Miscellaneous General Knowledge One Liner MCQs 7

Miscellaneous General Knowledge One Liner MCQs 7

• Balfour Declaratoin issued in 2 Nov: 1917.
• Yougoslavian city Skopije was destroyed by earthquake in 1963.
• Bootleggin is a form of smuggling.
• River boat Gondola is used in Italy’s city Venice.
• Hydaspes River is now called the Jhelum River.
• Dinosaur means “Terrible” lizard.
• The name of heaviest dinosaur was Branchiosaurus.
• Fresco is a method of painting on plaster it means fresh.
• Kleptomania is an irrational urge to steal.
• Ikhwan as Safa, a secret Arab organization was founded in Basra, Iraq.
• Intifada is Palestinian uprising.
• Long March, a 9600-km journey in 1934 was undertook by Chinese Communists under Mao De Tong.
• Vnukovo airport is in Moscow.
• Pan-Islam, a movement for uniting the Islamic Nations was started in 1880 in Ottoman Empire.
• Paper was invented in 3500 B.C by Chinese.
• Great Pyramid at Giza is the largest Pyramid built in Egypt.
• St. Vitus’s Dance is a disease.
• Resin is sticky liquid that emits from plants.
• Pyramids of Egypt are the oldest and only survived wonder.
• Guru (teacher) Nanak was the founder of Sikhism.
• Silk was made firstly in China.
• Skylab was space laboratory launched in 1973 by USA.
• The first tanks were used in 1916 during WW-I by British.
• Harward University is in USA, Cambridge is in UK
• Titanic sank on 14 April, 1912 on voyage from Southampton to New York City in North Atlantic.
• Tour De France is French cycle race.
• First women in space Valentine Tereshkove went into space in Vostoc 6 on 16 June 1963.
• Watergate scandal involved President Richard Nixon in 1972.
• Parses follow Zoroastrianism.
• Seatle is the seaport of USA.
• Dickson is the seaport of Malaysia.
• At Hyde Park London public meetings are assembled.
• Red Square is in Moscow.
• Eskimos live in Igloo.
• Blitzkrieg means sudden attack.
• Dragon is the symbol of China.
• Bear is the symbol of Russia.
• Christopher Coloumbus belonged to Italy.
• Caspian Sea water is shared by Iran, Russia & Azerbaijan.
• Magna Carta is known as the Bible of English Constitution.
• Russian equivalent of Pentagon is Kremlin.
• East Timore, the Colony of Portugal, was captured by Indonesia in 1975.
• Tiwan separated from China in 1949.
• American Naval Base “Diego Garcia” is in Indian Ocean.
• Ulster Unionists wanted to retain British rule in Northern Ireland.
• Anti-Semitism means animosity towards Jews.
• Lens at the end of the compound microscope is called objective.
• Protoza was first observed in compound microscope.
• Francisco Fernandez introduced Tobacco in Europe.
• Mobile phones started in 1977.
• Penology is the study, theory and practice of prison management & criminal rehabilitation.
• Length of India-China border is 3,380 km.
• Cyprus gained independence from Britain in 1960. 
• Cyprus was divided into Turkish Repbublic of Northern Cyprus and Greek Cyprus in 1974.
• Al-Azhar University I located in Cairo, Egypt.
• Fortress of Grenada, known as Alhamra is in Spain.
• Capital of ancient Babylonia was Babylon.
• Hanging gardens were in Babylon.
• Babylon was on the bank of Euphrates.
• Alma-Ata (Father of Apples) is the capital of Kazakhstan.
• Turkey and Russia are both in Europe & Asia.
• Ireland is also called Eire.
• Largest earthquake fatalities occurred in Izmir, Turkey in 1999.
• Pentagon is in Arlington, Virginai state.
• Pentagon was designed by George Burgstrom.
• Takla Makan is in China is the driest desert in Asia.
• Cathy Pacific is an island.
• Among the Seven Wonders, Church of Saint Sophia is located in Istanbul.
• Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized Suez Canal in 1956.
• Qutub Minar is in New Delhi.
• Shah Jahan built Taj Mehl for Mumtaz Mehal is located in Agra.
• Capital of Tebet is Lhasa.
• White House is in Washington DC.
• Frigid Zone is the area withing the polar circle area around the South Pole.
• Guantanamo Bay is in Cuba.
• Tartus is the seaport of Syria.
• Statue of Liberty was gifted to US by France in 1884
• Voctoria falls are on the border b/w Zimbabwe & South Africa.
• House of U.S Congress in Washington D.C is on Capitol Hill.
• Saddam Hussain executed on 30 Dec: 2006.
• The idea of SAARC originated in the mind of Zia ur Rehman.
• Pakistan left Commonwealth in 1972 and rejoined in 1989.
• Mustafa Kamal Pasha gave 6 Principles of Kemalism.
• Dayton Accord was signed to solve the problem of Bosnia.
• MI-5 is the secret agency of UK.
• The Chinese communist party was founded in 1921.
• After 27 years of imprisonment, Mr. Nelson Mandela was released in 1990.
• Scandinavia constitutes 3 states.
• Karl Mark and Engels presented the Communist Manifesto in 1848.
• Soviet Union was replaced by Russian federation in December, 1991.
• Anti-governmental protests in China by students, workers and some government officials took place: Tiananmen Square, in 1989 
• The British Secretary of Foreign Affairs A. Balfour announced British support to establish Jewish state in Palestine in November 2, 1917.
• LAIA stands for Latin American Integration Association.
• World population was one billion in 1803.
• Mani was the Judge of world court.
• The Batista regime in Cuba was overthrown by Fidel Castro in January 1959.
• Rasko mountain is situated in Baluchistan
• Singapore became independent in 1965
• The ‘Aid to Pakistan Consortium’ meets every year in: Paris
• One US barrel is equal to: 159 litres