(GK) General Knowledge Question And Answers (1)

General Knowledge Question And Answers

• The first Indian to win the World Champion title in Chess

• Ans : Viswanathan Anand

• Who is known as ‘The Flying Sikh’

• Ans : Milka Singh

• Who is the first Indian woman to win a medal in the World Athletic meet

• Ans : Anju Boby Gerorge

• National Sports day is observed on August 29^th. It is the birth day of

• Ans : Dhyanchand

• In cricket, the length of the pitch between the wickets is

• Ans : 22 yards (20.12 m)

• The place in which the first Asian games were held at

• Ans : New Delhi

• The first ever National Youth Games (under-19) were held in January 2004 at

• Ans : Bangalore

• The number of rings in Olympics flag is

• Ans : 5

• Which country will host the Commonwealth Games in 2010

• Ans : India

• Who is the first Indian to join the Formula—1 league

• Ans : Narain Karthikeyan

• First Indian woman civil engineer

• Ans : Lalitha from Madras in 1937

• Who is known as ‘Light of Asia’

• Ans : Buddha

• Who is known as ‘Light of World’

• Ans : Christ

• Who is known as king of Rock & Roll

• Ans : Elvis Presley

• Who is known as Father of Kissan Movement

• Ans : Pro. N.G. Renga

• Who was the first Indian to go to jail in performance of his duty as a Journalist

• Ans : Surendranath Banerjee

• Christiaan Barnard, the surgeon who carried out the first successful transplantation was from the country

• Ans : South Africa

• The first person to conduct heart transplantation in India was

• Ans : Dr. Venugopal

• The first Indian pilot

• Ans : J.R.D Tata

• The first woman graduate of the Calcutta University addressed the AICC session in 1890. Who was she

• Ans : Kadambini Ganguly

• Who said “there is neither Hindu nor Muslim, only a man”

• Ans : Swami Vivekananda

• Who said the words “Show me a hero, I’ll write you a tragedy”

• Ans : Scott Fitzgerald

• The state sprawls over the Western Himalayas and the Karakoram Mountains. It is the most northerly and mountainous state of India’. This refers to the state of

• Ans : Jammu & Kashmir

• That is one small step for man, but one giant leap for mankind” Who said this

• Ans : Neil Armstrong

• Who said “consumer is the king”

• Ans : Swami Vivekananda

• In which book of Shakespeare we can see the famous words ‘To be or not to be’

• Ans : Hamlet

• The Vedic saying “War begins in the minds of men” appears in

• Ans : Atharva Veda

• Who said “I therefore want freedom immediately, this very night, before dawn if it can be had”

• Ans : Mahatma Gandhi

• The light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness every where”. Who said these

• Ans : Nehru on Gandhiji’s death

• Who defined “democracy as a government of the people, by the people and for the people”

• Ans :Abraham Lincoln

• Who said “there is neither Hindu nor Muslim, only a man”

• Ans : Swami Vivekananda

• Who said the words “Show me a hero, I’ll write you a tragedy”

• Ans : Scott Fitzgerald

• The state sprawls over the Western Himalayas and the Karakoram Mountains. It is the most northerly and mountainous state of India’. This refers to the state of

• Ans : Jammu & Kashmir

• That is one small step for man, but one giant leap for mankind” Who said this

• Ans : Neil Armstrong

• Who said “consumer is the king”

• Ans : Swami Vivekananda

• In which book of Shakespeare we can see the famous words ‘To be or not to be’

• Ans : Hamlet

• The Vedic saying “War begins in the minds of men” appears in

• Ans : Atharva Veda

• Who said “I therefore want freedom immediately, this very night, before dawn if it can be had”

• Ans : Mahatma Gandhi

• The light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness every where”. Who said these

• Ans : Nehru on Gandhiji’s death

• Who defined “democracy as a government of the people, by the people and for the people”

• Ans : Abraham Lincoln

• Agra is situated on the banks of the river

• Ans : Yamuna