176 Mostly Asked Intermediate Level General Knowledge Questions and Answers
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Intermediate General Knowledge Questions and Answers
Question 1
Which word is defined as 'style of shoe or boot in the 1950s with a sharp and long pointed toe'?
Answer: Winklepicker
Question 2
Which word is defined as 'a young person considered to be presumptuous or overconfident'?
Answer: Whippersnapper
Question 3
Which word is defined as 'an eyelet of firm material to strengthen or protect an opening or to insulate or protect something passed through it'?
Answer: Grommet
Question 4
Who was the man convicted of masterminding the 1969 LaBianca-Tate murders?
Answer: Charles Manson
Question 5
Who proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday in the USA in 1863?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln
Question 6
What is the meaning of the name of the constellation Equuleus?
Answer: Foal
Question 7
What chemical element gets is name from the greek word meaning 'stranger'?
Answer: Xenon
Question 8
The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk Was The First Of Which Type Of Aircraft?
Answer: Stealth
Question 9
In 1911 Roald Amundsen became the first person to reach where?
Answer: South Pole
Question 10
What word is used in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet for the letter C?
Answer: Charlie
Question 11
What word is used in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet for the letter P?
Answer: Papa
Question 12
What is the world's largest library, with over 115 million volumes on 532 miles of bookshelves?
Answer: Library of Congress
Question 13
Which of these adjectives means "close to fainting or lightheaded"?
Answer: Woozy
Question 14
What is the word used when a mother gives birth to 5 babies?
Answer: Quintuplets
Question 15
What is the name for the undersurface of a foot?
Answer: Sole
Question 16
What is the expression used to describe a check that failed to clear due to insufficient funds?
Answer: bounced
Question 17
What is the name of the small candy often used to soothe coughs?
Answer: Lozenge
Question 18
What is the French term for a killing stroke delivered as a merciful act?
Answer: Coup de grâce
Question 19
What does the 4-letter abbreviation RSVP stand for?
Answer: Répondez S'il Vous Plaît
Question 20
What is the total number of days in March, April, and May combined?
Answer: 92
Question 21
What is it called when a photograph is excessively bright due to too much light?
Answer: Overexposed
Question 22
In French anatomy, what does 'La langue' refer to?
Answer: The tongue
Question 23
What type of item might you have as a clawfoot in your bathroom?
Answer: A bathtub
Question 24
Which word is defined as 'delusion of a person who believes himself changed into an animal'?
Answer: Zoanthropy
Question 25
Which word is defined as 'high-waisted skiing pants with shoulder straps'?
Answer: Salopettes
Question 26
Which word is defined as 'nonsense'?
Answer: Poppycock
Question 27
Which word is defined as 'having a good sense of smell'?
Answer: Macrosmatic
Question 28
Which word is defined as 'a commotion or fuss'?
Answer: Kerfuffle
Question 29
Which word is defined as 'fear of failure'?
Answer: Kakorrhaphiophobia
Question 30
Which word is defined as 'a commotion'?
Answer: Hullaballoo
Question 31
Which word is defined as 'language that is meaningless'?
Answer: Gobbledygook
Question 32
Which word is defined as 'fish parings or refuse'?
Answer: Gubbins
Question 33
Which word is defined as 'unintelligible or meaningless speech'?
Answer: Gibberish
Question 34
Which word is defined as 'genetically modified food'?
Answer: Frankenfood
Question 35
Which word is defined as 'to perplex someone greatly'?
Answer: Flummox
Question 36
Which word is defined as 'to disconcert of confuse'?
Answer: Discombobulate
Question 37
Which word is defined as 'Old English word for bagpipe'?
Answer: Doodle Sack
Question 38
Which word is defined as 'shouting together with joy'?
Answer: Conjubilant
Question 39
Which word is defined as 'a bad-tempered person'?
Answer: Curmudgeon
Question 40
Which word is defined as 'a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds'?
Answer: Cacophony
Question 41
Which word is defined as 'copious but meaningless talk or writing'?
Answer: Argle-bargle
Question 42
Which word is defined as 'two vowel sounds joined in one syllable to form one speech sound, e.g. the sounds of “ou” in out and of “oy” in boy'?
Answer: Dipthong
Question 43
Where is most of America's gold located?
Answer: Fort Knox
Question 44
What is the basic unit of currency for Equatorial Guinea?
Answer: Franc
Question 45
What is the basic unit of currency for San Marino?
Answer: Euro
Question 46
What Do The Opposite Sides Of A Standard Dice Always Total?
Answer: 7
Question 47
What is the value of the letter Q in Scrabble?
Answer: 10
Question 48
Who was born with the name Cassius Clay?
Answer: Mohammed Ali
Question 49
Where did Robin Hood supposedly live?
Answer: Sherwood forest
Question 50
Who wrote "Mein Kampf" (My Struggle)?
Answer: Adolf Hitler
Question 51
What is an Icelandic epic called?
Answer: Saga
Question 52
What is the name for a band of painted or sculpted decoration, often at the top of a wall?
Answer: Frieze
Question 53
What Is Ghee?
Answer: Clarified Butter
Question 54
Who wrote Auld Lange Syne?
Answer: Robert Burns
Question 55
Who was the first woman to be shot by the FBI?
Answer: Bonnie Parker
Question 56
Who was the first English monarch to have a Christmas tree?
Answer: Queen Victoria
Question 57
Which reindeer isn't mentioned in the poem 'The Night Before Christmas''
Answer: Rudolph
Question 58
Which University, founded in 1636, is the oldest in the USA?
Answer: Harvard
Question 59
Which American Military Academy was established in 1802 on the Hudson river?
Answer: West Point
Question 60
Where did the famous witch trials of New England take place?
Answer: Salem
Question 61
What were 'Little Boy' and 'Fat Man'?
Answer: Atom Bombs
Question 62
What was the name of the space shuttle that exploded?
Answer: Challenger
Question 63
What Is A Male Witch Known As
Answer: Warlock
Question 64
What does 'DMZ' stand for?
Answer: De Militarized Zone
Question 65
The first Live Aid was to benefit which starving country?
Answer: Ethiopia
Question 66
In the Christmas carol 'Away in a Manger', what was the little Lord Jesus asleep on?
Answer: The Hay
Question 67
If you were born on Halloween, what star sign would you be
Answer: Scorpio
Question 68
Gangster Al Capone, boss of the Chicago underworld, was finally jailed for 11 years for what crime?
Answer: Tax evasion
Question 69
After whom was America named?
Answer: Amerigo Vespucci
Question 70
What did 'my true love give to me' on the seventh day of Christmas?
Answer: 7 Swans A Swimming
Question 71
In the song "The Twelve Days Of Christmas", what did my true love give to me on the 12th day?
Answer: 12 Drummers Drumming
Question 72
What did 'my true love give to me' on the eighth day of Christmas?
Answer: 8 Maids A Milking
Question 73
Which nation invented Paper?
Answer: China
Question 74
What Sort Of Animal Was Tarka?
Answer: Otter
Question 75
What is the meaning of the name of the constellation Corona Borealis?
Answer: Northern Crown
Question 76
What is the Chihuahua named after?
Answer: A Mexican state
Question 77
What is the meaning of the name of the constellation Leo Minor ?
Answer: Lesser Lion
Question 78
What Is A Female Goat Called?
Answer: A Nanny
Question 79
What dog is named after a Mexican state?
Answer: Chihuahua
Question 80
What Does The XP In The Operating System 'Windows XP' Actually Stand For?
Answer: Experience
Question 81
Ulna, radius, and clavicle are types of __________.
Answer: Bone
Question 82
Two rats can become the progenitors of 15,000 rats in less than
Answer: 1 year
Question 83
What constellation is represented by scales?
Answer: Libra
Question 84
Of What Is A Jenny The Female?
Answer: Donkey
Question 85
Cows Come In Herds, What Do Geese Come In?
Answer: Gaggles
Question 86
What pre-tv radio show caused hysteria when it was first aired?
Answer: War Of The Worlds
Question 87
How do you write 69 in Roman numerals?
Answer: LXIX
Question 88
According To The Christmas Song, How Many Drummers Drumming Were There?
Answer: 12
Question 89
According to the nursery rhyme, who, 'sat in the corner eating a Christmas Pie''?
Answer: Little Jack Horner
Question 90
How many days will it be before an analogue clock losing 30 minutes a day shows the right time again?
Answer: 24
Question 91
What word is used in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet for the letter F?
Answer: Foxtrot
Question 92
What word is used in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet for the letter G?
Answer: Golf
Question 93
What word is used in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet for the letter H?
Answer: Hotel
Question 94
What word is used in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet for the letter I?
Answer: India
Question 95
What word is used in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet for the letter J?
Answer: Juliett
Question 96
What word is used in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet for the letter K?
Answer: Kilo
Question 97
What word is used in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet for the letter L?
Answer: Lima
Question 98
What word is used in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet for the letter M?
Answer: Mike
Question 99
What word is used in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet for the letter N?
Answer: November
Question 100
What word is used in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet for the letter O?
Answer: Oscar
Question 101
What word is used in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet for the letter Q?
Answer: Quebec
Question 102
What word is used in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet for the letter R?
Answer: Romeo
Question 103
What word is used in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet for the letter S?
Answer: Sierra
Question 104
What word is used in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet for the letter T?
Answer: Tango
Question 105
What word is used in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet for the letter U?
Answer: Uniform
Question 106
What word is used in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet for the letter V?
Answer: Victor
Question 107
What word is used in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet for the letter W?
Answer: Whiskey
Question 108
What word is used in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet for the letter X?
Answer: X-ray
Question 109
What word is used in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet for the letter Z?
Answer: Zulu
Question 110
As of 2023, what is the most used web browser?
Answer: Google Chrome
Question 111
In the nursery rhyme, what animal belonged to a girl named Mary?
Answer: A Lamb
Question 112
What is a barometer used to measure?
Answer: Atmospheric Pressure
Question 113
What is the 3-letter order which, when given by a patient, calls for no chest compressions?
Answer: DNR (do not resuscitate)
Question 114
Which country was served by Olympic Airlines?
Answer: Greece
Question 115
Philippe Bourguignon left the chairmanship of Eurodisney to join which group of resorts?
Answer: Club Med
Question 116
Which of these terms is often used to refer to slot machines?
Answer: One-armed bandit
Question 117
Which board game can you get in a French language edition, with properties like Place du Parc and Promenade?
Answer: Monopoly
Question 118
What is the meaning of the term 'bon mot'?
Answer: A quip
Question 119
What do you call a person who mends pots, kettles, and pans?
Answer: Tinker
Question 120
Which is the only US state whose official song was written for a Broadway musical?
Answer: Oklahoma
Question 121
Which dashboard feature measures the distance travelled in a car?
Answer: Odometer
Question 122
What is the term for the art or study of using language to persuade, which comes from the Greek word for "orator"?
Answer: Rhetoric
Question 123
What kind of officer is charged with providing clothing, fuel, and transportation for troops?
Answer: A quartermaster
Question 124
What does the term 'D.B.A.' stand for in the legal industry?
Answer: Doing Business As
Question 125
Which popular games console was released by Nintendo in 1998?
Answer: Game Boy
Question 126
What is the name of the shoulder-held weapon used for firing armor-piercing rockets?
Answer: Bazooka
Question 127
Which iconic sports car designed by Carroll Shelby was produced during the 1960s?
Answer: Cobra
Question 128
What does it mean when someone says that "it's growing on you"?
Answer: It's becoming more enjoyable as time goes on
Question 129
What does the military acronym DEFCON stand for?
Answer: Defense Condition
Question 130
What is the type of lock that has no spring and typically uses a bar that either moves horizontally or vertically?
Answer: Deadbolt
Question 131
What is the term for the backward momentum that a person feels after firing a gun?
Answer: Recoil
Question 132
Which word is used to describe early achievement in children?
Answer: Precocious
Question 133
Which German dog breed features short legs and a long body?
Answer: Dachshund
Question 134
Which 2007 video game by MTV Games lets players form their own band and tour the world, using a number of plastic instruments as controllers?
Answer: Rock Band
Question 135
What 3-letter word can precede cord, current, off, and saw?
Answer: Rip
Question 136
What term, which refers to the selection of performers for a film, is also used to describe the process of fishermen catching fish?
Answer: Casting
Question 137
What is the name of the cotton fabric, named for a city in India, made from unbleached, and often not fully processed cotton?
Answer: Calico
Question 138
What engineering achievement made it much easier to sail between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans?
Answer: The Panama Canal
Question 139
What word describes starting and stopping at intervals?
Answer: Intermittent
Question 140
What word could refer to a dance or a dot?
Answer: Polka
Question 141
What is the word for an auxiliary building near the main one?
Answer: Annex
Question 142
What grammatical unit can be simple, compound or complex?
Answer: Sentence
Question 143
What is the meaning of the word 'Vostok' in Russian?
Answer: East
Question 144
What did Jan Vermeer give two of to a baker in exchange for credit?
Answer: Paintings
Question 145
Which US President is quoted as saying "I'm President of the United States, and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli!"?
Answer: George H.W. Bush
Question 146
What is the term for a canis lupus that prefers to live independent of others or leaves its pack?
Answer: Lone Wolf
Question 147
What is the Spanish word for "few"?
Answer: Poco
Question 148
What does the French word 'merci' mean?
Answer: Thank you
Question 149
What is the Spanish word for "thank you"?
Answer: Gracias
Question 150
What is the name of the handheld games console developed by Sony?
Answer: PlayStation Portable
Question 151
What is the term for the part of a financial portfolio that can be turned into cash quickly?
Answer: Liquid assets
Question 152
Which term refers to words that are spelled the same but have different sounds and neanings?
Answer: Heteronyms
Question 153
What is the idiom used to describe a situation where there is little difference between two options or choices?
Answer: Six of one, half dozen of another
Question 154
What term of endearment is appropriate for your sister in Spanish?
Answer: Hermana
Question 155
Which term meaning "to rigidly categorize" comes from small desk compartments?
Answer: Pigeonhole
Question 156
What middle initial is shared by film director Cecil DeMille and basketball star Kobe Bryant?
Answer: B
Question 157
What does the Latin abbreviation term 'e.g.' mean?
Answer: For example
Question 158
What is the Spanish word for 'reddish-brown' that signifies a cigar class?
Answer: Colorado
Question 159
What is the geological term meaning 'to wear away'?
Answer: Erode
Question 160
In gaming, what is the meaning of the abbreviation RPG?
Answer: Role Playing Game
Question 161
What is the technical name for the pair of intersecting lines in a firearm scope?
Answer: Crosshairs
Question 162
What is the French term for a big prize?
Answer: Grand prix
Question 163
What is the term for an exaggeration that uses extreme words and expressions?
Answer: Hyperbole
Question 164
What term for someone who tells stories and anecdotes with skill and wit?
Answer: A raconteur
Question 165
Which word, borrowed from Spanish, means "insane"?
Answer: Loco
Question 166
What color is carmine?
Answer: Red
Question 167
What is the name of the type of oven used to make pottery?
Answer: A kiln
Question 168
What is the state or quality of being all-powerful?
Answer: Omnipotence
Question 169
In video game slang, what does the acronym 'NPC' stand for?
Answer: Non-player character
Question 170
In language, 'me' is which type of pronoun?
Answer: First person
Question 171
What is the English translation of the Spanish word 'panadero'?
Answer: Baker
Question 172
What type of word indicates an action?
Answer: Verb
Question 173
What word refers to a set of letters placed after the stem of a word?
Answer: Suffix
Question 174
What is the art of clipping trees and hedges?
Answer: Topiary
Question 175
What is the plural of "radius"?
Answer: Radii
Question 176
What is the name given to a heat wave that occurs in autumn?
Answer: Indian summer