General Knowledge UK 2

Q(50) Which is the highest mountain in U.K.

ANS:  Ben Nevis

Q(51) Which is the suthernmost point on mainland Great Britain.

ANS:  Lizard point

Q(52) Which of these cities is more towards North compared to the others.

ANS:  Edinburgh

Q(53) Which of these Scottish cities is not on the coast?

ANS:  Glasgow

Q(54) Which of these cities does not lie in Scotland?

ANS:  Liverpool

Q(55) Which of these cities do not lie in Wales?

ANS:  Sheffield

Q(56) Which of these cities does not lie in England?

ANS:  Wrexham

Q(57) Which of these cities is not in Northern Ireland?

ANS:  Port Talbot

Q(58) Which of these counties does not have shore on lake Lough Neagh?

ANS:  Fermanagh

Q(59) Lough Neagh is a

ANS:  Fresh water lake

Q(60) Cairngorms national park is in

ANS:  Scotland

Q(61) Which of these National parks is not in Wales?

ANS:  Exmoor national park

Q(62) The longest river in Scotland is

ANS:  River Tay

Q(63) Which is the only part of the United Kingdom that shares a land border with another sovereign state?

ANS:  Northern Ireland

Q(64) The first British satellite was

ANS:  Ariel 1

Q(65) The highest peak in Northern Ireland is

ANS:  Slieve Donard

Q(66) The highest peak in Scotland is

ANS:  Beinn Nibheis

Q(67) How many British Overseas Territories are there?

ANS:  14

Q(68) For elections to the House of Commons, the UK is divided into ...... constituencies

ANS:  650

Q(69) Who is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the United Kingdom?

ANS:  British monarch

Q(70) The largest bypass road in UK and in the world is

ANS:  M25 motorway

Q(71) A census is taken simultaneously in all parts of the UK every ........ years

ANS:  10

Q(72) The second most spoken language in UK after English is

ANS:  Polish

Q(73) The United Kingdom is not a member of which of these organisations

ANS:  BRICS

Q(74) The United Kingdom is a nation having

ANS:  parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy

Q(75) UK was ......... country to develop and test a nuclear weapon.

ANS:  third

Q(76) The smallest country of the United Kingdom is

ANS:  Northern Ireland

Q(77) The 1707 Acts of Union declared that the kingdoms of ............ and ............ were united into one Kingdom by the name of Great Britain.

ANS:  England and Scotland

Q(78) Operation Hurricane in the year 1952 was the first test of a

ANS:  British atomic device

Q(79) English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee is credited with

ANS:  inventing the World Wide Web

Q(80) Which is the oldest bank in UK.

ANS:  Hoare & Co

Q(81) The first newspaper published in Britain was

ANS:  The Oxford Gazette

Q(82) Which of these is a British telecommunications company

ANS:  Binatone

Q(83) The first British aircraft carrier was

ANS:  HMS Argus

Q(84) The national flower of England is

ANS:  Tudor Rose

Q(85) The national animal of Scotland is

ANS:  Unicorn

Q(86) Patron Saint of Northern Ireland is

ANS:  St. Patrick

Q(87) Which of these appear on the flag of Wales

ANS:  The Red Dragon

Q(88) National personification of United Kingdom is

ANS:  Britannia

Q(89) The first railway station built in UK was

ANS:  Manchester Liverpool road

Q(90) Which of these inventors/scientists was British?

ANS:  Isaac Newton