General Knowledge Update - NLU- Delhi

1. In 2006 an exhibition was held in Rome to showcase 50 acting years of this actresses' life

a. Gina Lollobrigida

b. Ingrid Bergamn

c. Sophia Loren

d. Sonia Aquino

2. Who is the current editor of the GQ magazine?

a. Jim Nelson

b. David Granger

c. Robbie Myers

d. Chris Astridge

Note: d. founder of FHM (For Him Magazine) in 1985, c. current editor of Elle magazine, b. current editor of Esquire magazine. GQ expands to Gentleman's Quarterly.

3. In the sequel to the smash hit movie Anaconda what seems to be contributing to the massive size of the snakes?

a. Rafflesia

b. A mountain spring

c. An ancient ritual

d. Blood Orchids

4. PFRDA has approved FDI up to ... in the pension sector

a. 26%

b. 27%

c. 35%

d. 49%

4. Aung San Suu Kyi is being tried for harboring an American intruder during her house arrest. She is being tried at ,,,

a. Sing Sing Prison

b. At her House

c. Yangon Military Divisional Court

d. Insein Prison

5. This American Serial Killer had been given names like 'The Boogeyman', 'The Gray Man', 'The Werewolf of Wysteria' and 'The Brooklyn Vampire'.

a. Albert Fish

b. Grace Budd

c. Peter Kudzinowski

d. Jeffrey King

6. Who was the man of the tournament in the recently concluded World T20 Championship?

a. Shahid Afridi

b. Chris Gayle

c. Tillekratne Dilshan

d. Jacques Kallis

7. Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku are the four major islands of this country?

a. Indonesia

b. Japan

c. Phillipines

d. Peleponesia

8. This blogger was allegedly punched by Black Eyed Peas vocalist WIll I Am and created a controversy by his slurs against homosexuals

a. Victor Ramirez

b. Ryan Eckhart

c. Perez Hilton

d. Dave Seacrest

9. Swine Flu spreads through

a. Air

b. Water

c. Food

d. Contact

10. Who directed the 2009 movie adaptation of the best selling graphic novel 'The Watchmen'?

a. Bryan Singer

b. Ridley Scott

c. Sam Raimi

d. Zack Snyder

11. Birdie, Fairway and Links are terms associated with this game

a. Polo

b. Netball

c. Golf

d. Ice Hockey

12. In 1999, the World's population crossed the ... billion mark.

a. 7

b. 100

c. 50

d. 6

13. This is used in nuclear reactors to absorb radiation

a. Graphite

b. lead

c. Chromium

d. Aluminium

14. In the book Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire who represents Hogwarts in the Triwizard Tournament apart from Harry Potter

a. Draco Malfoy

b. Percy Weasley

c. Cedric Diggory

d. Rupert Grint

15. The only James Bond movie which was actually a sequel to its predecessor and took off exactly from where the earlier movie left

a. Casino Royale

b. License to Kill

c. Octopussy

d. Quantum of Solace

16. 'Rogue Trader' is the best-selling autobiography of the man who committed the world's biggest banking fraud. Who is he?

a. Charlie Woolrich

b. Nick Leeson

c. Stephen D. Levitt

d. Adam Cape

17. The Sistine Chapel was built for which Pope?

a. Sixus IV

b. Benedict III

c. John Paul I

d. Romulus I

18. Margarette Gertruida Zella is more well known as

a. Sister Nivedita

b. Sister Nirmala

c. Mata Hari

d. Mother Teresa

19. The Allahabad Park where Chandrasekhar Azad met his end

a. Azad Park

b. Wilson Garden

c. Johnson Park

d. Alfred Park

20. Vilnius is the capital of

a. Liechtenstein

b. Lithuania

c. Luxembourg

d. Latvia

21. The 16th Century Japanese mystic known in the modern world as the Laughing Buddha

a. Hattori

b. Hotei

c. Kikou

d. Attica

22. He was recently given a honorary doctorate by Aligarh Muslim University

a. A.P.J Abul Kalam

b. Zaheer Khan

c. Shahrukh Khan

d. A.R. Rehman

23. 'Shaking Palsy' is another name for this disease

a. Parkinson's disease

b. Pellagra

c. Alzheimer's disease

d. Epilepsy

24. Who is Elizabeth J. Carr?

a. A renowned historian

b. A mathematician

c. First US born test-tube baby

d. Captain of English T20 Women's team

25. A board bearing the lines to be spoken by a television performer used in prompting

a. Apple Box

b. Memory Boad

c. Idiot Board

d. Monitor

26. 2009 saw the ... edition of the Cannes Film Festival

a. 61st

b. 62nd

c. 63rd

d. 60th

27. Alternative name for J.M. Barrie's play 'Peter Pan'

a. Finding Neverland

b. The boy from Neverland

c. The tale of a naughty boy

d. The boy who would never grow up

28. Sunderlal Bahuguna is famous for

a. Waste Recycling

b. Water Harvesting

c. Desert Irrigation

d. Chipko Movement

29. What is the 'De Profundis'?

a. An extended letter written by Oscar Wilde

b. A treatise on philosophy by Socrates

c. A painting by Leonardo Da Vinci

d. The forthcoming book by Dan Brown

30. Ariane Rockets are launched from this place

a. Kourou

b. Normandy

c. Katanga

d. Yalta

31. Which Govind Nihalani film had only female actors on screen?

a. Matroobhoomi

b. Yaadein

c. Chori Chori

d. Rukmavati ki Haveli

32. 'It was the best of times'. The first line of which book

a. A tale of two cities

b. Hard Times

c. Nicholas Nickelby

d. Pickwick Papers

33. The practice of making long speeches and proposing uselss motion by a minority in a legislature seeks to stall or block action on a proposed bill

a. Stop Loss

b. Mirror Wall

c. Time drain

d. Filibustering

34. BI5A is the world's biggest

a. glacier

b. meteor remain

c. Iceberg

d. Halocline

35. Who was slated to be Rakesh Sharma's replacement if he would have been declared unfit to go to space?

a. James Prescott

b. Ravish Malhora

c. Vijay Saxena

d. None of the above

36. What is Pratima Puri's claim to fame?

a. She became the first woman of Indian Origin to join the Obama administration

b. She was the first woman announcer on the All India Radio

c. She spearheaded the adult literacy programme in India

d. None of the above - She was the first woman newsreader on Doordarshan

37. Federal Security Service (FSB) is the successor to

a. ASA

b. Mossad

c. KGB

d. CBI

38. The company is also known as the 'The Big Blue'

a. Wipro

b. General Motors

c. White Star line

d. IBM

39. Plato compared the human soul to a chariot pulled by the two horses of ... and ...

a. reason and emotion

b. good and evil

c. heaven and hell

d. wealth and fame

40. Elia was the pseudonym of

a. Charles Lamb

b. Samuel Coleridge

c. A. Tennyson

d. W.B. Yeats

41. The high yielding dwarf rice variety developed by International Rice Research Institute in 1966

a. Taichung

b. IR8

c. Hancock

d. Corus

42. The religion that Lao-tze found

a. Shintoism

b. Taoism

c. Confucianism

d. None of the above

43. 'We are no longer a nation of snake charmers but a nation of charmers'. Who said that?

a. Aishwarya Rai

b. Atal Behari Vajpayee

c. Justice Bhagwati

d. Lalu Prasad Yadav

44. Who is the first Indian believed to have travelled on a train?

a. Raja Ram Mohun Roy

b. MK Gandhi

c. CF Andrews

d. CR Das

45. Who is the author of the book India's Export Trends and Prospects for self-sustained growth?

a. P. Chidambaram

b. Yashwant Sinha

c. Amartya Sen

d. Manmohan Singh

46. Which Indian cricketer has batted at all positions in test cricket?

a. Kapil Dev

b. Syed Kirmani

c. Mohinder Amarnath

d. Vinoo Mankad

47. Which book starts with the line, "It was love at first sight".

a. Lolita

b. Out of Africa

c. Catch-22

d. Humboldt's Gift

48. Which Indian actress was in the news for her bold scenes in the thriller 'Kill Kill Faster Faster'?

a. Lisa Ray

b. Aishwarya Rai

c. Divya Dutta

d. Sushmita Sen

49. Who threw the Great Indian Party at Cannes this year?

a. Sachin Tendulkar

b. Lakshmi Mittal

c. Hrithik Roshan

d. Vijay Mallya

50. Who did Roger Federer beat to win the Wimbledon 2009 Men's title?

a. Rafael Nadal

b. Andy Murray

c. Andy Roddick

d. Robin Soderling