Miscellaneous General Knowledge One Liner MCQs 1

• Ambati Balamyrali is the youngest (17-years old) doctor of Indian origin in the world who received his medical degree from Mount Sinai, New York.
• Ambedkar, B.R is known as the architect of the Indian Constitution.
• Apsra is the first nuclear reactor of India.
• Aquaculture refers to fish-farming or fish culture.
• Baku is famous for the production of petroleum.
• Blue revolution relates to fish farming.
• Borlaug, Norman Ernest was American agricultural scientist t and winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1970. He was one of those who laid the groundwork of the Green Revolution.
• Buoy stands for a man serving in any hotel for luggage transportation or as a guide.
• Chakmas are refugees from Bangladesh settled in India.
• Charar-e-Sharief is the Dargah of Sufi saint Sheikh Nooruddin Wali in Kashmir.
• Charminar is located in Hyderabad (India).
• Chernobayl is a Russian city having a nuclear power plant where a tank of readioactive waste exploded in April, 1993. This explosion is known as “Chernobyl Disaster”.
• Chris Patten was the last British Governor of Hong Kong.
• It is summer season in Australia during Christmas.
• Churchill was PM of U.K during WWII. He is known to have said “ I have nothing to offer except blood, sweat and tears.”
• Conditioned Reflex is the term mainly discussed in Psychology.
• Cross-breeding is to be done for achieving quick increase in milk production.
• Crystal oscillator is in electric watch, the component corresponding to pendulum of a pendulum clock.
• The production of cultured pearls is an important cottage industry of Japan.
• Debenture is a certificate issued by a company promising the payment of a specified amount at a fixed rate of interest after a specified period.
• A deflector is a technique of adjusting for changes in price level.
• Desdemona is a character in the Shakespeare’s play Othello.
• Dicky Dolma is the youngest woman climber of Mt. Everest.
• Dr. Watson is a fictional character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
• Dunkel Draft relates to international trade.
• Dzongkha is the official language of Bhutan.
• E.T.A is a terrorist organization in Spain.
• Elephant’s tusks are called enlarged cartilaginous bones.
• Erasmus was a Dutch writher. His Praise of Folly is still read.
• Esperanto is an artificial international language created to act as world language.
• Euro is the name of New Single European Currency launched on January 1, 1999.
• Every Street is paved with Gold was authored by Kim Woo-Chung, founder of Daewoo.
• Exfoliation is a type of weathering common both in the cold and in the hot climate regions.
• Exit Poll is a term used to denote a post-election survey of voters regarding the candidate in whose favour they had exercised their franchise.
• The readings of a Fahrenheit and a Centigrade temperature is the same at -40°.
• Gregory Mendel is called the Father of Genetics.
• Fenugreek seeds can benefit a patient of diabetes mellitus by normalizing his blood sugar level.
• Powder-type fire extinguisher is used for petroleum fire.
• India occupies first position in the world in the production of tea.
• It is the President and not the PM who presides over the cabinet meetings in France.
• Sigmund Freud founded the technique of pshychoaralysis.
• Guemica is a painting by Pablo Picasso.
• Ikebana is the Japanese art of flower arrangement.
• Inflation means an increase in the amount of paper money which tends to raise general price level of commodities. It is a comparative figure showing cost of living, production prices, etc as compared with a base year. Debtors are likely to benefit by Inflation.
• Zero Rate Inflation obtains necessarily in a year where the annual rate of inflation is constant in every week of the year.
• ISBN: International Standard Book Numbering is an internation system by which a distinct identifying number is assigned to each book.
• Jain Commission was associated with probing the conspiracy angle of the Rajiv Gandhi assassination.
• James Bond is a character in the novels written by Ian Fleming.
• Jana-gana-mana is India’s National Anthem.
• Jantar Mantar is an observatory in Delhi constructed in 1724 during the days of Maharaja Jai Singh II of Amber.
• Thomas Jefferson authored American Declaration of Independence.
• Jurassic Park was directed by Steven Spielberg.
• Kabalega is a National Park of Uganda.
• Kalidas was the greatest of the Sanskrit daramatist. He authored Shakukntala, etc.
• Kalinga Prize is awarded for popularization of science each year by UNESCO.
• Gary Kasparov is associated with Chess.
• Dr. V. Kurein is associated with Dairy Farming.
• Bhutan is called the “Land of Thunder Dragon”.
• Laos is the only land-locked country in South-East Asia.
• Last Supper is a famous Renaissance painting by Leonardo da Vinci.
• Leningrad is a famous town in Russia situated on the bank of river Neva.