Gk 100 Points to learn

*Gk* _100 Points to learn_

1.Which one of the following glands produces the Growth Hormone (Somatotropin)?

A) Adrenal
B) Pancreas
C) Pituitary ✔
D) Thyroid

2.Which one of the following gases is predominant in the atmosphere?

A) Argon
B) Nitrogen ✔
C) Carbon Dioxide
D) Oxygen

3.When an ant bites a person, which irritating chemical it (ant) injects into his (person) body?

A) Acetic acid
B) Citric acid
C) Tartaric acid
D) Formic acid ✔

4.When 1 liter of water freezes, the volume of ice formed will be

A) 0.9 liter
B) 1.0 liter
C) 1.11 liter ✔
D) 1.5 liter

5.The most abundant organic molecule on the surface of the Earth is

A) Cellulose ✔
B) Chitin
C) DNA
D) Hemoglobin

6.Mist is caused by

A) Dry ice
B) Ice at low temperature
C) Water vapours at low temperature ✔
D)Carbon- monoxide in solid form

7.In the human body, Cowpers glands form a part of which one of the following?

A) Digestive system
B) Endocrine system
C) Reproductive system ✔
D) Nervous system

8.Earth quake waves travel fastest in

A) Soil
B) Molten rock
C) Water ✔
D) Flexible rock

9.Which colour of heat radiation represents the highest temperature?

A) Blood red
B) Dark cherry
C) Salmon
D) White ✔

10.Which among the following substances is used as a lubricant?

A) Quartz
B) Silica
C) Graphite ✔
D) Nickel

11.Which day is observed as World Food Day?

A)September 10
B)August 16
C)October 16 ✔
D)November 4

12.Who said Man is a political animal?

A)Socrates
B) Plato
C) Dante
D) Aristotle ✔

13.Who said, Child is the father of Man?

A) Lord Byron
B)William Wordsworth ✔
C)Shakespeare
D)John Keats

14.The first History Book was written by

A) Aristotle
B)Euclid
C)Julius Caesar
D)Herodotus ✔

15.Who wrote the book Origin of Species?

A) Charles Darwin ✔
B)Morgan
C)Malthus
D) Mendel

16.Ink is prepared from -

A) Dye ✔
B) Tannin
C) Starch
D) Latex

17.Which one is a naturally occurring noble gas?

A)Sodium
B)Potassium
C)Argon ✔
D)Boron

18.The Number 2 Economy in the world in 2011 is:

A) USA
B)Japan
C) China ✔
D)Russia

19.What is the atomic number of Oxygen?

A)5
B)8 ✔
C)12
D)22

20.Mouth and foot diseases in cattle are caused due to

A)Bacteria
B) Fungi
C)Penicillium
D)Virus ✔

21.Which is the Lucky Country?

A)USA
B)China
C) Azerbaijan
D) Australia ✔

22.Which country is Middle Kingdom?

A)London
B)Russia
C)China ✔
D)Japan

23.Which is Land of Fire?

A)Indonesia
B)Pakistan
C)Russia
D) Azerbaijani ✔

24.Who is the Father of Cytology?

A)William Harvey
B)Robert Hooke ✔
C)Stephan Hales
D)Anderson

25.Who is the Father of Blood Group?

A)Landsteiner ✔
B)Alexander Fleming
C)William Harvey
D)Stephan Hales

26.When China did exploded first atomic device?

A)1962
B)1963
C)1964 ✔
D)1965

27.The average salinity of sea water is

A)3%
B)3.5% ✔
C)2.5%
D)2%

28.What James Watt invented?

A)Diving bell
B)Steam boat
C)Hot air balloon
D)Rotary steam engine ✔

29.Who invented Jet Engine?

A)Sir Frank Whittle ✔
B)Gottlieb Daimler
C)Roger Bacon
D)Lewis E. Waterman

30.Which of the following is used as a lubricant?

A)Graphite ✔
B)Silica
C)Iron Oxide
D)Diamond

31.Lewis Hamilton of Britain has won 2015 Italian Grand Prix of Formula One. He drives

A) Williams
B) Ferrari
C) Mercedes ✔
D) None of these

32.When is International Day of Peace observed?

A) September 19
B) September 21 ✔
C) August 21
D) August 25

33.Who has been sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Egypt?

A) Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi
B) Sharif Ismail ✔
C) Ibrahim Mahlab
D) None of these

34.When is World Heart day observed every year across the globe?

A) September 28
B) September 29 ✔
C) September 20
D) August 28

35.Veteran director, writer and producer John Guillermin passed away recently. He belonged to?

A) USA
B) Britain ✔
C) Germany
D) Singapore

36.Which countries flag has been hoisted at the United Nations without being that country as the member of UN which is never done before for a non

A) Vatican City
B) Taiwan
C) Palestine ✔
D) Kosovo

37.Former cricketer Lindsay Kline passed away recently. He belonged to

A) West Indies
B) South Africa
C) Zimbabwe
D) Australia ✔

38.World Habitat Day is observed on which of the following date this year?

A) August 20
B) September 20
C) October 7
D) October 5 ✔

39.Arthur McDonald is one of the winners of Nobel Prize in physics for his work on neutrinos. He belongs to?

A) Canada ✔
B) Japan
C) Russia
D) Italy

40.Swedish Henning Georg Mankell passed away recently. He was a

A) Writer ✔
B) Lyricist
C) Stage actor
D) Painter

41.Which among following is not a logical gate?

A)NOR
B)XOR
C)AND
D)NAT ✔

42.DPI means?

A)Dots processing Inch
B)Dots per Inch ✔
C)Diagram per Inch
D)Diagram processing Inch

43.What is full form of MBR?

A)Mini Boot Record
B)Master Break Record
C)Master Boot Race
D)Master Boot Record ✔

44.Which among following is Linux operating system?

A)Fedora
B)Red Hat
C)Mint
D) All of above ✔

45.DNS is the abbreviation of?

A)Domain Network Service
B)Dynamic Network System
C)Domain Name System ✔
D)Domain Name Service

46.Who is the founder of Apple Computers?

A)Bill Gates
B)Steve Jobs ✔
C)John McCarthy
D)Stephane Lyndse

47.Which among following is not a browser?

A)Casio ✔
B)Firefox
C)Chrome
D)Opera

48.Who invented Linux operating system?

A)Denis Ritchie
B)Linus Torvalds ✔
C)Steve Jobs
D)Madam Curie

49.What is full form of USB?

A)Unidirectional Serial Bus
B)Unidirectional Standard Bus
C)Universal Standard Bus
D)Universal Serial Bus ✔

50.WWW stands for?

A)Web World Wide
B)Whole World Web
C)World Wide Web ✔
D)Whole Wide Web

51.According to UNESCO, in which of the following country highest no. of heritage sites are present?

A) Italy ✔
B) Germany
C) Spain
D) India

52.What does CANEUS stand for?

A) California- Egypt -UK-Australia
B) Canada-Europe-US-Asia ✔
C) Canada- Estonia- UAE- Argentina
D) Costa Rica-Ethiopia-Ukraine-Australia

53.Who is the winner of World Badminton championship 2015?

A) Sania Nehwal,India
B) Sung Ji-hyun, South korea
C) Lindaweni Fanetri, Indonesia
D)Carolina Marin, Spain ✔

54.Who became the winner of Rogers Cup Masters tournament?

A) Novak Djokovic
B) Belinda Bencic
C) Andy Murray ✔
D) Caroline Garcia

55.In which of the following country for the first time, Women are allowed to participate as voters in Election?

A) UAE
B) Saudi Arabia ✔
C) Afghanistan
D) Iran

56.Foreign Office Consultations (2nd round) held between India and which of the following country?

A) Bolivia
B) Spain
C) Paraguay ✔
D) Brazil

57.The world senior citizen day is celebrated on

A) 22 August
B) 20 August
C) 21 August ✔
D) 19 august

58.Fifteenth IAAF World Championships in Athletics held at which of the following places-

A) Beijing ✔
B) Brazil
C) Seoul
D) Tokyo

59.Zaina Erhaim who won 2015 Peter Mackler Award belongs to

A) Iraq
B) Tehren
C) Turkmenistan
D) Syria ✔

60Name the next upcoming version of Android update (6.0)?

A) Lollipop
B) Honeycomb
C) Marshmallow ✔
D)Kitkat

61.The Hwang Ho River falls into:

A)Indian Ocean
B)Yellow Sea ✔
C)Bay of China
D)Red Sea

62.Yokohama and Kobe are the main centers of ship building industry in:

A)Japan ✔
B)South Korea
C)North Korea
D)China

63.Cocos plate lies between:

A)Central America and Pacific Plate ✔
B)North America and Pacific Plate
C)South America and Pacific Plate
D)None of Above

64.Brown Waterfalls are situated in:

A)Australia
B)New Zealand ✔
C)Canada
D)Switzerland

65.Mindanao Island is located in:

A)The Indian Ocean
B)North Atlantic
C)The Pacific Ocean ✔
D)South Atlantic

66.Upper Volta is the old name of:

A)Angola
B)Cape Verde
C)Burkina Faso ✔
D)Burkina

67.Greenland is under the rule of:

A)Turkey
B)Denmark ✔
C)Germany
D)Portugal

68.The highest point of Australia is:

A)Mount Kosciuszko ✔
B)Mount Townsend
C)Mount Twynam
D)Abbott Peak

69.Who constructed Suez Canal?

A)Fyodor Litke
B)Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky
C)Voin Rimsky-Korsakov
D)Ferdinand de Lesseps ✔

70.Cincinnati (U .S .A.) is famous in the making of:

A)Machine Tools ✔
B)Cement Industry
C)Bio-technical Industry
D)Aviation Tools

71.The first successful socialist revolution in history was

A) French Revolution
B) American Revolution ✔
C) Russian Revolution
D) None of these

72.Where was Napoleon sent in exile after the battle of waterloo?

A) St. Helen ✔
B) Elba
C) Capri
D) Corsica

73.Which of the following events occurred first?

A) Russian Revolution
B) Chinese Revolution
C) French Revolution
D) American War of Independence ✔

74.Das Kapital and Communist Manifesto was written by

A) Engels
B) Trotsky
C) Karl Marx ✔
D) Lenin

75.The slogan No taxation without representation was first raised during the American Revolution in

A) Boston Tea Party
B) Massachusetts Assembly ✔
C) Philadelphia Congress
D) None of these

76.The European Renaissance of the fifteenth century is noted for great advances in

A) Engineering
B) Medicine
C) Mathematics
D) Art and Architecture ✔

77.German attack on Poland was the immediate cause of

A) Second World War ✔
B) First World War
C) West Asian Crisis
D) Cold War

78.Which was the first city destroyed by the atom bomb in Second World War?

A) Tokyo
B) Nagasaki
C) Hiroshima ✔
D) Baghdad

79.Who defined Democracy as the Government of the people, by the people and for the people?

A) George Washington
B) John Sturat mill
C) Winston Churchill
D) Abraham Lincoln ✔

80.Who is regarded as the founder of scientific socialism?

A) Karl Marx ✔
B) Rousseau
C) Lenin
D) Engels

81.Name the international womens grouping that has recently been formed by the G-20 nations in Turkeys capital, Ankara?

A) F20
B) W20 ✔
C) C20
D) D20

82.Which of the following countries is recognized as the largest groups coming into the United States, according to the US Census Bureau research release in May15?

A) Mexico ✔
B) China
C) India
D) Colombia

83.By what percent U.S. economy grew in Apr-June 2015?

A) 2.3%
B) 3.7% ✔
C) 4.6%
D) 4.1%

84.Which country has announced that it will return more than 4,000 archaeological artefacts to Ecuador and Peru?

A) Brazil
B) Paraguay
C) Venezuela
D) Argentina ✔

85.On 20th Aug 15 with which country, the agreement for exchange of information with respect to taxes has been approved by the Cabinet?

A) Switzerland
B) Seychelles ✔
C) Sweden
D) UAE

86.Which country has sent shockwaves through global markets by moving to prevent a further drop in exports with the biggest one-off devaluation of its currency in 20 years?

A) China ✔
B) Hong Kong
C) United States
D) Japan

87.On 6th Aug 15 which country unveiled a major extension of the Suez Canal to revive the economy after years of unrest?

A) Sudan
B) Eritrea
C) Tunisia
D) Egypt ✔

88.Which country has detained 127 officials from its banking industry for their alleged involvement in corruption?

A) India
B) United States
C) China ✔
D) Japan

89.Name the country from which the maximum equity came into India during 2014-15?

A) Mauritius ✔
B) Japan
C) USA
D) China

90.Name the country to become the largest shareholder in Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)?

A) Japan
B) Australia
C) India
D) China ✔

91.What is the most abundant mineral in the human body?

A) Iron
B) Calcium ✔
C) Zinc
D) Sodium

92.According to Guinness World Records, what is the largest Carnivore on land?

A) Polar Bear ✔
B) Grizzly Bear
C) Royal Bengal Tiger
D) Gorilla

93.Which search engine has a button that says I m feeling Lucky ?

A) Bing
B) Yahoo!
C) Google ✔
D) Wikipedia

94.The shell of a hens egg is mainly made of which of these substances?

A) Calcium carbonate ✔
B) Sodium hydroxide
C) Phosphoric acid
D) Sodium Chloride

95.Which company topped the 2013 list of Fortune 500 companies?

A) Apple
B) Wal-Mart Stores ✔
C) ExxonMobil
D) General Electric

96.Which of these treatments causes hair loss?

A) Chemotherapy ✔
B) Virotherapy
C) Speleotherapy
D) Physiotherapy

97.Which of these animals is depicted in a zodiac sign?

A) Octopus
B) Turtle
C) Spider
D) Crab ✔

98.Which city is the capital of Kenya?

A) Mombasa
B) Nairobi ✔
C) Kampala
D) Addis Ababa

99.Which of these birds has the largest eyes?

A) Hawk
B) Penguin
C) Vulture
D) Ostrich ✔

100.Which of following does not prepare its food through photosynthesis?

A) Cactus
B) Money Plant
C) Cotton Plant
D) Mushroom ✔