Basic General Knowledge Quiz - Multiple Choice

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General Knowledge Multiple Choice Quiz Questions

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
Approximately, how many people speak Chinese language?
1. 1 billion
2. 1 million
3. 1 lakh
4. 1 thousand
The language with the richest vocabulary is:
1. Hindi
2. French
3. English
4. German
English Language have more than ?? words:
1. 4,50,000
2. 45,000
3. 4,500
4. 450
The oldest Indian language is:
1. Telugu
2. Hindu
3. Tamil
4. Punjabi
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
The only religious book ever printed in a shorthand scripts is:
1. The Ramayana
2. The Mahabharata
3. The bible
4. Guru Granth Sahib
The oldest printed work in the world, which dates back to AD 868 is:
1. The Bible
2. The Hirake Sutra
3. The Ramayana
4. The Mahabharata
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
Les Hommes de bonne volonté is the:
1. Longest novel ever published
2. Shortest novel every published
3. The oldest novel
4. None of these
The author of the play/book ?Ratnawali? is:
1. Tulsidas
2. Kalidas
3. Harsha Vardhan
4. Prem Chand
Which of the following in the book/play written by Maithili Sharan Gupt?
1. Saket
2. Satyartha Prakash
3. Shakuntala
4. Savitri
The book ?Satyartha Prakash? was written by:
1. Swami Dayanand
2. Swami Vivekanand
3. Sarojini Naidu
4. Kalidas
The play/book ?Shakuntala? was written by:
1. Maithili Sharan gupt
2. Swami Dayanand
3. Kalidas
4. Tulsidas
Which of the following is the author of ?Song of India, The?:
1. Firdausi
2. Sarojini Naidu
3. Lala Lajpat Rai
4. Sri Aurobindo Ghosh
The author of the book ?Time machine? is:
1. Lewis Carroll
2. Robert Louis Stevenson
3. Charles Lamb
4. H.G. Wells
Which of the following book was written by Tulsidas:
1. Vinay Patrika
2. Ramcharitmanas
3. Both (a) and (b)
4. Yashodhara
The book ?Vish Vriksha? was written by:
1. Bankimchandra Chatterjee
2. Annie Basant
3. Tulsidas
4. Kalidas
The book ?We Indians? was written by:
1. H.G. Wells
2. Khushwant Singh
3. James Jeans
4. Thomas Moore
Which of he following is he author of play/book ?Yashodhara?:
1. Maithili Sharan Gupt
2. Khushwant Singh
3. Bankimchandra Chatterjee
4. Sarojini Naidu
Dhyan Chand was:
1. A great hockey player
2. Captained he Indian hockey team which won a gold medal in 1936 Berlin Olympics
3. Scored 101 goals at the Olympic games and 300 goals in the international matches.
4. All the statements are correct
Who developed the small pox vaccination?
1. Eduard Jenner
2. Alexander Fleming
3. Albert Einstein
4. None of these
Euclid was:
1. Greek mathematician
2. Contributor to the use of deductive principles of logic as the basis of geometry
3. Propounded the geometrical theosems
4. All the statements are correct
Fa-hien was:
1. The first Buddhist pilgrim of China to visit India during the reign of Chandragupta Vikramaditya
2. The discover of Puerto Rico and Jamaica
3. The first Buddhist pilgrim of India to visit China
4. None of these
Firdausi was:
1. A person poet
2. Well known for his epic ?Sharnama?
3. Both are correct
4. None of these
Who is also known as the ?Lady with the Lamp??
1. Florence Nightingale
2. Sarojini Naidu
3. Rani Laxmibai
4. Bachendri Pal
Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit was:
1. A German Physicist
2. Developed the mercury thermometer in 1714
3. Devised temperature scale
4. All are correct
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
Who is known as the father of English poetry?
1. Geoffrey Chaucer
2. John Milton
3. John Keats
4. None of these
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
Marco Polo
1. Discovered Greenland
2. Traveled three China, India and other parts of Asia
3. Traveled round the cape of Good Hope
4. Discovered Canada
Who landed on the mainland of South America for the First time?
1. Discovered Greenland
2. Landed on the mainland of south America
3. Discovered the sea route from Europe to India.
4. None of these
Who was first to sail sound the strait, reached the Philippines and named the Pacific Ocean?
1. Ferdinand Magelion
2. Jacques Carter
3. William Janszoom
4. Vasco da Gama
Who discovered Australia?
1. Eric the Red
2. Leif Ericsson
3. William Janszoom
4. None of these
Who located the magnetic pole?
1. Sir James Clark
2. Rear Admiral
3. Sir John Ross
4. All the above
Who was first to reach the South Pole?
1. Rear Admiral
2. Capt. Amundsen
3. Capt. R. E. Scett
4. Sir Edmund Hillary
Who was the first to cross the Antarctic?
1. Sir Vivian Fuchs & sir Edmund Hillary
2. Maj. Yuri Gagarin and Maj. Gherman Titor
3. Capt. R. E. Scott
4. All of these
Who were the first to journey into space?
1. Maj. Yori Gagarin and maj. Gherman Titor from Russia
2. Comm. Grissom and Col john Glenn from America
3. Both are correct
4. None of these
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
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
?Arena? is the special name for playground of:
1. Cricket
2. Lawn Tennis
3. Wrestling
4. Skating
The national sport of Canada is:
1. Tennis and cricket
2. Lacrosse
3. Judo
4. Rugby and Football
Badminton is the national sport at:
1. Malaysia
2. Scotland
3. China
4. Former soviet Union
Where is the Vallabhbhai Patel stadium located?
1. Kolkata
2. Mumbai
3. Chennai
4. Delhi
Where is the sports stadium, Green Park, located?
1. Kanpur
2. Jamshedpur
3. Cuttack
4. Patiala
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
On which date is Nobel Prize awarded?
1. December 10
2. January 10
3. April 10
4. July 10
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, awarded the Noble Prize in:
1. Physics
2. Economics
3. Chemistry
4. (a) and (c)
The committee of the Norwegian Parliament awards the prize for:
1. Economics
2. Peace
3. Medicine
4. Literature
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. b	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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