General Knowledge in Sinhala

1. In which year was the Magna Carta signed?
2. What is the name of the football player who was the named “2005 European footballer of the year” last December by the world football federation?
3. How many players are there in a Rugby Football team?
4. In which Russian novel does the character Raskolnikov appear?
5. Which city of the United States was badly affected by the hurricane “Katrina” in 2005?
6. Who made the famous statement “I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to death your right to say it”?
7. Which film won the “Best Foreign Language Film” award at the 79th Oscar awards ceremony in 2007?
8. What is the capital city of sierra Leone?
9. Name the US envoy appointed to look into the issues in Myanmar recently?
10. “Golden Triangle” is one of the main illicit opium producing areas in Asia. Two countries which from the triangle are Thailand and Cambodia. What is the third country?
11. Name the famous book written by Ernest Hemingway which won the Pulitzer prize in 1953?
12. What is the name given to the world’s biggest aircraft which is to the built by the Russians in the near future?
13. In which city of South Africa the final match of the FIFA 2010 world cup?
14. Against which Indian batsman the Sri Lankan bawler Suraj randiv bawled a no ball denying the batsman a chance of securing a century at the one day cricket match held in Sri Lanka on 16th August 2010?
15. Who is the present prime minister of Pakistan?
16. What was the name given to the capsule that was used to rescue in October 2010 the miner who were stranded in a mine in Chile for 69 days?
17. The Welikada prison in Welikada, Colombo is called by another name. what is that name?
18. Who invented the mobile phone?
19. Name the native village of the late Libyan leader colonel Muammer Gaddafi where he was killed in October 2011?
20. Who is the prime minister of Australia?
21. Nobel prize for Pease was awarded in 2011 to three women who fought for the rights of women. Two are Liberian nationals. What is the nationality of the third one?
22. What is the longest railway tunnel in Sri Lanka?
23. What is the native name used by the Japanese to refer to their country?
24. In which country the highest mountain in the African continent situated?