TNPSC Group 1 Post Study Materials 2014
1Who wrote the Opera Madam Butterfly Puccini2What links - Goa - Kerula - Assam - Bihar India
3Eric Arthur Blaire was the real name of which author George Orwell
4Names - Baker Cook obvious what did Cord wainer do Shoemaker
5Which country do Sinologists study China
6Rudy Stevens became famous under which name Barbara Stank
7Which non alcoholic cordial is made from pomegranates Grenadine
8What is Orchesis - either professional or amateur Art of Dancing
9Taken literally what should you see in a Hippodrome Horses
10Who wrote the Man in the Iron Mask Alexander Dumas
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11Which 1993 Disney film starred Bet Middler as a witch Hocus Pocus12Who piloted the first flight across the English channelLouis Bleriot
13What was the first James Bond filmDr No
14What 1991 film won best film, actor, actress, director OscarsSilence of the Lambs
15What was the capital of EthiopiaAddis Ababa
16Aescapalious emblem staff snake Greek Roman god of whatMedicine
17Giacomo Agostini - 122 Grand Prix 15 world titles what sportMotorcycle Racing
18What is the largest state in the USAAlaska
19Led Deighton trilogy Game Set Match What 3 Capitals Berlin MexicoLondon
20Alan Stuart Konigsberg famous as whoWoody Allen
21Which human rights organisation founded 1961 got Nobel 1977Amnesty International
22Whose autobiography was The long walk to FreedomNelson Mandela
23What was discovered in 1922 by Howard CarterTutankamen tomb
24Clyde Tonbaugh discovered what planet in 1930Pluto
25Who won the women's heptathlon at Seoul in 1988Jackie Joyner-Kersey
26Who wrote Northanger AbbeyJayne Austin
27Who ran through the streets naked crying EurekaArchimedes
28Who composed the Brandeberg concertos full namesJohan Sebastian Bach
29Who won the World Series in 1987Minnesota twins
30What is the correct term of address to the PopeYour Holiness
31In which city was Alexander Graham Bell born in 1847Edinburgh
32Who composed the ballets Sleeping Beauty and The NutcrackerTchaikovsky
33AG Bell opened school in Boston in 1872 for Teachers of whatThe Deaf
34Benjamin Kubelsky 1894 fame as what comedianJack Benny
35In the Old Testament what book comes between Obadiah - MicahJonah
36Robin Williams dressed in drag for which 1993 filmMrs Doubtfire
37Which chess piece could be a member of the churchBishop
38Which German word means lightning war used in WW2Blitzkrieg
39Broccoli belongs to what family of plantsCabbage
40Who designed the first Iron ship the Great Britain in 1845I. Kingdom Brunel
41Whose boat Bluebird was recently raised from Coniston waterDonald Campbell
42in 1951 which (of two) car companies introduced power steeringBuick - Chrysler
43Who wrote Catch 22 (both names)Joseph Heller
44Which country set up the world’s first chemistry lab in 1650Netherlands
45What links the names Botvinik, Tal, Karpov, FischerChess World Champs
46What is the national flower of JapanChrysanthemum
47Bombardier Billy Wells was seen on many Rank films - whyHit Gong
48Where in France do claret wines come fromBordeaux
49What did mathematician John Napier invent in 1614Logarithms
50What was the world’s first high level programming language 1957 IBM FORTRAN
51Consumption was the former name of which diseaseTuberculosis
52Which American state is nicknamed The Diamond StateDelaware
53What are the Sirocco, Mistral and ChinookWinds
54Who wrote about Willie Wonka and the Chocolate FactoryRoald Dahl
55Who, at USA customs declared, nothing but my geniusOscar Wilde
56Issur Danielovitch became famous a whoKirk Douglas
57Who sailed in the Golden HindSir Francis Drake
58 What was the name of the plantation in Gone with the WindTara
59Who won the 1988 SuperbowlWashington Redskins
60Which group believes in The Great Architect of the UniverseFreemasons
61Robert Alan Zimmerman real name of whoBob Dylan
62Processed Galena produces which metalLead
63Who wrote Gulliver’s Travels (both names)Jonathon Swift
64What is a Ha HaSunken Fence
65In Japan what is SeppukuHari Kari - suicide
66Who discovered blood circulation William Harvey
67The dunnock is another name for which common birdHedge Sparrow
68If someone said they were from Hellas - which countryGreece
69Who was the son of Zeus and Maia - Gods MessengerHermes
70Roy Scherer jr became famous as whoRock Hudson
71Who wrote Brave New World (full name)Aldus Huxley
72What links Calabria, Liguria, Puglia and VenetoRegions of Italy
73Which city in Rajasthan has riding breeches named after itJodhpur
74Portugal has had six Kings with what first nameJohn
75What martial arts name means gentle wayJudo
76Jean Claude Killy famous in which sportSkiing
77Kimberlite contains what precious itemDiamonds
78Who directed Dr Strangelove - 2001 - The Shining (full name)Stanley Kubrick
79Rene Lalique - Art Nouveau designer worked what materialGlass
80Who created the children's land of Narnia and Lion Witch WardrobeClive Staples Lewis
81What animal lives in a dreySquirrel
82Why is Louise Brown - born 1978 famousFirst test tube baby
83The title of whose book translates as my struggleAdolf Hitler
84Anna Mary Robinson - famous American painter - what nameGrandma Moses
85In which country would you find the Negev desertIsrael
86Which character has been played by the most actorsSherlock Holmes
87In Greek mythology a Hamadryads spirit guarded whatTrees
88Jocasta was the wife of Laius and the mother of whoOedipus
89Who wrote The Rights of Man - and The Age of ReasonThomas Paine
90What is the capital of SicilyPalermo
91What was invented by Dr Edward Land in 1947Polaroid
92Syd Barett, Roger Waters, Richard Wright, Nick Mason - GroupPink Floyd
93Carlo Collodi created which famous children's characterPinocchio
94What is mainly extracted from pitchblendeUranium
95Which connects Delft, Sevres, Wedgwood, ChelseaPorcelain
96Which country introduced the worlds first diesel loco in 1912Germany
97in 1656 Christian Huygens invented what type of timekeeperPendulum clock
98Duvali, Dushira and Holi are religious days in which religionHindu
99In what industry did John Davidson Rockefeller get richOil
100The Mau Mau were terrorists in which country late 50s early 60sKenya
