General Knowledge - Literature, Geography & Sports

Test your general knowledge with questions covering famous authors and books, world capitals, international currencies, and sports facts.

25 Questions Published

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A Passage to India has been written by:

  1. E.M. Foster
  2. Charles Dickens
  3. Shakespeare
  4. Pearl S. Buck
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Mulakh Raj Anand is the Author of:

  1. Coolie
  2. Nana
  3. Gora
  4. The Post Office
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Das Capital which embodied the concept of socializing was written by:

  1. Karl Marx
  2. James Mile
  3. Lenin
  4. None of these
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Ben Hur has been written by:

  1. George Eliot
  2. Louis Carrol
  3. Lewis Thomas
  4. Lewis Wallace
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Mein Kampf is from the pen of

  1. Adolf Hitler
  2. Sir Walter Scott
  3. T.S. Elliot
  4. Pearl S. Buck
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Far from the Madding Crowd is written by:

  1. R.N. Tagore
  2. Thomas Hardy
  3. George Eliot
  4. John Milton
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A Passage of England was written by:

  1. Nirad C. Chaudhary
  2. R.K. Narayan
  3. Khushwant Singh
  4. Nayantara Segal
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which is the capital of Tajikistan?

  1. Moscow
  2. Dodoma
  3. Damascus
  4. Dushanbe
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The Capital of Lebanon is:

  1. Seoul
  2. Bangkok
  3. Beirut
  4. Oslo
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Port Louis is the Capital of:

  1. Portugal
  2. Mauritius
  3. Zambia
  4. Rhodesia
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Harare is the Capital of:

  1. Kenya
  2. Zimbabwe
  3. Tanzania
  4. Japan
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Khural is the name of the Parliament of:

  1. Cambodia
  2. Iran
  3. Vietnam
  4. Mongolia
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The author of Lajja (Shame) is

  1. Vikram Seth
  2. Anita Desai
  3. Taslima Nasreen
  4. Shoba De
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In Custody, an English novel, is written by which one of the following?

  1. Shobha De
  2. Anita Desai
  3. Vikram Seth
  4. V.S. Naipaul
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The world champion for chess is:

  1. Boris Spasky
  2. Bobby Fischer
  3. Anatoly Karpov
  4. None of these
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Dinar is the currency of

  1. France
  2. Tunisia
  3. Sweden
  4. None of these
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Modern cricket was first played in

  1. England
  2. West Indies
  3. India
  4. Pakistan
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The currency of South Africa is

  1. Rand
  2. Pound
  3. Lira
  4. France
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Anand Math was written by

  1. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
  2. R.N. Tagore
  3. Mulkh Raj Anand
  4. R.K. Narayan
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Baseball is most popular in

  1. U.S.A
  2. Japan
  3. Spain
  4. Germany
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Of Human Bondage is the work of:

  1. Somerset Maugham
  2. Ernest Hemingway
  3. Jean Swift
  4. Charles Dickens
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The currency of Myanmar is

  1. Krona
  2. Leva
  3. Kyat
  4. Yen
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following books has been written by Vikram Seth?

  1. Look Back in Anger
  2. Islamic Bomb
  3. A Suitable Boy
  4. My God Died Young
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Peso is the currency of

  1. Argentina
  2. Belgium
  3. Denmark
  4. Cuba
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The currency of Canada is:

  1. Dollar
  2. Krone
  3. Pound
  4. Dinar

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