General Knowledge Quiz – 3

1. In the Bible who interpreted the dreams of Pharaoh?
  • Correct Answer: Joseph

2. The flag of which country has the Star of David?
  • Correct Answer: Israel

3. In which year was Magna Carta signed?
  • Correct Answer: 1215

4. When was Carthage destroyed?
  • Correct Answer: 149 B.C.

5. Which country is ruled by a single dynasty for more than two thousand years?
  • Correct Answer: Japan

6. Who is the author of Ben Hur?
  • Correct Answer: Lew Wallace

7. Which game is played with five players on either side?
  • Correct Answer: Basketball

8. Which is the national flower of Ireland?
  • Correct Answer: Shamrock

9. Which is the capital of Afghanistan?
  • Correct Answer: Kabul

10. What is the baptismal name of Pope John XXIII?
  • Correct Answer: Angelo Roncalli

11. Where is Emperor Akbar’s tomb?
  • Correct Answer: Sikandra

12. Who died in the Battle of Trafalgar?
  • Correct Answer: Horatio Nelson

13. To which Order did Martin Luther belong?
  • Correct Answer: Augustinian

14. What is the type of Government in Swaziland?
  • Correct Answer: Theocracy

15. Who killed US President Abraham Lincoln?
  • Correct Answer: John Wilkes Booth

16. Who won the Hockey World Cup in 1975?
  • Correct Answer: India

17. Which TV news channel began telecast in 1980?
  • Correct Answer: CNN

18. Which of the following is not a gas?
  • Correct Answer: Mercury

19. Which state was known as Mysore?
  • Correct Answer: Karnataka

20. Who was the Czar of Russia in 1917?
  • Correct Answer: Nicholas II

21. What is the height of the proposed Burj Tower in Dubai?
  • Correct Answer: 800 metres

22. The islands Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu are part of which country?
  • Correct Answer: Japan

23. Who is the patron saint of Australia?
  • Correct Answer: Mary Help of Christians

24. When is the Feast Day of St. John the Baptist?
  • Correct Answer: June 24

25. Which of the following countries is landlocked?
  • Correct Answer: Switzerland

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