This document contains a series of questions and answers related to general knowledge topics. Some of the questions covered include: - ASDA is owned by Walmart - A nanosecond is 100th millionth of a second - Uranium has three major isotopes: 234, 235, 238 - Sri Lanka was formerly known as Ceylon - Pierre de Coubertin founded the Modern Olympic Games The document provides concise questions and answers on a wide range of topics including sports, geography, history, science and more. It serves as a knowledge bank of factual information.

1. ONE WORD

2. • ASDA is owned by which US retailer company?
Answer: WALMART

3. • What is 100th millionth of a second called?
Answer: NANOSECOND

4. • Which radioactive element has 3 major isotopes of 234, 235, 238?
Answer: URANIUM

5. • What is the name of something suitable for use by either gender , especially
clothing?
Answer: UNISEX

6. • What is the collective name for a group of lion?
Answer: PRIDE

7. • The Republic of Sri Lanka was formed in 1972, but what was it called
before?
Answer: CEYLON

8. • Which European country hosted the first Olympic Games in which women
were allowed to participate?
Answer: PARIS- 1900

9. • What is the final event of men’s decathlon?
Answer: 1500 METRES

10. • Who was the founder of Modern Olympic Games?
Answer: PIERRE DE COURBETIN

11. • The decathlon is contested over how many days?
Answer: TWO

12. • Which US Olympic swimmer is nicknamed as ‘Baltimore Bullet’?
Answer: MICHAEL PHELPS

13. • ‘Swifter, Higher, Stronger’ is the motto for the modern ‘what’?
Answer: Olympic Games

14. • What is the second event of a men’s decathlon?
Answer: Long jump

15. • Boss, Flex, Vane and Nock are terms used in which sport?
Answer: Archery

16. • What are the names of the two 2012 London Olympic Games mascots?
Answer: Wenlock and Mandeville

17. • In 1924, which country hosted the first Winter Olympic Games?
Answer: France

18. • In which year was live television coverage of the Olympic Games available
internationally for the first time?
Answer: 1956

19. • In which European city was the first opening ceremony of the Olympic
Games held?
Answer: London

20. • The distance of the Olympic marathon is 26 miles and how many yards?
Answer: 385 yards

21. • During which three years were the modern Summer Olympic Games
cancelled?
Answer: 1916, 1940, 1944

22. • At the 1896 Athens Summer Olympic Games, the winners were given a silver
medal and a branch from which type of tree?
Answer: Olive

23. • Who was the only Olympic medallist to have won the Nobel Peace Prize?
Answer: Philip Noel-Baker

24. • During which year were the first Youth Olympics held?
Answer: 2010

25. • Which British sportsman was the first 2012 Olympic Torchbearer in the
UK?
Answer: Ben Ainslie

26. • The Olympic Marathon is held in commemoration of which ancient Greek
soldier who ran from Marathon to Athens?
Answer: Pheidippides

27. • Who was the first gymnast to score a perfect 10 seven times in a row, at the
1976 Montreal Games?
Answer: Nadia Comaneci

28. • Which US President is depicted on a $1 bank note?
Answer: George Washington

29. • The FTSE is the stock market index of which European country?
Answer: Britain (UK)

30. • Which online bookstore was originally called Cadabra.com?
Answer: Amazon

31. • Apart from white, what colour are the other two ‘triangles’ on the BMW
logo?
Answer: Blue

32. • What value is a purple Euro banknote?
Answer: 500 Euros

33. • The HP-35, launched in 1972, was Hewlett-Packard’s first what?
Answer: Pocket calculator

34. • Phantom IV, Silver Wraith and Silver Dawn are all models of which car?
Answer: Rolls Royce

35. • In motoring, which creature is featured on the logo of the Porsche?
Answer: Horse

36. • What colour is a 20 Euro banknote?
Answer: Blue

37. • Who was appointed Creative Director of Paris fashion house Chloe in 1997?
Answer: Stella McCartney

38. • The Lev is the currency of which country?
Answer: Bulgaria

39. • The company ‘Longines’ are famous for manufacturing which luxury items?
Answer: Watches

40. • David McConnell was the founder of which cosmetics company in 1886?
Answer: Avon

41. • ‘Half circle full circle half circle A, half circle full circle right angle A…’
describes the logo of which company?
Answer: Coca Cola

42. • In Greek mythology, what is the name of the giant watchman with 100 eyes,
also adopted as the name of a UK retail chain?
Answer: Argos

43. • ‘Impossible is nothing’ is the motto of which sportswear company?
Answer: Adidas

44. • Who invented the electric battery in 1800?
Answer: Alessandro Volta

45. • Which US organisation has the motto ‘Fidelity, Bravery and Integrity’?
Answer: FBI

46. • India’s first Field Marshall
Answer: General S. H. F. J. Manekshaw

47. • India’s first National Security Adviser
Answer: Brijesh Mishra

48. • India’s first Chairman of Lok Sabha
Answer: G. B. Mavlankar

49. • India’s first woman to swim across the English Channel
Answer: Aarti Saha, 1959

50. • First Indian Chairman in International Court
Answer: Justice Dr. Nagendra Singh

51. • India’s first Chief Justice of Supreme Court
Answer: Justice Hiralal J. Kaniya

52. • India’s first successful surgeon who transplanted heart
Answer: Dr. P. Venugopal

53. • First Indian who won Grammy Award
Answer: Pt. Ravi Shankar

54. • Who is the only leader to be elected Prime Minister of Pakistan three times ?
Answer: Nawaz Sharif

55. • The black widow, which eats the male counterpart after mating, as a female
species of which animal ?
Answer: Spider

56. • In 1850, the first experimental electric telegraph line in India was set up
between Calcutta and which place ?
Answer: Diamond Harbour

57. • Who was the chairman of the Indian Calendar Reform Committee that
initiated the adoption of Saka calendar as the Indian national Calendar ?
Answer: Meghnad Saha

58. • Which is the largest living species of tortoise in the world, which may weigh
about 400 kg?
Answer: Galapagose Tortoise

59. • Damascus is the capital of which country?
Answer: Syria

60. • After whom is the annual award, given by the Govt of India to an
outstanding handloom weaver, named ?
Answer: Sant Kabir

61. • To respect whose word did the five Pandavas marry Draupadi?
Answer: Kunti

62. • Under a campaign run by UNICEF and Government of India, Aamir Khan
has been promoting awareness against which?
Answer: Malnutrition

63. • Who is the only Indian to have won a medal in Women’s Singles at the World
Badminton Championships ?
Answer: P. V. Sandhu

64. • Who has been the longest serving chief minister of Rajasthan?
Answer: Mohan Lal Sukhadia

65. • From which country did India buy an aircraft carrier which was renamed as
INS Vikramaditya?
Answer: Russia

66. • Lord Krishna earned which of the following names because he killed a
particular demon ?
Answer: Murari

67. • What type of naval vehicle is the INS Sindhurakshak?
Answer: Submarine

68. • Which place of worship is located between the Nar and Narayan mountains?
Answer: Badrinath

69. • In which city was Vasco Da Gama first buried?
Answer: Cochin

70. • What is the name of the dancing form of Lord Shiva that gained
prominence in India during the Chola period?
Answer: Natraj

71. • In which district of Chhattisgarh did Maoists attack a convoy of Congress
leaders on 25 May 2013?
Answer: Bastar

72. • What name was given to the operation by the Indian Army to rescue
stranded travelers from Uttarakhand during the 2013 floods?
Answer: Operation Surya Hope

73. • What is India’s first ingeniously developed passenger car?
Answer: Tata Indica

74. • After whom is the Centigrade system of tempreature measurement named?
Answer: Anderes Celsius

75. • How many thousands rupee notes would your need to become a crorepati?
Answer: 10,000

76. • Which actress changed her name from Nafisa before her debut movie in
2007?
Answer: Jia Khan

77. • Which gas is the most reactive of all chemical elements?
Answer: Fluorine

78. • In the human body, what makes the pupil of an eye contract or dilate?
Answer: Light

79. • BP Mandal, who chaired the second backward classes commission, also
known as Mandal commission, served as chief minister of which state?
Answer: Bihar

80. • Who is the author of the poem “Where the mind is without fear’?
Answer: Rabindranath Tagore

81. • What was the code name of the operation by IPKF to take control of Jaffna
from the LTTE in 1987 ?
Answer: Operation Pawan

82. • Who is the youngest person ever to win a Nobel Prize ?
Answer: Lawrence Bragg

83. • Which poem are these lines from : “Nari tum keval Shraddha ho, Vishwas-
rajat-nag- pagtal mein, Piyush-srot-si baha karo, Jivan ke sunder samtal hein”
?
Answer: Kamayani

84. • Which is the only country, apart from India, where one can find the Indian
rhinoceros in its natural Habitat ?
Answer: Nepal

85. • In geometry, if a shape has only three sides namely A, B and C, then what
shape would that be ?
Answer: Triangle

86. • Boal, Tengra and Magur are all species of which marine creature?
Answer: Fish

87. • Mother of the late Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi was the Begum of which
princely state of India?
Answer: Bhopal

88. • Which pieces are maximum in number at the start of a chess game?
Answer: Pawn

89. • Gyaneshwari, Lichchavi, Gorakdham and Sarayu are all names of what?
Answer: Express Trains

90. • What can you hear when a bell rings in a vaccum?
Answer: No Sound

91. • With reference to the human body what is ‘raktchaap’?
Answer: Blood Pressure

92. • What is the color of octopus blood?
Answer: Blue

93. • Whose birthday is celebrated as ‘Engineers’ Day’ in India?
Answer: M. Visvesvarayya

94. • Which historical character’s name appears in a song in the film ‘Ishqiya’?
Answer: Ibn Battuta

95. • What is the national tree of India?
Answer: Banyan

97. • In which film does Rajesh Khanna tell his heroine, “Pushpa, I hate tears’?
Answer: Amar Prem

98. • In which state would you find the districts of Bastar and Dantiwada?
Answer: chhatisgarh

99. • Who is the only person to have served as the Chief Minister of both Uttar
Pradesh and Uttarakhand?
Answer: N D Tiwari

100. • Who founded the political party National People’s Party(NPP) in January
2013?
Answer: P A Sangama

101. • Which state or UT of India is divided into four districts – all named after the
four cardinal directories?
Answer: Sikkim

102. Efforts by:
Vibhor agarwal