General Knowledge Questions with Answers
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General Knowledge Questions with Answers
Q - Which line separates the North and South islands of New Zealand?
Answer: Cook Strait
Q - In which city is Doge’s Palace?
Answer: Venice
Q - Who is Johnny Depp's uncle in the 1993 Arizona Dream film?
Answer: Jim Carrey
Q - Which New Zealand golfer won the 2000 Australian Masters in
Melbourne?
Answer: Michael Campbell
Q - Which continent has the largest area of the world: Africa or
North America?
Answer: Africa
Q - Aston, Rizzo, Stevenson, Gilvear: which team in the
1980s?
Answer: Gene Loves Jezebel
Q - What name is given to the art of repairing, inserting and
inserting animal skins to make life-like models?
Answer: Taxidermy
Q - Which artist was selected as the court painter for Charles IV of
Spain in 1786?
Answer: Goya
Q - What Roman name means “shining father” in Latin?
Answer: Jupiter
Q - What is the name of the dog in the Punch and Judy shows?
Answer: Toby
Q - What was the name of the Addams Family butler?
Answer: Lurch
Q - What is the theoretical temperature associated with subtracting
273.1 degrees from the Celsius scale?
Answer: Whole egg
Q - Which seven-player soccer game is played in the swimming pool?
Answer: Water polo
Q - What Roman Catholic organization has its name derived from the
Latin for ‘work of God’?
Answer: Opus Dei
Q - Bamboozled is the film of any US opposition director?
Answer: Spike Lee
Q - What is the meaning of the word “born again” that describes the
period in which European history began in the 14th century?
Answer: Renewal
Q - Who directed the 1995 film Heat, starring Al Pacino?
Answer: Michael Mann
Q - Which region of France overseas in South America is Cayenne the
capital?
Answer: French Guiana
Q - In what year did David Koresh and the Davidic Christian sect
besiege Waco, Texas?
Answer: 1993
Q - Which rock star was born Marvin Lee Aday?
Answer: Bread of Flesh
Q - Who are the veteran actors of the 2000 film Clint Eastwood,
Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland and James Garner?
Answer: Space Cowboys
Q - Which planet is Pebeebe satellite?
Answer: Saturn
Q - How many counters for each player in a backgammon game?
Answer: 15
Q - Who wrote Birds of Thorns?
Answer: Colleen McCullough
Q - Who wrote Call of the Wild and White Fang?
Answer: Jack London
Q - Which Caribbean country, Montego Bay, is the largest tourist
destination?
Answer: Jamaica
Q - Who wrote David Copperfield?
Answer: Charles Dickens
Q - In medicine, what name is given to a state of deep ignorance
where the subject does not open?
Answer: Coma
Q - What about the quiet, deforested plains of Argentina?
Answer: Pampas
Q - Which Atlantic harbor, between northern Spain and western
France, is known for its oceans and high tides?
Answer: The Bay of Biscay
Q - What was the first British film that grossed over $ 100 million
in the American box office?
Answer: Notting Hill
Q - What name is given to members of the Roman Catholic Society of
Jesus?
Answer: Jesuits
Q - What is the name of the animal that the Aboriginal word means
'no water'?
Answer: Koala
Q - What animal has bigger eyes than any other living creature?
Answer: The horse
Q - Which founder of Protestantism arose before the Diet of Worms in
1521?
Answer: Martin Luther
Q - Which African ruler won the Cardiff City Freedom at the 1998
event?
Answer: Nelson Mandela
Q - Which French chemist and microbiologist developed anthrax and
rabies vaccines?
Answer: Louis Pasteur
Q - What revolutionary song was the Soviet national anthem until
1944?
Answer: Internationale
Q - What is the name given to a licensed dealer in the protection of
personal property?
Answer: Pawnbroker
Q - In which US city is Wrigley Building located?
Answer: Chicago
Q - What nationality was the 14/15th century astronomer Tycho Brahe?
Answer: Danish
Q - What initially did the British architect William Williamletlet,
in his 1907 pamphlet, Waste of Daylight?
Answer: Daylight Saving Time (setting clocks back and forth)
Q - At what point in world history did most of the dinosaurs
disappear?
Answer: Triassic
Q - In which American country is the Mojave Desert?
Answer: California
Q - Which MI5 official ever wrote Spycatcher?
Answer: Peter Wright
Q - In which city did the anointing of many French kings take place
in the Marne region of France?
Answer: Rheims
Q - In which country is the Val Gardena ski resort?
Answer: Italy
Q - Who wrote the opera La Boheme?
Answer: Puccini
Q - What pop group did the 1960s pop party Michael Nesmith associate
with?
Answer: Monkeys
Q - Who became famous for On the Banks of the Ohio in 1971 and
Hopelessly Devided to You in 1978?
Answer: Olivia Newton John
Q - Which Canadian artist recorded the album Blue and Miles of
Aisles?
Answer: Joni Mitchell
Q - Which device in the jet engine offers the most focus on a flying
or high-flying aircraft?
Answer: Afterburner
Q - Which of Dante's most famous poems begins on Good Friday in the
1300's?
Answer: Divine Comedy
Q - Which German car manufacturer was founded in 1937 to produce a
‘human car’?
Answer: Volkswagen
Q - River Tamar forms a landmark border between two English
territories?
Answer: Devon and Cornwall
Q - Which fish smokes and is sold as finnan haddie?
Answer: Haddock
Q - What is corium?
Answer: The inner layer of the skin
Q - Which tree is known in Australia as ‘twang’?
Answer: Opium
Q - What is the meaning of the phrase ‘rhinoceros’?
Answer: Nose
Q - In which of Shakespeare's characters does Beatrice appear?
Answer: Too Much Ado About Nothing
Q - 'Bitser' is the Australian name for that animal?
Answer: Mongrel dog
Q - Who succeeded Yuri Andropov as leader of the Soviet Union in
1984?
Answer: Konstantin Chernenko
Q - What Italian Car Company is the Agnelli family associated with?
Answer: Fiat
Q - Which English actress and former prince of Elizabeth I was
assassinated in 1618?
Answer: Sir Walter Raleigh
Q - What country is the Rottweiler from?
Answer: Germany
Q - Who wrote the novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family?
Answer: Alex Haley
Q - At what place of the moon did Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins
arrive on July 20, 1969?
Answer: Sea of Peace
Q - What is the most common name given to a Taxus tree?
Answer: Yew
Q - What kind of gambling is allowed in the British army?
Answer: Bingo
Q - Who wrote the high expectations?
Answer: Charles Dickens
Q - What is a champignon?
Answer: Edible mold
Q - In which country is the headquarters of the international
company Nestlé?
Answer: Switzerland
Q - In which Shakespeare play did Elbow and Mistress Overdone
appear?
Answer: Measure the Average
Q - What name is given to a Hindu prince who is superior to rajah?
Answer: Maharajah
Q - Which English poet wrote to the Audience?
Answer: Walter de la Mare
Q - What name is given to the process of removing waste from the
blood?
Answer: Dialysis
Q - Which Russian gave his name the famous AK 7 rifle?
Answer: Kalashnikov
Q - What is Pashmina?
Answer: Type of shawl
Q - What kind of creature fulmar?
Answer: Bird
Q - Whose tomb was discovered by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon in
1922?
Answer: Tutankhamen
Q - Who was born the son of a cultural leader in Braunau, Upper
Austria, in 1889?
Answer: Adolf Hitler
Q - Who was the first president of the United States of America?
Answer: George Washington
Q - Who was the youngest member of the Beatles?
Answer: George Harrison
Q - What does a hippologist study teach?
Answer: Horses
Q - What cartoon bird did Walter Lantz make?
Answer: Woody Woodpecker
Q - Which Swiss city was the headquarters of the United Nations?
Answer: Geneva
Q - Who set the world record of 10.2 seconds in the 100-meter dash
on June 20, 1936?
Answer: Jesse Owens
Q - Who wrote the novel The Fourth Protocol?
Answer: Frederick Forsyth
Q - Whites is the island of Whit Sunday off the coast of which
province of Australia?
Answer: Queensland
Q - Which prophet led the Israelites out of Egypt and into the
Promised Land?
Answer: Moses
Q - What is the capital of Indonesia?
Answer: Jakarta
Q - In what country is the harbor of Jaffna?
Answer: Sri Lanka
Q - Who was the first woman to hold a seat in the British parliament?
Answer: Lady Nancy Astor
Q - What is the northwest of the North American Five Great North
Americans?
Answer: High Lake
Q - In what country was ice cream first produced in the 17th
century?
Answer: Italy
Q - The hussar was a bright horse rider from which country?
Answer: Hungary
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