SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
General Knowledge Trivia Test
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
general-knowledge
,
trivia
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Name the latest India's surface -to-surface missile successfully test fired (on 26th Sept - 2011)?
Indra Sinha64
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
Amir Khusru
2. Who wrote the book 'Gulliver's Travels'?
Jonathan Swift
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
Hunting
11th July
3. What is the upper house of parliament known as?
Iodine
The Rajya Sabha
Football
Morarji Desai
4. In which field Aachan Maharaj has distinguished himself?
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
Standard time of the country138
Rs 270
Dance
5. Usain Bolt adjudged as the fastest man on the earth in Olympics 2008 belongs to which country?
Jamaica
Ashoka
Konark
5th April
6. Name the strait which separates Africa from Europe?
Kiran Bedi
Strait of Gibraltar
Will pass through Equator
Chilka lake (Orissa )
7. Who has been appointed the Governor of RBI after the retirement of Shri Y.V. Reddy?
27th September
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
Ripon
Anna Hazare
8. Where are the headquarters of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts?
New Delhi
1949
Anna Hazare
Jaipur
9. Our Indian Constitution closely follows the Constitutional system of which country?
Jama Masjid
Gujarat
Jane Austen
U.K
10. Which player is the author of book named 'Sunny Days'?
INS Vikrant55
China
Later Vedic Age
Sunil Gavaskar
11. Kanchipuram is in which state?
Rs 270
Tamil Nadu
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
Vishnu Sharma
12. Who is the new captain of the Indian Premier League team Rajasthan Royals?
Talwandi
Sonepur (Bihar )
Vande Mataram
Rahul Dravid
13. Who got the greatest Olympic athlete of all time Trophy?
Michael Phelps
Stupa
Amitabh Bachchan
Dutch East Indies
14. Name the gases used in different types of welding?
Oxygen and acetylene
Vasudeva
Galileo
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
15. Who was the only Muslim woman to sit on the throne of Delhi?
Jaipur
5th September
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
Razia Sultana
16. Who wrote the immortal song 'Vande Mataram'?
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
The Rajya Sabha
Dance
17. Who founded the Saka Era?
Maharashtra
Abhinav Bindra
Jonathan Swift
Kanishka
18. Who invented the television?
J.L.Baird
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
Ladakh
19. Who was the First Election Commissioner of India?
Silver
Contingency Fund of India
Sukumar Sen
Bamiyan
20. Which book is entitled as 'Bible of Communism'?
Das Kapital
Herodotus
Allahabad Pillar inscription
Leh
21. Who was the chairman of Constituent Assembly?
Florence Nightingale
Graphite
Jan 26 - 1950134
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
22. Who won the silver medal in 66 Kg wrestling and is the first Indian to win two individual Olympic medals?
Carbon dioxide
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
30th January
Sushil Kumar
23. Name the country which is second largest producer of horticulture commodities such as fruits - vegetables and flowers in the world?
8th March
1911133
India
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
24. Where is Pushkar lake located?
Increases
Euclid
Rajasthan
Himachal Pradesh
25. Who was the founder of the Khalsa?
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.)
Guru Gobind Singh
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
Galileo
26. Which element is obtained from sea weeds?
Iodine
Kho-Kho
The Bering Strait
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
27. Who wrote the book 'We Indians'?
Jawaharlal Nehru
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
Khushwant Singh
Jhumpa Lahiri
28. Who wrote the book 'Ammi! Letter to a Democratic Mother'?
Marie Curie
Leo Tolstoy
Bleaching powder
Saeed Mirza
29. While playing with which team Rahul Dravid completed his 10000 runs in the Test cricket?
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
South Africa
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
Harshavardhana
30. At which point of earth weight of object will be minimum?
Infinite
Trivandrum
At the center of earth
24th October
31. 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.
Thailand
2:4
China
32. When is India's Republic Day celebrated?
26th January
Rocky Marciano
Navtej Saran
Shobha De
33. Name the former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister whose admirers have decided to build a temple to perpetuate his memory?
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
Nitrous oxide
Paschim Banga1
Vasudeva
34. Name the three new elements added to the Periodic Table in 2011?
Bobby Jindal
Washing soda
Jagannath
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
35. Which river is related to Nagarjun Sagar Project?
Galileo
Odisha
2
Krishna
36. Which painting got the highest price ever paid for a work of art at any auction?
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
37. Name the woman boxer of India who have won five time world championship in succession?
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
Sushil Kumar
Mary Kom
Indra Sinha64
38. The Rath Yatra at Puri is celebrated in honour of which Hindu deity?
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
Jagannath
India and China
Golconda
39. Who is the author of book 'Freedom Behind Bars'?
Trivandrum
The equator
Kiran Bedi
Kushinagar
40. What is the other name of deuterium oxide?
Narmada and Japti
Lala Lajpat Rai
Lobsang Sangay
Heavy water
41. Who is the author of book 'The Tribune 130 Years: A Witness to History'?
1.34 millions
Prof. V.N Datta
Pune
Zinc
42. Who is the author of the book 'The Exile'?
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
1953
Navtej Saran
43. Who is the author of novel 'The White Tiger'?
Aravind Adiga
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
Hyderabad
44. When in India Teachers Day celebrated?
Vocal Music
V. Anand
The Bering Strait
5th September
45. Begum Akhtar is associated with which field?
11th July
Protecting Flora and Fauna
Amir Khusru
Vocal Music
46. During whose time the Gandhara School of art developed?
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
Gota in Sweden
Music
Kushans
47. Which is the great circle on earth's surface?
Sriharikota
11th May
The equator
Kushinagar
48. Name the Apple co-founder who changed the daily habits of millions by reinventing computing - music and mobile phones?
Thailand
Lobsang Sangay
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
49. Where is Indian Cancer Research Institute situated?
Yousuf Raza Gillani
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
Mary Kom
Bombay
50. Who was the first Indian elected to the leadership of Communist International?
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
Vidya Balan
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
M.N Roy62