General Knowledge Quizzes

1. The 1998 peace accord that introduced power sharing between unionists and nationalists in N. Ireland


2. The Statue of Liberty was a gift from


3. The Indian team played their first ODI match in


4. Fennel, Fenugreek, Cumin : what are these?


5. Term for the opposition of light and dark in painting and drawing


6. Kabuki is a type of popular Japanese drama/suicide attempt/aBantu-speaking African tribe/a variety of sorghum


7. The second fortnight of May ends on : May 16, May 31, June 1, May 30


8. Importance of the date April 12, 1961


9. Europe’s most active volcano


10. Which of these can be had in bars, ingots or plates : jewels, gold, cloth?


11. A skiing race along a zig-zag course is called a


12. The Awards known as Asia’s version of the Nobel Prize


13. Britain’s Prince Philip was the former Prince of (Britain/Wales/Greece/Scotland)


14. 25 million copies of Tomb Raider have been sold since 1996. What is it?


15. Victor Hugo’s character forced into a life of crime by circumstances


16. The organisation founded by Hermann Gmeiner in 1949


17. World’s toughest cycling event


18. Service industries’ contribution to India’s gross product : 5%/15%/40%80%


19. A guinea pig is a (rodent/cat/pig/bird)


20. Pearl Harbour got its name from (Pearl S. Buck, pearl oysters, Gen. Pearl, a naval base)


21. The National Technology Day


22. The first International Master (Chess) from India


23. What is the acronym for high earners shuttling between New York and London, the two capitals of globalisation


24. Where is the world’s oldest operating oil refinery situated?


25. Who is referred to as the ’Water Man of Rajasthan’?


26. The ’Black Consciousness’ leader slain in S. Africa at the age of 30 (1977)


27. Hyderabad is in Afghanistan/Kyrgyzstan/Pakistan/Mongolia.


28. Spot the country that is not a member of ASEAN : Myanmar, Laos, India, Malayasia


29. The country formerly known as British North America


30. Sherwood Forest is famed for being the home of

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