G.K.AWARENESS QUIZ-12

Which conquerer was born in Macedonia (Europe), died in Babylon (Asia) and buried in Alexandria (Africa) ?
(A) Genghis Khan
(B) Attila the Hun
(C) Napolean Bonaparte
(D) Alexander the Great


On the banks of which river is Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh, situated ?
(A) kaveri
(B) Yamuna
(C) Gomti
(D) Godavari

Jataka Tales, written in Pali language, are the previous birth stories of which religious Guru ?
(A) Mahavira
(B) Gautam Buddha
(C) Guru Nanak Chand
(D) Guru Gobind Singh

Who wrote Bangladesh's national anthem 'Amar Shonar Bangla' ?
(A) Rabindranath Tagore
(B) Kazi Nazrul Islam
(C) Mohammed Iqbal
(D) Prem Chand

Parvani, the peacock, is mount of which Hindu God ?
(A) Krishna
(B) Vishnu
(C) Ganesh
(D) Kartikeya

Before Bhubaneswar, which city was the capital of Orissa ?
(A) Puri
(B) Cuttack
(C) Rourkela
(D) Sambalpur

Who was the first recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award ?
(A) Geet Sethi
(B) Pullela Gopichand
(C) Vishwanathan Anand
(D) Sachin Tendulkar

In which city are the headquarters of European Union (EU) located ?
(A) Brussels
(B) Geneva
(C) New York
(D) Paris

To produce artificial rains, which chemical is used for Cloud Seeding ?
(A) Copper Sulphate
(B) Ammonium Nitrate
(C) Silver Iodide
(D) Potassium Premanganate

Binola village, the scheduled site of the Indian National Defence University (INDU), is in which state ?
(A) karnataka
(B) Haryana
(C) Rajasthan
(D) Uttar Pradesh