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Basic General Knowledge Quiz - Multiple Choice

687 July 7, 2017  General Knowledge 1

This is a collection of highly useful multiple choice general knowledge questions from history, books, geography, economy, politics, culture, sports and current affairs. This will help you increase your general awareness. Answers to these multiple choice questions are mentioned at the end of general knowledge questions.

General Knowledge Quiz Questions

  1. How many languages and dialects are spoken by people all over the world?
    1. 6,000
    2. 9,000
    3. 4,000
    4. 1,000

  2. Approximately, how many people speak the Chinese language?
    1. 1 billion
    2. 1 million
    3. 1 lakh
    4. 1 thousand

  3. The language with the richest vocabulary is:
    1. Hindi
    2. French
    3. English
    4. German

  4. The English Language has more than _____ words:
    1. 4,50,000
    2. 45,000
    3. 4,500
    4. 450

  5. The oldest Indian language is:
    1. Telugu
    2. Hindu
    3. Tamil
    4. Punjabi

  6. Which book has been printed in the maximum number of languages and these scripts?
    1. The Bible
    2. Hiraka Sutra
    3. The Super Book
    4. None of these

  7. The only religious book ever printed in a shorthand scripts is:
    1. The Ramayana
    2. The Mahabharata
    3. The Bible
    4. Guru Granth Sahib

  8. The oldest printed work in the world, which dates back to AD 868 is:
    1. The Bible
    2. The Hiraka Sutra
    3. The Ramayana
    4. The Mahabharata

  9. The largest book, the super book, is _____ and weight is _____
    1. 270 cm, 300 cm, 252 kg.
    2. 100 cm, 110 cm, 100 kg.
    3. 200 cm, 100 cm, 60 kg.
    4. None of these

  10. Les Hommes de bonne volont is the:
    1. Longest novel ever published
    2. Shortest novel every published
    3. The oldest novel
    4. None of these

  11. The author of the playbook "Ratnawali" is:
    1. Tulsidas
    2. Kalidas
    3. Harsha Vardhan
    4. Prem Chand

  12. Which of the following in the book/play written by Maithili Sharan Gupt?
    1. Saket
    2. Satyartha Prakash
    3. Shakuntala
    4. Savitri

  13. The book "Satyartha Prakash" was written by:
    1. Swami Dayanand
    2. Swami Vivekanand
    3. Sarojini Naidu
    4. Kalidas

  14. The playbook "Shakuntala" was written by:
    1. Maithili Sharan Gupt
    2. Swami Dayanand
    3. Kalidas
    4. Tulsidas

  15. Which of the following is the author of "The Song of India"?
    1. Firdausi
    2. Sarojini Naidu
    3. Lala Lajpat Rai
    4. Sri Aurobindo Ghosh

  16. Who is the author of the book "Time machine"?
    1. Lewis Carroll
    2. Robert Louis Stevenson
    3. Charles Lamb
    4. H.G. Wells

  17. Which of the following book was written by Tulsidas?
    1. Vinay Patrika
    2. Ramcharitmanas
    3. Both (a) and (b)
    4. Yashodhara

  18. The book "Vish Vriksha" was written by
    1. Bankimchandra Chatterjee
    2. Annie Basant
    3. Tulsidas
    4. Kalidas

  19. The book "We Indians" was written by:
    1. H.G. Wells
    2. Khushwant Singh
    3. James Jeans
    4. Thomas Moore

  20. Which of the following is the author of Playbook "Yashodhara"?
    1. Maithili Sharan Gupt
    2. Khushwant Singh
    3. Bankimchandra Chatterjee
    4. Sarojini Naidu

  21. Dhyan Chand was:
    1. A great hockey player
    2. Captain of the Indian hockey team which won a gold medal in 1936 Berlin Olympics
    3. The scorer of 101 goals in the Olympic games and 300 goals in the international matches.
    4. All the statements are correct

  22. Who developed the small pox vaccination?
    1. Eduard Jenner
    2. Alexander Fleming
    3. Albert Einstein
    4. None of these

  23. Euclid was:
    1. Greek mathematician
    2. Contributor to the use of deductive principles of logic as the basis of geometry
    3. Propounded the geometrical theorems
    4. All the statements are correct

  24. Faxian was:
    1. The first Buddhist pilgrim of China to visit India during the reign of Chandragupta Vikramaditya
    2. The discoverer of Puerto Rico and Jamaica
    3. The first Buddhist pilgrim of India to visit China
    4. None of these

  25. Firdausi was:
    1. A person poet
    2. Well known for his epic "Sharnama"
    3. Both are correct
    4. None of these

  26. Who is also known as the "Lady with the Lamp"?
    1. Florence Nightingale
    2. Sarojini Naidu
    3. Rani Laxmibai
    4. Bachendri Pal

  27. Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit was:
    1. A German Physicist
    2. Developed the mercury thermometer in 1714
    3. Devised temperature scale
    4. All are correct

  28. Galileo was an Italian astronomer who:
    1. Developed the telescope
    2. Discovered 4 satellites of Jupiter
    3. Discovered that the movement of the pendulum produces a regular time measurement.
    4. All are correct

  29. Who is known as the father of English poetry?
    1. Geoffrey Chaucer
    2. John Milton
    3. John Keats
    4. None of these

  30. The American General who led the revolt against the British & declared American independence was:
    1. George Washington
    2. Bill Clinton
    3. George Bush
    4. None of these

  31. Marco Polo
    1. Discovered Greenland
    2. Traveled three China, India and other parts of Asia
    3. Traveled around the Cape of Good Hope
    4. Discovered Canada

  32. Who landed on the mainland of South America for the first time?
    1. Juan Ponce de Leon
    2. Hernando de Soto
    3. Vasco Núñez de Balboa
    4. Hernán Cortés

  33. Who was first to sail sound the strait, reached the Philippines and named the Pacific Ocean?
    1. Ferdinand Magellan
    2. Jacques Carter
    3. William Janszoon
    4. Vasco da Gama

  34. Who discovered Australia?
    1. Eric the Red
    2. Leif Ericsson
    3. William Janszoon
    4. None of these

  35. Who located the magnetic pole?
    1. Sir James Clark
    2. Rear Admiral
    3. Sir John Ross
    4. All the above

  36. Who was first to reach the South Pole?
    1. Rear Admiral
    2. Capt. Amundsen
    3. Capt. R. E. Scott
    4. Sir Edmund Hillary

  37. Who was the first to cross the Antarctic?
    1. Sir Vivian Fuchs & Sir Edmund Hillary
    2. Major Yuri Gagarin and Major Gherman Titor
    3. Capt. R. E. Scott
    4. All of these

  38. Who were the first to journey into space?
    1. Major Yori Gagarin and Major Gherman Titor from Russia
    2. Comm. Grissom and Col John Glenn from America
    3. Both are correct
    4. None of these

  39. Who was the first man to walk in space?
    1. Col. Leonor from Russia
    2. Major White from America
    3. Both of these
    4. None of these

  40. Who were the first to circle the moon?
    1. Frank boreman, Bill Anders and Jim Lovell
    2. Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin
    3. Charles Conrad and Alan Bean
    4. None of these

  41. Arena is the special name for playground of:
    1. Cricket
    2. Lawn Tennis
    3. Wrestling
    4. Skating

  42. The national sport of Canada is:
    1. Tennis and cricket
    2. Lacrosse
    3. Judo
    4. Rugby and Football

  43. Badminton is the national sport at:
    1. Malaysia
    2. Scotland
    3. China
    4. Former soviet Union

  44. Where is the Vallabhbhai Patel stadium located?
    1. Kolkata
    2. Mumbai
    3. Chennai
    4. Delhi

  45. Where is the sports stadium, Green Park, located?
    1. Kanpur
    2. Jamshedpur
    3. Cuttack
    4. Patiala

  46. For which of the following disciplines in Nobel Prize awarded?
    1. Physics and chemistry
    2. Physiology or Medicine
    3. Literature, Peace and Economics
    4. All the above

  47. On which date is Nobel Prize awarded?
    1. December 10
    2. January 10
    3. April 10
    4. July 10

  48. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, awarded the Noble Prize in:
    1. Physics
    2. Economics
    3. Chemistry
    4. (a) and (c)

  49. The committee of the Norwegian Parliament awards the prize for:
    1. Economics
    2. Peace
    3. Medicine
    4. Literature

  50. Dr. Linus Carl Pauling is the only person to have won two Nobel Prizes individually for:
    1. Chemistry in 1954, peace prize in 1962
    2. Peace prize in 1954, Chemistry in 1962
    3. Physics in 154, Medicine in 1962
    4. Medicine in 1954, Physics in 1962

Geneal Knowledge Multiple Choice Quiz Answers

1. b 2. a 3. c 4. a 5. c
6. a 7. c 8. b 9. a 10. a
11. c 12. a 13. a 14. c 15. b
16. d 17. c 18. a 19. b 20. a
21. d 22. a 23. d 24. a 25. c
26. a 27. d 28. d 29. a 30. a
31. b 32. a 33. a 34. c 35. d
36. b 37. a 38. c 39. c 40. a
41. c 42. b 43. a 44. b 45. a
46. d 47. a 48. d 49. b 50. a
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