General Quiz

Designed by Ranjeet Ramaswamy Iyer

3 Rounds

Round-1: General Round:

1. Who were the first men to conquer the Mt. Everest and where did they
belong to?
Ans: Edmund Hillary of NZ and Tenzing Norgay of Nepal.

2. Which US state was bought from Russia in 1867?

Ans: Alaska

3. Who is the first Indian to win a Booker Prize and what was the book
titled?
Ans: Arundhati Roy for ‘The God of Small Things’

4. Which country has the largest armed forces in the World?

Ans: China-22, 55,000

5. What is the full form of FIFA?

Ans: Federation Internationale de Football Association

6. When and between whom the Battle of Plassey was fought?

Ans: 23rd June 1757 between East Indian Company and Siraj-ud-daulah

7. Which is the world’s longest natural sandy beach and where is it located?
Ans: Cox’s Bazar beach, 150 km south of Chittagong in Bangladesh.

8. Which is the world’s largest land predator?

Ans: The Polar Bear

9. The UN has declared 2008 as the International year of ____?

Ans: Sanitation

10. IC-814 is popularly known for?

Ans: Its hijack. It was hijacked to Kandhar in Afghanistan.

11. Which is the highest judicial organ of the UN?

Ans: International Court of Justice

12. Which is known as the ‘land of cakes’?

Ans: Scotland

13. Who succeeded as the P.M of India for a brief period in 1996 after P.V.
Narsimha Rao?
Ans: Atal Bihari Vajpayee for a period of just 12 days!

14. Sayeda Anwara Taimur was the CM of which Indian state?

Ans: Assam

15. What do you mean by ‘Venustraphobia’?

Ans: It’s the fear of beautiful women

16. Prathiba Patil has been the Governor of which Indian state?
Ans: Rajasthan

17. Where and when was the first Asian Games held?
Ans: At New Delhi in 1951

18. Who is the current Law Minister of India?

Ans: Veerappa Moily

19. Which island in the South Pacific Oceans has one of its official language
as Hindi?
Ans: Fiji

20. Which 2 states in India together produce about 40% of maize in India?
Ans: Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh

21. What do you mean by the term ‘Homicide’?

Ans: The killing of one person by another

22. Which is the southernmost point of India and where is it located?

Ans: Indira Point on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

23. Who is the father of modern day Taxonomy?

Ans: Carl Linnaeus

24. Who is the father of Biology?

Ans: Aristotle

25. In India why people who cheat or who are dishonest are often referred to
420?
Ans: Because s.420 of the IPC deals with cheating and dishonesty.

Round-2: Corporate Round:

1. What is the full form of IATA?

Ans: International Air Transport Association

2. Big Blue is IBM. Which corporate is referred as 'Big Black’?

Ans: UPS

3. Which sportsperson owns the hotel ‘Curry Leaves’?

Ans: Aravinda D’ Silva

4. Who was the first governor of the Reserve Bank of India?

Ans: Sir Osborne Smith

5. Which brand name is derived from the word ‘polar’ suggesting coolness?

Ans: Polo
6. Which was the first Indian bank to open an international bank and where?

Ans: Bank of India in London

7. How many stock exchanges are there in India?

Ans: 23

8. Along with Thierry Henry, Tiger Woods and Roger Fedrer, who was the
other player to endorse Gillette?

Ans: Rahul Dravid

9. Demat is the acronym for?

Ans: Dematerialization

10. Which bank operates on behalf of the SBI in Nigeria and was established
in 1981.

Ans: INMB (Indo-Nigerian Merchant Bank)

11. ‘Imagining India’ is authored by?

Ans: Nandan Neelakeni

12. NASDAQ is acronym for?

Ans: National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations

13. Which car gives you fun on the run?

Ans: Alto

14. Tata group consists of how many companies?

Ans: 80

15. India’s rank in Global FDI flows?

Ans: 3rd
16. Actress Hema Malini endorsed the ad for which Indian bank?

Ans: Bank of Rajasthan

17. Where is Adobe’s Indian center?

Ans: Noida

18. What was Murugavel Janakiraman’s achievemrnt?

Ans: Bharat Matrimony

19. What was Accenture previously known as?

Ans: Andersen Consulting

20. Fullform of Yahoo?

Ans: Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle

21. Which university did Bill Gates drop out before establishing Microsoft?

Ans: Harvard

22. Yuksom Breweries is owned by which bollywood actor?

Ans: Danny Denzongpa

23. What is the full form of BPL?

Ans: British Physical Laboratories

24. Largest traded e-commerce site in India?

Ans: IRCTC

25. TEN in TEN Sports stands for?

Ans: Taj Entertainment Network

Round-3: Rapid Fire:

1. Which country bought the control of Suez Canal in 1875?

Ans: Britain

2. Where is the headquarters of Neo Sports Broadcasts Pvt. Ltd.?

Ans: Mumbai

3. Which is India’s first edible genetically modified crop?

Ans: Brinjal

4. What does ‘Prachanda’, the name of Nepalese Maoist leader mean?

Ans: Awesome

5. Which is worlds’s worst place for kids as per UNICEF?

Ans: Somalia

6. Who was the founder of Pakistan People’s Party?

Ans: Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

7. The term ‘India’ is derived from which language?

Ans: English

8. Banana oil is obtained from?

Ans: Coal
9. What do the 5 circles in an Olympic flag signify?

Ans: 5 continents viz. Europe, Asia, Africa, America and Australia.

10. Where is Machu Picchu situated?

Ans: Peru

11. What is the capital of Cuba?

Ans; Havana

12. Where is Buland Darwaza located?

Ans: Fathepur Sikri, near Agra, India

13. After whom is the galaxy ‘Andromeda’ named?

Ans: Princess Andromeda from Greek Mythology.

14. Which is our home galaxy?

Ans: The Milky Way

15. What did Manz Wear Pvt. Ltd. Become in 1992?

Ans: Pantaloon Fashions (India) Pvt. Ltd.

16. Where is Digboi Refinery located?

Ans: Eastern Assam.

17. Capital of Nagaland?

Ans: Kohima

18. In which state Darjeeling is located?

Ans: West Bengal

19. Who is the father of genetic cloning?

Ans: Ian Wilmut

20. Which is the 3rd largest Ocean of the World?

Ans: Indian Ocean

21. ‘Had it not been for Unnikrishnan, not even a dog would have visited
their house’. Who said this statement?

Ans: V.S. Achutanandan

22. What is the native place of Ajmal Kasab?

Ans: Faridkot, Pakistan

23. Who is Ajmal Kasab’s lawyer after the Supreme Court sacked Abbas
Kazmi?

Ans: K.P. Pawar

24. What is the capital of Denmark?

Ans: Copenhagen

25. Which country is called the battlefield of Europe?

Ans: Belgium

26. Full form of ASEAN?

Ans: Association of South East Asian Nations

27. Where was the Kyoto Protocol held?

Ans: Japan

28. Nokia belongs to which country?

Ans: Finland

29. A.P.J Abdul Kalam is married to?

Ans: No one

30. Bata is from which country?

Ans: Czech Republic

31. Newly appointed CEO of Satyam?

Ans: R.S.V. Murthy

32. Which country’s company is Saint Gobain?

Ans: France

33. ‘Spirit of Australia’ is the tagline of which company?

Ans: Qantas