General Knowledge (Famous Cities and River Banks)

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City	Country	River
Adelaide	Australia	Torrens
Amsterdam	Netherlands	Amsel
Alexandria	Egypt	Nile
Ankara	Turkey	Kazil
Allahabad	India	At the confluence of the Ganga and Yamuna
Agra	India	Yamuna
Ayodhya	India	Saryu
Ahmedabad	India	Sabarmati
Badrinath	India	Alaknanda
Bareilly	India	Ram Ganga
Bangkok	Thailand	Chao Praya
Basra	Iraq	Euphrates and Tigris
Baghdad	Iraq	Tigris
Berlin	Germany	Spree
Bonn	Germany	Rhine
Budapest	Hungary	Daunbe
Bristol	U. K.	Avon
Buenos Aires	Argentina	Laplata
Cuttack	India	Mahanadi
Curnool	India	Tungabhadra
Chittagong	Bangladesh	Majyani
Canton	China	Si-Kiang
Cairo	Egypt	Nile
Chung King	China	Yang-tse-King
Cologne	Germany	Rhine
Delhi	India	Yamuna
Dandzing	Germany	Vistula
Dresden	Germany	Elve
Dibrugarh	India	Brahmaputra
Dublin	Ireland	Liffy
Ferozpur	India	Satluj
Guwahati	India	Brahmaputra
Hardwar	India	Ganga
Hyderabad	India	Musi
Hamburg	Germany	Elve
Jabalpur	India	Narmada
Jamshedpur	India	Swarnarekha
Jaunpur	India	Gomti
Kabul	Afghanistan	Kabul
Karachi	Pakistan	Indus
Kanpur	India	Ganga
Kota	India	Chambal
Kolkata	India	Hooghly
Khartoum	Sudan	Confluence of Blue and white Nile
Lahore	Pakistan	Ravi
Leningrad	Russia	Neva
Lucknow	India	Gomti
Lisbon	Portugal	Tagus
Liverpool	England	Messey
Ludhiana	India	Satluj
London	England	Thames
Mathura	India	Yamuna
Moscow	Russia	Moskva
Montreal	Canada	St. Lawrence
Nanking	China	Yang-tse-Kiang
New Orleans	U.S.A.	Mississippi
Nasik	India	Godavari
New York	U.S.A.	Hudson
Ottawa	Canada	Ottawa
Patna	India	Ganga
Paris	France	Seine
Philadelphia	U.S.A.	Delaware
Perth	Australia	Swan
Panjim	India	Mandavi
Prague	Czech Republic	Vitava
Quebec	Canada	St. Lawrence
Rome	Italy	Tiber
Rotterdam	The Netherlands	New Mass
Stalingrad	Russia	Volga
Shanghai	China	Yang-tse-Kiang
Sidney	Australia	Darling
Srinagar	India	Jhelum
Surat	India	Tapti
Sambalpur	India	Mahanadi
Serirangapatam	India	Cauvery
Saint Luis	U.S.A.	Mississippi
Tiruchurapalli	India	Cauvery
Tokyo	Japan	Arakava
Ujjain	India	Kshipra
Vijayvada	India	Krishna
Varanasi	India	Ganga
Vienna	Australia	Danube
Warsaw	Poland	Vistula
Washington D.C.	U.S.A.	Potomac
Yangoon	Myanmar	Irrawaddy

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Kerala PSC General Knowledge Quiz 30

1 Which country had a police force called the Tonton
Macoutes?
2 What would you find in a formicary?
3 Which Greek millionairess died in 1989 in Argentina?
4 What was the profession of the Frenchman Auguste
Escoffier?
5 In basketball, the Rockets are a major league team of
which US city?
6 Who was the first British sovereign to make regular
use of Buckingham Palace when in residence in
London?
7 Of which country is Sofia the capital?
8 What is meant by the musical term ‘andante’?
9 Which saint’s day falls on 17 March?
10 In a bullfight, what is a mounted man with a lance
called?


ANSWERS:
1 Haiti, 2 Ants, 3 Christina Onassis, 4 Chef, 5 Houston, 6 Queen Victoria,
7 Bulgaria, 8 At a moderate tempo, 9 Patrick, 10 Picador.

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Kerala PSC General Knowledge Quiz 29

1 What was the top grossing film in 1998 in the USA?
2 What does someone suffering from dysphagia have
difficulty in doing?
3 Which boxer became the oldest-ever World
Heavyweight Champion in 1994?
4 Which English composer wrote five Pomp and
Circumstance marches?
5 What was the name of the pet space-monkey in Lost
in Space?
6 After whom is the month of July named?
7 Which Irish poet wrote The Isle of Innisfree?
8 In which English city is the National Railway Museum?
9 Which US football legend was called The Gipper?
10 What sort of creature is a whydah?


ANSWERS:
1 Saving Private Ryan, 2 Swallowing, 3 George Foreman, 4 Edward Elgar,
5 The Bloop, 6 Julius Caesar, 7 W B Yeats, 8 York, 9 George Gipp, 10 A bird.

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Kerala PSC General Knowledge Quiz 28

1 Who wrote the novel National Velvet?
2 What name is given to a negatively charged particle
that is a constituent of all atoms?
3 In which French city was Joan of Arc burned at the
stake?
4 For which gemstones is the Australian mining town of
Coober Pedy famous?
5 Which American novelist wrote Imaginary Friends and
Foreign Affairs?
6 The Day of the Jackal centres on the attempted
assassination of which leader?
7 Which British boxer lost his world title to Marco
Antonion Barrera in 2001?
8 Who produced the Star Wars and Indiana Jones
series of films?
9 Which German tennis player won five successive
Grand Slam tournaments in the 1980s?
10 Which US actor starred in High Noon and Mr Deeds
Goes to Town?



ANSWERS:
1 Enid Bagnold, 2 Electron, 3 Rouen, 4 Opals, 5 Alison Lurie, 6 General De
Gaulle, 7 Naseem Hamed, 8 George Lucas, 9 Steffi Graf, 10 Gary Cooper.

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Kerala PSC General Knowledge Quiz 27

1 Which German physicist laid down the principles of
quantum theory?
2 How many dozens are there in a gross?
3 Which variety of quartz is violet to purple in colour?
4 What is the name of the aircraft developed in 1969 in
which two moveable nozzles direct the engines’ thrust
downwards for vertical take-off?
5 What type of vessel to explore ocean depths was
invented in 1947 by Auguste Piccard?
6 Which astronomer discovered the planet Uranus?
7 What device is used to transform sound energy into
electrical energy?
8 Shogi is a Japanese form of which boardgame?
9 Which European capital has a skyline dominated by
St Stephen’s cathedral?
10 What nationality was the playwright Henrik Ibsen?


ANSWERS:
1 Max Planck, 2 Twelve, 3 Amethyst, 4 Harrier, 5 Bathyscaphe, 6 Herschel,
7 Microphone, 8 Chess, 9 Vienna, 10 Norwegian.

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Kerala PSC General Knowledge Quiz 26

1 Name the Italian ocean liner which sank off the coast
of Massachusetts after colliding with another vessel
on 26 July 1956?
2 The ‘B’ in Cecil B De Mille stands for what?
3 What is the name of the well-preserved Inca city
discovered in 1911, named after the mountain that
rises above it?
4 In 1962, who became the first American to orbit the
Earth?
5 First performed in Paris in 1841, which ballet in two
acts by Adolphe Adam concerns the ghosts of young
girls who die of grief before their wedding days, after
being deserted by their lovers?
6 What name was given to the government of Germany
from 1919 to 1933, named after the town in which the
constitution was formulated?
7 In which film did Julie Andrews play Gertrude
Lawrence?
8 In which great bay are the Nicobar Islands?
9 In 1986, Greg Le Mond was the first non-European to
win which annual sporting event?
10 In the human body, what are controlled by the
lumbrical muscles?


ANSWERS:
1 Andrea Doria, 2 Blount, 3 Machu Picchu, 4 John Glenn, 5 Giselle, 6 Weimar
Republic, 7 Star, 8 Bay of Bengal, 9 Tour de France, 10 Finger movements.

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Kerala PSC General Knowledge Quiz 25

1 Which Swedish actress starred in Casablanca and
Gaslight?
2 What is the tallest living land mammal?
3 Which 1995 film was partly inspired by Jane Austen’s
novel Emma?
4 Which survey of England was started in 1086?
5 What is the most important and largest island in the
Philippines?
6 From which drug are morphine and codeine derived?
7 In 79AD which town, other than Pompeii, was
destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius?
8 Which nine-a-side game was a forerunner of
baseball?
9 By what name are smoked herring usually known in
the UK?
10 Musician and human rights defender Mstislav
Rostropovich, who died in 2007, was a virtuoso of
which instrument?


ANSWERS:
1 Ingrid Bergman, 2 Giraffe, 3 Clueless, 4 The Domesday Book, 5 Luzon,
6 Opium, 7 Herculaneum, 8 Rounders, 9 Kippers, 10 Cello.

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Kerala PSC General Knowledge Quiz 24

1 Which Canadian sprinter was stripped of his 100-
metres gold medal in 1988 after failing a drugs test?
2 Who is the youngest of the Three Tenors?
3 Born Illich Ramirez Sanchez, by what name was the
one-time world’s most wanted terrorist better known?
4 Who wrote The Female Eunuch?
5 Who was the sick beggar cured of leprosy by Jesus?
6 In which country is the holiday resort of Phuket?
7 Which sea lies between Egypt and Saudi Arabia?
8 When You Wish Upon a Star is from which Disney
film?
9 What is the meaning of the Latin phrase ‘non
sequitur’?
10 In which ocean are the Maldive Islands?



ANSWERS:
1 Ben Johnson, 2 Jose Carreras, 3 Carlos the Jackal, 4 Germaine Greer,
5 Lazarus, 6 Thailand, 7 Red Sea, 8 Pinocchio, 9 It does not follow, 10 Indian
Ocean.

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Kerala PSC General Knowledge Quiz 23

1 Which Canadian comedian teamed with John Belushi
to form the Blues Brothers?
2 Who starred as Superman in the 1970s and 1980s film
series?
3 Who was the alter ego of superhero Diana Prince?
4 Which singer was known as The White Lady of Soul?
5 Which TV celebrity had hits in the 1960s with Anyone
Who Had a Heart and You’re My World?
6 Which poem by Rudyard Kipling begins: “If you
can keep your head when all about you are losing
theirs…”?
7 More than 200 were killed in a terrorist bomb in Bali,
the Euro became the common currency over the
EU and the Queen Mother died; all in the same year
– which?
8 Which early 20th century revolutionary said “A lie told
often enough becomes the truth”?
9 To which genus do cherry and plum trees belong?
10 Which Eastern European capital stands on the River
Vltava?


ANSWERS:
1 Dan Ackroyd, 2 Christopher Reeve, 3 Wonder Woman, 4 Dusty Springfield,
5 Cilla Black, 6 If, 7 2002, 8 Lenin, 9 Prunus, 10 Prague.

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