General Knowledge Quiz – 1

1. Who is the first President of theUnited States of America?
  • Correct Answer: George Washington

2. Who was born on August 15, 1769?
  • Correct Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte

3. Which city was previously known as Salisbury?
  • Correct Answer: Harare

4. Who is the author of “A streetcar named desire”?
  • Correct Answer: Tennessee Williams

5. Which film is in Aramaic and Latin?
  • Correct Answer: The Passion of the Christ

6. Who won Wimbledon Men’s Singles Championship in 1977?
  • Correct Answer: Bjorn Borg

7. Who won the Olympic Gold Medal for hockey in 1980 Moscow Olympics?
  • Correct Answer: India

8. What name was taken by Cardinal Joseph Sarto when he became pope?
  • Correct Answer: Pius X

9. How many metres is one mile?
  • Correct Answer: 1609.344

10. What are vertebrates that live both under water and on land called?
  • Correct Answer: Amphibians

11. Which of the following books is not part of Pentateuch?
  • Correct Answer: Ruth

12. Which of the following countries is landlocked?
  • Correct Answer: Bolivia

13. What does Yugoslavia mean?
  • Correct Answer: The land of the Southern Slavs

14. Which state of USA was once part of Russia?
  • Correct Answer: Alaska

15. What did the Greeks call the present day Amu River in Iran?
  • Correct Answer: Oxus

16. Which of these is not a metal?
  • Correct Answer: Diamond

17. Which language is written in five scripts?
  • Correct Answer: Konkani

18. Which British monarch in 20th century was not crowned?
  • Correct Answer: Edward VIII

19. Who was told “Beware the Ides of March.”?
  • Correct Answer: Julius Caesar

20. Which country’s postal stamps have the name Helvetia?
  • Correct Answer: Switzerland

21. Yen is the currency of which country?
  • Correct Answer: Japan

22. Which is the national flower of Australia?
  • Correct Answer: Golden Wattle

23. What is the number of squares on a chessboard?
  • Correct Answer: 64

24. Which city was the summer capital of India during British Rule?
  • Correct Answer: Simla

25. The name of which city was changed to Petrograd and Leningrad?
  • Correct Answer: St. Petersburg

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