Tuesday, July 6, 2010

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 10:

1. What does “chiaroscuro” mean in painting?
                                     Light and shade

2. Name the country that lifted ban on Books of Aristotle, Shakespeare and Dickens on February   11, 1968?
                                         China

3. For whose armies were canned food developed to feed?
                                           Napoleon's army

4. Who built the World’s first submarine?
                                          Comelius Van rebbel 

5. Who is a “vintner”?
                                     A Wine Merchant

6. What was the title used by the rulers of the German Empire which ended in 1918?
                                         Kaiser
7. Who is known as the “Man of a thousand faces”?
                                          Lon Chaney
8. In psychiatry, what is “algophobia”?
                                        Morbid fear of pain
9. Name the chief god in ancient Irish mythology?
                                          Dagda
10. Name the official residence of the President of Italy?
                                           Quirinal Palace.

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