General Knowledge Question Answers - I

General Knowledge Question Answers - I

Q1. Who is the 30th Chess Grandmaster of India? A. Vidit Santosh Gujarathi from Nashik, Maharashtra. Q2. Who is the Indian Golfer who bagged the Professional Golf Tour of India’s(PGTI) Emerging Player of the Year title in 2012? A. Abhijit Singh Chadha. He is also Asian Games silver medalist for the year 2010. Q3. The five most terrorism hit nations in the world in 2011 were? A. Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, India & Yemen. Q4. Which extremist leader of the freedom movement was given 6 years of jail punishment in 1908? A. Balgangadhar Tilak. He was arrested when Tilak defended the revolutionaries Prafulla Chaki and Khudiram Bose(who threw a bomb on a carriage in Muzzafarpur) in his newspaper Kesari. Q5. Which is the first Political Organization in India? A. Zamindari Association, which was established in 1838 by Dwarkanath Tagore, Prasanna Kumar Tagore, Radhakanta Deb, Ramkamal Sen and Bhabani Charan Mitra Q6. The founder of ‘Servants of India Society’ was? A. Gopalkrihna Gokhale. Gokhale established the society in Pune, Maharashtra on June 12, 1905. Q7. Bombay was taken over by the East India Company from whom? A. The Portuguese in 1668. Q8. The famous Buddhist scholar Aswaghosh was a contemporary of whom? A. Kanishka Q9. The battle field of Plassey is situated in which state? A. West Bengal. Q10. Which is the oldest Veda of all? A. Rigveda, believed to be composed around 1700-1100 BC. Q11. Ankaleshwar in India is well know for what? A. Petroleum. Q12. From which district of Uttarakhand State was the ‘Chipko Movement’ organized? A. Chamoli. This movement was started in the early 1970s.