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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is the name of India's moon mission?
Chandrayaan
Yamuna
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
Lead
2. Who was the first lady to become judge of the Supreme Court?
Tungsten
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
India Museum at Kolkata
Sachin Tendulkar
3. Where is the World's largest ship canal?
Arthur Conan Doyle
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
Gota in Sweden
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
4. Our Indian National Calender is based on which era?
Vidya Balan
Jagannath
Saka era
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
5. What is the new name of Burma?
Aravind Adiga
Albert Einstein
Myanmar
Hamid Ansari
6. Name the Bollywood legend whose ancestral home in Peshawar - Pakistan has been turned into heritage site?
Dilip Kumar
Amjad Ali Khan
Equator
UK
7. Who is the author of book 'India Wins Freedom'?
35 degree
Ogyen Trinley Dorjee - the third most important Tibetian religious head after Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama. (as police recovered currencies of 26 countries including 1 - 20 - 197 chinese yuan and around Rs 5.3 million in Indian currency.)
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
Trivandrum
8. Where is Pushkar lake located?
12th January
Rajasthan
Vidya Balan
Himachal Pradesh
9. What is the ratio of width of our National Flag to its length?
Shobha De
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
2:4
It loses one day
10. Which is the largest district in India?
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
Ladakh
24
1.34 millions
11. Who is the author of the book 'We Indians'?
Khushwant Singh
Jan 26 - 1950134
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
India Museum at Kolkata
12. In which year was the National Anthem first sung?
1911133
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
Sunil Gavaskar
India and Pakistan
13. Who discovered the electric lamp?
Michael Phelps
Edison
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
Kulandei Francis
14. At which place a devastating fire tore through seven storey AMRI hospital killing 91 people in 2011?
South Kolkata
Satyendra Nath Bose
The Rajya Sabha
Concave mirror
15. Name the Strait connecting Arabian Sea and the Bay ofBengal?
Nek Chand
Palk Strait
Thailand
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
16. Who composed the National Anthem 'Jana Gana Mana'?
95th
Arthur Conan Doyle
Florence Nightingale
Rabindranath Tagore
17. Where is the National Defence Academy situated?
Tungsten
Dilip Kumar
4 minutes
Khadakvasla
18. Who said 'Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err'?
1953
Mahatma Gandhi
Gujarat
Bangalore
19. Which day is celebrated as Independence Day of India?
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
July - 1947
15th August167
Gol Gumbaz
20. Which day in India is celebrated as Children's Day?
Jawaharlal Nehru
Akbar
14th November
China
21. Who discovered insulin?
1.34 millions
Shobha De
Dr. F.G.Banting
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
22. Who was called the 'Napoleon of India'?
Chaucer
15th August167
Samudragupta
N.E. Borlaug
23. When was the Constituent Assembly that framed Constitution for Independent India set up?
Uttar Pradesh
1949
14th November
Prof. V.N Datta
24. What is KG5 drug?
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25. Where is ABG Shipyard the India's largest private sector shipyard?
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
Chilka lake (Orissa )
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Ganga
26. Who got Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar in 2011 ?
God particle or Higgs Boson
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
Dance
Michael Phelps
27. What is India's rank on the Transparency International (TI) corruption Perception Index out of 183 countries in 2011?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Tungsten
95th
The equator
28. What is Dry Ice?
Vidya Balan
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
26th January
29. Which is the largest auditorium in India?
Aravallis
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
Sukumar Sen
30. At what price the menu of the first dinner served to the firstclass passengers of the ill fated liner Titanic on 10th April - 1912 sold?
Only the first stanza
In Samba
$46 - 00011
11th May
31. Name the shooter of Himachal Pradesh (Hamirpur) who won silver medal in Olympics 2012?
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32. Which song became the most searched You tube video in India in 2011?
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33. Where is a tunnel near the Indo-Pak border detected?
Aravind Adiga
6 months
Later Vedic Age
In Samba
34. What is e-bomb?
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35. Which day is celebrated as World Red Cross Day?
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
8th May
The Delhi Metro
Jana Gana Mana
36. Which country was under the grip of a severe earthquake followed by tsunami recently?
Indra Sinha64
Jana Gana Mana
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
Japan
37. Name the gases used in different types of welding?
Oxygen and acetylene
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
Sidney Sheldon
38. Who is called 'Grand Old Man of India'?
Dadabhai Naoroji
U.K
India
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
39. Name the metal used in storage batteries?
Rs 270
Bengali
Dr. F.G.Banting
Lead
40. Name the first ever pill approved by US to prevent HIV?
Washing soda
9th August
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
Khushwant Singh
41. At which place the largest industrial solar plant of the country became operational on 29th July - 2012?
11th July
Bangalore
Kiran Bedi
Ludhiana
42. After whose name the Nobel Prize was started?
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Khushwant Singh
43. On which date Quit India Day comes?
9th August
Kulandei Francis
18th December
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
44. Who is sworn as the 14th Vice President of India?
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
Hamid Ansari
Arthur Conan Doyle
Golconda
45. Name the NASA's most modern spacecraft successfully landed on Mars on 6th August - 2012 to begin a pioneering two year search to find out if the red planet is suitable for life and whether it can be inhabitable in the future?
Japan
Curiosity
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
24th May
46. With whom the Income Tax Department decides to share its PAN card database?
Johann Gregor Mendel
Vadodara
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
47. With which field M.F. Hussian were associated?
Hamid Ansari
Chandragupta
Strait of Gibraltar
Painting
48. Where is Buland Darwaza located?
Sukumar Sen
Fatehpur Sikri
Mosley
Sri Lanka
49. Where did the World's costliest crash took place?
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
18th December
Second Battle of Tarain
5
50. Which is the largest populated state in India?
29th August
22nd April
Uttar Pradesh
Robert Watson Watt