World
GK-2
1.Which is
the world’s largest dry desert?
Answer: Sahara.
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?
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.
No comments:
Post a Comment