General Knowledge Quiz Questions & Answers

1. India’s first woman Grand Master


2. The Roman god of sea


3. In tourism, ’the Golden Triangle’ means


4. The first asteroid to be discovered


5. The king whose own translations from Latin form part of the earliest English literature


6. The liberation movement that set up the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic


7. The full moon that occurs nearest to the autumnalequinox


8. Who wrote the Shah Nama, the epic poem about Persia?


9. What are Blue Chips?


10. The first nation to legalise mercy killing


11. In NASA, the first ’A’ stands for


12. Persephone, in Greek mythology, is the


13. Madhav Godbole Committee was set up to review


14. In ‘the sword of Damocles’, Damocles is a (king/courtier/ palace/sword)


15. Where do we find a goatee?


16. The city with the largest Anglican cathedral in the world


17. The Dokhmenashini is


18. Complete this. ’Nothing succeeds............


19. Australia’s top tourist attraction, the red monolith of Uluru, was formerly known as


20. A former First Lady is associated with a shoe museum. Identify the country


21. The song Bande Mataram was originally composed in (Hindi/ Bengali/Sanskrit/English)


22. What are TT bars in gold trade?


23. What did Andrei Sakharov design?


24. Japan attacked the US naval base at Pearl Harbour on


25. Where do we find the Trimurti, a three-headed bust of Shiva? New Delhi/Elephanta/Agra/Ellora


26. In 1923, the national capital of Turkey was moved to Ankara from


27. What is Three Mile Island known for?


28. Vexillology is the study of


29. Lockjaw is also known as


30. Who won the 1989 junior title at 13 and a year later became the youngest Grand Slam finalist?

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