Music Quiz Questions

Music- Quiz Questions and Answers


• Name the Australian musician who composed the famous waltz “On the beautiful, Blue Danube” in 1866:

Johann Strauss (The Younger)

• Which eminent German family produced musicians over seven generations?

Bach family

• Name the famous German composer who continued writing musical pieces even after he turned deaf:

Ludwig van Beethoven

• Name the Russian born musician who composed the ballet “The Firebird” in the year 1910:

Igor Stravinsky

• Which musical instrument is reputed to be the oldest in the world?

The Drum

• When was violin introduced into the Indian music?

19th century

• What is the name of the Chinese guitar?

Pipa-pa

• In the music what is the highest attainable male voice called?

Alto

• To which country does the musical stringed instrument ’balalaika’ belong?

Russia

• Which is the national musical instrument of Japan?

Koto-A kind of zither

• Which instrument is keyboard read-organ, powered by foot pedals and used in American churches during the 1800?

Harmonium

• Which instrument has 47 strings and seven pedals, and was introduced into orchestra in the 19th century?

Concert harp

• Which instrument‘s name translates literally as ‘soft loud ’?

Pianoforte piano

• What were performed at La Scala, Milan at the auditorium in convent garden, London?

Operas

• What was the surname of Thomas Arthur who collaborated to write ‘The Savoy operas’?

Gilbert and Sullivan

• Which composer wrote 27 piano concertos, 23 string quartets, 35 violin sonatas and more than 50 symphonies’?

Mozart

• What was the title of Beethoven’s only in opera?

Fidelio

• What was used to conduct the orchestra before the baton was introduced in the early 19th century?

A Violin bow

• Which Irish flautist was a member of the Berlin philharmonic 1969-75 before pursuing a solo career?

James Galway

• Which symphony did Dvorak write during his time as director of the National Conservatory in New York?

The ‘New World’ symphony

• For the British king did Handel compose the ‘water music‘in 1717?

George 1

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GENERAL STUDIES – Quiz Questions and Answers part -1

GENERAL STUDIES – Quiz Questions and Answers part -1

• What sign of the zodiac is representing by a goat?

Capricorn

• A house height is measured from ground to which part of its body?

The highest part of the it’s withers-base of the crest line of its neck

• What is the name of the common fire proof martial used for thatching house roofs?

Asbestos

• How did ‘passport ’get its name?

Permission to pass from port to port

• What is Japanese word for ‘Goodbye ‘?

Sayonara

• Nationality of Christopher Columbus:

Genoese (Italian)

• Which European prince was known as ‘The Navigator’?

Prince Henry of Portugal

• What is the Tamil name of God Vishnu?

Tirumal

• In a share market what do the ‘Bull’ and ‘Bear ‘represent?

Upward trend and Downward trend in prices respectively

• What was the trade mark of the first umbrellas manufactured in India

Stag mark (1860)

• The first navigator to go around the earth was a Spanish name Magellan. What was the name of his ship?

Victoria

• Timbuktu was discovered by Europeans in 1807 where it is?

In Mali-in Africa on the southern boundary of the Sahara on the river Niger

• In medieval times what was a ‘mangonel’ used for?

Launching missiles or stones – it was a siege engine

• What was”ha-ha”?

A sunken ditch or fence surrounding a park or garden

• The largest syndicate crime organization in the world is reputed to be ‘mafia’.By what other name is it commonly?

The Family or La Cosa Nostra

• What is the name of Dublin prison –the largest in Ireland?

Mount joy Prison

• Which day is celebrated as earth day?

April 22

• One greatest rulers of Europe was nick named –“The Little Corporal”. Identify him?

Napoleon Bonaparte

• The ocean is the midlives island the group?

The Indian Ocean


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COMPUTER GENERAL QUIZ QUESTIONS

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• COBOL is acronym for:

Common Business Oriented Language

• BASIC is acronym for:

Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

• KB, MB, GB, is respectively:

Kilo Bites Mega Bites Giga Bites

• A set of 8 bits is called:

Bite

• A set of 4 bit is called:

Nibble

• HDD and FDD are respectively:

Hard Disk Drive, Floppy Disk Drive

• Winchester drive is also called:

Hard disk Drive

• The center processing unit of a computer consist 3 units namely:

Arithmetic Logic Unit, Control Unit, Memory Unit

• A program written using binary codes is called:

Machine language

• The computer which has incorporated the characters of analog and digital computers is:

Hybrid computers

• The medium is used by input dives light pen for graphical input is:

CRT screen

• SMPS stands for:

Switch Mode Power Supply

• UPS stands for:

Uninterrupted Power Supply

• The translator program that translates each line of the source program as it run is called:

Interpreter
• The pictorial representation of the procedure proposed to solve a problem by a program:
Flow chart

• ANCII stands for:

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

• ANSI stands for:

American National Standard Institute

• EBCDIC is the acronym for:

Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code

• ERP packages are:

Enterprise Resource Planning Package

• Example for ERP packages:

SAP, BAN etc..

• Write office automation package of Microsoft:

Ms Office

• The time gap during the failure of a computer system is also called

Down Time

• What is meant by ‘system analyst’?

A person who examine and defines actives, flow and problems to be solved and system and procedures to determine hoe best the necessary operation can accomplished

• Fetch means:

To retrieve data or instructions from storage

• UNIX was developed by:
Bell laboratory s

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WORLD HISTORY THE MID LEVEL PERIOD

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• Name of the civilization that become most advanced in the middle age:

Arab

• When did the barbarian conquer Rome?

A.D 455

• Where did the feudalism first originate?

Europe

• The language of learning the middle ages:

Latin

• The Frist University is started at:

Paris

• Which subject is called the queen of science in the middle ages?

Theology

• What was the source of power in feudal society?

Land

• In the mid-level times there were three different kinds of guilds-craftsmen and religious were two what was third?

Merchants

• The Dark Age is supposed to have ended in:

AD 1453

• What marked end of ancient age and beginning of modern age?

The destruction of Roman Empire

• The city remained a Christian center of civilization:

Constantinople

• Constantinople was captured by the:

Turks

• In feudalism, the persons who held the land was called:

Vassal

• Who formed the base of feudal society?

The serfs

• The growth of christen organization was one of the most significant development of the:

The Middle age

• Who conducted a crusade against luxury and idleness of monks?

St.Bernard

• Who gave a set of rules for government of monastic order?

St Basil

• What are the best specimens of architecture in the middle ages?

The Churches

• The year which Prophet Muhammad died:

AD 632

• Who expanded Muslim dominion to Syria, Egypt Mesopotamia and Persia?

Umar

• Who was the first caliph?

Abu-Bakr

• Kufa is in modern:

Iraq
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World History Quiz Questions - Ancient Period

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• The father of the history:

Herodotus

• In which year Alexander invaded India

In 326 B.C

• The period of unrecorded history is known as:

 Pre Historic Age

• Which Indian king put up tough residence and fights against Alexander?

Porus of Panjab

• The thing Neanderthal man accidentally discovered:

Fire

• The superior type of human being compared top the Neanderthal:

The Co-Magnon

• The greatest king of Mesopotamia who gave his subject a code of laws:

Hammurabi

• The ancient people who invented the writing of Cuneiform:

The Sumerians

• What was the king of ancient Egypt?

 The Pharaoh

• The preserved dead body of the ancient Egyptians is called:

Mummies

• The greatest pyramid:

Khufu

• The great temple of ancient Egyptians which was dedicated to the Sun God:

The temple of Abu Simbel

• The ancient Egyptians script which means”Scared Writing “:

Hieroglyphic

• Which was the major Chinese states exit in third centuries BC?

Chin, Chu, Ehi

• The Chinese ruler who built the Great Wall of China:

Shih-Hwang-Ti

• The dynasty which ruled china for nearly 400 years?

Han

• A religious leader and philosopher who lived in china about 500 BC

Confucius

• The ancient people who invented Seismograph

The Chinese

• The most powerful leader in Persia in the 6^th century B.C:

Cyrus

• The founder of the religion, Zoroastrianism:

Zoroaster

• The god of Parsees was called:

Ahura Mazda

• The most famous Greek poet:

Homer

• The important Epics of the Greeks:

Iliad and odyssey

• What were the most important city states in ancient Greece?

Athens and Sparta

• What is meant by oligarchy?

The rule by a few rich men

• The most famous ruler of the ancient Athens:

Pericles

• The great Greek women who sang on the beauty of love and nature:

Sappho

• The great lyric poet who wrote poem to honors the victorious Greek athletes?

Pindar

• The founder of tragedy drams:

Aeschylus

• The greatest of Greek tragedians:

Sophocles’

• The most famous philosophers of ancient Greece:

Socrates, Plato and Aristotle 

• The most famous student of Socrates:

Plato

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Nature and Biology

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• What is ecosystem?

The entire living community and non-living factors of the environment together form of ecosystems

• Which form of the science dealing with the study of structural and cultural traits of human beings?

Anthropology

• What are the two functional group of the ecosystem?

Autotrophs and Heterotophs

• Where does the primary photochemical reaction occur in chloroplast?

Quanta some

• What is exobiology?

It is the study if life in outer space

• What is the magnification of an electron microscope?

1, 00,000

• Which is monocarp plant which shows gregarious flowering once in 48 years?

Bamboo

• Write an example of serendipity:

Discovery of penicillin by Fleming

• What u mean by Hydroponics?

Plant growth in liquid culture medium

• What id the technique of separation of disrupted cell components?

Fractionation

• What is EM?

Electron Microscope

• Name two monocarp plants which show gregarious flowering?

Bambusa tulda, Melocanna bambusoides

• Under what system, organisms are provided with scientific names?

Binomials nomenclature

• What name branch of biology which devoted to identifying, naming and classifying organisms?

Taxonomy

• Who was the author of the ‘Man place in nature’?

Huxley

• Expand the term TMV?

Tobacco Mosaic Virus

• What is DNA?

Deoxyribonucleic Acid

• What is Histology?

Histology is a study of tissues microscopic anatomy

• Which is the free living bacterium in fixes nitrogen?

Azotobacter

• What is physiology?

Physiology is the study of structure and functions

• What is cell biology?

Cell biology is the study of the structure and reproduction of cells

• What you mean by genetics?

Genetics is the study of heredity and variations

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Computer SystemSoftware Questions

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• Digital computers are computer are classified into four categories what are they?

Micro Computers, Mainframe Computer and Super Computers

• PC/XT stands for:

Personal Computers Extended Technology

• PC/AT stands for:

Personal Computers Advance Technology

• MIPS is

Million Instructions per Second

• Examples of Mini computer

IBM AS/400/B60, VAX 8842, WIPROGENIUS, WIPRO LANDMARK 860, HP9000 etc.

• In the case of micro computer speed of CPU is:

(1-10MPS)

Speed of CPU in case of mini computer

(20-50 MIPS)

• The program change that makes up the operating system along with associated utility program change, as distinct from an application program is:

System software

• 4GL stands for:

Fourth generation language

• The basics of Internet:

TCP/IP

• A standard protocol that that describes communication between computers, synthesizers and musical instrument:

MIDI

• The main memories have three distinct parts, what are they?

RAM, ROM, Cache

 • Language processing means:

Analysis of source program +synthesis phase

• Language processor consists of two phases. What are they?

Analysis phase and synthesis phase

• The process of recognizing the lexical component in a source string is called:

Scanning

• There are two fundamental approaches to parsing. What are they?

Top Down parsing and Bottom Up parsing

• MDT stands for:

Macro Definition Table

• SST stands for:

Sequencing Symbol Table

• ATP stands for:

Actual Parameter Table

• In compiler, which analyzer convert s the source program into a sequence of atomic units called tokens?

Lexical Analyzer

• Identifiers, keywords, constants, operators, and punctuation

Symbols such as commas and parentheses are typical:

Tokens

• The name of device used for user to computer communications, usually the display and keyboard is called:

Consol

• What is CON?

It is the abbreviation for consol

• CAE stands for:

Computer aided engineering

• CADD stands for:

Computer aided drafting and design

• The leading personal computer software company Microsoft Corporation founded in which year?

1975 by Bill Gates & Paul Allen

• What is Microsoft’s first product?

A BASIC Interrupter for the Intel 8080 up

• Windows 3 was released in which year?

March 1990

• POSIX stands for:

Portable Operating System Interface

• PASCAL was developed by:

Niklaus Wirth

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Computer SystemSoftware Questions

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• Digital computers are computer are classified into four categories what are they?

Micro Computers, Mainframe Computer and Super Computers

• PC/XT stands for:

Personal Computers Extended Technology

• PC/AT stands for:

Personal Computers Advance Technology

• MIPS is

Million Instructions per Second

• Examples of Mini computer

IBM AS/400/B60, VAX 8842, WIPROGENIUS, WIPRO LANDMARK 860, HP9000 etc.

• In the case of micro computer speed of CPU is:

(1-10MPS)

Speed of CPU in case of mini computer

(20-50 MIPS)

• The program change that makes up the operating system along with associated utility program change, as distinct from an application program is:

System software

• 4GL stands for:

Fourth generation language

• The basics of Internet:

TCP/IP

• A standard protocol that that describes communication between computers, synthesizers and musical instrument:

MIDI

• The main memories have three distinct parts, what are they?

RAM, ROM, Cache

 • Language processing means:

Analysis of source program +synthesis phase

• Language processor consists of two phases. What are they?

Analysis phase and synthesis phase

• The process of recognizing the lexical component in a source string is called:

Scanning

• There are two fundamental approaches to parsing. What are they?

Top Down parsing and Bottom Up parsing

• MDT stands for:

Macro Definition Table

• SST stands for:

Sequencing Symbol Table

• ATP stands for:

Actual Parameter Table

• In compiler, which analyzer convert s the source program into a sequence of atomic units called tokens?

Lexical Analyzer

• Identifiers, keywords, constants, operators, and punctuation

Symbols such as commas and parentheses are typical:

Tokens

• The name of device used for user to computer communications, usually the display and keyboard is called:

Consol

• What is CON?

It is the abbreviation for consol

• CAE stands for:

Computer aided engineering

• CADD stands for:

Computer aided drafting and design

• The leading personal computer software company Microsoft Corporation founded in which year?

1975 by Bill Gates & Paul Allen

• What is Microsoft’s first product?

A BASIC Interrupter for the Intel 8080 up

• Windows 3 was released in which year?

March 1990

• POSIX stands for:

Portable Operating System Interface

• PASCAL was developed by:

Niklaus Wirth

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Internet Quiz Questions

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• What is INTERNET?

Internet is the world's largest computer network, the "network of networks". Scattered all over the world

• When was the INTERNET Created?

It was created thirty six years ago as a project of U.S Department of Defense,

• What Internet service provider (ISP)?

It is the companies that provide INTERNET access.

• What is WWW?

It is the system based hypertext and HTTP for providing organizing and accessing wide verity of resources that are available by the INTERNET.

• What is web page?

It is a unit of information often called a document that is available over the WWW.

• Name the protocol that allows a computer to use the TCP/IP protocol and connected directly to the Net using a standard voice telephone line and high speed modem:

P P P (point-to-point protocol)]

• It is a software program that acts as an interface between the user and WWW what is it?

Web Browser

• Name two different type of Web Browser:

Text-based browser and Graphical Browser

• It collects and organizes resources that are available via the WWW, and designed to provide a starting point for locating information. Name it:

Web Index

• It is an interactive tool that enables to locate information available via Name it:

Search Engine

• It is unique, numeric identifier used to specify a particular host computer on a particular network, and is part of a global , standard’s scheme of identifying machines that are connected with INTERNET Name it:

IP Address (Internet Protocol)

• It is the way of identify and locate computers connected to the INTERNET Name it:

Domain Name

• It provides hierarchical way of identifying and locating INTERNET resources on the WWW Name It:

Uniform Resources Locater (URL)

• A binding document signed by all users that explains the rules of INTERNET use at an institution. Name it:

Acceptable user policy (AUP)

• What is gopher?

It is a protocol designed to search, retrieve and display documents from remote site on the Internet

• It is an Internet search tool that has the capability of searching many databases at one time. Name it:

Wide area information service (WAIS)

• What is FTP (file transfer protocol?)

The medium that allows transferring of files between computers on the net using an FTP program or via Netscape

• What is E-Journal?

It is an electronics publications, typically found in academic circles

• What is NNTP?

Network News Transport Protocol-This is used to distribute network news

• Name the security feature that allows access to information on an individual basis:

Authentication
 MIPS is an acronym for:
Millions of instructions per second
 The duplicate copy of data/program on a separate storage medium is called:
Back up
 A center processor placed on a semi-conductor chip is called as a:
Microprocessor
 Who invented the modem?
AT&T Information System, USA
 Which is standard internet protocol for distributing E-Mail?
SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
 The computer generated environment is called:
Virtual
 Who coined the term hypertext in 1965?
Ted Nelson
 Which protocol provides basis for the net?
Internet Protocol –IP


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