General Knowledge



What P is sometimes referred to as block and tackle?
Answer: Pulley.


For what purpose would a gardener use a Dibber?
Answer: Making holes.


What J is a device used to raise an object too heavy to deal with by hand?
Answer: Jack.


Ball-pein, club, claw and bush are types of which tool?
Answer: Hammer


Which African animal’s name means ‘river horse’?
Answer: Hippopotamus


Which Indian religion was founded by Guru Nanak?
Answer: Sikhism


What is the most distant of the giant planets?
Answer: Neptune


What is the capital of Austria?
Answer: Vienna


What in printing do the letters ‘u.c.’ stands for?
Answer: Upper case


Which eye infection is sometimes called pinkeye?
Answer: Conjunctivitis


What sort of creature is an iguana?
Answer: A lizard


What, politically, does UDI stand for?
Answer: Unilateral declaration of independence.


Wagga Wagga is a city in which Australian state?
Answer: New South Wales.


Which Indian religion celebrated the 300th anniversary of its founding in 1999?
Answer: Sikhism.


What do the initials FBI stand for?
Answer: Federal Bureau of Investigation.


By what name is the fruit of the plant Ananas comosus known?
Answer: Pineapple.


Donne stag is German for which day of the week?
Answer: Thursday.


What type of citrus fruit is a shamouti?
Answer: Orange.


Apiphobia is a fear of what?
Answer: Bees.


Which Asian capital city was known as Batavia until 1949?
Answer: Jakarta.


Which astronomical unit os distance is greater, a parsec or a light year?
Answer: A parsec.


The ancient city of Carthage is now in which country?
Answer: Tunisia.


What in Russia is Izvestia?
Answer: A newspaper.


Which is the world's windiest continent?
Answer: Antarctica.


In the book Treasure Island what is the name of the ship?
Answer: Hispaniola.


In which part of the body are the deltoid muscles?
Answer: Shoulder.


E is the international car registration letter for which country?
Answer: Spain.


Vienna stands on which river?
Answer: Danube.


What type of camel has two lumps?
Answer: Bactrian Camel


In the MG motor car, what do the letters MG stand for?
Answer: Morris Garages.


The name of which Roman god means 'shining father' in Latin?
Answer: Jupiter.


What is the central color of a rainbow?
Answer: Green.


Which French city is a meeting place for the European Parliament?
Answer: Strasbourg.


What part of the body consists of the duodenum, the jejunum and the ileum?
Answer: Small intestine.


Annapurna is a mountain in which mountain range?
Answer: Himalayas.


What kind of foodstuff is Monterrey Jack?
Answer:  (It was also a cartoon’s name ‘what’s for breakfast?'


What is the name of a person, plant or animal which shuns the light?
Answer: Lucifugous.


What, in field of optics, is biconvex?
Answer: A lens which is convex on both sides.


Which country was invaded in Iraq in 1980?
Answer: Iran.


What did Johann Galle discover in 1846?
Answer: Neptune.


What, in internet terminology, does SMTP stand for?
Answer: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.


How is October 24 1929 remembered?
Answer: Black Thursday.


The River Danube flows into which sea?
Answer: The Black Sea.


Which strait separates the North and South islands of New Zealand?
Answer: Cook Strait.


What, in internet terminology, does FTP stand for?
Answer: File Transfer Protocol.


Who wrote Black Beauty?
Answer: Anna Sewell.


What is the capital of Poland?
Answer: Warsaw.


Ice-cream was first produced in which country in the 17th century?
Answer: Italy.


In medicine, what does the acronym SARS stand for?
Answer: Severe Acute Respiratory System.


Which popular name for Netherlands is actually a low-lying region of the country?
Answer: Holland.


Which Shakespeare play was set in Elsinore Castle, Denmark?
Answer: Hamlet.


Who said: 'Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration'?
Answer: Edison.


The Kyukyu Island chain lies between en which two countries?
Answer: Japan & Taiwan.


Which fibrous protein is the major constituent of hair, nails, feathers, beaks and claws?
Answer: Keratin.


Which fruit is Morello a variety?
Answer: Sour Cherry.


Which explorer discovered Victor is fall in Africa?
Answer: David Livingstone.


Who was the last king of Egypt?
Answer: Farouk.


What is the literal meaning of the word mafia?
Answer: Barging.


Which war lasted 16 years longer than its name implies?
Answer: The Hundred Years’ War.


What is the national sport of Malaysia and Indonesia?
Answer: Badminton.


Which is the shallowest of the Great Lakes?
Answer: Lake Erie.


What name is given to minute or microscopic animals and plants that live in the upper layers of fresh and salt water?
Answer: Plankton.


Which country was originally named Cathay?
Answer: China.


Sinhalese is a language spoken in which country?
Answer: Sri Lanka.


The San Francisco river flows through which country?
Answer: Brazil.


In which sport do teams compete for the Dunhill Cup?
Answer: Golf.


Which Shakespeare character's last words are: 'The rest is silence'?
Answer: Hamlet.


In economics, whose law states that: 'bad money drives out good money'?
Answer: Gresham's


Who made the first navigation of the globe in the vessel Victoria?
Answer: Magellan.


Which mountaineer on being asked why he wanted to climb Everest said: 'Because it's there'?
Answer: George Mallory.


What was the former name for Sri Lanka?
Answer: Ceylon.


Of which Middle East, country is Baghdad the capital?
Answer: Iraq.


How many arms does a squid have?
Answer: Ten.


Which indoor game is played with a shuttlecock?
Answer: Badminton.


Do stalactites grow upwards or downwards?
Answer: Downwards.


What food is also called garbanzo?
Answer: Chick-pea.


What is the quality rating for diesel fuel, similar to the octane number for petrol?
Answer: Catane number.


Which German city and port is at the confluence of the rivers Neckar and Rhine?
Answer: Mannheim.


Where in Europe are the only wild apes to be found?
Answer: Gibraltar.


The Brabanconne is the national anthem of which country?
Answer: Belgium.


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