World General Knowledge

The London University was the first British University to admit women for degree courses.

New York is popularly known as the city of Skyscrapers

Madagascar is popularly known as the Island of Cloves

Thailand is the country known as the Land of White Elephant.

Korea is known as the Land of Morning Calm.

Bhutan is known as the Land of Thunderbolts

Salto Angel Falls in Venezuela is the highest waterfalls in the world.

United States Library of Congress in Washington DC is the largest library in the world is the

The author of Harry Potter Books is JK Rowling

Nickname of New York city is Big Apple

Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest President of the USA.

Brazil is the largest coffee growing country in the world.

Verkoyansk in Siberia is the coldest place on the earth.

The length of the English channel is 564 kilometres.

Damascus is the world’s oldest known city.

Detroit in the USA is the city which is the world’s biggest centre for manufacture of automobiles.

The country which is the largest producer of rubber in the world is Malaysia.

Amazon River carries maximum quantity of water into the sea.

Cuba is known as the Sugar Bowl of the world.

The length of the Suez Canal is 162.5 kilometers.

James Cook discovered Australia.

Mohammed Ali Jinnah was the first Governor General of Pakistan.

Alexander Eiffel was the person who built Eifel Tower.

Rose is the national flower of Britain.

The national flower of Italy is Lily.

World Environment Day is observed on 5th June.

The earlier name of Sri Lanka was Ceylon

United Nations Organization(UNO) was formed in the year 1945.

Admiral Robert E. Peary was the first man to reach North Pole.

The place known as the Roof of the world is Tibet.

The first Pakistani to receive the Nobel Prize was Abdul Salam.

The first woman Prime Minister of Britain was Margaret Thatcher

Sports Related Quiz

An avereage soccer player can run almost 5 to 7 miles in a whole ninty minutes of a socer game.

Holes in a golf course must be 4.25 inches in diameter, and at least 4 inches deep and a standard golf course contains 18 holes between 100 and 600 yards length.

In tennis there are most numbers of officials compare to the number of players like in tennis tournaments there are 13 officials in regards of two players.

The spots on dice are called “pips. And the word ‘pip’ commonly used for a ‘spot’ or a ‘speck’.

Try to add all the numbers on a roulette wheel which is usually played in the casinoand cosidered as easiest casion game, that is 1through 36, you get ’666′, the biblical number of fallen man.

The world’s highest cricket ground is in Chail (HP), India, which has highest altitude of 2250 Meter of above sea level.

Since 1896 from the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia are the pnly two nations whose athletes have taken parts in every Olympic Games.

In 1935, Jesse Owens broke 4 world records in 45 minutes

Fishing is the biggest participant sports in the world.

Soccer is the most attended or watched sport in the world.

Boxing became a legal sport in 1901.

More than 100 million people hold hunting licences.

The record for the most major league baseball career innings is held by Cy Young, with 7,356 innings.

The first instance of global electronic communications took place in 1871 when news of the Derby winner was telegraphed from London to Calcutta in under 5 minutes.

In 1898, one of the first programmes to be broadcasted on radio was a yacht race that took place in British waters.

Sports command the biggest television audiences, led by the summer Olympics, World Cup Football and Formula One racing.

Korfball is the only sport played with mixed teams, consisting of 4 men and 4 women.

The Major League Baseball teams use about 850,000 balls per season.

About 42,000 tennis balls are used in the plus-minus 650 matches in the Wimbledon Championship.

A baseball ball has exactly 108 stitches, a cricket ball has between 65 and 70 stiches.

A soccer ball is made up of 32 leather panels, held together by 642 stitches.

The baseball home plate is 17 inches wide.

Basketball and rugby balls are made from synthetic material. Earlier, pigs’ bladders were used as rugby balls.

Golf the only sport played on the moon – on 6 February 1971 Alan Shepard hit a golf ball.

Bill Klem served the most seasons as major league umpire – 37 years, starting in 1905. He also officated 18 World Series.

The oldest continuous trophy in sports is the America’s Cup. It started in 1851, with Americans winning for a straight 132 years until Australia took the Cup in 1983.

Volleyball was invented by William George Morgan of Holyoke, Massachusetts in 1895.

A badminton shuttle easily travels 180 km/h (112 mph).

Ferenc Szisz from Romania, driving a Renault, won the first Formula One Grand Prix held at Le Mans, France in 1906.

Computer Related Quiz

Abacus is cnsidered as the first known counting device and it was orginated from Asia. Abacus worked on a place-value notion meaning that the place of a bead or rock on the apparatus determined how much it was worth.

In 1642 a French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal invented the first mechanical digital calculator using gears known as the Pascaline.

In 1812 Charles P. Babbage later known as the “father of the computer”,designed a machine, the difference engine which was steam-powered, fully automatic and commanded by a fixed instruction program.

In 1947 the giant calculating device ENIAC (Electrical Numerical Integrator and Calculator) machine was developped by John W. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, Jr. at the University of Pennsylvania.

In early 1960s Gene Amdahl designed the IBM System/360 series of mainframe computers, which considered as the first general purpose digital computers which uses intergrated circuits.

In 1961 Dr. Hopper developed the COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language) programming language.

In 1964 the International Business Machines (IBM) publishes and marketed the term “word processor

In 1965 Dr. Thomas Kurtz and Dr. John Kemeny developped BASIC (Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) programming language .

In 1969 the Internet was started.

In 1969, computers were first used to communicate synchronously.

In 1970 Dr. Ted Hoff developed the famous Intel 4004 microprocessor (G) chip.

In 1971 the Intel released the first microprocessor, a specialized integrated circuit which was able to process four bits of data at a time.

In 1976 Apple Computers was founded by Steven Jobs and Stephen Wozniak.

In 1981 the IBM PC was introduced with a 16-bit microprocessor.

Trivia Questions To Test Your IQ

General knowledge quiz questions are the best way of testing your IQ level. So, here we give you an opportunity to answer the below mentioned trivia questions to test your IQ.

Below mentioned are some of the easy general knowledge questions. Try to answer these questions and is unable to answer them, go to the end of this page for answers.

Questions :

1.    What does `The Cherry Orchard’ have in common with old editions of `Startrek’?

2.    In Australia, how is the date of Mothers’ Day calculated?

3.    Which President of the USSR encouraged the policy of Glassnost?

4.    What was built by inmates taken from Changi Prison Camp?

5.    What is the world’s largest desert?

6.    Nino Culotto was his pen-name. What was his REAL name?

7.    What is the last letter of the Greek alphabet?

8.    Who wrote `The Entertainer’, music made famous by the film,`The Sting’?

9.    In Greek legend, what was eaten on the island of Jerba?

10.    What was the name of Ulysses’ son, who grew to manhood in his absence?

11.    Which Knight caused the death of the Lady of Shallott?

12.    What monument occupies centre stage in Trafalgar Square?

13.    Which book catapulted Germaine Greer to fame?

14.    What was the classical standard language of ancient India?

15.    Who directed and starred in films such as `The little Tramp’?

16.    Name the three types of classical architectural column.

17.    Who was Doctor Zhivago’s great love?

18.    Name the commoner who ruled England in 1658-59.

19.    Which ghost ship is the theme of an 1841 opera by Richard Wagner?

20.    What career did the Duke of Wellington pursue after the Battle of Waterloo?

21.    Which popular hymn was composed by Sir Arthur Sullivan of Opera Fame?

22.    What is the literal meaning of `pince-nez’. glasses?

23.    Beneath which Paris monument is the tomb of France’s unknown soldier?

24.    What type of puppets are t hose whose movements are controlled by strings?

25.    Which drug is best known for its use in preventing malaria?

26.    Identify the 15th century British war fought by the Houses of Lancaster and York

27.    Which sea is so named because it is too salty to maintain life

28.    What is the most indispensable instrument in astronomy?

29.    Which literary doctor owns a parrot called `Polynesia’?

30.    Name the Australian singer whose first hit, in the 1960s, was `I Remember You’.`Four On The Floor’ pertain? 31.    What is Sydney’s equivalent to San Francisco’s `Bay To Breakers’ footrace’?

32.    Which independent island is Australia’s nearest neighbour to the west?

33.    At the end of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet’, which of the principals are dead?

34.    What is the name of Greg Norman’s business?

35.    Name a state of U.S.A. beginning with `B’.

36.    Whom did Yoko Ono marry only to lose to an assassin?

37.    Wo dubbed Australia `The Lucky Country’ in one of his novels?

38.    Which biblical event supports the superstition that 13 is an unlucky number?

39.    How much was 240 pence in predecimal currency

40.    Which comic- strip drake is a multi-billionaire?

41.    What was the first event decided at the 1896 Olympics?

42.    Which is the only continent occupied by one nation?

43.    What inspired the convex golden disc as the Order of Australia?

44.    How long does it take for light to reach the Earth from sun?

45.    How long is a blink of a human eye?

General Knowledge Test

Below mentioned are some of the most easiest general knowledge questions answers that can help you test your IQ level.

Question : What country produces Rioja wines?
Answer: Spain

Question : Who was the favourite daughter of Shakespeare’s King Lear?
Answer : Cordelia

Question : Which is the brightest star?
Answer: Sirius

Question : Which star has collapsed into itself? Answer : Black Hole

Question : Which is the heaviest star?
Answer : HDE 269810 IN Magellanic Cloud

Question : Which Australkian city includes the suburbs of Cottesloe and Subiaco? Answer : Perth

Question : Who discovered Oxygen in 1774?
Answer : Joseph Priestly

Question : Name the author of A Town Like Alice
Answer : Nevil Shute

Question : How many Earth years does it take Pluto to orbit the sun?
Answer : 248

Question : What name is given to the central part of a fleshy fruit, containing the seeds?
Answer : The core

Question: What letter appears to the right of Y on a keyboard?
Answer : U

Question : What is it that makes soda water fizz?
Answer : Carbon Dioxide

Question : What disease is the Sabin Vaccine used to prevent?
Answer : Polio

Question : Name the actor grandfather of Drew Barrymore.
Answer : John Barrymore

Question : Who is the female host of the television show, Better Homes and Gardens? Answer : Noni Hazlehurst

Question : Which comedian once said, “A well-balanced person has a drink in each hand”?
Answer : Billy Connolly

Child General Knowledge Quiz

Childhood and teenage is the perfect age for learning and growing. Apart from involving deep into the course books, it is also important for children to know the current affairs and have a strong general knowledge.

General knowledge questions, children and learning should go hand in hand at every stage of development. Following are some of the general knowledge questions for kids:

Who played the role of Harry Potter in the movie Harry Potter? Daniel Jacob

Who went to Harvard University at the age of 11 to study Mathematics? William James Sidis

Who became the youngest chess master at the age of 12? Sergey Karjakin

For children we have some of the best general knowledge questions on India.

What is the frontier of India? 14,103 kms

What is the estimate of population in India? 1,080,264,388

Which is the capital city of India? New Delhi

What is the area of the country? 3,300,000 sq km

What is the currency of India? Indian Rupee

What is the population of children in India? 337,566,907

We also have some of the best general knowledge puzzles that can puzzle kids.

Questions: Which would you say is heavier, a kg of cotton or a kg of gold? Answer: Both are equal

Questions: A heavy tree trunk can be sawed into a 12ft long piece in one minute. How long will it take to saw it into twelve equal pieces? Answer: Eleven minutes

Questions : Which is worth more, a bucket full of half a sovereign gold pieces or an identical bucket half full of 1 sovereign gold piece? Answer: A bucket full of half a sovereign gold pieces

Questions: Make words from the alphabets “SITLIMBKEOPNR” Answer: sit, limb, pot, tin, ten, pen, bolt, lit, liter, no, on

General Knowledge Questions

Here we have gathered some of the general knowledge questions and answers for you to test your knowledge about the current affairs.

Question : Who has been appointed the National Security Adviser by the UPA Government?
Answer : J. N. Daxit

Question : Who is the new Chief Minister of Karnataka?
Dharam Singh

Question : Who among the following has won the Miss Universe 2004 crown?
Answer : Jennifer Hawkins

Question : Which cricketer holds the world record of maximum number of sixes in Tests?
Answer : Chris Carins (New Zealand)

Question : Who has been appointed the new Chief Justice of India?
Answer : Justice R. C. Lahoti

Question : Which sports persons got the honour of lighting the Olympic flame at the Major Dhyan Chand Stadium in New Delhi recently?
Answer : Anjali Bhagwat

Question : Which planet crossed the face of the sun (in transit) after 122 years recently?
Answer : Venus

Question : Which country was readmitted to the Commonwealth recently?    Answer : Pakistan

Question : Who won the men’s singles title of the French Open 2004?
Answer : Gaston Gaudio

Question : Who is India’s first Woman Grand Master in Chess?
Answer : Koneru Humpy

Question : How can the age of the tree be determined?
Answer : Counting the annual growth rings of its stem

Question : Where is the Lingaraja Temple built during the medieval period?
Answer : Bhubaneswar

Question : Which Delhi Sultans is known for introducing market control mechanism?
Answer : Alauddin Khalji

Question : Which mountain peaks of the Himalayas is NOT in India?
Answer : Annapurna

Question : Who is the author of the book, “The Man Who Divided India”?
Answer : Rafiq Zakaria