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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. What is the new name of Burma?
Myanmar
Talwandi
Mohammad bin Kasim
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
2. Name the eminent Hindi authors chosen for Jnanpith Award 2011?
Hampi
Maharashtra
Gwalior Gharana
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
3. Which song became the most searched You tube video in India in 2011?
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4. Who wrote the first history book?
Jules Verne
Prof. V.N Datta
Nitrogen
Herodotus
5. Who won the Wimbledon title for seventh time and 17th grand slam crown after beating Andy Murray in male category in 2012?
Madhya Pradesh
Roger Federer
Standard time of the country138
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
6. If in a mirror image of object appears to be larger then which type of mirror is used?
Galileo
Concave mirror
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
At the center of earth
7. Latitude and longitude are at what angle to each other?
Genetically Modified Crops.
Uttar Pradesh
Ganga
Perpendicular to each other
8. Who propounded the Market Law?
Allahabad Pillar inscription
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
2G spectrum scam
J.B.Say
9. Where at present the BRAHMOS missiles are assembled?
India
Shimla and Hamirpur
10th December
Hyderabad
10. Whom the Gujarat High Court issued contempt notice on 15th Feb. - 2012 for not obeying its order to compensate people whose shops were burnt down in the post-Godhra riots?
Sidney Sheldon
Narendra Modi government
Abul Kalam Azad
Ganga
11. Name the Indian scientist who was a part of NASA team which has identified the landing site of the 'Curiosity'?
Roger Federer
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
Amitabh Ghosh
69 miles
12. Name the woman boxer of India who have won five time world championship in succession?
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
14th November
Mary Kom
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
13. Indian Air Force Day is observed on which day ?
2
Alexander Fleming
God particle or Higgs Boson
8th October
14. What will be the new name of West Bengal?
Paschim Banga1
Kerala
Kauravas and Pandavas51
5th April
15. What is KG5 drug?
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16. Which is the longest river of India?
Governor
Ganga
USA
Hockey
17. What is AERE?
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18. Which country won the maximum number of medals in Olympics 2008 held in Beijing?
Jhumpa Lahiri
Tamil Nadu
USA
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
19. Which is the largest cave in India?
Samudragupta
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
20. Where in Delhi a bomb hidden in briefcase exploded killing 11 persons and injuring 47 in the worst attack in India's capital in 3 years in 2011?
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21. When is World Food Day observed?
Increases
16th October
Gota in Sweden
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
22. Name the gases used in different types of welding?
Kolkata
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
Arundhati Roy
Oxygen and acetylene
23. Name 72 year old social activist who supported Jan Lokpal Bill?
23rd April
Anna Hazare
Mahatma Gandhi
Aung San Suu Kyi
24. With whom the Income Tax Department decides to share its PAN card database?
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
4 minutes
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
Hyderabad
25. For what was Ashoka famous?
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
Andhra Pradesh
Dutch East Indies
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
26. Name the famous ruler of ancient India - who towards the end of his life converted to Jainism?
Sunderbans delta
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Chandragupta
Strait of Gibraltar
27. Who composed the national song of India (Vande Maatram)?
When sun is above the equator
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Aravallis
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
28. Who was the author of 'Hind Swaraj'?
Mahatma Gandhi
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Vidya Balan
Fatehpur Sikri
29. During whose time the Gandhara School of art developed?
Bobby Jindal
Kushans
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
2nd April - 2011
30. Which village of Andhra Pradesh may be sitting over one of the world's largest uranium reserves?
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
11th May
Rabindranath Tagore147
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
31. Who was the first recipient of Nehru Award for International Understanding?
G.V. Mavalankar
Bamiyan
Martin Luther King
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
32. Name the person who transliterated Guru Granth Sahib in Braille?
Bhai Gurmej Singh
1.34 millions
2
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
33. Why Shimla is cooler than Amritsar though they have same latitude?
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
Kushans
24
34. How many lines are there in latitude and longitude?
Second Battle of Tarain
Algernon Sidney
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.
Anna Hazare
35. Which will be the new subject added to the curriculum of Kendriya Vidyalayas?
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Chandragupta-II
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
German
36. Which day is observed as Sanskrit Day in India?
N.E. Borlaug
5th September
Tungsten
Rocky Marciano
37. Who is known as founder of Mohemmadan Anglo-Oriental college at Aligarh?
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Lawn Tennis153
Tamil Nadu
24th February
38. Name the state of India where diamond mines are mainly found?
Madhya Pradesh
Second Battle of Tarain
8th October
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
39. Where is Pushkar lake located?
Nek Chand
Rajasthan
Tamil Nadu
15th January
40. In which century did Ashoka reign?
Third century B.C
Andhra Pradesh
24th May
Rabindranath Tagore147
41. What is the ratio of width of our National flag to its length?
2:3161
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
14th November
Michael Phelps
42. When was the foundation day of CSIR ( Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) observed?
India
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
28th February
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
43. Name the mountain range which stretches from Gujarat in the West to Delhi in the North?
Akbar
5
Aravallis
Fatehpur Sikri
44. Which is the largest area wise state in India?
Kushinagar
J.B.Say
Bleaching powder
Rajasthan
45. Who is going to receive highest US award?
Aung San Suu Kyi
Das Kapital
24th May
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
46. Who is known as 'Lady with the Lamp'?
Will pass through Equator
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
Florence Nightingale
Jane Austen
47. Radcliffe line is the boundary line between which countries?
Punjab
India and Pakistan
In Samba
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
48. Name the player of USA who created history by grabbing his 22nd Olympic medal ?
Gujarat
Contingency Fund of India
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
49. Which is largest river without delta in India?
Narmada and Japti
Lead
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
Kerala
50. Which age group children in India are ensured free and compulsory education?
5 hours 30 minutes
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
6-14 years
Director General Anil Kaushik