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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Whose influence is reflected in the sculptures of the Gandhara school?
10th October
1st December
23rd April
Greeks
2. Name the metal used as the filament of an electric bulb?
U.K
27th September
Tungsten
Diffusion
3. Radcliffe line is the boundary line between which countries?
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
Jai Samhita
India and Pakistan
4. What is made from the mixture of lime and chlorine?
Chaucer
Bleaching powder
William Wordsworth
1911133
5. Which state has maximum density of canals?
Kanishka
William Shakespeare151
Uttar Pradesh
Vice President of India
6. Name the gas usually filled in the electric bulbs?
Anna Hazare
Nitrogen
Jonas Salk
95th
7. Who was called the 'Napoleon of India'?
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
Samudragupta
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
Karashapana
8. On which era is the Indian National Calender based?
Saka era
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
Jan 26 - 1950134
9. Which game is associated with Agha Khan Cup?
Hamid Ansari
Lala Lajpat Rai
Jaipur
Hockey
10. Which player is the author of the book 'Straight From The Heart'?
Tungsten
Kapil Dev
Amir Khusru
Curiosity
11. Who is known as 'Lady with the Lamp'?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
24th October
Hockey
Florence Nightingale
12. Who invented telephone?
Football
Alexander Graham Bell
Sri Lanka
Stainless steel
13. Name the strait which separates Africa from Europe?
Governor
Algernon Sidney
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
Strait of Gibraltar
14. Which is the largest dome in India?
Rocky Marciano
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
Aravind Adiga
15. Where is the World's largest ship canal?
Hockey
Chandragupta-II
Gota in Sweden
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.
16. How many lines are there in latitude and longitude?
Forty-fourth Amendment
162
Latitude includes 180 lines and longitude has 360 lines because longitude connects North Pole to South Pole and latitude is divided from east to west.
24
17. What is the upper house of parliament known as?
Sushil Kumar
New Agra Fort
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
The Rajya Sabha
18. What is the other name of deuterium oxide?
It loses one day
1st December
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Heavy water
19. In which year was the National Anthem first sung?
Myanmar
Rahul Dravid
1911133
Chandragupta
20. From where the longest circle which can be drawn from earth's surface will pass?
Nitrous oxide
Will pass through Equator
1911133
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
21. Which is the largest Gurudwara in India?
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
Nitrogen
The Bering Strait
22. Which is the Garden City of India?
Jaya Dev
Perpendicular to each other
24
Bangalore
23. What is the ratio of width of our National Flag to its length?
2:4
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
Johannes Kepler
Third century B.C
24. With whom are the rare replicas of sacred book Guru Granth Sahib?
Assam
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
Paschim Banga1
Music
25. Watches of a country is set according to what time?
Standard time of the country138
Sunderbans delta
Lobsang Sangay
Indians
26. What is the new name of Burma?
Yousuf Raza Gillani
S. Radhakrishnan
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
Myanmar
27. One degree of longitude on equator is equal to what distance?
Jai Samhita
Jonathan Swift
69 miles
Longitudinal position
28. Mainly which gas is present in gobar gas?
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
Methane
Jai Samhita
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
29. Which was the most commonly used coin in Mauryan period?
Karashapana
Kapil Dev
Palk Strait
Jayadeva
30. Who wrote an English novel 'In Custody'?
Anita Desai
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
Prime Minister
Bromine
31. Satyan Bose is known for his excellence in which field?
Motion Picture
Year of Disabled Soldiers
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Jawaharlal Nehru
32. Name the shooter of Himachal Pradesh (Hamirpur) who won silver medal in Olympics 2012?
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33. What is Ayush treatment?
The Reserve Bank of India
M. Narasimhan
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
34. What is KG5 drug?
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35. What is the aim of the 'Biosphere Reserve Project'?
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
Only the first stanza
Protecting Flora and Fauna
Harshavardhana
36. What is the ratio of width of our National flag to its length?
Bamiyan
2:3161
State Bank of India
Hampi
37. Name the cities of Himachal to be developed as the solar cities?
John Ruskin
Forty-fourth Amendment
Uttarakhand
Shimla and Hamirpur
38. During whose time the Gandhara School of art developed?
Kushans
Lala Lajpat Rai
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
Aravallis
39. Year 2011 is observed by Army as what?
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
Year of Disabled Soldiers
Bobby Jindal
Kapil Dev
40. Who wrote the book 'Unhappy India'?
Lala Lajpat Rai
Planning Commission
Hindukush
Bangalore
41. With which cells scientists for the first time have developed bone?
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
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.)
Curiosity
42. Whose contemporary was Tulsidas?
Gagan Narang
New Agra Fort
Nek Chand
Akbar
43. Who discovered photoelectric effect?
London
Albert Einstein
Manipur54
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
44. Who deciphered the genetic code?
Longitudinal position
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
The Reserve Bank of India
45. Which is largest river without delta in India?
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
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
Narmada and Japti
46. Name the first heavyweight boxer to go undefeated throughout his career?
Rocky Marciano
Jagannath
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
7th April
47. Who discovered the laws of planetary motion?
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
German
Stupa
Johannes Kepler
48. Name the youngest skydriver in the country?
Shobha De
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
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.
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
49. Name the two living members of first Lok Sabha to be honored by President on 13th May - 2012 - 60th anniversary of our Parliament?
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
Kathak
Hockey
50. Which is the largest district in India?
Kerala
Lead
Ladakh
Sunil Gavaskar