Randomly selected General knowledge questions and answer for Intelligence Bureau and all competitive exams
Highest mountains in seven continents
a. Highest mountain in Asia?
Answer: Mount Everest
b. Highest mountain in Africa?
Answer: Mount Kilimanjaro
c. Highest mountain in north america?
Answer: Denali
d. Highest mountain in south america ?
Answer: Aconcagua
e. Highest mountain in antarctica?
Answer: Vinson Massif
f. Highest mountain in europe?
Answer: Mount Elbrus
g. Highest mountain in australia?
Answer: Mount Kosciuszko
1. Who wrote the song "Sare jahan se acha" ?
Answer: Muhammad Iqbal
2. Who give music to the song "Sare jahan se acha" ?
Answer: Pandit Ravi Shankar
3. Which is the worlds oldest news agency ?
Answer: AFP (Agence France Presse)
4. What is the chemical name of Tear Gas ?
Answer: Chloroacetophenone
5. Which is the only hobby recognized by the United Nations ?
Answer: Ham Radio
6. What is the national flower of Pakistan ?
Answer: Jasmine
7. What is the scientific name of Cockroach ?
Answer: Periplaneta americana
8. What is the unit of luminous intensity ?
Answer: Candela
9. What is the unit of pressure?
Answer: Pascal
10. What is the unit of magnetic field?
Answer: Tesla
10 a. What is the unit of power ?
Answer:watt
11. Which famous writer is known as Father of Snow Golf ?
Answer: Rudyard Kipling
12. How many Schedules are there in the Indian Constitution ?
Answer: 12
13. Which planet is known as Red planet ?
Answer: Mars
14. Which European countries are separated by Market Reef ?
Answer: Finland and Sweden
15. Who is the author of Panchtantra ?
Answer: Vishnu Sharma
16. Which is the coldest planet in solar system ?
Answer: Neptune
17. The Rourkela Steel Plant in Odisha was built with the collaboration of _____ ?
Answer: Germany
18. The Durgapur Steel Plant in West Bengal was built with the collaboration of _____ ?
Answer: Britain
19. The Bhilai Steel Plant in Chattisgarh was built with the collaboration of _____ ?
Answer: Russia
20. Who is the first and only Muslim lady ever to rule the throne of Delhi ?
Answer: Razia Sultana
21. Who composed the national anthem of Bangladesh (Amar sona bangla) ?
Answer: Rabindranath Tagore
22. Who wrote the book Planned economy for India ?
Answer: M. Visvesvaraya (He is known as father of Indian planning, his birthday September 15 is observed as Engineer's Day in India )
23. Which is the oldest sports in the world ?
Answer: Archery ( It is the national sports of Bhutan)
24. What is the normal duration of Hockey game ?
Answer: 70 Minuets
25. Which Minor Rock Edict of Asoka describes the conquest of Kalinga by Asoka ?
Answer: No. XIII (13)
Answer: No. XIII (13)
26. Who is the author of Joy of Numbers ?
Answer: Shakuntala Devi
27. Who is the creator of the painting The Potato Eaters ?
Answer: Vincent van Gogh
28. Folketing is the parliament of which country ?
answer: Denmark
29. What s the chemical name of Lime stone ?
Answer: Calcium Carbonate
30. Zero degree centigrade equal to _________ degree Fahrenheit ?
Answer: 32
31. Zero Kelvin in Kelvin scale is equal to ____________degree Celsius in Celsius scale ?
Answer: -273.5 Degree Celsius
*32. Contact process is used for the production of?
answer: sulphuric acid
*33. What is known as white vitriol?
answer: Zinc sulphate
*34.Total number of latitudes?
Answer:181
*35.Total number of longitude?
answer: 360
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