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1. Which city known as “Cockpit of Europe”?

(A) Netherlands

(B) Poland

(C) Belgium

(D) Greece

Answer: Belgium

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2. Which is known as “Emerald Isle”?

(A) Ireland

(B) Poland

(C) Netherlands

(D) Portugal

Answer: Ireland

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3. Which is known as “City of Magnificent Distances”?

(A) Los Angeles

(B) Washington

(C) Honolulu

(D) Philadelphia

Answer: Washington

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4. Which city is known as “City of Sky Scrappers”?

(A) New York

(B) Sanfrancisco

(C) Los Angeles

(D) San Diego

Answer: New York

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5. Which city is called as ‘City of Dreaming Spires’?

(A) Oxford

(B) Birmingham

(C) Cambridge

(D) Derby

Answer: Oxford

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6. Who is the author of the famous book “I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban”?

(A) Khushwant singh

(B) Poonam Surie

(C) Malala Yousufzai and Christina Lamb

(D) Javier Moro

Answer: Malala Yousufzai and Christina Lamb

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7. Who is the author of the famous book “Faces and Places Professor”?

(A) Deepak Nayyar

(B) Jhumpa Lahiri

(C) Salman Rushdie

(D) Alexander Bard

Answer: Deepak Nayyar

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8. Which of the following is the largest lake of the world?

(A) Lake Huron

(B) Lake Vostok

(C) Caspian Sea

(D) Black Sea

Answer: Caspian Sea

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9. Difference between Indian Standard Time (IST) and Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is?

(A) 4.50 hours

(B) 5 hours

(C) 5.30 hours

(D) None of the above

Answer: 5.30 hours

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10. In which country is the Salzburg Festival held every year?

(A) Austria

(B) Switzerland

(C) Germany

(D) France

Answer: Austria

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The Salzburg Festival is a prominent festival of music and drama established in 1920. It is held each summer (for five weeks starting in late July) within the Austrian town of Salzburg, the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.Since 1967, an annual Salzburg Easter Festival has also been held, organized by a separate organization.

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11. With which sports Paul Nixon is associated?

(A) Cricket

(B) Football

(C) Hockey

(D) Golf

Answer:

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He is a former English cricketer who played for Leicestershire, England, England A, Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and Kent. He is a wicket-keeper and left-handed batsman. He announced that he would play his final game of professional cricket at Grace Road against Kent on 6 August 2011 in a T20 quarter final.

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12. Which of the following following awards is NOT associated with films?

(A) Golden Globe Awards

(B) The Academy Awards / Oscars

(C) The British Academy Film Awards / BAFTA

(D) Emmy Award / Simply Emmy

Answer: Emmy Award / Simply Emmy

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An Emmy Award, or simply Emmy, is an American award that recognizes excellence in the television industry, and is the equivalent of an Academy Award (for film), the Tony Award (for theatre), and the Grammy Award (for music).Because Emmys are given in various sectors of the American television industry, they are presented in different annual ceremonies held throughout the year.

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13. In which of the following field Nobel prize is not given?

(A) Physics

(B) Peace

(C) Chemistry

(D) Music

Answer: Music

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14. In which year did the United Nations start observing March 8 as the International Women’s Day?

(A) 1917

(B) 1975

(C) 1911

(D) 1914

Answer: 1975

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15. In which Indian state the Asirgarh Pass is located?

(A) Madhya Pradesh

(B) Assam

(C) Uttarakhand

(D) Kerala

Answer: Madhya Pradesh

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16. In which country is the Salzburg Festival held every year?

(A) Switzerland

(B) Germany

(C) Austria

(D) France

Answer: Austria

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17. What is the name of the boundary demarcation line between USA and Canada?

(A) 16th Parallel

(B) 49th Parallel

(C) 17th Parallel

(D) 38th Parallel

Answer: 49th Parallel

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18. What is the name of the boundary demarcation line between France and Germany?

(A) Maginot Line

(B) Coco Channel

(C) Hiddenberg Line

(D) Older Neisse Line

Answer: Maginot Line

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19. What is the name of the boundary demarcation line between North and South Korea?

(A) 17th Parallel

(B) 16th Parallel

(C) 8° Channel

(D) 38th Parallel

Answer: 38th Parallel

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20. What is the name of the boundary demarcation line between Germany and Poland?

(A) Hiddenberg Line

(B) Maginot Line

(C) Older Neisse Line

(D) Radcliff Line

Answer: Older Neisse Line

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21. What is the name of the boundary demarcation line between India and Pakistan(as claimed by Pakistan but not recognized by India)?

(A) 16th Parallel

(B) 17th Parallel

(C) 24th Parallel

(D) 8° Channel

Answer: 24th Parallel

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22. G8 group reformatted as G7 group, by expelling which one of the following country?

(A) Germany

(B) Russia

(C) Canada

(D) France

Answer: Russia

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Now the countries in the G7 group(excluding Russia) are –
Canada
France
Germany
Italy
Japan
United Kingdom
United States
European Union

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23. Which country is not the member of IBSA Dialogue Forum?

(A) Germany

(B) South Africa

(C) Brazil

(D) India

Answer: Germany

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The IBSA Dialogue Forum (India, Brazil, South Africa) is an international tripartite grouping for promoting international cooperation among these countries.

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24. Which country hosted the IBSA summit in 2017?

(A) Brazil

(B) Poland

(C) India

(D) South Africa

Answer: India

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25. Where the Pink Ruins of Petra is located?

(A) Brazil

(B) Jordan

(C) China

(D) Mexico

Answer: Jordan

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It is known as Raqmu, is a historical and archaeological city in southern Jordan. Petra lies on the slope of Jabal Al-Madbah in a basin among the mountains which form the eastern flank of Arabah valley that run from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba. Petra is believed to have been settled as early as 9,000 BC, and it was possibly established in the 4th century BC as the capital city of the Nabataean Kingdom. The Nabataeans were nomadic Arabs who invested in Petra’s proximity to the trade routes by establishing it as a major regional trading hub.

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26. Where the Statue of Christ the Redeemer is located?

(A) Brazil

(B) Peru

(C) Mexico

(D) Italy

Answer: Brazil

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It is an Art Deco statue of Jesus Christ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, created by French sculptor Paul Landowski and built by the Brazilian engineer Heitor da Silva Costa, in collaboration with the French engineer Albert Caquot. Romanian sculptor Gheorghe Leonida fashioned the face. Constructed between 1922 and 1931, the statue is 30 metres (98 ft) tall, excluding its 8-metre (26 ft) pedestal. The arms stretch 28 metres (92 ft) wide.

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27. Where the Great Sphinx of Giza is located?

(A) Italy

(B) Egypt

(C) England

(D) Rome

Answer: Egypt

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It is commonly referred to as the Sphinx of Giza or just the Sphinx, is a limestone statue of a reclining sphinx, a mythical creature with the body of a lion and the head of a human.Facing directly from West to East, it stands on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile in Giza, Egypt. The face of the Sphinx is generally believed to represent the Pharaoh Khafre.

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28. In which country the ‘Petrodava Dacian Fortress’ is located ?

(A) Chile

(B) Romania

(C) Spain

(D) Argentina

Answer: Romania

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The Petrodava Dacian Fortress is the oldest historical monument located in Piatra Neamt city, Romania. The fort was built around 82 BC and AD 106 by the Dacian people in ancient Europe.

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29. The ‘1776 Commission report’ is associated with which country?

(A) United States

(B) Japan

(C) Germany

(D) China

Answer: United States

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The White House on Monday released the 1776 Commission report, just days before president-elect Joe Biden would take his oath in office. In September last year, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to set up a “national commission to promote patriotic education” in the country. The move was aimed at pleasing his conservative voter base in the run-up to the November 3 elections.The initiative, dubbed the ‘1776 Commission’, is an apparent counter to The 1619 Project, a Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of essays on African American history of the past four centuries, which explores the Black community’s contribution in nation-building since the era of slavery to modern times.Trump announced the move at a history conference celebrating the 233rd anniversary of the signing of the US Constitution (on September 17, 1787); the document being written in the decade after the original 13 colonies declared independence from the British Empire in 1776.

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30. Which film won the best documentary feature at the Oscars 2021?

(A) The Mole Agent

(B) Collective

(C) My Octopus Teacher

(D) Crip Camp

Answer: My Octopus Teacher

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“My Octopus Teacher”, which has Indian filmmaker Swati Thiyagarajan as associate producer and production manager, won the best documentary feature at the Oscars, which also honoured actor Irrfan Khan and costume designer Bhanu in its ‘In Memoriam’ segment.

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International GK Important for UPSC, SSC, PSC, CHSL, CDS, WBCS, CGL, IAS, NDA, Railways, Banks, etc.

1. Which city known as “Cockpit of Europe”?

2. Which is known as “Emerald Isle”?

3. Which is known as “City of Magnificent Distances”?

4. Which city is known as “City of Sky Scrappers”?

5. Which city is called as ‘City of Dreaming Spires’?

6. Who is the author of the famous book “I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban”?

7. Who is the author of the famous book “Faces and Places Professor”?

8. Which of the following is the largest lake of the world?

9. Difference between Indian Standard Time (IST) and Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is?

10. In which country is the Salzburg Festival held every year?

11. With which sports Paul Nixon is associated?

12. Which of the following following awards is NOT associated with films?

13. In which of the following field Nobel prize is not given?

14. In which year did the United Nations start observing March 8 as the International Women’s Day?

15. In which Indian state the Asirgarh Pass is located?

16. In which country is the Salzburg Festival held every year?

17. What is the name of the boundary demarcation line between USA and Canada?

18. What is the name of the boundary demarcation line between France and Germany?

19. What is the name of the boundary demarcation line between North and South Korea?

20. What is the name of the boundary demarcation line between Germany and Poland?

21. What is the name of the boundary demarcation line between India and Pakistan(as claimed by Pakistan but not recognized by India)?

22. G8 group reformatted as G7 group, by expelling which one of the following country?

23. Which country is not the member of IBSA Dialogue Forum?

24. Which country hosted the IBSA summit in 2017?

25. Where the Pink Ruins of Petra is located?

26. Where the Statue of Christ the Redeemer is located?

27. Where the Great Sphinx of Giza is located?

28. In which country the ‘Petrodava Dacian Fortress’ is located ?

29. The ‘1776 Commission report’ is associated with which country?

30. Which film won the best documentary feature at the Oscars 2021?

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