:
(a) Bering (b) Bosporus
(c) Dover (d) Tartar
Answers
1 (a) 2(a) 3 (a) 4 (d) 5(b) 6(a) 7(c) 8(c) 9(c)
10(a) 11(b) 12(a) 13(b) 14(c) 15(d) 16(a) 17(a)
18(c) 19(d) 20(b) 21(a) 22(b) 23(c) 24(a) 25(b)