General Knowledge Quiz: 1 January 2015

1) Which Mughal emperor was the grandson of Jahangir?

(A) Shah Jahan

(B) Aurangzeb

(C) Shah Alam

(D) Bahadur Shah

2) Which zodiac sign has a lion as its symbol?

(A) Cancer

(B) Aries

(C) Leo

(D) Taurus

3) Which of these football teams is nicknamed ‘The Red Devils’?

(A) Liverpool

(B) Manchester United

(C) Aresenal

(D) Chelsea

4) The Bollywood personality Sampoorna Singh Kalra is known by which other name?

(A) Samir

(B) Anjan

(C) Gulzar

(D) Abhijeet

5) In which American city is the famous indoor stadium Madison Square Garden located?

(A) San Francisco

(B) New York City

(C) Los Angeles

(D) Washington, DC 

6) Which train was started by the Indian Railways to commemorate the birth centenary of Jawaharlal Nehru?

(A) Rajdhani Express

(B) Shatabdi Express

(C) Duronto Express

(D) Garib Rath

7) Which of these rivers flows through four capital cities?

(A) Amazon

(B) Nile

(C) Danube

(D) Volga

8) Brahmos, India’s flagship missile and Nokia both take their name from what?

(A) Mountain

(B) River

(C) Glacier

(D) Pass

9) Where would one find the ‘Sea of Tranquility’?

(A) Mars

(B) Earth

(C) The Moon

(D) The Sun

10)  Where did the Supreme Court of India originally function for 8 years before shifting it to its present building?

(A) Irwin Amphitheatre

(B) Rashtrapati Bhavan

(C) Metcalfe House

(D) Parliament House

Answers

1) Ans. (B) Aurangzeb

2) Ans. (C) Leo

3) Ans. (B) Manchester United

4) Ans. (C) Gulzar

5) Ans. (B) New York City

6) Ans. (B) Shatabdi Express

7) Ans. (C) Danube & the capital cities are Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest and Belgrade.

8) Ans. (B) River

9) Ans. (C) The Moon

10) Ans. (D) Parliament House