Some general knowledge questions in English
1. Thing One, and Thing Two are characters in which children’s book by Theodor Geisel.
The Cat in The Hat
2. What was the last country to abolish slavery?
Mauritania
3. Who was Hendrik Lorentz?
Hendrik Lorentz was a Dutch physicist who discovered and explained the Zeeman effect and derived the transformation equations used by Albert Einstein to describe space and time. Lorentz won the Nobel Prize in 1902.
4. On what date the Red Army was formed by Leon Trotsky?
April 22, 1918
5. Who discovered DNA in 1869?
Friedrich Miescher
6. In which city, do motor vehicles not drive on city streets unless a man with a lantern is walking ahead of it?
Redlands
7. What is meant by the term dillydally?
Postpone doing what one should be doing
8. Who has the famous speech: First Inaugural Address?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
9. Who wrote the famous fiction: Moby-Dick?
Herman Melville
10. What is Feticide?
The act of killing a fetus
11. Hans Castorp is a fictional character of which famous novel?
The Magic Mountain
12. What does Raheem imply?
Compassionate
13. Which US president had a pet named Dot, a terrier?
Rutherford B. Hayes
14. What was a Nuremberg egg?
Pocket watch/clock
15. What is Jamaica Emancipation Day?
August 1, 1834
16. On what date did Massachusetts become a state?
February 6, 1788
17. What is Independence Day in Togo?
April 27
18. Who invented the Colt revolver?
Samuel Colt
19. Which country has the city named Izhevsk?
Russian Federation
20. Oskar Matzerath is a fictional character of which famous novel?
The Tin Drum
21. In DC comics Linda Lee Danvers is whose alter ego?
Supergirl
22. What is meant by the term dither?
be undecided or uncertain
23. Australian Clement Wragge instituted what?
Naming Hurricanes
24. What shape is a saggitated leaf?
Arrow shaped
25. The hero of this comic novel, is a middle-aged insurance salesman who lives in an average English suburban row house with a wife and two children.
Coming Up for Air (1939) by George Orwell
26. Who has the famous speech: 1976 DNC Keynote Address?
Barbara Charline Jordan
27. What was Procul Harem’s greatest hit?
A whiter shade of pale
28. Who was an American surgeon who started the Mayo Clinic concept?
Charles Horace Mayo
29. What is the state motto of Oklahoma?
Labor conquers all things
30. What book was banned in Ireland in 1932?
Brave New World – Aldus Huxley
31. What is Emancipation Day in Canada?
August 1st, 1834
32. How many countries are where Persian is an official language?
4 countries (Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Dagestan)
33. In what country does the cow tree grow – sap looks and tastes milk?
Venezuela
34. On what date did the Fosse Ardeatine massacre in Rome, Italy took place where 335 Italians were killed, including 75 Jews and over 200 members of various groups in the Italian Resistance?
24 March 1944
35. What language is spoken in Turkmenistan?
Turkmen
36. Molly Bloom is the fictional character in which famous book?
Leopold’s wife in James Joyce’s Ulysses.
37. What food was invented in a sanatorium in 1890?
Kellogg corn flakes
38. In which US city, it’s illegal to shoot a rabbit from the back of your car?
San Diego
39. What is a Hummum?
Turkish bath
40. Who won the Nobel Prize in 1950 and was a Swiss chemist, who invented a method to artificially synthesize vitamin C?
Tadeusz Reichstein
41. What is Independence Day in Tibet?
February 13
42. What is the motto of Oregon in English?
She flies with her wings
43. Zazie is a fictional character of which famous novel?
Zazie Dans le Métro (translated as both Zazie in the Metro and Zazie) is a French novel written in 1959 by Raymond Queneau
44. What is meant by the term dithyramb?
A passionate hymn
45. The penny black – the world’s first stamp – what was the second?
Twopenny Blue
46. When did slavery in South Africa start?
1652
47. What is a Bellwether?
Leader of a flock of sheep
48. Who was in charge of the Red Army?
Joseph Stalin
49. What is the origin of Ohio’s state name?
From a Seneca word meaning “great river”
50. What was the first state to free slaves?
Pennsylvania (1780)
51. What is the nickname of Maryland state?
Free State
52. Which country produces Tokay?
Hungary
53. How many slaves were there in France?
129,000 people
54. What is the national sport in Pakistan?
Field Hockey
55. In which sport are left-handed people banned from playing?
Polo
56. Michael Henchard is a fictional character in which famous novel?
The Mayor of Casterbridge
57. What is the main language of Poland?
Polish
58. Robert Langford Modini became more famous as who?
Robert Stack
59. When did slavery start in England?
During Early British slaving voyages, 1562 onward
60. By US Congress law 1832 citizens should do what annually?
Fasting and prayer
61. What is Russia’s most elite unit?
Spetsnaz
62. Which country has the city named Parla?
Spain
63. When did Africa ban slavery?
1808
64. What is the national sport in Papua New Guinea?
Rugby league
65. Collective nouns – A congress or flange of what?
Baboons
66. Who was a 1986 Nobel Prize winner and German physicist, who invented the scanning tunneling microscope that could view individual atoms?
Gerd Binnig
67. The Stirling Prize is awarded annually for which field of design?
Architecture
68. What country has the largest army?
China
69. Galt MacDermot wrote what 1967 musical stage show?
Hair
70. Pechorin is a fictional character in which famous novel?
A Hero of Our Time
71. What are the residents of Idaho called?
Idahoan
72. Which US president had pets such as pigs; dogs; a parrot; and roosters?
Ulysses S. Grant
73. What are the colors of Juneteenth?
Red, white, and blue
74. What is the nickname of Massachusetts?
Bay State
75. What is the main religion in Kazakhstan?
Islam
76. When did slavery end in Paris?
April 1848
77. Who wrote the famous fiction: Vanity Fair?
William Makepeace Thackeray
78. Where could you legally flash your dong – then spend it?
Vietnam currency
79. Where did most of the slaves from Africa go?
Brazil
80. What planet in our system is not named after a god?
Earth
81. What wood is plywood mostly made from?
Birch
82. Flora Poste is a fictional character in which famous novel?
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
83. If you landed at Balice airport where would you be?
Cracow, Poland
84. Anthony Pratt invented what in the 1940s?
Cluedo
85. When is the birthday of Jean Picard, who was a French astronomer and first accurately measured the length of a degree of a meridian (longitude line) and from that computed the size of the Earth?
July 21, 1620
86. What is meant by the term daguerreotype?
A photograph made by an early photographic process
87. Who was eaten by dogs in the Old Testament?
Jezebel
88. When did slavery end in Italy?
1981
89. The Bald Eagle is America’s bird – What is Britain’s?
Robin
90. What are the residents of Georgia called?
Georgian
91. On what date did Connecticut become a state?
January 9, 1788
92. What state did not have slaves?
Vermont
93. Parcheesi is the national game of which country?
India
94. What is meant by the term deckle?
The rough edge left by a deckle on handmade paper or produced artificially on machine-made paper
95. The Salinas Valley was the rejected title what Steinbeck’s book?
East of Eden
96. George is a fictional character in which famous novel?
The Great Gatsby
97. Who wrote the famous fiction: The Scarlet Letter?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
98. What does Zip stand for in the American Zip Code?
Zone Improvement Plan
99. Who invented the use of pyrogallic acid as a developing agent?
Henri Victor Regnault
100. What was the name of Isaac Newton’s dog – that caused a fire in the lab?
Diamond
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