GK Questions for all Examination

GK Questions for all Examination

1. Who came into power in Canada continuously for the third time?

Answer: Jean Chretien.

2. Which country’s capital is Ottawa?

Answer: Canada.

3. A city of one mile width and two miles length as 177 canals of 28 miles length. Name the city.

Answer: Venice.

4. Fianna Fail is a political party. Name the country where it belongs.

Answer: Ireland.

5. In which day ‘Good Friday Agreement’ was signed?

Answer: April 10, 1998.

6. The force which forms under the earth region causes earthquake. Name this earth region?

Answer: Hypocentre.

7. According to the laws of Israel, if a Prime Minister resigns his post, within which period a new Prime Minister should be appointed?

Answer: 60 days.

8. Write the scientific name of lie detector which uses by the police for proving lies?

Answer: Polygraph.

9. What is the name of military intelligence organization of Israel?

Answer: Mossad.

10. Which president of Pakistan did issue the order of exilement of Nawaz Sharif?

Answer: Muhammad Rafiq Tarar.

11. What is the name given to wooden carving?

Answer: Xylography.

12. Intelligence agency of UK?

Answer: MI5.

13. Name the nuclear plant that closed for ever in Ukrain.

Answer: Chernobyl.

14. What is the basic principle of Miss Universe Competition?

Answer: Beauty with brains.

15. What is Heliport?

Answer: Airport of Helicopter.

16. Haiti is an independent country of this seashore. Name the seashore.

Answer: Caribbean sea.

17. Which ex-president of America had given the leadership in the peace activities of Haiti in 1994?

Answer: Jimmy Carter.

18. Name the Indonesian president who formed the movement called West Pacific Forum?

Answer: Abdurrahman Wahid.

19. Which section of United Nations Organization stands against the pollution?

Answer: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

20. How many countries had sign in UNEP?

Answer: 120.

21. A military group of Chile killed 73 political prisoners in 1973. This incident is known as _?

Answer: Caravan of Death.

22. Which democratic republic has given the right for ‘mercy killing’?

Answer: Netherlands.

23. Which planet has the feeling that sun rises in the west?

Answer: Venus.

24. Which scientist got a record of patents for his discoveries?

Answer: Thomas Alva Edison.

25. Which virus causes bleeding in the body due to the destruction of blood vessels?

Answer: Ebola virus.

26. Name the top most civilian award of America?

Answer: Presidential Medal of Freedom.

27. In which place of Russia the body of Lenin is embalmed?

Answer: Red Square.

28. Who discovered Walkman?

Answer: Akio Morita.

29. Where is the longest highway tunnel of the world situated?

Answer: Norway.

30. Which woman is selected in US Senate firstly?

Answer: Hillary Rodham Clinton.

31. Which country has the world’s one-fourth oil reserve?

Answer: Saudi Arabia.

32. What is the old name of Taiwan?

Answer: Formosa.

33. Which is the dangerous mark of the Richter scale which records earthquake?

Answer: 6 and above.

34. Which is the largest internet complex of America?

Answer: America On-line.

35. Name the biggest cement producers of the world?

Answer: Lafarge, France.

36. Name the first monkey born on genetic technology?

Answer: ANDI.

37. What is Ganymede?

Answer: A moon of Jupiter.

38. Which is the largest moon of the solar system?

Answer: Ganymede.

39. Who is known as African Gandhi?

Answer: Kenneth Kaunda.

40. Who wrote ‘A Brief History of Time’?

Answer: Stephen Hawking.

41. Which country is known as ‘Economic Power House of Europe’?

Answer: Germany.

42. Who wrote Galileo‘s Daughter?

Answer: Dava Sobel.

43. Which day is celebrated as International Customs Day?

Answer: January 26.

44. Name the highest town of Europe?

Answer: Daos.

45. Who discovered Richter scale?

Answer: Charles F. Richter.

46. Where is the headquarters of International Press Institutes?

Answer: Vienna, Austria.

47. Who discovered the genetic code of rice?

Answer: Scientists of Torrey Mesa Research Institute, America.

48. What is the national emblem of New Zealand?

Answer: Kiwi.

49. What is ‘Hey You’?

Answer: A computer virus.

50. Who is Anna Kournikova?

Answer: A Russian tennis player.

51. ‘Triple Therapy drug cocktail’ is a medicine to this disease. Which disease?

Answer: AIDS.

52. Which award is known as the Nobel Prize in music?

Answer: Polar Music Prize.

53. Who is the most famous Pole-vaulter of the world?

Answer: Sergey Bubka (Ukraine)

54. After observation of wild life of this island Charles Darwin derived the theory of Evolution. Name this island?

Answer: Galapagos Islands, at distance of 965 km from Ecuador.

55. Which day is celebrated ad ‘World Mother-Tongue Day’?

Answer: February 21.

56. What is the official name of North Korea?

Answer: Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

57. Which country is known as Hermit Kingdom?

Answer: Korea.

58. Which are the official languages of Switzerland?

Answer: German, French and Italian.

59. Which is the biggest city of Washington State?

Answer: Seattle.

60. Who is known as the father of Modern Turkey?

Answer: Kemal Mustafa.

61. Which mathematical engineer of America is known as Father of Information Technology?

Answer: Claude Shannon.

62. Who is the father of Green Revolution?

Answer: Norman Borlaug.

63. Which country’s capital is ‘Bogota’?

Answer: Colombia.

64. International Woman’s Day?

Answer: March 8.

65. World Handicapped Day?

Answer: March 15.

66. World Forest Conservation Day?

Answer: March 21.

67. World Water Conservation Day?

Answer: March 22.

68. World Atmospheric Day?

Answer: March 23.

69. World Tuberculosis Abolishment Day?

Answer: March 24.

70. World Oceanography Day?

Answer: April 5.

71. World Haemophilia Day?

Answer: April 17.

72. World Heritage Day?

Answer: April 18.

73. In which country the first modernized census conducted?

Answer: America.

74. In which yearly book, UNO publishes its census report?

Answer: Demographic yearbook.

75. Which is the purest water of nature?

Answer: Rain water.

76. “Baby is a book. Teacher should study each pages of this book” who said this?

Answer: Rousseau.

77. Who formulated the principle ‘Tech through play’?

Answer: Froebel.

78. Who prepared intelligence test firstly?

Answer: Alfred Binet.

79. Which country’s airline is KLM?

Answer: Holland.

80. Name the pope who had visited most countries?

Answer: John Paul II.

81. What is the name of Australian Airlines?

Answer: Qantas Airways.

82. Which country’s airlines is Druk Air?

Answer: Bhutan.

83. Which woman had controlled space shuttle firstly?

Answer: Eileen Collins.

84. Which woman had walked in space firstly?

Answer: Valentina Tereshkova.

85. Name the oldest man who had gone to space?

Answer: John Glenn.

86. The next day of Christmas commonly known as?

Answer: Boxing day.

87. In which country the barter system has started?

Answer: Europe and South Africa.

88. What is known as ‘Perfume Ball’ in cricket?

Answer: The bounced ball at the height of nose-level of batsman.

89. Who developed the first computer languages BASIC?

Answer: John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz.

90. Father of Zoology?

Answer: Aristotle.

91. Which is the biggest mosque of the world?

Answer: Faisal Mosque, Islamabad.

92. Name the headquarters of INTERPOL?

Answer: Lyon, France.

93. In the production of coconuts in world, which country ranks top?

Answer: Philippines.

94. Which is the largest consumer country of gold?

Answer: India.

95. Name the dance movement of honeybees to inform others about the presence of food?

Answer: Waggle dance.

96. Which star is exploded itself and puts the material into space?

Answer: Supernova.

97. Who derived the first theory on a universe which expands gradually?

Answer: Arthur Eddington.

98. Who was the first woman high court judge of New Zealand?

Answer: Dame Silvia Rose Cartwright.

99. World’s coldest desert Gobi belongs to which country?

Answer: Mongolia.

100. Name the official residence of French President?

Answer: Elysee Palace.