General knowledge Confusing Questions & Answers 1. Which is the world’s largest structure composed of living entities? Answer: The Great Barrier Reef 2. Which is the largest living felid? Answer: Amur Tiger (Siberian Tiger) 3. The ritualized fighting between the young males of which animals is known as ‘boxing’? Answer: Kangaroos 4. Which chemical is used to draw and write in the glasses? Answer: Hydroflouric Acid 5. Which chemical was historically known as ‘White vitriol and goslarite’? Answer: Zinc Sulphate 6. The substance which is a chemical compound that tends to shrink or construct body tissues, usually after topical medicinal application is known as …………..? Answer: Astringent 7. Rattus is the scientific name of ……………? Answer: Black rat 8. What is used for the cryopreservation of blood, reproductive cells and other biological samples? Answer: Liquid nitrogen 9. Who is the author of ‘Gathering Storm’? Answer: Winston Churchill 10. Who raised the slogan ‘Each one Teach One’? Answer: A.P.J Abdulkalam 11. Which is the main constituent of cement? Answer: Tricalcium silicate 12. Which country’s national flower is sunflower? Answer: Ukraine 13. Which is widely held to be the first national park in the world? Answer: Yellowstone National Park (USA) 14. Which is the highest valued currency unit in the world? Answer: Kuwait Dinar 15. Whose epitaph reads ‘Dedicated her all to India’? Answer: Sister Nivedita 16. Which Sikh Guru was known as ‘Hind di Chadar’ (The Shield of India)? Answer: Guru Tegh Bahadur 17. Which cereal growing in arid conditions is known as ‘Poor man’s miracle food’? Answer: Ragi or Finger Millet 18. What is the name of the cancer awareness programme launched by Yuvraj Singh to fight the stigma attached to the disease? Answer: YouWeCan 19. Whose efforts lie at the genesis of the famous Chipko Movement? Answer: Ghandi Prasad Bhatt 20. “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination” – whose words are these? Answer: Albert Einstein
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