Some selected GK questions and answers. 1. Young India was founded by: Answer: Mahatma Gandhi 2. Who gave the call ‘Back to the Vedas’? Answer: Dayanand Saraswati 3. Where is Babur’s tomb situated? Answer: Kabul 4. Who is known as the father of Renaissance? Answer: Petrarch 5. Which American President is related with “Gettysberg speech”? Answer: Abraham Lincoln 6. Which is popularly called as the Bloodless Revolution in World History? Answer: Glorious Revolution 7. The method which is used to determine the geological age of a fossil? Answer: Carbon 14 dating 8. The Astronomer who established the fact, ‘Sun is the centre of Solar System’? Answer: Copernicus 9. The ‘Father of Scientific Socialism’ is: Answer: Karl Marx 10. The organizer of ‘Young Italy Movement’: Answer: Mazzini 11. The father of Chinese Revolution is: Answer: Sun Yat Sen 12. The present name of Mesopotamia (the land between rivers) is: Answer: Iraq 13. Who is known as the Prophet of French Revolution? Answer: Rousseau 14. Which continent is called “the cradle of human civilization”? Answer: Africa 15. The Industrial Revolution began in: Answer: England 16. The mother tongue of Jesus Christ is: Answer: Aramic 17. Who was the first European to translate the Bhagwad Gita to English? Answer: Charles Wilkins 18. Gautam Buddha was born in: Answer: Lumbini 19. Who was the first Mughal emperor of India? Answer: Babar 20. Who said ‘child is the father of man’? Answer: Wordsworth
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