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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Who invented the petrol engine?
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
Nikolaus Otto
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
China
2. Satyan Bose is known for his excellence in which field?
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
Uttar Pradesh
Motion Picture
3. On which date Chennai turned 372 years?
Nikolaus Otto
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
At Magdalla port near Surat.
4. Our Indian National Calender is based on which era?
Maharaja Hari Singh
Saka era
Florence Nightingale
Dehradun
5. Who is the person of Indian origin nominated as the Governor of Louisiana - an American state?
5th June
Jane Austen
Greeks
Bobby Jindal
6. Mainly which gas is present in gobar gas?
55th rank
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
Methane
Greeks
7. What reference is taken to know the local time of a place?
Later Vedic Age
Washing soda
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
Longitudinal position
8. Who is the author of novel 'The White Tiger'?
Aravind Adiga
Assam
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
Tamil Nadu
9. In which year was the National Anthem first sung?
5 hours 30 minutes
1911133
Julang-2
Jan 26 - 1950134
10. What is difference between mass of body and its weight?
Oxygen and acetylene
Pakistan and Afghanistan
Methane - butane and propane
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
11. 'A Voice of Freedom' is a book written by whom?
Gujarat
Nayantara Sahgal
Alexander Fleming
Concave lens
12. What is the new name of Burma?
Indians
Das Kapital
Mary Kom
Myanmar
13. Who wrote our National Anthem?
Rabindra Nath Tagore
2nd April - 2011
Saeed Mirza
Chandragupta Maurya
14. Which is the largest cave in India?
M.N Roy62
Arundhati Roy
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
Journalism
15. When is National Science Day celebrated in India?
Michael Phelps
28th February
Abul Kalam Azad
Shobha De
16. When is World Health Day celebrated?
Gwalior Gharana
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
7th April
Amitabh Bachchan
17. When is the World Population Day observed?
Carbon dioxide
11th July
Rabindranath Tagore
Su-Kam Power Systems
18. Name the first heavyweight boxer to go undefeated throughout his career?
Rocky Marciano
Bobby Jindal
Konark
Planning Commission
19. Who wrote the famous play 'Macbeth'?
Ladakh
William Shakespeare151
Konark
Punjab
20. Name the former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister whose admirers have decided to build a temple to perpetuate his memory?
Year of Disabled Soldiers
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
Hamid Ansari
21. Where is Sun Temple situated?
American firm Intra Pace unveils a stomach implant vi akeyhole surgery that can help people fight flab by warning the brain when enough food is taken. This credit card sized implant is named as 'Abiliti'.
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
Andhra Pradesh
Konark
22. If in a mirror image of object appears to be larger then which type of mirror is used?
Uttar Pradesh
Vocal Music
Art and architecture
Concave mirror
23. Who invented the telegraphic code?
Samuel Morse
Hyderabad
State Bank of India
The equator
24. What is the estimated premature deaths caused annually by outdoor air pollution - according to the first pollution survey carried out by World Health Organisation in Sept. - 2011?
1.34 millions
In Samba
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
Anna Hazare
25. What are the benefits of medicine Performax?
Edison
Is a herbal formulation of 10 selected herbs known to have adaptogenic properties. It helps to improve the physical and mental performance by increasing blood oxygenation and reducing low density lipoproteins and cholesterol.
27th September
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
26. When are days and nights equal throughout the globe?
India
Prof. V.N Datta
When sun is above the equator
Third century B.C
27. Who wrote the line 'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever'?
John Keats
Jaipur
14th November
Aravind Adiga
28. Who is the richest Indian in the World according to the 2011 Forbes India annual rich list?
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
23rd December
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
29. Who said 'Child is the father of Man'?
Amitabh Bachchan
Speaker
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
William Wordsworth
30. Who wrote the popular book 'The Naked Face'?
Standard time of the country138
India and China
Kerala
Sidney Sheldon
31. Who is the author of book 'The Shape of the Beast'?
Arundhati Roy
27th September
90 degree
Assam
32. Which country topped medal table in Olympic 2012?
Sitar
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.)
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
Mehbooba Mufti
33. Name the alloy of iron - chromium and nickel?
Stainless steel
24th October
Speaker
55th rank
34. Name the first ever pill approved by US to prevent HIV?
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
Leo Tolstoy
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
The Lok Sabha
35. Usain Bolt adjudged as the fastest man on the earth in Olympics 2008 belongs to which country?
Nitrous oxide
Jamaica
From fresh and purified fat stem cells ( Fat has a large number of tissue growing stem cells. People could go for liposuction and save fat cells for future use or can use immediately.)
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
36. Name 72 year old social activist who supported Jan Lokpal Bill?
Gagan Narang (shooter)
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
Kiran Bedi
Anna Hazare
37. What is India's rank on the Transparency International (TI) corruption Perception Index out of 183 countries in 2011?
In Samba
Cavendish
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
95th
38. Who is the new youngest Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh?
When sun is above the equator
Akhilesh Yadav
Navtej Saran
Hamid Ansari
39. What is proxy voting?
Das Kapital
31st May
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
Kerala
40. Who was called Bollywood's first superstar?
Dutch East Indies
Sitar
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
Narendra Modi government
41. Radcliffe line is the boundary line between which countries?
7th April
Sushil Kumar
India and Pakistan
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
42. Name the great poet who graced the court of Alauddin Khilji?
Amir Khusru
Lead
Rs 270
10th December
43. On what occasion Bihar got its own state anthem and state prayer whose CD's were released by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar?
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
162
44. Name the eminent Hindi authors chosen for Jnanpith Award 2011?
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
Maharashtra
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
45. For what was Ashoka famous?
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
Bromine
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Baby Nargis
46. 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?
31st May
$46 - 00011
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
H.P.S Ahluwalia
47. Which river is related to Nagarjun Sagar Project?
Krishna
22nd April
Robert Watson Watt
Sriharikota
48. Upto where Chandragupta Maurya's empire extended in the north-west?
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Hindukush
Due to radiation
Jamaica
49. To whom President of India can write if he wants to resign from office?
Vice President of India
250th anniversary
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
John Keats
50. When comes the World Disabled Day?
INS Vikrant55
Amitabh Bachchan
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
15th March