GENERAL KNOWLEDGE EXAM

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

1.  Which English club has the nick name "The Gunners"?
                                                          - Arsenal Football club.
2.  "What is Intercalary and BissextileYear"?
                                                           - A leap Year.
3.  What is the name of the device used in the automobiles to convert toxic pollutants in exhaust gas to less toxic  pollutants
                                                                   -Catalytic Converter
4.  In what name a day in planet Mars is known as?
                                                            - Sol.
5.  What is the other name of the chemical sodium silicate?
                                                        - Water glass & Liquid glass. 
6.  Who is the author of "Farewell to Cricket"?
                                                        -  Donald Bradman.
7.   Who is the author of " Sunny Days"?
                                                        -  Sunil Gavaskar.
8.  Who is the author of "Hitting Across Lines"?
                                                        - Vivian Richards.
9.  Who wrote the book " My Side"?
                                                        - David Beckham
10. Who wrote "Indian Summers"?
                                                         - John Wright
11. Who is the author of "The True Story"?
                                                        - Kapil Dev.
12. Who is the author of " My Story"?
                                                          - Vijay Hazare
13. Who is the author of " Cricket My Style"?
                                                         - Kapil Dev.
14. Who wrote "One Day Wonder"?
                                                          - Sunil Gavaskar.
15. Who wrote "One More Over"?
                                                           - E.A.S.Prasanna
16. Who is the author of  "Out of My Comfort Zone"?
                                                           - Steve Woe.
17. Who is the author of "The Cutting Edge"?
                                                           - Javed Miandad.
18. Who is the author of "Open"?
                                                           - Andre Agassi.
19. Who is the author of "Beyond Ten Thousand"?
                                                           -Allen Border.
20. Who is the author of " Idols"?
                                                           - Sunil Gavaskar.            
         
       

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE EXAM

 MONITOR:

Monitor, so the Romans called the nursery teacher. The military Monitor was an officer to tell young soldiers of the  faults committed against the service. The house monitor was a slave to call the family of a morning, to announce meal times, and so on.

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE EXAM

POINT BLANK:
Point blank is a term in gunnery.  When a cannon is so placed that the line of sight is parallel to the axis and horizontal, the discharge is said to be point blank and is supposed to go direct to the object without a curve.  In French point blank is the white mark of the bull's eye in target, to hit which the ball or arrow must not deviate in the least from the exact path.

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE EXAM

TRAGEDY:  The word tragedy is derived from the goat-song (tragos-ode) of the Greeks. It is the song that wins a goat as a prize.  It has gradually come to mean a species of drama in which the action and language are elevated, and the catastrophe, sad.

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE EXAM

It is quite interesting to know the origin of certain words:
VIZ.
Viz., is a contracted form of the word videlicet which means to wit, that is or namely. The z is a corruption of 3 a common mark of contraction in the middle ages: as hab, i.e., habbit; omnibiz, i.e., omnibus; viz., i.e., videlicet.

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE EXAM

It is interesting to see the origin of certain words. Let's look at:

CUSTOMS: The word customs is an abbreviation of the term 'customary dues'. It means a tax imposed on certain goods imported or exported.  This form of tax dates back to the reign of Richard I when a tax was levied on wine imports.  Before that, however, the Greeks had made to use of this form of taxation.

General Knowledge Exam

It is interesting to see how certain words are formed:
TRAMWAY: Tramway is a contraction of Outramway.  The name takes its origin from Benjamin Outram, who in 1800, toed stone sleepers at Little Eton, Derbyshire, instead of timber, as support the ends of rails at their juncture.