General Knowledge hub

     General Knowledge hub

Round-1                
1. Which has the highest mountain: Earth or Mars?
Ans: Mars
2.  Which city has the largest population?
Ans:Tokyo
3.With which device are earthquakes recorded?
Ans:seismograph
4.What is 'Tiger' Woods's first name?
Ans:Eldrick
5.Which insect accurately indicates the air temperature: cricket, mosquito, or spider?
Ans:Cricket
6.How many men have walked on the moon: 4, 8, or 12?
Ans:12
7.In which country would one find 8 of the world's 10 highest moiuntains?
Ans:Nepal
8.Which is the world's second-largest country in land area?
Ans:canada
9.What is the most common blood type in humans?
Ans:Type O
10.The first television set was sold in which year: 1928, 1938, 1948?
Ans:1928
11.What is the only word in English ending in the letters 'mt'?
Ans:Dreamt
12.When there are two full moons in the same month, what is
the second called?
Ans:Blue Moon
13.Which word does the 'e' in 'e-mail' stand for?
Ans:Eletronic
14.What is the name given to the process of signaling with two flags?
Ans:Semaphore
15.What is the currency of Switzerland?
Ans:Swiss Franc
16.What is the business term for assets which can be immediately
Ans:turned into cash?
17.Which country beginning with a 'T' has a shoreline on the Andaman Sea?
Ans:Thailand
18.Which is the largest planet in the solar system?
Ans:Jupiter
19.In which country is the world's largest McDonalds Restaurant?
Ans:China
20.Which US state capital ends in 'x'?
Ans:Phoenix
21.Which is largest: a megabyte, a kilobyte, or a gigabyte?
Ans:Gigabyte
22.One tablespoon = how many teaspoons?
Ans:3
23.What does a numismatist do?
Ans:collects coins
24.What does a philatelist do?
Ans:collects stamps
25.After which actor was Mickey Mouse named?
Ans:Mickey Rooney
26.What is the capitol of the Netherlands?
Ans:The Hague
27.In terms of the amount of alcohol you get, which is the most expensive: whiskey, beer, or wine?
Ans:beer
28.What is the capitol of South Africa?
Ans:Pretoria
29.What is the capitol of New Zealand?
Ans:Wellington
30.Which country has the largest Christian population?
Ans:USA
31.In which country is Basque spoken?
Ans:Spain
32.What does the 'Big Bang Theory' deal with?
Ans:universe, astronomy, or equivalent
33.What is the largest living bird?
Ans:Ostrich
34.What is the capital of Iraq?
Ans:Baghdad
35.What is the capital of Iran?
Ans:Tehran


Round-2

1.Which is heavier: a proton or an electron?
Ans:proton
2.What is the world's largest island?
Ans:GreenLand
3.Where on the body is the human skin least sensitive?
Ans:heel
4.Who was the supreme Greek god?
Ans:Zeus
5.What is the capital of India?
Ans:New Delhi (Delhi not acceptable)
6.Who directed Jurassic Park?
Ans:Stephen Spielberg
7.How many rings in the Olympics emblem?
Ans:five
8.How long is the tunnel between England and France?
Ans:31 miles (50K) or nearest answer
9.What does 'GM' stand for in GM food?
Ans:Genetically Modified
10.Into which planet did a recent space probe crash because NASA mixed kilometers and miles in their calculations?
Ans:Mars
11.Which company is the world's largest producer of microchips?
Ans:Intel
12.What do communication satellites and a modern kitchen appliance have in common?
Ans:microwaves
13.True or False?: The Earth and the Moon are the same age.
Ans:True
14.From which star does the Moon get the most light?
Ans:Sun
15.How is 120% expressed as a fraction?
Ans:6/5, six fifths
16.Which is the official Ferrari racing color?
Ans:Red
17.How many digits in a Visa Card number?
Ans:16
18.Which dictator said, "In war it is not right that matters, but victory."?
Ans:hitler
19.Besides sleep, what is normally impossible to do with your eyes open?
Ans:sneeze
20.How many balls on the pool table at the start of a game?
Ans:15
21.In which year was the first atom bomb dropped?
Ans:1945
22.In what position do adult horses normally sleep?
Ans:Standing
23.In which year did the Nazis invade Russia?
Ans:1941
24.Is the normal number of bones in the adult human body 206 or 260?
Ans:206
25.Name the Primary Colors.
Ans:Red, Yellow, & Blue
26.Which is the fastest land mammal?
Ans:Cheetah
27.What would a cartographer make?
Ans:Maps
28.Which liquid is sometimes called Adam's Ale?
Ans:water
29.How many carats is pure gold?
Ans:24
30.What happens more than 86,000 times a day to everyone?
Ans:A second passes

Round-3

1.How many chambers has the human heart?
Ans:4
2.What does the acronym UNESCO stand for?
Ans:United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Org.
3.Which country has 60% of its citizens overweight?
Ans:USA
4.What would you need a modem for?
Ans:computer, or Internet connection, or telephone connection
5.At which degree latitude is the Equator?
Ans:zero, or equivalent
6.Internet: What do the letters 'www' stand for?
Ans:world wide web
7.Approximately how may hairs on the human head
Ans:100,000
8.Which very famous song did the Hill sisters write?
Ans:Happy Birthday
9.How many dots on two dice?
Ans:42
10.The Sikh  religion is native to which country?
Ans:India
11.Which country gives a Christmas tree to Britain every year?
AnS:Norway
12.Which country gave the Statue of Liberty to America?
Ans:France
13.Charles Babbage invented the forerunner of which piece of electronic equipment?
Ans:Computer
14.TRUE or FALSE: According to most psychologists and philosophers,the mind is part of the brain.
Ans:False
15.What is the name of the new space station presently under construction?
Ans:Unity
16.What is the main unit of currency in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada?
Ans:dollar
17.What angle is formed by the hands of a clock at 4 o'clock?
Ans:120 degrees
18.In which general direction does the world's weather move?
Ans:West to East, or Eastward
19.What pet-name for a dog is taken from the Latin for "I trust"?
Ans:Fido
20.How many cards in a pack of playing cards?
Ans:54
21.What is the name of water that collects in the bottom of a boat?
Ans:bilge water
22.What number is implied by the word 'tertiary'?
Ans:3
23.Which country is bordered by the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal?
Ans:India
24.Is the population of the Netherlands approximately 5, 10, or 15 million people?
Ans:15 million
25.What is the name of the study of the structure of the Universe?
Ans:Cosmology
26.Which company was responsible for Santa Claus being dressed in the colors red & white?
Ans:CocoCola
27.What is the name of the international organisation for persons with genius IQ's?
Ans:Mensa
28.What is the O.E.D. ?
Ans:Oxford English Dictionary
29.Which industry ultimately controls the Internet: computer or telephone?
Ans:Telephone
30.How many players on a Hockey team?
Ans:6
31.Name the two metals that have the chemical symbols Ag and Au ?
Ans:silver & gold
32.INTERNET YES or NO: An e>mail address can also be a website address?
Ans:No
33.What does a seismograph [pr. 'size-ma-graf' ] measure?
Ans:earthquakes
34.Who is the present world champion chess player?
Ans:Gary Kasparov
35.In English grammar, which part of speech are the words 'a' and 'an'
Ans:indefinite article
36.Hypertension is a term meaning what?
Ans:high blood pressure
37.In geometry and navigation, how many minutes are there in one degree? Ans:60
38.The movie All About Eve got 14 Oscar Nominations. Which is the only other movie ever to do so?
Ans:Titanic
39.True or False: The Nobel Prize for Peace is not awarded every year.
Ans:True
40.In which region of the world is the largest body of fresh water AND the largest rain forest?
Ans:The Amazon region in South America
41.Which is the most widely grown vegetable in the world?
Ans:potato
42.According to scientists, which came first, the chicken or the egg.
Ans:egg
43.True or False: According to physicists, the fastest moving thing in the universe is the electron.
Ans:true
44.In a year, does an average person's heart beat 400,000, 4 milion, or 40 million times?
Ans:40 million
45.The User-Grafic Interface uses a mouse to point and click instead of typing in commands. Was it invented by Apple, Microsoft, or IBM?
Ans:Apple
46.the lie detector invented in ?
Ans:1921
47.Which language is the most widely spoken in the world?
Ans:Chinese, China has almost 1/3 of the world's total population.
48.What is the world's largest man-made structure?
Ans:Great Wall of China
49.In which country was ice cream invented: England, America, or China?
Ans:China, Ice Cream was invented in China in about 200 B.C., when a soft milk & rice mixture was further solidified by packing it in snow
50.In which country was the game of Golf invented?
Ans:Scotland
51.Which vitamin can be formed in the skin by the action of sunlight?
Ans:D
52.What is the minimum number of faces which a pyramid can have?
Ans:4
53.Which unit of area is equal to 10,000 sq. metres? 
Ans:1 hectare
54.The area of which ocean exceeds the whole of the land area of the globe?
Ans:Pacific
55.What is the penultimate letter of the English alphabet?
Ans: Y
56.In computer terminology, what does the letters DOS stand for?
Ans:Disk Operating System
57.What is the name of the process of breaking down of chemical compounds by electric current?
Ans:electrolysis
58.What is the name of the milky fluid produced by rubber trees?
Ans:latex
59.. Is the human brain 20%, 40%, or 80% water?
 Ans:80%
60.What is the person called who is taken on board a ship in order to guide it in and out of port?
Ans:pilot
61.Does a woman or a man hold the record for the longest time in space? Ans:woman
62.TRUE or FALSE: On average, a man will speak 2000 words over the course of a day while a woman will only speak 7000 words.
Ans:True
63.TRUE or FALSE: computers double in speed and memory size every 18 months?
Ans:True