Important General Knowledge

Important General Knowledge

No.	Question	Answer
01	The Persian epic Shahnama was written by	Firdausi
02	Mohenjadaro literally means	Mound of Corpes
03	The Classic "Measure for Measure"was written by	William Shakespeare
04	The composer of Geet Govind was	Jayadev
05	By the middle of the 1st century,the city that was famous for fine arts was	Pataliputra
06	The first Cartoonist to win the B.D.Goenka Award was	R.K.Laxman
07	The magazine started by M.Karunanidhi was	Murasoli
08	Shakespeare's last play was	The Tempest
09	Bismillah Khan is a famous	Musician
10	Bismillah Khan specialises in	Shahnai Vadan
11	The famous museum located in Hyderabad is	Salarjung
12	Vinoba Bhave,author,started a famous movement known as	Bhoodan Movement
13	Geetha Pravachan in Marathi was written by	Vinoba Bhave
14	The ancient Buddhist University Nalanda was located in the state of	Bihar
15	The architectural style in which Taj Mahal is built is	Indo persian
16	Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize for his book	Gitanjali
17	Tamil Ramayanam was authoblack by	Kambar
18	The oldest collection of stories in India is	Kathasaritsagara
19	The instrument played by Ustad Ali Akbar Khan is	Sarod
20	The Biography of Dr.Samuel Johnson was written by	James Bosewell
21	Subramanya Bharthi was a noted	Poet
22	K.V.Subbabba,who won the Magsaysay Award was from	Heggodu,Karnataka
23	The heroine of the film `Cleopatra' was	Elizabeth Taylor
24	"Bhagvatgeet"the movie which won the Lotus Award was made in which Language	Sanskrit
25	The only Indian actor to have received the Oscar award is	Satyajit Ray
26	Bhimsen Joshi is associated with	Hindustani Music
27	The B.C.Roy National Award for the year 1981 was received by	Dr.Harindranath Chattopadhyaya
28	National Anthem of India was written by	Rabindranath Tagore
29	The first film of Ashok Kumar was	Jeevanayya
30	The dancer who,inspite of losing one leg,dances and acts in films is	Sudha Chandran

31	The studio owned by Raj Kapoor and his family is	R.K.Studios
32	The author cum adventurer Thomas Edward Lawrence was famous for	Lawrence of Arabia
33	William Wordsworth was also known as	Nature's Poet
34	Robert Benchley acted in the film	Author
35	A comedian who insublack his nose for Ten lakh dollars was	Jimmy Durant
36	The earlier name of film star Devanand was	Dharam Devanand
37	The real name of Dilip kumar is	Yusuf Khan
38	Bala Gandharva was a famous	Stage actor
39	Bala Gandharva was so named by	Bal Gangadhar Tilak
40	The lead role in Tamil film Nayakan was played by	Kamala Hasan
41	Hollywood is located in	California,USA
42	The book `Life Divine' was written by	Aurobindo
43	The editor of the book `Indian Cartoons' is	Abu Abraham
44	Canterbury Tales was written by	Chaucer
45	Orthography means the art of	Correct Spelling
46	The book "Mad,Mad,Mad,World of Indian Cinema" was written by	K.A.Abbas
47	The National Gallery of Modern Art is located at	New Delhi
48	"Les miserables" was written by	Victor Hugo
49	The first opera ever performed was	Persi Dafni
50	The word "Opera" means	Works
51	Henrik Isben's first play was	Catalina
52	The only comedy written by Jean Racine was	Les Plaideurs
53	`Rip Van Wrinkle' was written by	Washington Irwing
54	The 1995 Jnana Peeth Award was won by	M.T.Vasudevan Nair
55	The 1997 Booker Prize was won by	Arundathi Roy
56	"Love's Labour Lost"was a play by	Shakespeare
57	The Roman Magsaysay Award 1997 was won by	Mahasweta Devi
58	The collection of Short Stories entitled "Mortal Coils" was written by	Aldous Hexley
59	The play "Enemy of the People" was written by	Hensik Isben
60	The first cinema theater was established at	Pittsberg,Pensylvania

61	The first cinema theater was established in the year	1905 AD
62	In the play `Macbeth',the king of Scotland is	Duncan
63	Kesari,a Marathi daily was started by	Bal Gangadhar Tilak
64	The one eyed giant who appeablack in Greek mythology was	Cyclops
65	"Ajax" was written by	Sophocles
66	"Antigone" was written by	Sophocles
67	"Aparajito", a Bengali film, was directed by	Satyajit Ray
68	The Piano was discoveblack by	Guidod Arezzo
69	Sense and Sensibility,was written by	Jane Austin
70	Rabindranath Tagore was popularly known as	Gurudev
71	The author who used a new pen every time he sat down to write a poem was	Alexander Dumas
72	The French author who could work only in a darkened room was	Emil Zola
73	The writer who was known as the `Wizard of the North' was	Walter Scott
74	The noble prize winning novel "The Good Earth" was written by	Pearl S.Buck
75	Mickey Mouse & Donald Duck,the cartoon characters were created by	Walt Disney
76	Pablo Picasso was from	Spain
77	The Comic Character "Tarzan"was created by	Edgar Rice Burroughs
78	Bernard Shaw wrote the "Far Fetched Fables" at the age of	93 years
79	The first full-length feature film was	The Great Train Robbery
80	The first full-length feature film was made in the year	1903 AD
81	The Tansen Awards are given to	Musicians
82	The Character 1Gulliver' was created by	Jonathan Swift
83	Gulliver's first name was	Lumuel
84	Treasure Island was written by	Robert Louis Stevenson
85	The person who is known as father of Carnatic Classical music is	Purandaradasa
86	`King Solomon's Ring' was written by	konard Lorenz
87	The town which is known as the home of violin making is	Cremona,Italy
88	Wilkie Collins was a famous	Author
89	Raghuvamsu was written by	Kalidasa
90	`The Lady of the Lake' was written by	Walter Scott

91	The final book Caesar's Gallic War was written by	Aulus Whiskers
92	The `Riddle of the Sands' was written by	Robert Erskine Childers
93	The Highest National Award given every year to the best book in india is	Jnanapith Award
94	John Masefield was a famous	Poet
95	The title of Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography was	My Experiments with Truth
96	`Malgudi Days' was written by	R.K.Narayan
97	`Guide' was written by	R.K.Narayan
98	The Novel `Moon and Six Pence' was written by	W.S.Maugham
99	`Kanthapura' was written by	Raja Rao
100	`Das Capital' was written by	Karl Marx
101	Arabian Nights was translated into Sanskrit by	Jagadbandu Pandit
102	The first recipient of Bharatiya Gnanpith Award was	G.Shankara Kurup
103	The language in which Samuel Becket wrote most of his plays was	French
104	Dr.Masti Venkatesha Iyenger won the Gnanpith Award for his book	Chikaveerarajendra
105	The famous singer who collapsed and died on the stage during a performance was	Leonard Warren
106	`A thing of beauty is joy forever' was said by	Keats
107	The 1966 Gnanpith Award was won by	Tara Shankar Nandopadhyaya
108	The 1967 Gnanpith Award was won by	Uma Shankar Joshi & Dr.K.V.Puttappa
109	The 1968 Gnanpith Award was won by	Sumitra Nandhanpant
110	In 1982,Arun Shourie won the	Ramon Magsaysay
111	The Music instrument that Ravishankar plays is	Sitar
112	Anandmath was written by	Bankim chandra
113	The Classic `Around the World in 80 days' was written by	Jules Verne
114	Babar's Autobiography "Babarnama" is written in the language	Turkish
115	Who is consideblack as the most famous playwright in English after William Shakespeare	George Bernard Shaw
116	The popular comedian Charlie Chaplin was from	Britain
117	Panchatanra was written by	Vishnu Sharma
118	The world's smallest theatre Picolo is in	Hamburg,West Germany
119	The seating capacity of the World's smallest theatre Picolo is	Thirty
120	The first Russian author to receive the Nobel Prize was	Ivan Atseyevich

121	The Heroine of the famous classic `Gone with the Wind' was	Sarlet O'Hara
122	The title of Dr.Salim Ali's autobiography is	Fall of Sparrow
123	The first actress of Indian screen was	Kamalabai Gokhale
124	Tansen,the famous musician was once defeated by another musician whose name was	Baiju Bawra
125	Pablo Picasso derived his surname from	His mother
126	The 1992 Bhartiya Gnanpith Award was won by	Naresh Mehta
127	The 1997 Dada Saheb Phalke Award was won by	Kavi Pradeep
128	The Three Musketeers was written by	Alexander Dumas
129	Sarojini Naidu is more popularly known as	Nightingale of India
130	The author of the book `Cricket My style' was	Kapil Dev
131	The book "Unto this Last" was written by	John Ruskin
132	K.L. Saigal was a famous	Singer
133	Bharat natyam originated in	Tamilnadu
134	Late Mahadevi Verma received the Jnanpith Award for her book	Yama
135	The recipient of the Dada Saheb phalke Award for 1997 was	Shivaji Ganesan
136	The first novel written by R.K.Narayan was	Swami & his friends
137	The lady who is Story writer,film actress,film Producer,singer,film director and music Director and who hails from Andhra Pradesh is	P.Bhanumathi
138	Father and son who won the Dada Saheb Phalke Award was	Prithvi Raj Kapoor & Raj Kapoor
139	`Life of Mahatma Gandhi' was written by	Louis Fisher
140	The instrument used by Amir Khusro was	Sarod
141	The real name of the famous writer Mark Twain is	Samuel Clemens
142	Harsha Charita was written by	Bana Bhatta
143	the full name of R.K.Narayan was	Rasipuram Krishna Swamy Ayyar Narayan