General Studies Question Bank

1. Which country's President is been elected every year?

Ans: Switzerland

2. Which man-made water body connects Port Said to Bur Tawfiq?

Ans: Suez Canal

3. Name the only sport which is played with right hand only?

Ans: Polo

4. Name the FM Channel started by the Central Govt. for the purpose for Higher Education?

Ans: Gyan Vani

5. Name the first Keralite to become the member of Finance Commission?

Ans: V P Menon

6. Which is the first country to ban Capital Punishment?

Ans: France

7. Name the only Olympian Rower to earn gold medals in 5 consecutive Olympics?

Ans: Steve Redgrave

8. BSNL provides services all over India except Mumbai and New Delhi. Instead who provides services there?

Ans: MTNL

9. Which multinational company's official magazine is named 'THINK"?

Ans: IBM

10. Whose tweets are published under the name @FLOTUS?

Ans: Michelle Obama ( First Lady Of The United States)

11. Who is known as Quaid-e-Azam?

Ans: Muhammad All Jinnah

12. Which is the first country to issue post cards in the world?

Ans: Austria

13. Which country has the oldest National Flag still in use?

Ans: Denmark

14. Who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1937,1938,1939,1947 & 1948 but was never awarded the prize?

Ans: Mahatma Gandhi

15. Who is the first Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through open elections?

Ans: Salvador Allende

16. Who is the first IIT graduate to become the Chief Minister of an Indian state?

Ans: Manohar Parriker of Goa

17. Who was the only courtier of Akbar to embrace the new religion 'Din-i-illahi'?

Ans: Birbal

18. Which city in India is named after a queen whose real name was Bhagmati?

Ans: Hyderabad

19. What is the famous pen name of Hector Hugh Munro, the master of short stories?

Ans: Saki

20. Which great German's record of most goals in a season did Lionel Messi recently overhaul?

Ans: Gerhard Muller

21. What is the name of the Merchant, in William Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice?

Ans: Antonio

22. Only two people have been recipients of both the Bharat Ratna and the Nishaan-e-Pakistan, the highest civilian awards in India end Pakistan respectively. Name both of them?

Ans: Morarji Desai and Nelson Mandela

23. Name the lady who sneaked into the Indian parade group in 2012 London Olympics?

Ans: Madhura Honey

24. Name the award given to magicians in recognition of their contributions to the performance and creation of magic around the world?

Ans: Merlin Award