Test your basic knowledge |

General Knowledge Trivia Test

Subjects : general-knowledge, trivia

Instructions:

Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.

1. What is the common name of sodium carbonate?
10th December
Tamil Nadu
22nd April
Washing soda

2. Name the Indian state where the game of Polo is said to have originated?
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Ms. Vasuki Sunkavalli (of Hyderabad)
Herodotus
Manipur54

3. Which is the largest public sector bank in India?
India
Shimla and Hamirpur
Rahul Banerjee (archery ) - Preeja Sreedharan (athletics) - Vikas Gowda (athletics) - Jwala Gutta(badminton) - M Suranjoy Singh(boxing) - Zaheer Khan (cricket) - Sunil Chhetri(football) - Ashish Kumar (gymnastics) - Rajpal Singh (hockey) - Ra
State Bank of India

4. Name the largest oil refinery of India?
Bobby Jindal
Vadodara
Prime Minister
At the center of earth

5. Who is the author of 'Tarikh-i-Alai' containing the details of the first few years of Sultan Alauddin Khilji?
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
Amir Khusrau
Nitrous oxide
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.

6. Where is Sun Temple situated?
Rs 270
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
Darsheel Safary
Konark

7. Where is ABG Shipyard the India's largest private sector shipyard?
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
China
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Jawaharlal Nehru

8. What is the latitude of South Pole?
Mosley
Mehbooba Mufti
Morarji Desai
90 degree

9. Which is the place experiencing minimum and maximum temperatures -28.3 degree Celsius and 15 degree Celsius respectively?
Samudragupta
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
Su-Kam Power Systems
Leh

10. Name the first heavyweight boxer to go undefeated throughout his career?
Herodotus
Rocky Marciano
Valentina Tereshkova
Jonathan Swift

11. With which cells scientists for the first time have developed bone?
Anna Hazare
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
95th
From fresh and purified fat stem cells ( Fat has a large number of tissue growing stem cells. People could go for liposuction and save fat cells for future use or can use immediately.)

12. When is India's Army Day celebrated ?
Nikolaus Otto
15th January
95th
Chadwick

13. Name the Indian scientist who was a part of NASA team which has identified the landing site of the 'Curiosity'?
Satyendra Nath Bose
Sonepur (Bihar )
Amitabh Ghosh
Nikolaus Otto

14. The World famous 'Peacock Throne' was kept in which Mughal building?
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
New Agra Fort
26th January
Will pass through Equator

15. Name the element required for conversion of solar energy?
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
Is a herbal formulation of 10 selected herbs known to have adaptogenic properties. It helps to improve the physical and mental performance by increasing blood oxygenation and reducing low density lipoproteins and cholesterol.
Khushwant Singh
Silicon

16. Name the Indian chess player who broke the World Record by finishing the game in twelve moves?
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
55th rank
V. Anand
Allahabad Pillar inscription

17. Who invented telephone?
Uttar Pradesh
$46 - 00011
William Wordsworth
Alexander Graham Bell

18. Name the state of India having longest coastline?
Andhra Pradesh
Nikolaus Otto
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
New Agra Fort

19. What are the bank deposits that can be withdrawn without notice called?
Demand deposits
N.E. Borlaug
Four lions
Amjad Ali Khan

20. What is the ratio of width of our National Flag to its length?
5th September
35 degree
2:4
Uttarakhand

21. Where were huge amounts of uranium recently found?
Alexander Graham Bell
Vande Mataram
Andhra Pradesh
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.

22. Who is the author of book 'The Tribune 130 Years: A Witness to History'?
Methane
Prof. V.N Datta
Darsheel Safary
Roentgen

23. Who is the author of the book 'My Experiments with Truth'?
Uttar Pradesh
Mahatma Gandhi
S. Radhakrishnan
India and China

24. Which is largest cave temple in India?
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
Three Decades in Parliament
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.

25. When is World Laughter Day celebrated?
Roger Federer
Das Kapital
1911133
26th January

26. Who is known as 'Lady with the Lamp'?
Valentina Tereshkova
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
Florence Nightingale
Ms. Vasuki Sunkavalli (of Hyderabad)

27. How many spokes are there in our national emblem 'Ashoka Chakra'?
31st May
24
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
Raja Ravi Varma

28. The Prime Minister is chairman of this
Chadwick
Mahatma Gandhi
Planning Commission
26 years and 9 months

29. Which cricketer known as 'Tiger' also father of famous actor died on 23rd September - 2011?
Ripon
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
Wular lake (Kashmir)

30. Who composed the National Anthem 'Jana Gana Mana'?
South Kolkata
Rabindranath Tagore
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
Dadabhai Naoroji

31. Which game is associated with Merdeka Cup?
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
India
Football
Equator

32. Who is the author of book 'The Shape of the Beast'?
5th April
8th September
India
Arundhati Roy

33. What is proxy voting?
Swarajya Party
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).

34. Name the seas joined by Suez Canal?
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
When sun is above the equator
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
Red sea and Mediterranean sea

35. Who wrote 'One Day Wonders'?
Governor
250th anniversary
German
Sunil Gavaskar

36. Name the scientist who got Nobel Prize twice for the same subject?
Playwright
Marie Curie
Neil Armstrong
Chadwick

37. Who wrote the book 'Animal's People'?
Punjab
Indra Sinha64
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
Jai Samhita

38. Where is the National Institute of Nutrition located?
$46 - 00011
Hyderabad
Lawn Tennis153
Michael Phelps

39. Name the metal used as the filament of an electric bulb?
Neil Armstrong
Heavy water
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
Tungsten

40. During whose time the Gandhara School of art developed?
8th March
Governor
24th May
Kushans

41. One degree of longitude on equator is equal to what distance?
Renders electronic gadgets useless and effectively neutralises the adversary's command control and communication capability by producing a strong electromagnetic field generating powerful electricity surges that play havoc with electronic circuits wi
Perpendicular to each other
69 miles
Palk Strait

42. Name the country which is second largest producer of horticulture commodities such as fruits - vegetables and flowers in the world?
Curiosity
India
Khushwant Singh
Andhra Pradesh

43. Why speed of sound is greater in solids than in liquids?
Churchill
Because the solids have high elasticity.
Stainless steel
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga

44. Name 72 year old social activist who supported Jan Lokpal Bill?
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
2nd April - 2011
Mary Kom
Anna Hazare

45. Name the Bollywood legend whose ancestral home in Peshawar - Pakistan has been turned into heritage site?
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
Dilip Kumar
12th January
Jagannath

46. Satyan Bose is known for his excellence in which field?
Motion Picture
18th April
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
Japan

47. Where is the National Defence Academy situated?
Khadakvasla
Sunita Williams
11th May
Demand deposits

48. Which state in India has three language teaching formula?
Performax
Dilip Kumar
Punjab
Maharaja Hari Singh

49. Name the NASA's most modern spacecraft successfully landed on Mars on 6th August - 2012 to begin a pioneering two year search to find out if the red planet is suitable for life and whether it can be inhabitable in the future?
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
Curiosity
S. Radhakrishnan
Jawaharlal Nehru

50. Who is sworn as the 14th Vice President of India?
E.M Forster
27th September
Aravind Adiga
Hamid Ansari