Current Affairs - (SET-2)

General Knowledge for all types of Competitive Exams

1.      Which is the country hosting the 2008 Olympic Games?

2.      Which indoor sport is the most popular in the US?

3.      Which golf player's mother is from Thailand?

4.      What is Aurora Borealis commonly known as?

5.      Which is the non-contagious disease that is the most common in the world?

6.      Which metal is heavier, silver or gold?

7.      How many legs do butterflies have?

8.      Which is the country with the most people?

9.      Which state is the biggest in the US?

10.  Which country has the largest area of land?

11.  Which was the album the Beatles recorded the last time together?

12.  Which instrument did Miles Davis, the jazz musician, play?

13.  What is the sport in which you could get into a headlock?

14.  In which country was golf first played?

15.  Which is the sport where you could be out "leg before wicket", or "hit a six"?

16.  Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?

17.  Who was the writer of Alicea’s Adventures in Wonderland?

18.  Which famous person was the teddy bear named?

19.  Which is the smallest ocean in the world?

20.  What is the rhino's horn made of?

21.  When did baseball originate in the US?

22.  Which is the sport wherein you would use a "sand iron"?

23.  What is the largest mammal in the world?

24.  Which is the country where reggae music originated?

25.  Who was the creator of Jeeves and Wooster?

Answers

1.      China

2.      Basketball

3.      Tiger Woods

4.      Northern Lights

5.      Gold

6.      Six

7.      China

8.      Alaska

9.      Russia

10.  Tooth Decay

11.  Abbey Road

12.  Trumpet

13.  Wrestling

14.  Scotland

15.  Cricket

16.  Michelangelo

17.  Lewis Carroll

18.  Theodore Roosevelt

19.  Arctic Ocean

20.  Hair

21.  19th Century

22.  Golf

23.  Blue Whale

24.  Jamaica

25.  P.G. Wodehouse