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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. What is the name of India's first aircraft carrier?
Because the solids have high elasticity.
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
INS Vikrant55
Playwright
2. Who earned the title of 'Liberator'?
Mathura
Gol Gumbaz
Chandragupta Maurya
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
3. Name the Indian chess player who broke the World Record by finishing the game in twelve moves?
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
V. Anand
9th August
Khadakvasla
4. Which game is associated with Merdeka Cup?
Manipur54
Albert Einstein
Sidney Sheldon
Football
5. Who published the 'Red Data Book' containing information on the wild animals and plants in danger of extinction?
Jana Gana Mana
The Rajya Sabha
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Yousuf Raza Gillani
6. Who wrote the first history book?
Herodotus
Kolkata
23rd December
It loses one day
7. How many images will be formed when an object is placed between two mirrors placed parellel to each other?
1911133
Infinite
India
Rabindranath Tagore
8. Who will be the new Director General of Police (DGP) after the retirement of P.S. Gill?
Director General Anil Kaushik
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
Lawn Tennis153
Navtej Saran
9. In how many time zones is the World divided?
24
Dadabhai Naoroji
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
10. Name the leader under whom India's first coalition government in New Delhi was formed?
Stainless steel
55th rank
Kanishka
Morarji Desai
11. Which city is known as 'Electronic City of India'?
Bangalore
Genetically Modified Crops.
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
The number of persons per square kilometre.
12. Who is vice President of India?
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
Krishna
Year of Disabled Soldiers
8th October
13. Which day in India is celebrated as Children's Day?
14th November
Ms. Vasuki Sunkavalli (of Hyderabad)
Pakistan and Afghanistan
Assam
14. Which is the largest saline water lake in India?
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
Sunderbans delta
Hyderabad
15. Who was the chairman of Constituent Assembly?
India Museum at Kolkata
Gagan Narang
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Infinite
16. If in a mirror image of object appears to be larger then which type of mirror is used?
Standard time of the country138
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
29th August
Concave mirror
17. Which gas is used for preparation of soda water?
Andhra Pradesh
Ashoka
Chadwick
Carbon dioxide
18. Where is the only shrine in the world which has a natural statue of Hanuman that is not man made?
Mohammad bin Kasim
10th December
Director General Anil Kaushik
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
19. During whose reign The Mathura School of art flourished?
Vasudeva
Baby Nargis
Methane
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh
20. Which country is the second largest producer of sugar?
Su-Kam Power Systems
Shiv Prasad Singh
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
Parupalli Kashyap
21. Who invented the television?
Herodotus
J.L.Baird
Leo Tolstoy
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
22. Why the International Date Line makes slight deviation from 180 degree meridian?
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
Kapil Dev
Vande Mataram
55th rank
23. Who is the author of book 'The Tribune 130 Years: A Witness to History'?
Prof. V.N Datta
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
Infinite
Year of Disabled Soldiers
24. Who is author of 'Hindu view of life'?
The President
INS Vikrant55
2:3161
S. Radhakrishnan
25. Who is known as Nightingale of India?
Valentina Tereshkova
Curiosity
E.M Forster
Sarojini Naidu
26. Why speed of sound is greater in solids than in liquids?
New Delhi
Amjad Ali Khan
Rabindranath Tagore
Because the solids have high elasticity.
27. Who is the renowned flute player?
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
Contingency Fund of India
28. With which musical instrument was Ustad Mustaq Ali Khan associated?
Baby Nargis
Kushinagar
Swarajya Party
Sitar
29. Which is largest state of India?
Jamaica
Rajasthan
INS Vikrant55
Nitrous oxide
30. Which is the great circle on earth's surface?
Mehbooba Mufti
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
14th November
The equator
31. Name the Apple co-founder who changed the daily habits of millions by reinventing computing - music and mobile phones?
Khushwant Singh
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
Tungsten
Uttar Pradesh
32. Name the youngest skydriver in the country?
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
Aravallis
Parupalli Kashyap
Nitrogen
33. Who invented transistor?
The Lok Sabha
Shockley
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh
Galileo
34. Name the scientist who got Nobel Prize twice for the same subject?
Amjad Ali Khan
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Marie Curie
6 months
35. India is facing pressure from the US and other Western countries to break trade ties with which country?
30th January
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
Hindukush
Hampi
36. What is the ratio of width of our National Flag to its length?
Ripon
Satyendra Nath Bose
J.B.Say
2:4
37. Name the last king of Jammu and Kashmir?
E.M Forster
Cavendish
Sunita Williams
Maharaja Hari Singh
38. Which will be the new subject added to the curriculum of Kendriya Vidyalayas?
German
Nek Chand
Akbar
Hampi
39. Which anniversary of sandwich was celebrated by British town in May - 2012?
Kulandei Francis
Sriharikota
Cavendish
250th anniversary
40. What is the maximum duration for which the Vice President can officiate as the President of India?
Forty-fourth Amendment
6 months
Vande Mataram
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
41. What is difference between mass of body and its weight?
24th May
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
Tungsten
Protecting Flora and Fauna
42. Name the country's longest railway tunnel excavated?
7th April
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
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.
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
43. When is Earth Day observed?
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
Aravind Adiga
22nd April
V. Anand
44. Which ruler was adorned with the title of 'Maharajadhiraja'?
Kanishka
Contingency Fund of India
5th April
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
45. Who is the new youngest Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh?
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
Akhilesh Yadav
Equator
Himachal Pradesh
46. Who wrote the book 'Glimpses of World History'?
Strait of Gibraltar
30th January
Jawaharlal Nehru
London
47. Which is the largest desert in India?
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
Himachal Pradesh
Sonepur (Bihar )
48. Which musical instrument is said to be invented by Amir Khusro?
Sarojini Naidu
Planning Commission
Herodotus
Sitar
49. Where is Elephant Pass located?
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
Sri Lanka
50. Name the seas joined by Suez Canal?
Dumping
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156