Mixed GK part 3

 

1. Who wrote the famous novel “Alice’s Adventures Wonderland”?

(a) Rudyard Kipling

(b) John Keats

(c) Lewis Carroll

(d) H G Wells

 

Ans:  (c)

 

2. Who is referred to as the Father of Comedy?

(a) Aeschylus

(b) Sophocles

(c) Aristophanes

(d) Philip

Ans: (c)

 

3. Who was the first to complete the circumnavigation of Earth?

(a) Francis Drake

(b) Columbus

(c) Magellan

(d) Vasco da Gama

 

Ans: (c)

 

4. How many lines are there in a Sonnet?

(a) 8 (c) 12 (b) 10 (d) 14

Ans: (d)

 

5. Which historical events are in the correct chronological order?

(a) Crusades   ͢   Renaissance ͢   Neolithic Revolution   ͢   Roman Empire

(b) Roman Empire    ͢   Neolithic Revolution    ͢    Crusades    ͢    Renaissance

(c) Renaissance    ͢   Neolithic Revolution    ͢    Crusades    ͢   Roman Empire

(d) Neolithic Revolution   ͢    Roman Empire    ͢    Crusades    ͢   Renaissance

Ans: (d)

 

6. Habeas Corpus was first codified in which year?

(a) 1679 (b) 1680 (c) 1694 (d) 1991

Ans: (a)

 

7. In which year was the first officially recognized cricket Test match played?

(a) 1905 (b) 1971 (c) 1877 (d) 1977

Ans: (c)

 

8. The Nobel Prize was instituted by which country?

(a) USA (b) UK (c) Russia (d) Sweden

Ans: (d)

 

9. Which of the following is an award instituted by UNESCO?

(a) Kalinga Award

(b) Pulitzer prize

(c) Stirling prize

(d) Pritzker prize

Ans: (a)

 

10. Magsaysay award is given by

(a) USA (b) UK (c) Malaysia (d) Philippines

Ans: (d)

 

11. What is the meaning of term “Mohenjo-Daro”?

(a) Mound of the sorrow (b) Mound of the life

(c) Mound of the struggle (d) Mound of the dead

Ans: (d)

 

12. Which place is referred to as ‘roof of the world’?

(a) Mt. Kilimanjaro

(b) The Pamirs, the Himalayas

(c) Godwin Austen

(d) Broad Peak

Ans: (b)

 

13. Which of the following organizations is not associated with the UNO?

(a) ILO (b) WHO (c) ASEAN (d) All of the above

Ans: (c)

 

14. Where is the headquarters of UNESCO situated?

(a) Rome

(b) Geneva

(c) New York

(d) Paris

Ans: (d)

 

15. The main aim of SAARC is

(a) Regional Cooperation

(b) Internal affairs

(c) Non-alignity

(d) Peaceful Coexistence

Ans: (a)

 

16. The five permanent members of UN Security Council are

(a) Japan, West Germany, USSR, UK and USA

(b) Canada, China, France, USSR and USA

(c) Germany, China, USSR, UK and USA

(d) China, France, USSR, UK and USA

Ans: (d)

 

17. Which of the following is the headquarters of World Trade Organization (WTO)?

(a) New York

(b) Geneva

(c) Madrid

(d) Paris

Ans: (b)

 

18. The Great Victoria Desert located in

(a) Canada

(b) West Africa

(c) Australia

(d) North America

Ans: (c)

 

19. Which of the following is tropical grassland?

(a) Taiga

(b) Savannah

(c) Pampas

(d) Prairies

Ans: (b)

 

20. The humidity of the air depends upon

(a) Temperature

(b) Location

(c) Weather

(d) All of the above

Ans: (d)

 

21. The least explosive type of volcano is called

(a) Cinder cone

(b) Basalt plateau

(c) Shield volcanoes

(d) Composite volcanoes

Ans: (b)

 

22. Which is the largest country of the world in terms of geographical area?

(a) Vatican City

(b) Australia

(c) USA

(d) Russia

Ans: (d)

 

23. The highest average salinity amongst the following seas is reported from

(a) Dead Sea

(b) Red Sea

(c) Black Sea

(d) Mediterranean Sea

Ans: (a)

 

24. Who invented the ball point pen?

(a) Waterman Brothers

(b) Bicc Brothers

(c) Biro Brothers

(d) Wright Brothers

Ans: (c)

 

25. Which scientist discovered the radioactive element radium?

(a) Isaac Newton

(b) Albert Einstein

(c) Benjamin Franklin

(d) Marie Curie

Ans: (d)

 

26. Who invented Dynamite?

(a) Sir Alexander Graham Bell

(b) Benjamin Franklin

(c) Thomas Alva Edison

(d) Alfred B. Nobel

Ans: (d)

 

27. Who is considered to be the founder of the modern frozen food industry?

(a) F. Rozenosh

(b) G. Findus

(c) R. Scott

(d) C. Birdseye

Ans: (d)

 

28. Who invented Bakelite?

(a) Charles Goodyear

(b) Roy Plunkett

(c) Leo Henricus Baekeland

(d) Henry Ford

Ans: (c)

 

29. When was the toothbrush first mass-produced?

(a) 1742

(c) 1765

(b) 1790

(d) 1780

Ans: (d)

 

30. Who invented capillary feed Fountain Pen?

(a) John J. Loud

(b) Sir Frank Whittle

(c) Lewis E. Waterman

(d) Kirkpatrick Macmillan

Ans: (c)

 

31. Who is the father of English Poetry?

(a) Charles Dickens

(b) John Milton

(c) Geoffrey Chaucer

(d) William Wordsworth

Ans: (c)

 

32. Who wrote the novel War and Peace?

(a) Leo Tolstoy

(b) Mahatma Gandhi

(c) Charles Dickens

(d) Rudyard Kipling

Ans: (a)

 

33. When was the Nobel Prize instituted?

(a) 1927

(b) 1895

(c) 1901

 (d) 1896

Ans: (b)

 

34. Who was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize?

(a) Marie Curie

(b) Bertha von Suttner

(c) Selma Lagerlöf

(d) Grazia Deledda

Ans: (a)

 

35. Who is called as “The Father of History”?

(a) Euclid

(b) Herodotus

(c) Aristotle

(d) Julius Caesar

Ans: (b)

 

36. Who is the creator of the famous character “Sherlock Holmes”?

(a) Arthur Conan Doyle

(b) Ian Fleming

(c) Dr. Watson

(d) Shakespeare

Ans: (a)

 

37. Who wrote the novel “Anna Karenina”?

(a) Lewis Carroll

(b) Leo Tolstoy

(c) Victor Hugo

(d) Boris Pasternak

Ans: (b)

 

38. Who directed the world famous film ‘The Gandhi’?

(a) Satyajit Ray

(b) Mrinal Sen

(c) Richard Attenborough

(d) Ben Kingsley

Ans: (c)

 

39. Who has written the book “The Famished Road”?

(a) Zola Emile

(b) Ben Okri

(c) V.S. Naipaul

(d) Ian Austin

Ans: (b)

 

40. Who wrote the novel “A Farewell to Arms”?

(a) Charles Dickens

(b) Ernest Hemingway

(c) Thomas Hardy

(d) Aldous Leonard Huxley

Ans: (b)

 

41. Who wrote the controversial novel “The Satanic Verses”?

(a) William Golding

(b) Gunnar Myrdal

(c) Salman Rushdie

(d) Agatha Christie

Ans: (c)

 

42. Who is the author of the novel Les Misérables?

(a) Victor Hugo

(b) ALium tofler

(c) G.Wynne

(d) Agatha Christie

Ans: (a)

 

43. Who wrote the book ‘Gulliver’s Travels’?

(a) Jonathan Swift

(b) Charles Dickens

(c) Charles Lamb

(d) Alexandra Dumas

Ans: (a)

 

44. Who wrote the book ‘Tom Sawyer’?

(a) William Shakespeare

(b) John Ruskin

(c) Mark Twain

(d) Leo Tolstoy

Ans: (c)

 

45. Who wrote the 16th-century political treatise “The Prince”?

(a) George Bernard Shaw

(b) V.S. Naipaul

(c) Emile Zola

(d) Niccolo Machiavelli

Ans: (d)

 

46. Who wrote the novel “Crime and Punishment”?

(a) Vladimir Nabakov

(b) Lewis Carrol

(c) Fyodor Dostoevsky

(d) Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Ans: (c)

 

47. Who was the first woman to go to space?

(a) Valentina Tereshkova

(b) Sally Ride

(c) Sunita Williams

(d) Liu Yang

Ans: (a)

 

48. Anthropology is the study of?

(a) Science

(b) Psychology

(c) Literature

(d) Humanity

Ans: (d)

 

49. The working languages of the UNESCO is/are

(a) French only

(b) English only

(c) English and French

(d) English, French and Russian

Ans: (d)

 

50. ‘World Cancer Day’ is observed on

(a) 19th February

(b) 4th February

(c) 12th February

(d) 17th January

Ans: (b)

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