Education & Reference Questions & Answers

Education & Reference Questions & Answers

1. Are elephants afraid of mice?
2. Butter, cheese or milk?
3. By which name do we know Theodor Jozef Konrad Korzeniowski?
4. Can all dogs bark?
5. Did Rob Roy really live?
6. First Impressions was the title Jane Austen gave to her first book but under what title was it published?
7. How did ‘Hello’ come to be used as a greeting over the phone?
8. How did the term French leave originate?
9. How is Republic Day celebrated in india?
10. In whose book does a female vampire appear?
11. Is there any connection between Captain Blood and Colonel Blood?
12. Is world getting more and more corrupt?
13. Little jeoy
14. The contemporary accounts of Julius Caesar’s wars in Gaul and Britain were written by whom?
15. The Virginian has been often filmed but who wrote the book?
16. Three Men In a Boat is one of very few humorous classics but who wrote it?
17. To whom does The Swan of Avon refer?
18. Watch out!
19. What are fold mountains?
20. What are Hekatonkheires?
21. What causes mountain climates?
22. What does ‘crossing the Rubicon’ mean?
23. What does ‘to play second fiddle to’ mean?
24. What does Realpolitik mean?
25. What does the Warsaw Convention signify?
26. What famous mystery novel was left unfinished by which well-known author?
27. What film-of-the-book won nine Awards by the Academy of Motion picture arts and Sciences in 1939?
28. What is a banana problem?
29. What is a barcode?
30. What is a bucket list?
31. What is a fake-ation?
32. What is a flying saucer?
33. What is a gross spread?
34. What is a kangaroo court?
35. What is a map legend?
36. What is a NEET?
37. What is a nuclear umbrella and how does it work?
38. What is a Parthian shot?
39. What is a recessionista?
40. What is a red herring?
41. What is a tick tock?
42. What is aflockalypse?
43. What is an okapi?
44. What is arachnophobia?
45. What is Bafana Bafana and how does it get its name?
46. What is baggravation?
47. What is Big Crunch theory?
48. What is edupunk?
49. What is FIR?
50. What is hint fiction?
51. What is neurolaw?
52. What is pink noise?
53. What is scarlet day?
54. What is Soundbite TV?
55. What is sunlighting?
56. What is the Blue Ocean strategy?
57. What is infoganda?
58. What is the difference between a Xoogler and a Noogler?
59. What is the difference between an attorney general and solicitor general?
60. What is the history of Sudoku?
61. What is the Hubbert Peak Theory?
62. What is the Kuppuswamy scale?
63. What is the name of the priest who is famous for solving mysteries?
64. What is the name of the private detective whose adventures were written by Raymond Chandler?
65. What is the origin of the copyright symbol?
66. What is the origin of the phrase – beat around the bush?
67. What is the origin of the term chutzpah?
68. What is the origin of the term manhole?
69. What is the origin of the term rat race?
70. What is the origin of the word ‘flat’?
71. What is the origin of the word hot dog?
72. What is the origin of the word syntax?
73. What is the origin of word ‘Juggernaut’?
74. What is the selection criteria of National Bravery Award on Republic Day?
75. What is the Sphinx Award?
76. What is Tri-Valley University scam?
77. What is UNICEF and what does it do?
78. What is Unicorn?
79. What is waithood?
80. What is wiki?
81. What is workweek creep?
82. What was Indian mythological figure Rishyashringa or Shringirishi famous for?
83. What was the Meaning of ‘Mark Twain’?
84. What was the only book for which Jonathan Swift, who wrote scores of books, was paid?
85. What were the real names of the three musketeers?
86. What’s the story behind Subhash Chandra Bose and Hitler’s secret Indian army?
87. When Sir Walter Scott was made bankrupt, how did he pay off his debts?
88. When was The Arabian Nights Entertainments first written?
89. Where does sugar come from?
90. Which author wrote three books, each containing the word beau in title?
91. Which french poet was the hero of the very popular operetta The Vagabond King?
92. Which is the world’s longest storybook?
93. Which notorious duellist was also an author and play and playwright?
94. Which poet Laureate was said to have worked himself to death?
95. Which queen’s favourite started to write The History of the World while awaiting execution?
96. Who are jargonauts?
97. Which was the book hailed as “The best book about Wales” ever published?
98. Who are pancake people?
99. Who are spitterati?
100. Who gave four white feathers to Harry Faversham?
101. Who is a flower child?
102. Who is a Nihilarian?
103. Who is a schlimazel?
104. Who is Ian Fleming’s famous hero, featured in many films?
105. Who stole the British crown jewels?
106. Who was Mark Twain?
107. Who was O Henry?
108. Who was the Army Nurse who won fame by writing books for girls?
109. Who was the English Baron who liked to use of the words “The last” in the titles of his books?
110. Who was the first American Author to Achieve International Fame?
111. Who was the French Forest Ranger famous for his fables?
112. Who was the last of the Mohicans?
113. Who was the Oyster Pirate whose books became famous?
114. Who wrote a book about The son of Aladdin?
115. Who wrote the book Moby Dick?
116. Who wrote the book on which the world’s most popular opera was based?
117. Who wrote the Bulldog Drummond Novels?
118. Who wrote the famous fairy story Cinderella?
119. Who wrote The One Hundred and One Dalmatians?
120. Who wrote The Swiss Family Robinson?
121. Who wrote the two baffling mystery novels, The Woman in White and The Moonstone?
122. Who wrote The Wind in the Willows?
123. Who wrote under the nom-de-plume of Saki?
124. Who wrote, illustrated and then published at her own expense The Tale of Peter Rabbit?
125. Who, or what, is Attaboy?
126. Whose novel about English Country life was praised by a British Prime Minister?
127. Why did Arnold Bennett write under the nom-de-plume of “Gwendolyn”?
128. Why do clouds burst? क्यों फटते हैं बादल
129. Why do not trees grow on mountain tops?
130. Why do pirates wear a black patch over one eye?
131. Why do plants flower at different times of the year?
132. Why do some countries control the entry of animals?
133. Why is the countdown so important while launching a rocket?
134. Why is there a dodo in Alice in Wonderland?
135. Why is Winston Churchill’s speech known as the ‘Iron Curtain speech’?