Tuesday, 30 August 2011

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUESTIONS _ 013

General Knowledge Questions

01.

 

How many Ergs are these in 1 Joule  ?

Ans :   10 million ergs

02.

 

The unit of current is  ?

Ans :   Watts

03.

 

Which of the Field "Devang Mehta awards" are given  ?

Ans :   Information Technology

04.

 

Which of the treaty is related to the establishment of European Union  ?

Ans :   Treaty of Maastricht

05.

 

A.R. Lakshmanan headed which Law Commission  ?

Ans :   18th Law Commission

06.

 

Name the author of the ‘Communitisation: The Third Way of Governance’. The book was released by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh  ?

Ans :   C.K. Prahlad

07.

 

Name this Indian beauty who has featured in the top ten list of most stylish women in the ‘Vogue’  ?

Ans :   Freida Pinto

08.

 

How many languages and dialects are spoken by people all over the world  ?

Ans :   9,000

09.

 

The language with the richest vocabulary  ?

Ans :   English

10.

 

The oldest Indian language  ?

Ans :   Tamil

11.

 

Which gland in the human body is called the master gland  ?

Ans :   Pituitary

12.

 

How many bones are there in a newly born infant  ?

Ans :   300

13.

 

The average heartbeat per minute in a normal man  ?

Ans :   70

14.

 

Malaria is a disease which effects  ?

Ans :   Spleen

15.

 

Short-sightedness can be corrected by using which lens  ?

Ans :   Concave lens

16.

 

Lack of what causes diabetes  ?

Ans :   Insulin

17.

 

The only religious book ever printed in a shorthand scripts  ?

Ans :   The bible

18.

 

The national sport of Canada is  ?

Ans :   Lacrosse

19.

 

Where is the Vallabhbhai Patel stadium located  ?

Ans :   Mumbai

20.

 

Where is the sports stadium, Green Park   ?

Ans :   Kanpur

21.

 

On which date is Nobel Prize awarded  ?

Ans :   December 10

22.

 

What is the body temperature of a normal man  ?

Ans :   36.9 Degree Centigrade

23.

 

Which helps in clotting of blood  ?

Ans :   Vitamin K

24.

 

Red blood corpuscles are formed in  ?

Ans :   Bone marrow

25.

 

Who were the first to circle the moon  ?

Ans :   Frank boreman, Bill Anders and Jim Lovell

26.

 

The oldest printed work in the world, which dates back to AD 868   ?

Ans :   The Hirake Sutra

27.

 

Who was first to reach the South Pole  ?

Ans :   Capt. Amundsen

28.

 

Who was the first to cross the Antarctic  ?

Ans :   Sir Vivian Fuchs & sir Edmund Hillary

29.

 

Who were the first to journey into space  ?

Ans :   Maj. Yori Gagarin and maj. Gherman Titor from Russia

30.

 

Who was the first man to walk in space  ?

Ans :   Col. Leonor from Russia, Major White from America

31.

 

The author of Ratnawali  ?

Ans :   Harsha Vardhan

32.

 

The American General who led the revolt against the British & declared American independence was  ?

Ans :   George Washington

33.

 

How many bones are there in an adult human being  ?

Ans :   206

34.

 

The largest part of the human brain  ?

Ans :   Cerebrum

35.

 

The book Satyartha Prakash was written by  ?

Ans :   Swami Dayanand

36.

 

Who discovered Australia  ?

Ans :   William Janszoom

37.

 

Author of Song of India  ?

Ans :   Sarojini Naidu

38.

 

A person of which blood groups is called a universal donor  ?

Ans :   O

39.

 

The author of the book "Time machine"?  ?

Ans :   H.G. Wells

40.

 

The book Vish Vriksha was written by  ?

Ans :   Bankimchandra Chatterjee

41.

 

The book "We Indians" was written by  ?

Ans :   Khushwant Singh

42.

 

Author of Yashodhara  ?

Ans :   Maithili Sharan Gupt

43.

 

What is the main component of bones and teeth  ?

Ans :   Calcium phosphate

44.

 

The main constituent of hemoglobin  ?

Ans :   Iron

45.

 

Who is known as the father of English poetry  ?

Ans :   Geoffrey Chaucer

46.

 

Which of the following glands secrete tears  ?

Ans :   Lachrymal

47.

 

Which is the largest gland in the human body  ?

Ans :   Liver

48.

 

Who developed the small pox vaccination  ?

Ans :   Eduard Jenner

49.

 

Which is the largest organ in the human body  ?

Ans :   Skin

50.

 

Who is also known as the "Lady with the Lamp"  ?

Ans :   Florence Nightingale

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