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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Who is known as 'Lady with the Lamp'?
Florence Nightingale
Stainless steel
Valentina Tereshkova
69 miles
2. Which day is celebrated as World Red Cross Day?
Sunita Williams
8th May
Silicon
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
3. What is the new name of Burma?
Myanmar
Dehradun
Sushil Kumar
10th October
4. Who has been selected as the new head of Tata empire in 2011?
Mahatma Gandhi
Music
Equator
Cyrus Mistry
5. India is facing pressure from the US and other Western countries to break trade ties with which country?
Jan 26 - 1950134
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
6. The Prime Minister is chairman of this
Sriharikota
Greeks
Planning Commission
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
7. Which is largest man made lake in India?
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
8. Name the Indian chess player who broke the World Record by finishing the game in twelve moves?
Hyderabad
Year of Disabled Soldiers
Stainless steel
V. Anand
9. Who wrote 'One Day Wonders'?
250th anniversary
Sunil Gavaskar
Shimla and Hamirpur
The Delhi Metro
10. Under which scam - the 43 year old daughter of former chief minister of Tamil Nadu M.Karunanidhi was in Tihar jail in 2011?
Carbon dioxide
2G spectrum scam
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
Jonas Salk
11. Which day is known as World Book and Copyright Day?
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
Graphite
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
23rd April
12. Name 72 year old social activist who supported Jan Lokpal Bill?
The Delhi Metro
Mumbai
H.P.S Ahluwalia
Anna Hazare
13. Who has been appointed the Governor of RBI after the retirement of Shri Y.V. Reddy?
Chandragupta Maurya
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
14. Who was the first woman to go in space?
Valentina Tereshkova
Jan 26 - 1950134
Performax
Sarojini Naidu
15. Which is the largest saline water lake in India?
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Roentgen
Performax
Sukumar Sen
16. If in a mirror image of object appears to be larger then which type of mirror is used?
Genetically Modified Crops.
5 hours 30 minutes
Saeed Mirza
Concave mirror
17. Which was the musical instrument used by Amir Khusro?
8th October
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
Sitar
18. What is the ratio of width of our National Flag to its length?
Amitabh Bachchan
11th July
2:4
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
19. Why speed of sound is greater in solids than in liquids?
Because the solids have high elasticity.
W.C Bannerjee
Rahul Dravid
Jane Austen
20. Kathakali a folk dance is prevalent in which state?
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
Jaya Dev
Kerala
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
21. When are days and nights equal throughout the globe?
When sun is above the equator
Diffusion
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Kapil Dev
22. Players of which state got the maximum Olympic medals in London Olympics?
Equator
Chandragupta-II
Haryana
Madhya Pradesh
23. Who earned the title of 'Liberator'?
Concave lens
The Bering Strait
Chandragupta Maurya
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
24. Hawa Mahal is situated in which city?
The Delhi Metro
Bengali
Jaipur
Madhya Pradesh
25. Which is the largest district in India?
' Why This Kolaveri Di' the song released on 16th Nov. written and sung by Dhanush
10th December
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
Ladakh
26. What is the name of first Indian aircraft developed by Government laboratory with private fund?
Bengali
Eagle
Pune
Kanishka
27. Who is vice President of India?
Sitar
Sunil Gavaskar
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
28. What is the common name of sodium carbonate?
Iodine
Silver
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
Washing soda
29. Where is ABG Shipyard the India's largest private sector shipyard?
Alexander Fleming
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
At Magdalla port near Surat.
30. Which is largest river without delta in India?
Narmada and Japti
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
Increases
Allahabad Pillar inscription
31. Where is the National Defence Academy situated?
Jane Austen
Khadakvasla
Jhumpa Lahiri
20th March
32. Who is known as founder of Mohemmadan Anglo-Oriental college at Aligarh?
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Abul Kalam Azad
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
33. Who was the only Muslim woman to sit on the throne of Delhi?
26th January
Art and architecture
26th January
Razia Sultana
34. Who wrote the book 'Glimpses of World History'?
18th April
Jawaharlal Nehru
Silicon
Jama Masjid
35. Which is the largest public sector bank in India?
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
Methane - butane and propane
State Bank of India
36. Where is the Caspian sea - the largest inland sea or lake in the world located?
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
6 months
Tamil Nadu
Leh
37. Who is called Father of English Poetry?
Aravind Adiga
Mahatma Gandhi
Chaucer
Kolkata
38. Who won the Wimbledon title for seventh time and 17th grand slam crown after beating Andy Murray in male category in 2012?
Roger Federer
90 degrees
Sitar
Chadwick
39. Name the largest oil refinery of India?
Amitabh Ghosh
Vadodara
Andhra Pradesh
Mundak Upanishad
40. With which field M.F. Hussian were associated?
USA
1.34 millions
Painting
6-14 years
41. Which is the largest delta in India?
Sunderbans delta
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
Third century B.C
8th May
42. Watches of a country is set according to what time?
Journalism
Prime Minister
1949
Standard time of the country138
43. Name the scientist who got Nobel Prize twice for the same subject?
Jayadeva
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
Odisha
Marie Curie
44. Who won the silver medal in 66 Kg wrestling and is the first Indian to win two individual Olympic medals?
Jayadeva
South Africa
Sushil Kumar
Andhra Pradesh
45. Which country has World's largest democracy?
Dilip Kumar
Prime Minister
India
Stupa
46. Who was the first speaker of Independent India's Lok Sabha?
Mahatma Gandhi
Das Kapital
Samar Guha
G.V. Mavalankar
47. Who led the first Muslim invasion of India?
Sonepur (Bihar )
9th August
Mohammad bin Kasim
Baby Nargis
48. Why clear nights are more colder then cloudy nights?
Due to radiation
Khadakvasla
Uttar Pradesh
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
49. Where is the Indian Institute of Science located?
Bangalore
31st May
Jawaharlal Nehru
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.
50. Who wrote the famous novel 'Pride and Prejudice'?
India
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
Jane Austen
Bangalore