General knowledge questions and answers in English
1. The Geneva Convention agreements were signed in what year?
1949
2. What is a Vihara?
A Buddhist monastery found abundantly in Bihar
3. What did Doug Engelbart invent in 1964?
The First Computer Mouse Made of Wood
4. What is – The City of Angels?
Los Angeles
5. What is a Baby Hawk called?
Eyas
6. What is mawkish?
Effusively or insincerely emotional
7. International Red Cross and Red Crescent-ICRC were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on how many occasions?
Three occasions (in 1917, 1944, and 1963)
8. What is the act of killing a prominent person for either political, religious, or monetary reasons called?
Assassination
9. What is Sabr according to Islam?
Patience in difficulty
10. What is measured by an interferometer?
Wavelength of light
11. When did Illinois become a state?
December 3, 1818
12. Who received The Nobel Prize in Literature in 2014?
Patrick Modiano
13. You may only throw a frisbee at the beach in which county with the lifeguard’s permission?
Los Angeles
14. In 1953 what was first successfully transmitted in the USA?
Colour Television
15. What is Shoat?
Baby Pig
16. Who wrote Northanger Abbey?
Jane Austin
17. In DNA bonding, Guanine always joins with what?
Cytosine
18. When is Independence Day in Azerbaijan?
May 28
19. Which US state has this motto: While I breathe, I hope?
South Carolina
20. What airline identification code is VS?
Virgin Atlantic
21. What was invented by James Dewar in 1872?
Vacuum or thermos flask
22. What are the Georgia state nicknames?
Peach State, Empire State of the South
23. Led Deighton trilogy Game Set Match What 3 Capitals?
Berlin, Mexico, London
24. What do ungulate animals alone have?
Hooves
25. What is a baby Jellyfish called?
Ephyra
26. What sport links the Castle Cup, Red Stripe Cup, and Ranji Trophy?
Cricket
27. Ubhauli Parva is celebrated in which country?
Nepal
28. Dr. Ludwig L Zamenhof invented what in 1887?
Poland Esperanto
29. What is gawp?
Look with amazement; look stupidly
30. In which G&S operetta is eating a sausage roll a secret sign?
The Grand Duke
31. An aubade or alborda is a song – but what type?
Mourning
32. The Ancient Roman architecture, a basilica was in the Latin West equivalent to what is the Greek?
A stoa in the Greek East
33. Who won the World Series in 1987?
Minnesota Twins
34. Who wrote: The Trial?
Franz Kafka
35. What is a Baby Beaver?
Pup, Kit, Kitten
36. Which president had a pet named Calamity Jane, a sheepdog?
Calvin Coolidge
37. What is the largest state in the USA?
Alaska
38. Who is Ada Lovelace?
Ada Lovelace lived in England is the first known female Computer Programmer, famous for working on the “Analytical Engine.”
39. Who wrote The Picture of Dorian Grey in 1891?
Oscar Wilde
40. What is the food of the secretary bird?
Snakes
41. What country has the national sport name Pato?
Argentina
42. What is the world’s oldest monotheistic religion?
Judaism
43. Who was born in 1904, a physician and the founder of Planned Parenthood?
Mary Calderone
44. Who composed The Planets suite (both names)?
Gustav Holst
45. What is Puggle?
Baby Platypus
46. Who received The Nobel Peace Prize in 2014?
Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai
47. What is the Battle of Cisterna?
The Battle of Cisterna occurred during World War II, on 30 January–2 February 1944, near Cisterna, Italy, as part of the Battle of Anzio, part of the Italian Campaign.
48. Giacomo Agostini – 122 Grand Prix 15 world titles what sport?
Motorcycle Racing
49. What is snickersnee?
Fighting with knives
50. What bridge links a Palace with a State Prison?
Bridge of Sighs — Venice
51. When is Independence Day in Austria?
October 26
52. When was Maine was a state?
March 15, 1820
53. What is a Wat?
The name for a monastery temple in Cambodia and Thailand
54. Which human rights organization founded in 1961 got the Nobel in 1977?
Amnesty International
55. What is a Baby Swan called?
Flapper
56. In 1779 Abraham Darby built the world’s first what?
Metal Bridge
57. Polaris, the Earth’s current “North Star” will eventually begin to shift positions as the Earth undergoes precession. T/?F?
True
58. It’s illegal to injure or disturb a rock in which city’s City Park?
Fresno
59. What is Democide?
The murder of any person or people by a government
60. The African and French marigolds are native to what country?
Mexico
61. Aescapalious emblem staff snake Greek-Roman god of what?
Medicine
62. Where were the first offices for Apple, Microsoft, and HP?
Garages
63. What is topple?
Fall down, as if collapsing
64. Who wrote The Great Gatsby?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
65. What is Fry?
Baby Fish
66. Whose autobiography was The Long Walk to Freedom?
Nelson Mandela
67. What is the origin of Arkansas’s state name?
Likely from a French version of the Illinois name for the local Quapaw people.
68. What links Doric, lonic, Tuscan, Corinthian, and Composite?
Classical Architecture
69. What is the commonest name for a pub in Britain?
The Red Lion
70. What was the capital of Ethiopia?
Addis Ababa
71. On 30 January 1944, the Japanese killed 44 suspected spies in where?
The Homfreyganj massacre
72. Who gave the UN the land in NY to build their HQ?
John D Rockefeller
73. The sun rises every 117 Earth days on which planet?
Venus
74. Who wrote The Thin Man in 1934 (both names)?
Dashiell Hammett
75. Estee Lauder is famous for founding Estee Lauder Cosmetics, one of the most popular brands of makeup in the world, born in which year?
1908
76. Which US president has cats named Tom Quartz and Slippers?
Theodore Roosevelt
77. What is the only creature that can turn its stomach inside out?
Starfish
78. The First Gigabyte Drive was released in 1980 and weighed how much?
550 lbs
79. What was discovered in 1922 by Howard Carter?
Tutankhamun tomb
80. What does the word economy mean in original Greek?
Home Management
81. What 1991 film won the best film, actor, actress, director Oscars?
Silence of the Lambs
82. What is the national sport in Antigua and Barbuda?
Cricket
83. What is tightwad?
A miserly person
84. Who wrote: A Passage to India?
EM Forster
85. In which US city, are there rules against piling horse manure higher than 6 feet on any street corner?
San Francisco
86. Denis Gabor of Hungary 1971 Nobel prize for what invention?
Holograms
87. What is the Florida state nickname?
Sunshine State (1970)
88. What is a phonetic alphabet word for U?
Uniform
89. Pok ta Pok started in Mexico – what modern game/sport is it?
Basketball
90. What is Frenchtown called?
Montreal
91. Clyde Tombaugh discovered what planet in 1930?
Pluto
92. What is the Latin form of Puerto Rico’s state motto?
Joannes Est Nomen Ejus
93. Whitcome Judson in 1891 invented what for fastening shoes?
Zip Fastener
94. What 3 ingredients make a sidecar cocktail?
Brandy, Cointreau, Lemon juice
95. Who sent the first email in 1971?
Ray Tomlinson, the engineer who invented the email program on the ARPANET system, sent the message to himself and received it on a computer sitting right next to him. So, the first email was a test mail!
96. What was the first James Bond film?
Dr. No
97. Who is Jean Tirole?
Received the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 2014
98. Who won the women’s heptathlon in Seoul in 1988?
Jackie Joyner-Kersey
99. Who sold Louisiana to the USA in 1803?
Napoleon
100. What emperor ordered St Peter crucified?
Nero
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