Common general knowledge questions and answers in English
1. What is Derasar?
A Jain temple or the place of worship for Jains
2. How many protocols are there in The Geneva Conventions?
3
3. In the DNA bonding, Adenine always joins with what?
Thymine
4. In which religious elements of the sense of cyclic time and the essence of life are symbolically presented— dharma, kama, artha, moksa, and karma?
Hindu
5. What was the name of Ali Baba’s female slave?
Morgiana
6. What is Candi?
Buddhist sanctuaries mostly built during the 1st to 21st centuries in the Malay Archipelago
7. What percent of the global currency is actually cash?
Only about 10% (the rest 90% is in computer)
8. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement was founded in which year?
1863
9. What is poltroon?
An abject coward
10. What is CRIA?
Baby Alpaca Or Llama
11. Detonating a nuclear device within which US city limits results in a $500 fine?
Chico
12. What is the national sport in Anguilla?
Yacht racing
13. When this “precession” occurs to change the axis of the planet, it takes around how many years for the axis to trace out a complete cone shape?
26,000
14. Which president had a pet named Boston Beans, a bulldog?
Calvin Coolidge
15. In which novel does the character Quebec Bagnet appear?
Bleak House
16. What is Amicicide?
The act of killing a friend (Latin: amicus “friend”)
17. Where is Visakha Bucha celebrated every year?
Thailand
18. Who wrote: As I Lay Dying?
William Faulkner
19. The Gloucester E 28/39 first flew in 1941 – what was unusual?
Whittle Jet Engine
20. What is Farrow?
Baby Pig
21. What does a raccoon do before eating its food?
Washes it in water
22. Gregory Pincus, Jonn Rock, and Gerhart Domangk developed what?
Oral Contraceptive
23. Who was known for what he called “waste books,” which were the detailed notebooks that he kept full of quotes, sketches, and stories?
German physicist and educator Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
24. What is the correct term of address to the Pope?
Your Holiness
25. Sarah Josepha Hall wrote what?
Mary had a little lamb
26. When is Independence Day in Australia?
03 March
27. What is hebdomadally?
Without missing a week
28. What is the Latin form of South Carolina’s state motto?
Dum spiro spero
29. Women compete between the USA and the UK in Wightman Cup – which sport?
Tennis
30. What is a Baby Clam called?
Larva
31. What city is called The City-Mountain?
Montreal, Canada
Chongqing, China, nicknamed “Mountain City”
Mussoorie, India
32. What are the Delaware state nicknames?
Diamond State; First State; Small Wonder
33. What other name is used for the snow leopard?
Ounce
34. What did table tennis balls used to be made from?
Cork
35. What is Muckle Flugga Rock and Lighthouse on?
Uist
36. What is sadaqah according to Islam?
Charity beyond that which is obligatory
37. Woolworth’s – the 5/10 cent store started in which US state in 1979?
Lancaster Pennsylvania
38. In which US city, bathing two babies in the same tub at the same time is prohibited?
Los Angeles
39. Who won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in Spartacus in 1960?
Peter Ustinov
40. What is Leveret?
Baby Hare
41. What is Waisak Day celebrated in Indonesia, and Malaysia?
Buddha’s Anniversary
42. What is Milan’s opera house called?
La Scala
43. Who received The Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2014?
Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell and William E. Moerner
44. What is Chaitya?
A Buddhist shrine that includes a stupa
45. Mary Read and Anne Boney had what job in common?
Pirates
46. When is China’s independence day?
Chan has no Independence Day, National Day on October 1
47. Which US president had a pet named Terrier named Jack and Pete?
Theodore Roosevelt
48. Who wrote: Men Without Women?
Ernest Hemingway
49. What linked Armenia, Georgia, Latvia and Moldavia?
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50. What is Cygnet?
Baby Swan
51. What is a basilica?
In Ancient Roman architecture, a basilica is a large public building with multiple functions, built alongside the town’s forum.
52. What is the oldest most widely used drug on earth?
Alcohol
53. Who is the first man to fly an airplane across the English Channel, and the first to invent a working monoplane?
Louis Bleriot was a French aviator, inventor, and engineer
54. Oometer measures what?
Birds Eggs
55. Short actors stand on what wooden object – to appear bigger?
Pancake
56. When was Missouri was a state?
August 10, 1821
57. What are the Connecticut state nicknames?
Constitution State (official, 1959); Nutmeg State
58. Which drink did Bach enjoy so much that he wrote a cantata for it?
Coffee
59. What is pontoon?
(nautical) a floating structure (as a flat-bottomed boat) that serves as a dock or to support a bridge
60. What is Fingerling?
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61. Annie Mae Bullock became famous under which name (both)?
Tina Turner
62. In which US city, permanent markers may not be sold in the city limits?
Fresno
63. What type of animal is a Samoyed?
Dog
64. What film won the 1943 Oscar as best film?
Casablanca
65. An alloy of Iron – Chromium, and Nickel makes what?
Stainless Steel
66. In which country did draughts (checkers) originate?
Egypt
67. What is Erse?
Irish Gaelic language
68. What is the origin of the Arizona state name?
Likely from an O’odham phrase meaning “little spring,” about a particular mining area.
69. What is the food tofu made from?
Soya Bean Curd — via Soya milk
70. What is a Baby Fox called?
Kit
71. John O’Keefe, May-Britt Moser, and Edvard I. Moser received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in which year?
2014
72. On what date in German-occupied Belgium, the Social Pact, detailing plans for post-war social reform, is secretly signed?
24 January 1944
73. Who invented the first safety razor in 1895?
King Camp Gillette
74. Who wrote: Journey to the End of the Night?
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75. Who said, “Public service is my motto”?
Al Capone
76. What is Venice of the North?
Amsterdam
77. Which US state has this motto: Freedom and Unity?
Vermont
78. What is samizdat?
A system of clandestine printing and distribution of dissident or banned literature
79. Who won the Superbowl in 1987?
New York Giants
80. What did the Victorians call servant regulators?
Alarm Clocks
81. Shane Fenton became famous as who?
Alvin Stardust
82. Demeter was the Greek god of what (Ceres Roman)?
Harvest
83. When is Independence Day in Armenia?
May 28
84. What country’s leader does not have an official residence?
Cuba
Which writer coined the word Cyberspace in 1984?
William Gibson — Neuromancer
85. Drake’s Golden Hind was originally called what?
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86. What nationality is Thor Heyerdahl!?
Norwegian
87. On March 3, 1845, which US state became a state?
Florida
88. Who wrote the 39 steps (both names)?
John Buchan
89. A spender or drift is the name for a group of what animals?
Swine
90. Which country first used the fountain pen?
Egypt
91. What is the world’s most popular green vegetable?
Lettuce
92. What is pleach?
form or weave into a braid or braids
93. What is the national sport in Afghanistan?
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94. What is Jingū-ji?
A religious complex in pre-Meiji Japan comprising a Buddhist temple and a local kami Shinto shrine
95. In what film did Elvis play a Red Indian?
Stay away Joe
96. Which eponymous character was Thane of Cawdor Glamis?
Macbeth
97. What blockade ended after 872 days, as Soviet forces finally forced the Germans to withdraw. Some 2 million died, mostly of starvation and disease?
The Siege of Leningrad
98. What is Androcide?
The systematic killing of men.
99. François Englert and Peter W. Higgs received The Nobel Prize in Physics in which year?
2013
100. Which planet takes Venus even less time in Earth days to complete one revolution around the sun — 226 to be exact?
Venus
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