General knowledge Series

1. The US state known as 'Pine Free State' is Vermont.
2. The US state known as 'Mountain state' is Pennsylvania.
3. The US state known as 'Land of 1000 Lakes' is Arkansas.
4. The popular detective character created by Agatha Christie is Hercule Poirot.
5. The Pakistani President who died in an air crash was Zia-ul-Huq.
6. Yoghurt means Fermented milk.
7. Yankee is the nickname of American.
8. The International court of Justice is located in Hague, Holland.
9. The headquarters of World Bank is located at Washington DC.
10. Victoria Falls was discovered by David Livingstone.
11. The technique to produce the first test tube baby was evolved by Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards.
12. The oldest residential university of Britain is the Oxford University.
13. The name of the large clock on the tower of the House of Parliament in London is called Big Ben.
14. Prado Museum is located in Madrid.
15. The number of keys in an ordinary piano is Eighty eight.
16. 'Man is a Tool Making Animal' was said by Benjamin Franklin.
17. The term 'anesthesia' was coined by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
18. The first man to reach Antarctica was Fabian Gottlieb.
19. The Kilimanjaro volcano is situated in Tanzania.
20. The invention that is considered to have built America is Dynamite.