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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Who is called Father of English Poetry?
Gol Gumbaz
35 degree
Navtej Saran
Chaucer
2. Who wrote the book 'Eternal Himalayas'?
Angle between the horizon and the equator
H.P.S Ahluwalia
It loses one day
18th December
3. After whose name the Nobel Prize was started?
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
Bangalore
Chandragupta Maurya
The equator
4. What happens when a ship crosses Date line from west to east?
Kulandei Francis
8th September
It loses one day
35 degree
5. Who discovered Penicillin?
Amitabh Bachchan
Dumping
Alexander Fleming
July - 1947
6. Who invented the steam engine?
Jane Austen
15th January
$46 - 00011
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
7. What is the designation of the chairperson of Lok Sabha?
Sunil Gavaskar
Vishnu Sharma
2nd April - 2011
Speaker
8. Who wrote the first history book?
Gwalior Gharana
Herodotus
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
Shimla and Hamirpur
9. Who discovered the electric lamp?
Edison
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
Churchill
Mundak Upanishad
10. Which is the largest Church in India?
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
Wular lake (Kashmir)
6-14 years
Alexander Graham Bell
11. Who was the first lady to become judge of the Supreme Court?
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
Mary Kom
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
12. Where was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Avanti?
Mahatma Gandhi
Wular lake (Kashmir)
Valentina Tereshkova
Ujjain
13. Who invented the television?
J.L.Baird
Rajasthan
Mumbai
Albert Einstein
14. Who discovered photoelectric effect?
Graphite
Albert Einstein
Michael Phelps
Mussoorie
15. Triple vaccine is administered to a new born child to save him from which diseases?
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Jai Samhita
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
16. Name the first Indian women shuttler to enter semifinal at the Olympics?
Narendra Modi government
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
German
17. Who is known as Father of Geometry?
Robert Watson Watt
Euclid
Chaucer
Sidney Sheldon
18. When is Martyr's Day in India celebrated ?
U.K
Football
30th January
Chandrayaan
19. Which cricketer known as 'Tiger' also father of famous actor died on 23rd September - 2011?
Chandragupta
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
20th March
Alexander Fleming
20. Indian Air Force Day is observed on which day ?
8th October
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
Only the first stanza
21. Which is the largest river island in India?
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
27th September
Dr. F.G.Banting
26th January
22. Who is the author of 'Tarikh-i-Alai' containing the details of the first few years of Sultan Alauddin Khilji?
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
20th March
Amir Khusrau
Khushwant Singh
23. Which country topped medal table in Olympic 2012?
Landsteiner
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
Baby Nargis
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
24. Which is our National song?
Jonas Salk
In Samba
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
Vande Mataram
25. In India - who issues one rupee coins and notes as well as subsidiary coins?
Mohammad Iqbal
Yousuf Raza Gillani
The Reserve Bank of India
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
26. Name the scientist who is considered as the Father of Genetics?
Johann Gregor Mendel
Rabindranath Tagore
Bombay
Rahul Banerjee (archery ) - Preeja Sreedharan (athletics) - Vikas Gowda (athletics) - Jwala Gutta(badminton) - M Suranjoy Singh(boxing) - Zaheer Khan (cricket) - Sunil Chhetri(football) - Ashish Kumar (gymnastics) - Rajpal Singh (hockey) - Ra
27. Which is the largest Mosque in India?
Nikolaus Otto
Satyendra Nath Bose
Jama Masjid
Bleaching powder
28. One degree of longitude on equator is equal to what distance?
Jaipur
INS Vikrant55
2G spectrum scam
69 miles
29. With which musical instrument was Ustad Mustaq Ali Khan associated?
Art and architecture
Sitar
Vishnu Sharma
Aravallis
30. Why bubble of water shines?
Bangalore
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
Herodotus
31. Where is Bihar's first all women police station located?
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
Demand deposits
Pakistan and Afghanistan
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
32. At which point of earth weight of object will be minimum?
William Wordsworth
At the center of earth
Khadakvasla
Punjab
33. Who wrote 'Gita Govinda'?
Jaya Dev
Hyderabad
Stupa
Speaker
34. Where is Union Budget presented firstly?
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
The Lok Sabha
Oxygen and acetylene
Abhinav Bindra
35. Radcliffe line is the boundary line between which countries?
India and Pakistan
Roger Federer
Gagan Narang
M.N Roy62
36. Which country was under the grip of a severe earthquake followed by tsunami recently?
Protecting Flora and Fauna
Sitar
H.P.S Ahluwalia
Japan
37. What is made from the mixture of lime and chlorine?
6 months
Bleaching powder
Mahatma Gandhi
Methane
38. Name the scientist who got Nobel Prize twice for the same subject?
Marie Curie
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
39. Name the woman boxer of India who have won five time world championship in succession?
Mary Kom
The Bering Strait
55th rank
Satyendra Nath Bose
40. Which city is called 'White City' of Rajasthan?
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
Mumbai
30th January
41. Which day is observed as World Heritage Day?
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
18th April
Ujjain
Year of Disabled Soldiers
42. The World famous 'Peacock Throne' was kept in which Mughal building?
New Agra Fort
Nikolaus Otto
Bangalore
1st May164
43. Name the Indian scientist who was a part of NASA team which has identified the landing site of the 'Curiosity'?
Khadakvasla
Amitabh Ghosh
Sunil Gavaskar
Ladakh
44. Who became the first batsman in the history of cricket to score 100 international centuries?
Amir Khusru
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
Bleaching powder
Sachin Tendulkar
45. Who is the senior most Army officer to have faced a court martial and dismissed from service by an Indian Army Court?
Rocky Marciano
Mumbai
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
95th
46. Whose contemporary was Tulsidas?
Gagan Narang
Akbar
Planning Commission
Zinc
47. Where is the Caspian sea - the largest inland sea or lake in the world located?
Washing soda
Algernon Sidney
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
23rd December
48. Who wrote the book 'Around the World in Eighty Days'?
Later Vedic Age
Jules Verne
Genetically Modified Crops.
Rajasthan
49. Which region of India is associated with pine forests?
Jonathan Swift
Maharaja Hari Singh
Uttarakhand
5th April
50. Who discovered insulin?
Kushans
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
Dr. F.G.Banting
Madhya Pradesh