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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. When is World's Sparrow Day observed?
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
Concave mirror
20th March
2. Which is the largest planetarium in India?
Kolkata
Lobsang Sangay
Khushwant Singh
11th May
3. After whose name the Nobel Prize was started?
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
Aravallis
Aravind Adiga
Fatehpur Sikri
4. When comes National Sports Day of India?
26 years and 9 months
Morarji Desai
Uttar Pradesh
29th August
5. Whose contemporary was Tulsidas?
Gagan Narang
31st May
Akbar
Allahabad Pillar inscription
6. When is India's Republic Day celebrated?
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
U.K
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
26th January
7. Name the Indian woman boxer who won bronze medal in Olympics?
Madhya Pradesh
Mary Kom
23rd April
12th January
8. Name the Strait which separates Asia from North America?
Chandragupta-II
The Bering Strait
Uttar Pradesh
Ladakh
9. Which day is chosen to be celebrated as Father's Day?
1949
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
Ashoka
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
10. Who is the author of book 'India Wins Freedom'?
Stainless steel
Amjad Ali Khan
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
Johannes Kepler
11. Where is the world's largest solar power project going to be set up?
Maharashtra
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Morarji Desai
Florence Nightingale
12. Name the gas used to extinguish fire?
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
Carbon dioxide
E.G.Otis
13. What are the bank deposits that can be withdrawn without notice called?
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
Haryana
5th September
Demand deposits
14. What is the name of India's first aircraft carrier?
Jonathan Swift
INS Vikrant55
Mahatma Gandhi
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
15. Which state in India has three language teaching formula?
Florence Nightingale
Punjab
Vice President of India
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
16. Which is the largest zoo in India?
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
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
Amitabh Ghosh
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
17. Who brought and installed two Asokan pillars in Delhi?
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
Dumping
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Firozeshah Tughluq
18. Name the person who transliterated Guru Granth Sahib in Braille?
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
Art and architecture
Bhai Gurmej Singh
19. Who wrote the famous play 'Macbeth'?
William Shakespeare151
Bombay
Madhya Pradesh
Odisha
20. Who was first Indian woman to become president of U.N. General Assembly?
Jaya Dev
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
Mahatma Gandhi
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
21. 'A Voice of Freedom' is a book written by whom?
Finland
Nayantara Sahgal
Karashapana
Mary Kom
22. Where is the National Defence Academy situated?
China
Khadakvasla
Bobby Jindal
90 degrees
23. Who painted the masterpiece 'Hamsa Damayanti'?
Madhya Pradesh
Vande Mataram
Darsheel Safary
Raja Ravi Varma
24. On what occasion Bihar got its own state anthem and state prayer whose CD's were released by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar?
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
Maharashtra
Sunderbans delta
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
25. Who is the 26th Chief Minister of Karnataka?
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
Equator
Talwandi
Amir Khusru
26. Who is the second 100 percent visually impaired person to be accepted into the IAS?
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
Jyoti Amge
Amir Khusrau
27. Where is the World's largest ship canal?
8
UK
9th August
Gota in Sweden
28. Which is the largest populated state in India?
Finland
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
Uttar Pradesh
29. When is India's National Youth Day celebrated ?
Shobha De
12th January
Genetically Modified Crops.
Sunil Gavaskar
30. Name the ballistic missile that lifted off from Wheeler Island in Odisha on 9th August - 2012?
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
China
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
31. What are the benefits of medicine Performax?
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.
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
Three Decades in Parliament
Year of Disabled Soldiers
32. Where were huge amounts of uranium recently found?
8th May
Andhra Pradesh
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
Jawaharlal Nehru
33. Which metro has been certified by the United Nations as the first metro rail based system in the World to get carbon credits for contributing to the fight against climate changes?
Ladakh
The Delhi Metro
Yamuna
Lead
34. When is World Health Day celebrated?
Darsheel Safary
Khushwant Singh
Vice President of India
7th April
35. Who composed the National Anthem 'Jana Gana Mana'?
Rabindranath Tagore
Mussoorie
Sodium
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
36. Who is the author of novel 'The White Tiger'?
Music
Aravind Adiga
Leh
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
37. Who will be the new Director General of Police (DGP) after the retirement of P.S. Gill?
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
Director General Anil Kaushik
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh
Harshavardhana
38. Who was the first recipient of Nehru Award for International Understanding?
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
Tamil Nadu
Julang-2
Martin Luther King
39. Who wrote the book 'Ammi! Letter to a Democratic Mother'?
Equator
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
Saeed Mirza
40. Which cricketer known as 'Tiger' also father of famous actor died on 23rd September - 2011?
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
Chandragupta Maurya
Second Battle of Tarain
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
41. Who is called 'Grand Old Man of India'?
Uttar Pradesh
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
Dadabhai Naoroji
30th January
42. In which century did Ashoka reign?
Rs 270
6-14 years
Third century B.C
Maharaja Hari Singh
43. Where is Pushkar lake located?
The Bering Strait
Motion Picture
Rajasthan
Contingency Fund of India
44. Who is the author of the book 'My Experiments with Truth'?
16th October
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Mahatma Gandhi
Herodotus
45. Which is the place experiencing minimum and maximum temperatures -28.3 degree Celsius and 15 degree Celsius respectively?
Leh
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
5th September
Heavy water
46. Name the 17th Karmapa against whom the Una police filed a chargesheet under section 120-B of the IPC in 2011?
Himachal Pradesh
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
Mumbai
Ogyen Trinley Dorjee - the third most important Tibetian religious head after Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama. (as police recovered currencies of 26 countries including 1 - 20 - 197 chinese yuan and around Rs 5.3 million in Indian currency.)
47. Who is the richest Indian in the World according to the 2011 Forbes India annual rich list?
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
Alexander Fleming
Bangalore
48. Who said 'Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err'?
Mahatma Gandhi
28th February
Because the solids have high elasticity.
Torricelli
49. Who wrote the book 'The Daughter of the East'?
Dr. F.G.Banting
Myanmar
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
50. Where were remains of Vijayanagar Empire found?
Hampi
The Reserve Bank of India
Bromine
V.S Naipaul