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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. What reference is taken to know the local time of a place?
Vasudeva
Algernon Sidney
Mary Kom
Longitudinal position
2. Who is the author of book 'Many Worlds'?
Eagle
V.S Naipaul
Infinite
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
3. Who is the author of novel 'The White Tiger'?
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Aravind Adiga
90 degrees
Vasudeva
4. Which gas is called laughing gas?
German
23rd April
Jules Verne
Nitrous oxide
5. Which game is associated with Agha Khan Cup?
Hockey
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
Roger Federer
8th May
6. Who discovered the oral polio vaccine?
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
Jonas Salk
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
7. Name the state where bio-fuel outlet - first of its kind in the country will be opened?
Kushinagar
Khadakvasla
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
8. Which is largest state of India?
Himachal Pradesh
Rajasthan
Michael Phelps
Jama Masjid
9. 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?
Uttarakhand
Satyendra Nath Bose
South Africa
The Delhi Metro
10. Name the new nuclear powered submarine formally handed to India by Russia?
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
Genetically Modified Crops.
Dr. F.G.Banting
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
11. Who composed the famous song 'Sare Jahan Se Accha'?
Lead
1953
Mohammad Iqbal
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
12. Where were remains of Vijayanagar Empire found?
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
Hampi
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
13. Which day in India celebrated as Central Excise Day ?
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Carbon dioxide
24th February
14. Name the three new elements added to the Periodic Table in 2011?
Nitrous oxide
Krishna
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
Raja Ravi Varma
15. Who is going to receive highest US award?
15th January
Aung San Suu Kyi
Hyderabad
Rs 270
16. On which date Quit India Day comes?
9th August
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
Martin Luther King
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
17. Who is known as 'Lady with the Lamp'?
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
Florence Nightingale
Chandragupta
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
18. Late Girilal Jain was a noted figure in which field?
It loses one day
Journalism
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
Concave mirror
19. Where is the famous Meenakshi Temple situated?
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
Tamil Nadu
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
Motion Picture
20. Why the International Date Line makes slight deviation from 180 degree meridian?
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
Navtej Saran
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
21. Name the ballistic missile that lifted off from Wheeler Island in Odisha on 9th August - 2012?
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
Kiran Bedi
22. Which is the largest zoo in India?
Swarajya Party
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
Bobby Jindal
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
23. Who inspired Green Revolution in India?
N.E. Borlaug
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
1.34 millions
Nayantara Sahgal
24. Who became the first batsman in the history of cricket to score 100 international centuries?
UK
Longitudinal position
Sachin Tendulkar
Mahatma Gandhi
25. Which musical instrument is said to be invented by Amir Khusro?
2:3161
Nikolaus Otto
Sitar
Rs 270
26. Who was the author of 'Hind Swaraj'?
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
Rajasthan
New Delhi
Mahatma Gandhi
27. When India became a Sovereign - democratic republic?
Kushans
Jan 26 - 1950134
Zinc
Oxygen and acetylene
28. Who is the author of book 'India Wins Freedom'?
69 miles
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
2:4
29. Who is the richest Indian in the World according to the 2011 Forbes India annual rich list?
Jonas Salk
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
Prime Minister
30. Which is largest river without delta in India?
Narmada and Japti
Angle between the horizon and the equator
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
Ganga
31. Name the country's longest railway tunnel excavated?
Prof. V.N Datta
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
Madhya Pradesh
Mathura
32. Who is the new youngest Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh?
Akhilesh Yadav
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
Because the solids have high elasticity.
1st December
33. Between whom battle of Kurukshetra was fought?
Jaya Dev
In front of New Delhi's High Court
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
Kauravas and Pandavas51
34. When comes National Postal Day in India?
Ludhiana
Sunil Gavaskar
10th October
1st December
35. On which date Anti Tobacco Day observed?
31st May
Director General Anil Kaushik
Jyoti Amge
Stupa
36. Where are the World famous Khajuraho sculptures located?
Madhya Pradesh
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
E.G.Otis
28th February
37. Champion Trophy is associated with which game?
India Museum at Kolkata
Hockey
Akhilesh Yadav
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
38. Name the leader under whom India's first coalition government in New Delhi was formed?
Longitudinal position
Darsheel Safary
5
Morarji Desai
39. Where did coins made of metal first appeared?
Hyderabad
Later Vedic Age
Uttarakhand
Third century B.C
40. Where is head office of the State Bank of India located?
Rajasthan
Gol Gumbaz
Mumbai
India and Pakistan
41. Which is largest fresh water lake in India?
Makes cancer cell 'commit suicide'. It helps in stoping multiplication of tumorous cells and shut themselves down. Will be available in approximately 5 years and will be in pill form.
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
Mumbai
J.L.Baird
42. What is the ratio of width of our National flag to its length?
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
2:3161
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
Chilka lake (Orissa )
43. Whose autobiography is 'India Wins Freedom'?
18th December
Kauravas and Pandavas51
Aung San Suu Kyi
Abul Kalam Azad
44. What is the ratio of width of our National Flag to its length?
India
Jane Austen
Mundak Upanishad
2:4
45. Who was the First Election Commissioner of India?
Sukumar Sen
Hampi
11th May
$46 - 00011
46. How many total number of enclaves are to be exchanged between territories of two countries India and Bangladesh according to the treaty signed in Sept - 2011?
Lead
India
162
Bromine
47. What will be the difference in longitudes between two places if their time difference is 2 hours and 20 minutes?
Jaipur
Rahul Dravid
35 degree
Nek Chand
48. What is the difference in time between two places 1 degree longitude apart?
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
Uttarakhand
Silicon
4 minutes
49. Who wrote the book 'Ammi! Letter to a Democratic Mother'?
Saeed Mirza
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
Stupa
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
50. Who invented the telegraphic code?
Gagan Narang
Samuel Morse
Thailand
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.