General Knowledge...1

1. Which film studio, set up by Himanshu Rai in 1934, produced the pionering films, Kangan Achhut Kanya and Jwar Bhata?

A: Bombay Talkies...

2. Which biochemist and critic of US nuclear policy became the first man to win two individual Nobel Prizes in different disciplines, in 1962?

A: Linus Pauling...

3. Which tendon in the human body is named after a Greek hero in the Troan War?

A: Achilles...

4. In the Ramayana, who appeared in the form of a golden deer to lure Rama away from Sita?

A: Maricha...

5. The work of which Greek mathematician is contained in the 13-volume Elements which is stiall used in geometry?

A: Euclid...

6. After which financial agent of Queen Elizabeth I is the monetary principle, 'Bad money drives out good', named?

A: Thomas Gresham (Gresham's Law)

7. After which inventor of the first digital calculator has a computer language been named?

A: Blaise Pascal...

8. Which word of German origin translates as 'battling spirit'?

A: Poltergeist...

9. Which Board of Revenue president under Lord Cornwallis evolved the Permanent Settlement System?

A: John Shore...

10. The kings of which Indian dynasty that flourished in the North West, assumed the title Devaputra?

A: Kushanas...

11. On which river does the world's largest river island Majuli stand?

A: Brahmaputra...

12. Which island in the Pacific Ocean was discovered by the Dutch navigator Jacob Roggeveen on Easter Sunday in 1772?

A: Easter Island...

13. Which newspaper published from Calcutta was established in 1875 by Robert Kinght as an extension of an earlier paper, Friend of India?

A: The Statesman...

14. Of which species of birds are yellow-billed, open-billed, white and saddle-billed varieties?

A: Storks...

15. Which of the Kalidasa's work is an account of the birth of the war god, Skanda?

A: Kumara Sambhava...

16. Pragjyotishpur, located on the river Brahmaputra, was the capital of which ancient Indian Kingdom?

A: Kamrupa...

17. From the abbreviation of which term did the vehicle name 'Jeep' come about?

A: General Purpose...

18. Which automobile company was founded by August Horsch and named after the German word for 'hear'?

A: Audi...

19. Which American Astronomer in 1905 predicted the existence of Pluto?

A: Percival Lowell...

20. What name was coined by mathematician Eward Kasner's nephew for the sum one followed by a hundred zeros?

A: Googol...