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Quiz Competition in Bca College: C. English

The document contains 30 multiple choice questions about literature, history, science and sports. It covers topics like authors and their works, important scientific discoveries and inventors, explorers and their voyages, firsts in space exploration, and national sports of countries. It was a quiz competition in BCA College to test general knowledge.

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Quiz Competition in Bca College: C. English

The document contains 30 multiple choice questions about literature, history, science and sports. It covers topics like authors and their works, important scientific discoveries and inventors, explorers and their voyages, firsts in space exploration, and national sports of countries. It was a quiz competition in BCA College to test general knowledge.

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QUIZ COMPETITION IN BCA COLLEGE

1. The language with the richest vocabulary is:


A. Hindi
B. French
C. English
D. German

2. The oldest Indian language is:


A. Telugu
B. Hindu
C. Tamil
D. Punjabi

3. Which book has been printed in the maximum number of languages and these scripts?
A. The Bible
B. Hiraka Sutra
C. The Super Book
D. None of these

4. The only religious book ever printed in a shorthand scripts is:


A. The Ramayana
B. The Mahabharata
C. The bible
D. Guru Granth Sahib

5. The oldest printed work in the world, which dates back to AD 868 is:
A. The Bible
B. The Hirake Sutra
C. The Ramayana
D. The Mahabharata

6. The author of the play/book ?Ratnawali? is:


A. Tulsidas
B. Kalidas
C. Harsha Vardhan
D. Prem Chand

7. Which of the following in the book/play written by Maithili Sharan Gupt?


A. Saket
B. Satyartha Prakash
C. Shakuntala
D. Savitri
8. The book ?Satyartha Prakash? was written by:
A. Swami Dayanand
B. Swami Vivekanand
C. Sarojini Naidu
D. Kalidas

9. The play/book ?Shakuntala? was written by:


A. Maithili Sharan gupt
B. Swami Dayanand
C. Kalidas
D. Tulsidas

10. Which of the following is the author of ?Song of India, The?:


A. Firdausi
B. Sarojini Naidu
C. Lala Lajpat Rai
D. Sri Aurobindo Ghosh

11. The author of the book ?Time machine? is:


A. Lewis Carroll
B. Robert Louis Stevenson
C. Charles Lamb
D. H.G. Wells

12. Which of the following book was written by Tulsidas:


A. Vinay Patrika
B. Ramcharitmanas
C. Both (a) and (b)
D. Yashodhara

13. The book ?Vish Vriksha? was written by:


A. Bankimchandra Chatterjee
B. Annie Basant
C. Tulsidas
D. Kalidas

14. The book ?We Indians? was written by:


A. H.G. Wells
B. Khushwant Singh
C. James Jeans
D. Thomas Moore

15. Which of he following is he author of play/book ?Yashodhara?:


A. Maithili Sharan Gupt
B. Khushwant Singh
C. Bankimchandra Chatterjee
D. Sarojini Naidu

16. Dhyan Chand was:


A. A great hockey player
B. Captained he Indian hockey team which won a gold medal in 1936 Berlin Olympics
C. Scored 101 goals at the Olympic games and 300 goals in the international matches.
D. All the statements are correct

17. Who developed the small pox vaccination?


A. Eduard Jenner
B. Alexander Fleming
C. Albert Einstein
D. None of these

18. Euclid was:


A. Greek mathematician
B. Contributor to the use of deductive principles of logic as the basis of geometry
C. Propounded the geometrical theosems
D. All the statements are correct

19. Who is also known as the ?Lady with the Lamp??


A. Florence Nightingale
B. Sarojini Naidu
C. Rani Laxmibai
D. Bachendri Pal

20. Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit was:


A. A German Physicist
B. Developed the mercury thermometer in 1714
C. Devised temperature scale
D. All are correct

21. Galileo was an Italian astronomer who:


A. Developed the telescope
B. Discovered 4 satellites of Jupiter
C. Discovered that the movement of the pendulum produces a regular time measurement.
D. All are correct

22. Who is known as the father of English poetry?


A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. John Milton
C. John Keats
D. None of these
23. Marco Polo
A. Discovered Greenland
B. Traveled three China, India and other parts of Asia
C. Traveled round the cape of Good Hope
D. Discovered Canada

24. Who was first to sail sound the strait, reached the Philippines and named the Pacific
Ocean?
A. Ferdinand Magelion
B. Jacques Carter
C. William Janszoom
D. Vasco da Gama

25. Who discovered Australia?


A. Eric the Red
B. Leif Ericsson
C. William Janszoom
D. None of these

26. Who located the magnetic pole?


A. Sir James Clark
B. Rear Admiral
C. Sir John Ross
D. All the above

27. Who was the first to cross the Antarctic?


A. Sir Vivian Fuchs & sir Edmund Hillary
B. Maj. Yuri Gagarin and Maj. Gherman Titor
C. Capt. R. E. Scott
D. All of these

28. Who were the first to journey into space?


A. Maj. Yori Gagarin and maj. Gherman Titor from Russia
B. Comm. Grissom and Col john Glenn from America
C. Both are correct
D. None of these

29. Who were the first to circle the moon?


A. Frank boreman, Bill Anders and Jim Lovell
B. Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin
C. Charles Conrad and Alan Bean
D. None of these

30. The national sport of Canada is:


A. Tennis and cricket
B. Lacrosse
C. Judo
D. Rugby and Football

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