General Knowledge Questions and Answers 22

1 Which Canadian singer recorded the albums Blue
and Miles of Aisles?
2 Which device in a jet engine provides extra thrust for
take-off or supersonic flight?
3 The film Jerry Maguire featured which sport?
4 What is the chief river of Ghana?
5 Which 2001 film about the Cuban missile crisis
starred Kevin Costner?
6 Which epic poem by Dante begins on Good Friday in
the year 1300?
7 Which German motor manufacturer was set up in
1937 to produce a ‘people’s car’?
8 The River Tamar forms a historic boundary between
which two English counties?
9 Who played Sally Bowles in the film Cabaret?
10 Which fish is smoked and sold as finnan haddie?
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Quiz 10
ANSWERS:
1 A deep inner layer of the skin, 2 The Shining, 3 Index, 4 Zirconium,
5 Opium, 6 The nose, 7 Dr Tracey Clark, 8 Much Ado About Nothing, 9 Ohio,
10 A mongrel dog.

General Knowledge Questions and Answers 21

1 The coronations of most of the French kings took
place in which city in the Marne region of France?
2 In which country is the ski resort of Val Gardena?
3 Van Gogh cut of part of his own left ear during a
quarrel with which other artist?
4 To which breed of dog was Longfellow referring when
he wrote “A traveller, by the faithful hound, half buried
in the snow was found”?
5 Who had an occasional rôle as Guinan, the female
bartender, in the TV series Star Trek: The Next
Generation?
6 What do the initials J S stand for in J S Bach?
7 Who wrote the opera La Boheme?
8 Michael Nesmith is associated with which 1960s pop
group?
9 Who had a hit with On the Banks of the Ohio in 1971
and Hopelessly Devoted to You in 1978?
10 Robert Redford and Paul Newman played two 1920s
conmen in which film?
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Quiz 9
ANSWERS:
1 Joni Mitchell, 2 Afterburner, 3 American football, 4 Volta, 5 Thirteen Days,
6 The Divine Comedy, 7 Volkswagen, 8 Devon and Cornwall, 9 Liza Minnelli,
10 Haddock.

General Knowledge Questions and Answers 20

1 In which US state is the Mojave Desert?
2 Which former MI5 officer wrote Spycatcher?
3 Whom did Jacques Chirac succeed as French
president in 1995?
4 About which event did Winston Churchill say “Never
in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so
many to so few”?
5 With what weapon was Leon Trotsky assassinated in
Mexico in 1940?
6 What sort of creature is a cotinga?
7 What is the name of the full moon closest to the
Autumn Equinox?
8 What is a tsunami?
9 Which Irish surname means ‘warlike one’?
10 What is the name given to a cross in the form of an
‘X’?
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Quiz 8
ANSWERS:
1 Rheims, 2 Italy, 3 Paul Gauguin, 4 St Bernard, 5 Whoopi Goldberg,
6 Johann Sebastian, 7 Puccini, 8 The Monkees, 9 Olivia Newton John,
10 The Sting.

General Knowledge Questions and Answers 19

1 In which card game, played with a deck of 32 cards,
are the jacks known as bowers?
2 Who wrote Waiting for Godot?
3 The Wrigley Building is located in which US city?
4 What nationality was the 14th/15th century astronomer
Tycho Brahe?
5 What was first seriously advocated by a British
builder, William Willett, in his 1907 pamphlet Waste of
Daylight?
6 By the end of which period in Earth’s history had most
dinosaurs become extinct?
7 Calypso, cattleya and pogonia are types of which
flower?
8 Who played Flint in a series of spy films?
9 Who performed the first surgery in England under
antiseptic conditions?
10 Which part in the Munsters TV series was played by
old-time film actress Yvonne de Carlo?
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Quiz 7
ANSWERS:
1 California, 2 Peter Wright, 3 Francois Mitterand, 4 Battle of Britain, 5 An ice
pick, 6 Bird, 7 Harvest moon, 8 A tidal wave, 9 Kelly, 10 Saltire.

Gk Questions of SBI Clerk 27th July 2014

Recently a 150 Km missile launched by DRDO-
Answer: Prithvi.

Who is the current Minister of social justice and empowerment in India?
Answer: Thawar Chand Gehlot

RBI (Reserve Bank of India) established in-
Answer: 1935

Press freedom day is observed on-
Answer: 3rd May

World Tourism day is observed on-
Answer: 27th September.

Gillette cup is associated with which sports?

General Knowledge Questions and Answers 18

1 The name of which animal is an Aboriginal term
meaning ‘no water’?
2 Which animal has the biggest eyes of any living
creature?
3 Which founder of Protestantism appeared before the
Diet of Worms in 1521?
4 Which African statesman received the Freedom of the
City of Cardiff in a ceremony in 1998?
5 Which Roman god of the sea is identified with the
Greek god Poseidon?
6 Who directed The Maltese Falcon, The African Queen
and The Dead?
7 Which French chemist and microbiologist devised
vaccines for anthrax and rabies?
8 Which revolutionary anthem was the Soviet national
anthem until 1944 ?
9 Which British admiral had an affair with Emma
Hamilton?
10 What name is given to a dealer licensed to lend
money on the security of an item of portable personal
property?

ANSWERS:
1 Euchre, 2 Samuel Becket, 3 Chicago, 4 Danish, 5 Daylight
Saving Time(putting the clocks forwards and backwards), 6 Triassic, 7 Orchid, 8 JamesCoburn, 9 Joseph Lister, 10 Lily Munster.

General Knowledge Questions and Answers 17

1 What is a cat-o’-nine-tails?
2 Of which Caribbean country is Montego Bay the main
tourist centre?
3 Who wrote David Copperfield?
4 What name is given to the programs run by a
computer, as opposed to the hardware?
5 In medicine, what name is given to a state of deep
unconsciousness in which the subject is unrousable?
6 What are the flat, treeless plains of Argentina called?
7 Which bay of the Atlantic, between northern Spain and
western France, is noted for its rough seas and high
tides?
8 What was the first British film to take more than one
hundred million dollars at the US box office?
9 What is the capital of Vietnam?
10 What name is given to members of the Roman
Catholic Society of Jesus?

ANSWERS:
1 Koala, 2 Horse, 3 Martin Luther, 4 Nelson Mandela, 5
Neptune,6 John Huston, 7 Louis Pasteur, 8 The Internationale, 9 Horatio Nelson,
10 Pawnbroker.

General Knowledge Questions and Answers 16

1 Which rock star was born Marvin Lee Aday?
2 Which 2000 film starred veteran actors Clint
Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland and
James Garner?
3 Of which planet is Phoebe a satellite?
4 Which film actress and wartime pin-up girl married
bandleader Harry James in 1943?
5 How many counters has each player in a game of
backgammon?
6 Which food item takes its name from the French for
‘twice cooked’?
7 Who wrote The Thorn Birds?
8 Who wrote The Call of the Wild and White Fang?
9 Which common childhood illness related to shingles is
also called varicella?
10 Which sign of the zodiac is also called The
Waterbearer?

ANSWERS:
1 A nine-lash whip, 2 Jamaica, 3 Charles Dickens, 4 Software, 5 Coma,6 Pampas, 7 Bay of Biscay, 8 Notting Hill, 9 Hanoi, 10 Jesuits.

General Knowledge Questions and Answers 15

1 What was the name of the Addams Family butler?
2 Which theoretical temperature corresponds to minus
273.15 degrees on the Celsius scale?
3 Which seven-a-side ball game is played in a
swimming pool?
4 Which Roman Catholic organization takes its name
from the Latin for ‘God’s work’?
5 Bamboozled is a film by which controversial US
director?
6 Which word meaning ‘rebirth’ describes the period in
European history which began in the 14th century?
7 Who starred opposite Pierce Brosnan in the remake of
The Thomas Crown Affair?
8 Who directed the 1995 film Heat, which starred Al
Pacino?
9 Of which French overseas region in South America is
Cayenne the capital?
10 In which year did David Koresh and the Branch
Davidians Christian cult hold a siege in Waco, Texas?

ANSWERS:
1 Meat Loaf, 2 Space Cowboys, 3 Saturn, 4 Betty Grable, 5 15,
6 Biscuit,7 Colleen McCullough, 8 Jack London, 9 Chickenpox, 10 Aquarius.

General Knowledge Questions and Answers 14

1 Which strait separates the North and South islands of
New Zealand?
2 In which city is the Doge’s Palace?
3 Who plays Johnny Depp’s uncle in the 1993 film
Arizona Dream?
4 Which New Zealand golfer won the 2000 Australian
Masters in Melbourne?
5 Which continent has the larger land mass: Africa or
North America?
6 Aston, Aston, Rizzo, Stevenson, Gilvear: which 1980s
group?
7 What name is given to the art of preparing, stuffing
and mounting the skins of animals to make lifelike
models?
8 Which artist was appointed court painter to Charles IV
of Spain in 1786?
9 The name of which Roman god means ‘shining father'
in Latin?
10 What is the name of the dog in Punch and Judy
shows?

ANSWERS:
1 Lurch, 2 Absolute zero, 3 Water polo, 4 Opus Dei, 5 Spike Lee,
6 Renaissance, 7 Rene Russo, 8 Michael Mann, 9 French Guiana, 10 1993.