1. Who conquered Gibraltar in 711?
a) Tariq Ibn Zeyad
b) Mohammed Bin Qasim
c) Chengiz Khan
d) Haroon Al Rashid
2. What did the Arabs call Gibraltar?
a) Bab El Mandeb
b) Hadhramaut
c) Jabal Tariq
d) Khawr Rawri
3. Gibraltar is considered one of the two Pillars of Hercules? Which is the second?
a) Mount Chelia
b) Mount Hacho
c) Great Kabylie
d) Lalla Khedidja
A quiz on Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. He is known as Mahatma Gandhi and in India we also call him as Bapu. He is officially honoured in India as the Father of the Nation (Rashtra Pita). His birthday, 2nd October, is commemorated as Gandhi Jayanti.
1. When was Harold Wilson’s first term as Prime Minister of UK?
a) 1964-1970
b) 1950-1959
c) 1946-1948
d) 1977-1981
2. When was Harold Wilson born?
a) 14 April 1896
b) 11 March 1916
c) 14 July 1902
d) 3 November 1911
3. Where was Harold Wilson born?
a) Durham
b) York
c) Leicester
d) Huddersfield
1. What was Bapu Nadkarni’s original name?
a) Balwantrai Mankad
b) Rameshchandra Gangaram Nadkarni
c) Jayant Ganpat Nadkarni
d) Sanjay Nadkarni
2. When was Bapu Nadkarni born?
a) 2 February 1934
b) 4 April 1933
c) 15 August 1929
d) 21 December 1925
3. Where was Bapu Nadkarni born?
a) Poona
b) Nasik
c) Aurangabad
d) Wardha
1. Who won Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for ICC Men’s cricketer of the Year 2019?
a) Adam Zampa
b) Benjamin Andrew Stokes
c) Christopher Henry Gayle
d) David Warner
2. Who won ICC Award for Men’s Emerging Cricketer of the Year 2019?
a) Marnus Labuschagne
b) Gareth Delany
c) Kesrick Williams
d) Mark Wood
3. Who won ICC Award for Men’s Associate Cricketer of the Year 2019?
a) Ahmed Raza
b) Mazhar Khan
c) Kyle Coetzer
d) Gerhard Erasmus
1) What is C. V. in C. V. Raman?
a) Chakravarti Ventaka
b) Chhatrapati Venkata
c) Chandrashekhara Venkata
d) Chhatrapati Vellore
2) When was C. V. Raman born?
a) 5 May 1855
b) 7 November 1888
c) 14 January 1820
d) 26 August 1914
3) Where was C. V. Raman born?
a) Madras
b) Hyderabad
c) Tiruchinapally
d) Fort St. David
1. Who named the continent Antarctica?
a) John George Bartholomew
b) James Cook
c) Mikhail Lazarev
d) Nathaniel Palmer
2. Antarctica has two meanings. One is ‘Opposite to the Arctic’. Which is the second meaning?
a) Opposite to the east
b) Opposite to the north
c) Opposite to the south
d) Opposite to the west
3. When did James Cook first cross the Antarctic Circle?
a) 17 January 1773
b) 7 February 1821
c) 18 September 1774
d) 16 November 1776
1. Which state is to the north of Punjab?
a) Rajasthan
b) Jammu and Kashmir
c) Uttar Pradesh
d) Uttarakhand
2. Which country is to the west of Punjab?
a) Pakistan
b) Tajikistan
c) Uzbekistan
d) Kyrgyzstan
3. Which state was joined to Punjab in 1956?
a) Palanpur
b) Raipur
c) PEPSU
d) Bilaspur
1. When was William Wordsworth born?
a) 12 January 1862
b) 7 April 1770
c) 18 September 1868
d) 22 November 1872
2. Where was William Wordsworth born?
a) Bologna
b) Cockermouth
c) Milan
d) Venice
3. Which college did William Wordsworth attend?
a) Christ College
b) St. John’s College
c) St. Andrew’s College
d) Trinity College
1) When did Kuwait gain independence from UK?
a) 1957
b) 1961
c) 1964
d) 1967
2) Which country annexed Kuwait in 1991?
a) Saudi Arabia
b) Iran
c) Iraq
d) Bahrain
3) When is Liberation Day in Kuwait?
a) 1 January
b) 14 February
c) 26 February
d) 12 March