General Knowledge Quiz - 7
The
Boston Marathon
2. Quiz: Who originally
drafted the Indian Penal Code?
Thomas
Babington Macaulay
3. Quiz: Which famous
Moorish palace would you find close to Granada in Spain?
Alhambra
4. Quiz: What did the
Arabs call "the Indian art"?
Mathematics
5. Quiz: Which are the six
seasons of the Indian year?
"
Vasantam, Grismam, Varsa, Sarad, Hemantam and Sisiram.
6. Quiz: Which writer had
a coat of arms with these words on it, "Non sans droict" or "Not without right"?
Shakespeare
7. Quiz: What does the
word “Freud”mean?
Joy
8. Quiz: Name the first PM
of independent Malayasia.
Tunku
Abdul Rahman
9. Quiz: A group of
scientists from BARC conducted the nuclear test at Pokhran in Rajasthan on May
18, 1974. Who led them?
Raja
Ramanna
10. Quiz: Malaria was a
scourge till Jesuits, in the 1690s, discovered that a folk remedy popular in
one part of the world could cure it. Where and what was it?
Peruvian
Indians boiled the bark of a tree Quina-Quina and the bitter brew could cure
malaria.
11. Quiz: The CD, for
recording music, was patented in 1982 by a famous electronic giant. Which one?
Philips
of Holland.
12. Quiz: The Truth and
Reconciliation Commission in South Africa offered an amnesty to all actions
committed in pursuit of political ends, provided they were admitted. There was
one exemption. What was it?
The
crime of rape.
13. Quiz: What is occurring
to the Aral Sea?
It is
shrinking fast because the two rivers that feed it have been dammed.
14. Quiz: What is the
percentage of people in the USA currently engaged in agricultural production?
Around
3% (In traditional societies around 90% of the people are engaged in
agriculture.)
15. Quiz: What is called
"blue gold"?
Water
16. Quiz: What links these
five things together a promise not to kill, not to steal, not to drink, not to
speak lies and not to indulge in wrongful sex?
They
are the Panchsheel of the five tenets of Buddhism.
17. Quiz: Where & when
was this famous quote made: "We had to destroy the town to save it"?
In 1968,
by a US major in Vietnam.
18. Quiz: What was Capt
Paul W Tibbet's mother's name?
Enola
Gay
19. Quiz: Which pop
musician had his first major hit with a song titled "Heart break
Hotel"?
Elvis
Presley
20. Quiz: Two miles
outside Athens Plato started his school. What did he call it?
The
Academy
21. Quiz: Who came up with
the idea that change in many parts of the world is so quick that people
experience a "culture shock" when they encounter it?
Alvin
Toffler
22. Quiz: M N Srinivas,
widely considered the father of Indian sociology, gave a name to the phenomenon
of groups with low status adopting the manners and values of those with high
status. What did he call it?
Sanskritisation
23. Quiz: An important landmark in
native American history is the incident of Wounded Knee. State what was it?
The
massacre of about 300 unarmed Sioux Indians at a place called Wounded Knee; the
Indians had gathered to perform a ritual called the Ghost Dance, which they
believed would result in the buffalo returning to the land and the white man
being wiped off it.
24. Quiz: In the US deaths
from cirrhosis of the liver fell by more than a third between 1916 and 1929.
Why?
Because
of prohibition in the USA.
25. Quiz: In medieval
Europe surgery was in the hands of not doctors but men from another profession.
What Profession it is?
That
of barbers.
26. Quiz: What does Karl
Popper's theory of falsification Karl Popper say?
A
theory holds up until it is disproved. (Falsification and not verification
should be the object of the experimental procedures of science.)
27. Quiz: What subject did
Thomas Carlyle call "the dismal science"?
Economics
28. Quiz: Who in 1962
published what many consider one of the seminal works of the 20th century
titled The Structure of Scientific Revolutions?
Thomas
Kuhn
29. Quiz: A day before the
Nobel prizes are presented, the Swedish parliament is the venue of a prize
distribution ceremony. Which one?
The
Alternative Nobel
30. Quiz: The IPC is
largely based on contemporary English law. Another code, drawn up in 1898, took
into consideration Indian laws and conditions and thus had a more Anglo-Indian
character to it. Name it.
The
Criminal Procedure Code
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