Confusing gk Questions and answers

Some Confusing GK Questions and answers for preparing all Competitive Examinations.

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

21. Name the ‘Waterman of India’, whose pioneering efforts in water harvesting and community based water management have led to the revival of five rivers in Rajasthan?

Answer: Rajendra Singh

22. What is Fluosol, which is milky in colour?

Answer: Artificial Blood substitute

23. Which legendary Indian wrestler is nicknamed ‘Pocket Dynamo’?

Answer: K.D Jadhav

24. Which Indian Mathematician is called as “The Euclid of India”?

Answer: Bhaskaracharya

25. The central point of India is located near the city …………….?

Answer: Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh)