Tuesday, 6 February 2018

World GK-2

World GK-2



1.Which is the world’s largest dry desert?
Answer: Sahara.
2. Which Christian festival is celebrated on 6 January?
Answer: Epiphany.
3. To which king is the Book of Proverbs in the Old Testament traditionally ascribed?
Answer: Solomon.
4. Which sign of the zodiac governs the period from 23 July to 22 August?
Answer: Leo.
5. A luge is a type of what?
Answer: Racing toboggan.
6. Which four-times World Superbike Champion announced his retirement in 2000?
Answer: Carl Fogarty.

7. What name is given to the dried excrement of fisheating birds, used as a fertilizer?
Answer: Guano.
8. During which war was the 1970 film Darling Lili set?
Answer: World War I
9. What is the colour of the ball worth one point in the game of snooker?
Answer: Red.
10. What is the derived SI unit of electrical capacitance?
Answer: Farad.
11. What does the legal term ‘caveat emptor’ mean?
Answer: Let the buyer beware.
12. Who does Jim Carrey play in the 1994 film The Mask?
Answer: Stanley Ipkiss.
13.Which British Formula 1 racing driver survived a Learjet crash in May 2000?
Answer: David Coulthard.
14. Which city hosted the 1980 Olympic Games?
Answer: Moscow.
15. Which female singer had a hit single with the song What a Girl Wants?
Answer: Christina.
16. Which continent has the larger land mass: Antarctica or South America?
Answer: South America.
17. Of what is malocology the scientific study?
Answer: Molluscs.
18. What is the more common name for the medical condition nyctalopia?
Answer: Night blindness.
19. Which US Civil War general led his famous march to the sea?
Answer: Sherman.
20. At which US nuclear plant did a nuclear accident occur in 1979?
Answer: Three Mile Island.
21. How was the second emperor of Rome, Claudius Nero Caesar, better known?
Answer: Tiberius.
22. The statue Christ of the Andes stands on the border between Argentina and which other country?
Answer: Chile.
23. Of which country is Sofia the capital?
Answer: Bulgaria.
24. What is meant by the musical term ‘andante’?
Answer: At a moderate tempo.
25. Which saint’s day falls on 17 March?
Answer: Patrick.

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