General Knowledge Quiz

1: This priest king discovered at Mohenjodaro in 1927 wears a headband and has a beard, The sculpture is about 18 cms in height. It is presently kept in the National Museum of which city?
Ans: Karachi

2: Dr Patrick Russel (1727-1805) came to India and pioneered the study of what?
Ans: Father of Indian Ophiology

3: Apart from Mahabharata, there is a Ghatotkacha that comes in Indian history as son of Srigupta-former chief of Pataliputra. Can you name the dynasty that ruled over Ganga Valley around 3rd century AD
Ans: Lichchavis

4: In which city of India would you find the Napier Museum?
Ans: Trivandrum

5: This school in Darjeeiing gave India two players from the hockey gold medal winning team of the 1936 Berlin Games. They were Joseph Galibardy and Cyril Mitchie. Name the school
Ans: Goethals School-Kurseong

6: In 1956, Olympic football semi-final, he scored India’s only goal in the 4-1 defeat to Yugoslavia. This football legend later turned into coaching youngsters including a stint with the football team of St Marys, Byculla. Name him
Ans: Neville D’Souza

7 She joined the struggle at the age of 13 and led a socio-political movement to drive out the British from Manipur and Naga areas. She was arrested in 1932 at the age of 16 and to life imprisonment. She was released in 1947 and plunged herself to an ideological battle against Naga National Council (NNC)and had to go underground. She was s awarded Padama Bhushan and passed away in 1993. Who?
Ans: Rani Gaidinliu

8: On May 20, 1498, Vasco da Gama reached Calicut and left India on August 29, 1498, He came to India with 20 ships in 1502-1503. On his third visit to India as a Portugese viceroy-as appointed by King John III, he died of Malaria in Cochin on December 24, 1524. Which king sent him on the first expedition?
Ans: King Manuel I

9: In 1939, when World War II broke out, which viceroy declared that India would take part in the battle?
Ans: Lord Linlithgow

10: Which well-known Indian’s memorial is the Vijay Ghat?
Ans: Lal Bahadur Shastri

11: Who was the choreographer for the Satajit Ray film Shatranj Ke Khilari?
Ans: Birju Maharaj

12: Unique Identification Authority of India(UIDAI) under the Planning Commission has a brand name. What?
Ans: Aadhar

13: Along with Jean Dreze , who co-authored India: Economic development and Social Opportunity ?
Ans: Amartya Sen

14: What is the literal meaning of ‘Nataraj’ in Sanskrit?
Ans: Lord of Dance

15: Which member of the Tagore family founded Shantiniketan in 1863?
Ans: Debendranath Tagore

16: Two months after arriving at Calcutta with Gaffky and Fischer, he had observed the commashaped bacillus in seventy cholera victims. His final communication from India (4 March 1884) designated village ponds, used for drinking water and all domestic purposes, as sources of localized outbreaks…..Later in May 1897, when he reached Bombay, bubonic plague was epidemic in upper India. For working on which disease, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine?
Ans: Robert Koch; Tuberculosis

17: On November 11, 1995 a section of Michigan Avenue in which US city has been named after an Indian?
Ans: Chicago, Swami Vivekananda way

18: Pankaj Gupta- a well known sports administrator gave a metaphoric surname to an Indian sports legend. And the surname stuck. Which one?
Ans: He compared Dhyan Singh’s ability to that of a moon and called him Dhyan Chand. The nickname stuck

19: The students of this school are called Manorites. It is situated in an area called Burlowganj. Six of India’s hockey gold medallists in the editions of 1928, 1932 and 1936 studied here. Name the school
Ans: St George’s College, Mussorie (William Goodsir Cullen and Ernest Goodsir Cullen, Maurice Gately, Eric Martins, Carlyle Tapsell and Lionel Emmett)

20: Sarvadamana also known as Bharata was the son of which famous pair in Hindu mythology?
Ans: Shakuntala and Dushyanta

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