General Knowledge Test 01

Total Questions: 15

1 - Philology is the study of:

A ) Bones
B ) Muscles
C ) Architecture
D ) Languages ✅

2 - What is meant by "Apiary"?

A ) Place where bees are kept ✅
B ) Place where dogs are kept
C ) Place for breading silkworms
D ) Place where butterflies are kept

3 - The capital city of New Zealand is:

A ) Wellington ✅
B ) Auckland
C ) Canberra
D ) Durban

4 - Union Jack is the name of the flag of which country?

A ) United Kingdom ✅
B ) Ireland
C ) Canada
D ) Scotland

5 - Who wrote the book "Being and Nothingness"?

A ) Albert Camus
B ) Jean Paul Sartre ✅
C ) Bertrand Russell
D ) Rene Descartes

Explanation:
  1.  Come Be My Light  written by Mother Terasa (November 2003)     
  2. My Life Book by Bill Clinton(June 22,2024)     
  3. A Brief History of Time is written by Stephen Hawking(1988)
  4. The Book Long Walk to freedom is written by Nelson Mandela(30 November 1994) 
  5.  A self help book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Written by Whom Stephen R. Covey(August 15, 1989).
  6. A self help book Think and Grow rich written by whom Napoleon Hill (1937).
  7. The author of the book Time Machine is :H.G . Wells(1895)
  8. The book On the Origin of Species was written by Darwin (1859)
  9. Author of the book The Clash of Civilizations is Samuel P. Huntington(1996)
  10.   Author of the book Gulliver's Travels is Jonathan Swift (28 October 1726)
  11.   Extraordinary, Ordinary People : A Memoir of Family is a book Written by Condoleezza Rice (October 12, 2010)  
  12.  Rise and fall of the Roman Empire is the name of a book Written by Edward Gibbon(1776) 


6 - The first Muslim 'Nobel Peace Prize' Winner was:

A ) Yasser Arafat of Palestine
B ) Dr. Ahmed Hassan Zewail of Egypt
C ) Shinn Ebadi of Iran
D ) Anwar Sadaat of Egypt ✅

8 - The author of "The Great Gatsby" was:

A ) William Faulkner
B ) F. Scott Fitzgerald ✅
C ) Vladimir Nabokov
D ) James Joyce

9 - The president of World Bank is:

A ) Ajay Banga ✅
B ) Kristalina Georgiev
C ) Ban ki Moon
D ) Jim Young Kim

11 - In which city of Russia ST. Basil's Cathedral is located?

A ) Saint Petersburg
B ) Nizhny
C ) Moscow ✅
D ) Kazan

12 - 18 July has officially been declared by ____ as Mandela Day.

A ) United States of America
B ) World Bank
C ) United Nations ✅
D ) Anti-racism Organization

13 - The capital city of Zimbabwe is:

A ) Mutare
B ) Harare ✅
C ) Bulawayo
D ) Kadoma

14 - Qantas Airway is the airline of:

A ) Australia ✅
B ) Qatar
C ) Canada
D ) Japan

15 - The Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit took place in:

A ) Jun-1990
B ) Jun-1992 ✅
C ) May-1994
D ) May-1996