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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Which state of India has highest production of tea?
Palk Strait
Madhya Pradesh
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
Assam
2. Which is the largest Church in India?
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
Algernon Sidney
Tamil Nadu
3. Who discovered neutron?
Chandragupta-II
Chadwick
Parupalli Kashyap
Lala Lajpat Rai
4. Name the subatomic particle which scientists claimed to have spotted and is believed to be a crucial building block in the formation of universe?
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
Sriharikota
God particle or Higgs Boson
Mumbai
5. Which is the longest river of India?
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
23rd April
Music
Ganga
6. When India became a Sovereign - democratic republic?
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
15th August167
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
Jan 26 - 1950134
7. Where is Elephant Pass located?
Journalism
Lobsang Sangay
Sri Lanka
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
8. When is Earth Day observed?
2G spectrum scam
Journalism
The equator
22nd April
9. Who wrote the book 'Gulliver's Travels'?
Jonathan Swift
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
10. Which will be the new subject added to the curriculum of Kendriya Vidyalayas?
German
Akbar
Mussoorie
Stupa
11. During whose reign The Mathura School of art flourished?
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
Vasudeva
Uttar Pradesh
Methane - butane and propane
12. At which place the largest industrial solar plant of the country became operational on 29th July - 2012?
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
95th
Anna Hazare
Ludhiana
13. Where is ABG Shipyard the India's largest private sector shipyard?
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Bhai Gurmej Singh
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
Swarajya Party
14. Who was the first Indian elected to the leadership of Communist International?
M.N Roy62
2nd April - 2011
Golconda
USA
15. Which age group children in India are ensured free and compulsory education?
Nikolaus Otto
Perpendicular to each other
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
6-14 years
16. When comes National Sports Day of India?
1949
V.S Naipaul
Only the first stanza
29th August
17. Who is the author of the book 'Unto the Last' which influenced Gandhi ji?
John Ruskin
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
4G technology will offer many advancements to the wireless market including downlink data rates well over 100 Mbps - low latency - very efficient spectrum use and low cost implementation.
18. Which is the largest river island in India?
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
Rajasthan
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
Due to radiation
19. Watches of a country is set according to what time?
Cavendish
29th August
INS Vikrant55
Standard time of the country138
20. Which is the great circle on earth's surface?
Hyderabad
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
The equator
Second Battle of Tarain
21. Who is known as Nightingale of India?
The President
Amitabh Ghosh
Sarojini Naidu
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
22. Where are the headquarters of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts?
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
Galileo
God particle or Higgs Boson
New Delhi
23. Where is largest animal fair held in India?
Sonepur (Bihar )
New Agra Fort
Harshavardhana
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
24. Who founded the Saka Era?
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
V.S Naipaul
Kanishka
Jane Austen
25. Who crafted the wax statue of Anna Hazare?
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26. In which year was the National Anthem first sung?
Jamaica
1911133
The Delhi Metro
Narendra Modi government
27. Who wrote the book 'The Namesake'?
Florence Nightingale
Palk Strait
Jhumpa Lahiri
8th March
28. Name the ship commissioned by India which is biggest in its class in the World?
26 years and 9 months
Michael Phelps
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
29. At what age World's oldest dog Pusuke died?
Haryana
Journalism
Kanishka
26 years and 9 months
30. Name the country which is second largest producer of horticulture commodities such as fruits - vegetables and flowers in the world?
India
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
11th July
Talwandi
31. What reference is taken to know the local time of a place?
Planning Commission
Rs 270
Longitudinal position
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
32. Which day is celebrated as World Red Cross Day?
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
Jane Austen
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
8th May
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?
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
The Delhi Metro
34. With which musical instrument was Ustad Mustaq Ali Khan associated?
Mumbai
Sitar
Painting
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
35. Who discovered Penicillin?
Dutch East Indies
Alexander Fleming
5
Ganga
36. For what was Gupta dynasty famous?
Diffusion
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.)
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
Art and architecture
37. Who was the author of 'Bharat Bharati'?
Punjab
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
8th September
38. What is the new name of Burma?
William Shakespeare151
Myanmar
Tamil Nadu
Sitar
39. Which river is related to Nagarjun Sagar Project?
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
Robert Watson Watt
Krishna
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
40. Name the famous ruler of ancient India - who towards the end of his life converted to Jainism?
Methane - butane and propane
Jai Samhita
Chandragupta
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
41. Who arranged the elements in the Modern Periodic Table?
Neil Armstrong
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
8
Mosley
42. Who is the first Indian sports person to win an individual Gold medal in the Olympic Games?
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
Concave mirror
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Abhinav Bindra
43. Which is the largest desert in India?
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
INS Vikrant55
18th April
44. What is the latitude of South Pole?
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
Bangalore
90 degree
11th July
45. Who got Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar in 2011 ?
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
Aravallis
Sunita Williams
China
46. Which day in India is observed as Minorities Rights Day?
18th December
Infinite
Lobsang Sangay
Michael Phelps
47. Which day is celebrated as Independence Day of India?
William Wordsworth
15th August167
The Bering Strait
The equator
48. Who wrote the book 'A Passage To India'?
E.M Forster
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
Only the first stanza
The number of persons per square kilometre.
49. Name the Indian chess player who broke the World Record by finishing the game in twelve moves?
V. Anand
Nayantara Sahgal
Forty-fourth Amendment
6-14 years
50. Which day is observed as World Heritage Day?
18th April
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.)
Vishnu Sharma
Increases