GK Quiz
GK Quiz
GK Quiz
Q. ‘Myristica fragrance’ is what common spice?
Ans: Nutmeg
Q. The constellation Mensa has what English name?
Ans: Table
Q. Collective nouns – A family of what?
Ans: Sardines. GK Quiz
Q. Who was the first woman to receive The Order of Merit in 1907?
Ans: Florence Nightingale
Q. In terms of hair what does FSH stand for?
Ans: Follicle Stimulating Hormone
Q. On a prescription, the Latin expression Ter in Die means what?
Ans: Three times daily
Q.What was Sherpa Tensing surname?
Ans: Norgay. GK Quiz
Q. Kolduns popular in Russia as analysts in America what are they?
Ans: Witches
Q. What month was named after Latin to open?
Ans: April
Q. What is the more common name for Alkane?
Ans: Paraffin or Kerosene
Q. How long can a bedbug live without food?
Ans: One Year. GK Quiz
Q. In Portugal, if you bought sem chumbo what is it?
Ans: Unleaded Petrol
Q. What Japanese name means fried food often at the table?
Ans: Tempura
Q. What is Nelson Mandela’s middle name?
Ans: Rolihlahla. GK Quiz
Q. What French word literally means little skip?
Ans: Cabriolet
Q. What country has the most Post Offices?
Ans: India
Q. Who said about his songs “some are 10 minutes long some are 6”?
Ans: Bob Dylan. GK Quiz
Q. Who would use an ankus in their job?
Ans: Mahout to goad an elephant
Q. The Marino sheep originated in what country?
Ans: Spain
Q. What magazine started in America in March 1923?
Ans: Time
Q. Tenzin Gyatso became what in 1937?
Ans: Dalai Lama
Q. In what country was Mother Theresa born?
Ans: Albania. GK Quiz
Q. In 1918 what were Jelly Babies renamed?
Ans: Peace Babies
Q. Who was Prime Minister of China from 1949 to 1976?
Ans: Chou En-Lai
Q. ‘The Egg and I’ was whose first film?
Ans: Marilyn Munroe
Q. What fashion designer was responsible for “The New Look”?
Ans: Christian Dior
Q. The British Patent Office since 1949 banned patents for what?
Ans: Perpetual Motion Machine
Q. Which Canadian won the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize?
Ans: Suez Lester Pearson
Q. Who was the first commoner to appear Royal Mail pack in 1964?
Ans: William Shakespeare
Q. What happened to Charles Brooks in 1982?
Ans: First legal death by Lethal Injection
Q. What are Demy, Medium, Royal, Double Crown?
Ans: Paper Sizes. GK Quiz
Q. Collective nouns – A Chatter of what?
Ans: Budgerigars
Q. What word from the Persian means perfume?
Ans: Attar
Q. What is a collection of penguins known as?
Ans: Rookery
Q. What does a crapulent person suffer from?
Ans: Drunkenness
Q. We have used a ‘cassette’ but what does it literally mean?
Ans: Small Box. GK Quiz
Q. Reykjavik translates into what?
Ans: Smoky Bay
Q. What is Christmas Disease?
Ans: Mild Haemophilia
Q. Who wrote the 1994 biography “Princess in Love”?
Ans: Anna Pasternak
Q. Clemantine Campbell became famous under what name?
Ans: Cleo Lane
Q. 72% of what country is covered by forest?
Ans: Finland. GK Quiz
Q. What was Woody Allen’s first film as a writer/actor?
Ans: What’s New Pussycat
Q. On what are the world’s smallest paintings painted?
Ans: Pin Heads
Q. What city used to be known as Bytown?
Ans: Ottawa
Q. Mare Nostrum was the Roman name for what?
Ans: Mediterranean Sea (Our Sea)
Q. Kong Zi is better known as who?
Ans: Confucius
Q. The Romans called it ‘Cambria’ – what do we call it?
Ans: Wales
Q. ‘The Red Rose City’ has what more common name in Jordan?
Ans: Petra. GK Quiz
Q. Chopin played what instrument as a child?
Ans: Piano
Q. In what Shakespeare’s play does the character Caliban appear?
Ans: ‘The Tempest’
Q. Cerumen is the technical name for what body part?
Ans: Earwax. GK Quiz
Q. If a dish is served Florentine what will it contain?
Ans: Spinach
Q. If you saw ‘Cave Canem’ written what would you know?
Ans: Beware of the Dog
Q. Sextilis was the original name for what?
Ans: August. GK Quiz
Q. What does a copoclephist collect?
Ans: Key Rings
Q. Who is the Patron Saint of florists and gardeners?
Ans: Saint Dorothy
Q. Jobs from names – what did a Wayne do?
Ans: Wagon Maker
Q. What country’s highest award is ‘The Order of the Elephant’?
Ans: Denmark
Q. What is ‘Thalassophobia’ a fear of?
Ans: The Sea. GK Quiz
Q. Who does a Filicide kill?
Ans: Son or Daughter
Q. Where would you find your Coxa?
Ans: Hip Joint
Q. What name from the French to quibble means a no-trump hand?
Ans: Chicane. GK Quiz
Q. Collective nouns – what is a group of swans?
Ans: Herd or Bevy
Q. Who was the third and favourite son of David in the Old Testament?
Ans: Absalom
Q. Richard Carlisle invented the early vending machine selling what?
Ans: Books
Q. ‘Nevada’ means what when translated from Indian?
Ans: Snow
Q. Where is the oldest known restaurant in the world?
Ans: Madrid. GK Quiz
Q. Who is the Roman Goddess of orchards and gardens?
Ans: Pomonia
Q. In a recent survey what % of US wives thought husband cheating?
Ans: 90 %
Q. What was the first country to recognise the US as an independent country?
Ans: Morocco, GK Quiz
Q. What soft drink was developed as a hangover remedy?
Ans: Pepsi Cola
Q. Edinburgh Castle stands on Arthur’s Seat what was ‘Arthur’s Seat’?
Ans: Volcano
Q. Who should have played Indiana Jones and dropped out?
Ans: Tom Selleck. GK Quiz
Q. The San Andreas is what type of geological fault?
Ans: Conservative
Q. Name any of the demonstration sports at the Sydney Olympics?
Ans: Ballroom Dancing – Snooker
Q. Where was the first Miss World contest held in 1951?
Ans: London. GK Quiz
Q. Japanese hi-tech toilets auto wipe buts using what?
Ans: Lasers
Q. In Greek legend who turned men into swine?
Ans: Circe
Q. After California what US state produces the most wine?
Ans: New York. GK Quiz
Q. What series was voted the best fiction of the 20th century?
Ans: ‘Lord of the Rings’
Q. What US state was the last to ratify abolition slavery 1990s?
Ans: Mississippi
Q.Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of what?
Ans: Big words. GK Quiz
Q. Every day in the US people steal $20000 from where?
Ans: Vending machines
Q. C17 H21 N04 is the chemical formula for what?
Ans: Cocaine
Q. What is the world’s most widely eaten fish?
Ans: Herring. GK Quiz
Q. What is the literal meaning of ‘Kangaroo’?
Ans: I don’t understand
Q. A digitabulist collects what?
Ans: Thimbles
Q. Who said, “I’ve watched a lot of baseballs – on the radio”?
Ans: Gerald Ford. GK Quiz
Q. Collective nouns – a group of police officers?
Ans: A Mess
Q. In Norse mythology, ‘Tyr’ is the god of what?
Ans: War
Q. The Hula Hoop was illegal in what country?
Ans: Finland. GK Quiz
Q. Leonato is the main character in what Shakespeare’s play?
Ans: ‘Much Ado About Nothing’.
Q. A Chinese eunuch invented what in the second century?
Ans: Paper
Q. Hannibal had only one what?
Ans: Eye after Rome attack
Q. What bird can see the colour blue?
Ans: An Owl. GK Quiz
Q. Ignoring the obvious what links Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus and Saturn?
Ans: All have Rings
Q. What country had three presidents – in the same day?
Ans: Mexico
Q. In England, it is specifically illegal to be drunk where?
Ans: In a pub. GK Quiz
Q. What mammal has hair – on the soles of its feet?
Ans: Polar Bear
Q. There are 300 distinct different types of what food?
Ans: Honey
Q. What is the coldest capital city in the world?
Ans: Ulan Bator, Mongolia
Q. The human bodies got 45 miles of them – what?
Ans: Nerves. GK Quiz
Q. What dog has the best eyesight?
Ans: Greyhound
Q. What is the most common sexual fantasy act?
Ans: Oral Sex
Q. What is the national religion of Scotland?
Ans: Presbyterianism
Q. What should be done with a used worn-out flag?
Ans: Burned. GK Quiz
Q. In Elkhart Indiana, it’s illegal for a barber to threaten to do what?
Ans: Cut off youngster’s ears
Q. In 1907 who was the first English writer to win Nobel Prize in literature?
Ans: Rudyard Kipling
Q. Name the science fiction writer who lived in Sri Lanka?
Ans: Arthur C Clark
Q. The Ionian Islands are nearest what country?
Ans: Greece
Q. What European language is unrelated to any other language?
Ans: Basque
Q. In the 70s The Bahamas gained independence from whom?
Ans: Great Britain
Q. Who was with Macbeth when he met the witches?
Ans: Banquo. GK Quiz
Q. A lion and a sword appear on what country’s flag?
Ans: Sri Lanka
Q. Who is the Greek God of the sky and the universe?
Ans: Uranus
Q. Fallstaff first appears in what Shakespeare’s play?
Ans: Henry IV, part I
Q. Who wrote the book ‘Coma’?
Ans: Robin Cook
Q. What country designed and developed the bayonet?
Ans: France. GK Quiz
Q. In Russia by law, the homeless must be where after 10 pm?
Ans: At Home
Q. In what modern country is Mount Ararat?
Ans: Turkey
Q. USSR saying: No ugly women in the world just shortage of what?
Ans: Vodka
Q. ‘Aphallatosis’ is a mental disorder caused by the lack of what?
Ans: Sex life. GK Quiz
Q. Collective nouns – a spring of what?
Ans: Pheasants
Q. Name two self-cleaning organs?
Ans: Eye, Vagina
Q. ‘Hebrew’ comes from a Babylonian word meaning what?
Ans: Vagrant
Q. What activity burns up 140 calories per hour?
Ans: Standing. GK Quiz
Q. Who wrote the book ‘The Complete Angler’ in 1653?
Ans: Isaac Walton
Q. What is the currency of Egypt?
Ans: Pound
Q. Which country grows the most sugar?
Ans: Brazil
Q. 5 African Mediterranean countries share what language?
Ans: Arabic. 0 0 0.
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