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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Where are relics of Buddha preserved?
Aung San Suu Kyi
Stupa
Will pass through Equator
Darsheel Safary
2. What is the latitude of South Pole?
Prime Minister
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
90 degree
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
3. India is facing pressure from the US and other Western countries to break trade ties with which country?
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
Because the solids have high elasticity.
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
69 miles
4. Who was the author of 'Hind Swaraj'?
Zinc
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
Mahatma Gandhi
Abhinav Bindra
5. What is the designation of the chairperson of Lok Sabha?
Chandragupta Maurya
Speaker
Karashapana
Yamuna
6. Which sportsperson won the maximum number of Olympic Gold Medals?
Jaipur
Michael Phelps
Dutch East Indies
Uttarakhand
7. Satyan Bose is known for his excellence in which field?
Silicon
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
Hockey
Motion Picture
8. Who was the chairman of Constituent Assembly?
Neil Armstrong
Mary Kom
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Forty-fourth Amendment
9. 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?
Shobha De
Milkha Singh
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
1.34 millions
10. Who was the first lady to become judge of the Supreme Court?
Rajasthan
Dadabhai Naoroji
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
Music
11. Which country has hosted the Asian Games for maximum number of times?
Jawaharlal Nehru
Thailand
Madhya Pradesh
9th August
12. Which day is chosen to be celebrated as Father's Day?
Maharashtra
Silver
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
13. Who is the first Indian male shuttler to reach Olympic quarters?
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Ashoka
Parupalli Kashyap
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
14. Who is the author of book 'Speed Post'?
Leh
Renders electronic gadgets useless and effectively neutralises the adversary's command control and communication capability by producing a strong electromagnetic field generating powerful electricity surges that play havoc with electronic circuits wi
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
Shobha De
15. Who invented telephone?
Roger Federer
Razia Sultana
William Wordsworth
Alexander Graham Bell
16. What happens to speed of sound with rise in temperature?
Art and architecture
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
Vande Mataram
Increases
17. When is Martyr's Day in India celebrated ?
30th January
Indians
Year of Disabled Soldiers
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
18. Which game is associated with Merdeka Cup?
Football
Uttar Pradesh
Landsteiner
Das Kapital
19. Which is the great circle on earth's surface?
5 hours 30 minutes
2:4
The equator
11th May
20. Which gas is used for preparation of soda water?
Maharashtra
Sunil Gavaskar
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Carbon dioxide
21. Where is the National Institute of Nutrition located?
Leo Tolstoy
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
Carbon dioxide
Hyderabad
22. From where are the words 'Satyameva Jayate' taken?
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.
Martin Luther King
2:3161
Mundak Upanishad
23. In how many time zones is the World divided?
24
G.V. Mavalankar
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
Vishnu Sharma
24. Who was called Bollywood's first superstar?
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
Only the first stanza
Later Vedic Age
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
25. Who wrote the book 'Animal's People'?
90 degree
Playwright
Indra Sinha64
Chaucer
26. Late Girilal Jain was a noted figure in which field?
Bromine
Mohammad Iqbal
Journalism
Su-Kam Power Systems
27. With which cells scientists for the first time have developed bone?
2
Kushinagar
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.)
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
28. Who has become the first lady jawan in Indian army?
Razia Sultana
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
Uttar Pradesh
29. Who invented the petrol engine?
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
Maharashtra
Nikolaus Otto
It loses one day
30. Who won bronze medal for India in 10m pistol event (London Olympics - 2012)?
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
Four lions
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
Gagan Narang
31. What is the aim of the 'Biosphere Reserve Project'?
In front of New Delhi's High Court
Protecting Flora and Fauna
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
Samudragupta
32. Which city is known as 'Electronic City of India'?
Yamuna
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
Bangalore
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
33. Why the International Date Line makes slight deviation from 180 degree meridian?
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
Painting
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
34. When was the design of our National Flag adopted by the Constituent of India?
Samudragupta
Director General Anil Kaushik
Shimla and Hamirpur
July - 1947
35. Who wrote the book 'Eternal Himalayas'?
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
Sitar
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
H.P.S Ahluwalia
36. Which is the largest Church in India?
Mundak Upanishad
Punjab
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
37. Whose contemporary was Tulsidas?
23rd December
Torricelli
Akbar
Amir Khusrau
38. When was the Constituent Assembly that framed Constitution for Independent India set up?
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
Governor
1949
Motion Picture
39. Where is the venue for the 2012 Olympics?
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
London
Jyoti Amge
40. Who wrote the book 'Gullivers Travel'?
Third century B.C
Oxygen and acetylene
Amir Khusrau
Jonathan Swift
41. Name the largest oil refinery of India?
Vadodara
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
Vocal Music
South Africa
42. Name the great Hindu king who combined in himself the qualities of Samudragupta and Ashoka?
Harshavardhana
Gol Gumbaz
State Bank of India
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
43. What is the original name of Mahabharata?
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
Kerala
Jai Samhita
Aravind Adiga
44. The Rath Yatra at Puri is celebrated in honour of which Hindu deity?
Jagannath
Painting
Kiran Bedi
Governor
45. Which state has become the second highest power purchaser in the country after Punjab?
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
India
Mundak Upanishad
Increases
46. Which actress has become the brand ambassador for sanitation compaign?
Methane - butane and propane
Vidya Balan
250th anniversary
Albert Einstein
47. What is AERE?
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48. Where is ABG Shipyard the India's largest private sector shipyard?
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Standard time of the country138
Kathak
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
49. Which country won the maximum number of medals in Olympics 2008 held in Beijing?
Longitudinal position
USA
Khushwant Singh
Due to radiation
50. Which is largest river without delta in India?
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
Raja Ravi Varma
Narmada and Japti