SPECIAL QUESTIONS||INTELLIGENCE AND GENERAL KNOWLEDGE||SET 03

👉G.I & G.K Q. 1

☆Can you name the brightest star in each of the following constellations :

1. Ursa Minor
2. Cygnus
3. Taurus
4. Orion
5. Canis

☆ One of the above is the brightest of the fixed stars.

Which one is it?

☆Which is the next brightest of the fixed stars?

Ans :

1. Ursa Minor - Polaris ( Pole Star )
2. Cygnus - Deneb
3. Taurus - Aldebaran
4. Orion - Betelgeuze
5. Canis - Sirius

☉One of the above is the brightest of the fixed stars.

Which one is it? - Sirius

☉Which is the next brightest of the fixed stars? - Canopus

👉G.I & G.K Q. 2

☆What do the following have in common?

• Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• Henry Kissinger
• Le Duc Tho
• Dorothy Hodgkin
• Rudyard Kipling
• The Braggs
• Lord Todd
• The UNICEF
• Linus Pauling 
• Sean Macbride

Ans :

They are all Nobel Prize Winners.

👉G.I & G.K Q. 3

☆According to their Intensity, arrange the following temperatures in order :

• Temp. of the North Pole
• Temp. of the flame of the Bunsen Burner
• Temp. of the absolute zero
• Temp. of the Human Body
• Temp. of the flame of an Oxyacetylene Burner
• Temp. of the Red Hot Body
• Temp. of the White Heat
• Temp. of the Melting Point of ice
• Temp. of boiling water
• Temp. of the Freezing Point of the alcohol

Ans : 

• Temp. of the North Pole = (- 41 ℃)
• Temp. of the flame of the Bunsen Burner = (1800℃)
• Temp. of the absolute zero = (-273℃)
• Temp. of the Human Body = (37℃)
• Temp. of the flame of an Oxyacetylene Burner = (3000℃)
• Temp. of the Red Hot Body = (526℃)
• Temp. of the White Heat = (1300℃)
• Temp. of the Melting Point of ice = (0℃)
• Temp. of Boiling water = (100℃)
• Temp. of the Freezing Point of the alcohol = (-114℃)

👉G.I & G.K Q. 4

☆Who founded the Quaker Movement? Was it - 

(a) George Hamilton

(b) George Fox

(c) Brighton Fox

(d) Martin Luther

(e) Punch Payre

Ans : 

George Fox

👉G.I & G.K Q. 5

☆What is an Archipelago?

Ans:

It is the cluster of islands that lies beyond a shore, and is usually the top of a submerged coastal mountain range.

👉G.I & G.K Q. 6

☆How Many :

1. Beatles were there ?
2. Legs has the Spider ?
3. Moons has the Jupiter ?
4. Gospels has the Bible ?
5. Legs has the tripod ?

Ans :

1. Four
2. Eight
3. Twelve
4. Four
5. Three

👉G.I & G.K Q. 7

☆Can you tell :

1. Which nation first sent an animal into orbit around the Earth?
2. What was its Name?
3. Which nation sent an unmanned satellite to photograph the other side of the moon?
4. Which nation was the first humans meet in space?
5. What were the names of the spacecraft?

Ans :

1. The USSR
2. Laika
3. The USSR
4. The USA
5. Gemini 6 and 7

👉G.I & G.K Q. 8

☆Can you identify the following Years of World History (One Event will do) :

1. 1915
2. 1917
3. 1918
4. 1920
5. 1922
6. 1924
7. 1927
8. 1933
9. 1936
10. 1939

Ans :

1. First torpedo of a ship, Lusitania, killing 1500
2. The Russian Revolution
3. End of World War I
4. First meeting of the League of Nations
5. Rise of Mussolini
6. Death of Lenin
7. First solo flight across the Atlantic by Charles Lindbergh
8. Hitler in Power
9. Spanish Civil War
10. Beginning of World War II

👉G.I & G.K Q. 9

☆And what about the following ( once again, one event will do ) :

1. 1815
2. 1840
3. 1848
4. 1854-56
5. 1861-65
6. 1867
7. 1869
8. 1899-02
9. 1903
10. 1914

Ans :

1. Battle of Waterloo
2. First Stamps Issued
3. California Gold Rush
4. Crimean War
5. American Civil War
6. Canada Becomes a Nation
7. Opening of the Suez Canal
8. African Boer War
9. Wright Brothers and their first planes
10. Beginning of World War I

👉G.I & G.K Q. 10

☆Who Wrote :

1. Shahnama
2. Rang Manch
3. Conquest of Self
4. Kulliyat
5. Rubaiyat
6. Bang-e-Dara
7. Gita Govinda
8. Kamayani
9. Prem Pathik
10. Indian Heritage

Ans :

1. Firdausi
2. Balwant Gargi
3. Mahatma Gandhi
4. Mirza Ghalib
5. Omar Khayyam
6. Iqbal
7. Jaidev
8. Jai Shankar Prasad
9. Jai Shankar Prasad
10. Humayun Kabir