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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Which states are known for Cauvery Water dispute?
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
H.P.S Ahluwalia
Painting
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
2. Which gas is used for preparation of soda water?
Navtej Saran
Ganga
Carbon dioxide
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
3. Who is the person of Indian origin nominated as the Governor of Louisiana - an American state?
Sushil Kumar
Samuel Morse
Dilip Kumar
Bobby Jindal
4. Who wrote 'Gita Govinda'?
Jaya Dev
Johannes Kepler
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
Tungsten
5. Triple vaccine is administered to a new born child to save him from which diseases?
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
Michael Phelps
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
6. Which is largest river without delta in India?
Martin Luther King
Narmada and Japti
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
S. Radhakrishnan
7. Who is known as founder of Mohemmadan Anglo-Oriental college at Aligarh?
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Firozeshah Tughluq
15th January
Will pass through Equator
8. Whose influence is reflected in the sculptures of the Gandhara school?
Rs 270
Saeed Mirza
Tungsten
Greeks
9. In which Amendment Right to property was removed from the list of Fundamental rights?
Perpendicular to each other
Mary Kom
24
Forty-fourth Amendment
10. Where is Boat Race a popular sport?
Kerala
Allauddin Khilji
U.K
Rabindra Nath Tagore
11. An air bubble in water acts as which lens?
Concave lens
Standard time of the country138
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
12. Who is the first Indian male shuttler to reach Olympic quarters?
Parupalli Kashyap
Chandragupta Maurya
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
Vidya Balan
13. Who is the World Player of Year?
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
Cyrus Mistry
Dadabhai Naoroji
14. In which state are the World famous Ajanta Caves situated?
M.N Roy62
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
Aung San Suu Kyi
Maharashtra
15. Who is the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces in India?
The President
15th March
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
Algernon Sidney
16. Where is the World's largest ship canal?
Silicon
Mary Kom
Gota in Sweden
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
17. What is the aim of the 'Biosphere Reserve Project'?
U.K
Protecting Flora and Fauna
W.C Bannerjee
Rabindranath Tagore147
18. Who got Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar in 2011 ?
Akbar
1949
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
19. Which ruler was adorned with the title of 'Maharajadhiraja'?
Razia Sultana
Zinc
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
Kanishka
20. In which century did Ashoka reign?
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
Third century B.C
250th anniversary
The Bering Strait
21. Where is Buland Darwaza located?
Fatehpur Sikri
The Rajya Sabha
Arthur Conan Doyle
Maharashtra
22. On whose written advice President can proclaim Emergency?
15th March
Vasudeva
Prime Minister
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.)
23. Who discovered the electric lamp?
Edison
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
William Shakespeare151
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
24. Which day is celebrated as National Maritime Day in India?
The equator
Uttarakhand
5th April
Standard time of the country138
25. Which day is celebrated as Independence Day of India?
15th August167
Mary Kom
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
William Shakespeare151
26. On which date Chennai turned 372 years?
Jayadeva
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
$46 - 00011
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
27. In which field Aachan Maharaj has distinguished himself?
Dance
Alexander Graham Bell
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
23rd April
28. In how many time zones is the World divided?
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
24
Sushil Kumar
Music
29. How many stanza's of Jana Gana Mana song were adopted as National Anthem?
11th July
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
Only the first stanza
30. Which book is entitled as 'Bible of Communism'?
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
Das Kapital
Hunting
M. Narasimhan
31. What are the bank deposits that can be withdrawn without notice called?
Demand deposits
Manipur54
Hyderabad
Talwandi
32. Who wrote 'War and Peace'?
Genetically Modified Crops.
Chadwick
Robert Watson Watt
Leo Tolstoy
33. Which region of India is associated with pine forests?
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
Uttarakhand
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
Only the first stanza
34. Who presented the first Union Budget of Independent India?
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
Mundak Upanishad
Kushinagar
Algernon Sidney
35. 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)
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
Sushil Kumar
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
36. Kathakali a folk dance is prevalent in which state?
Euclid
Kerala
1949
Arundhati Roy
37. Who was called the 'Napoleon of India'?
Sushil Kumar
Samudragupta
7th April
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
38. For what was Ashoka famous?
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
Euclid
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
39. What is made from the mixture of lime and chlorine?
Yamuna
Bleaching powder
Concave lens
Gagan Narang
40. Which state of India has highest production of tea?
Assam
Indians
Hyderabad
Tungsten
41. Which anniversary of sandwich was celebrated by British town in May - 2012?
6 months
Vande Mataram
Tungsten
250th anniversary
42. Who wrote the book 'The Namesake'?
10th October
Jhumpa Lahiri
Morarji Desai
1.34 millions
43. Who wrote the first history book?
Sriharikota
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
Allauddin Khilji
Herodotus
44. Which country was under the grip of a severe earthquake followed by tsunami recently?
24th February
8
Arundhati Roy
Japan
45. Who was the first king to conquer Malwa - Gujarat and Maharashtra?
Concave lens
Kerala
Chandragupta Maurya
Alexander Fleming
46. Who is the man popularly kwown as Gurudev?
$46 - 00011
Bleaching powder
Rabindranath Tagore147
Vande Mataram
47. Who wrote the book 'Glimpses of World History'?
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
Ujjain
Neil Armstrong
Jawaharlal Nehru
48. Where were huge amounts of uranium recently found?
20th March
Julang-2
Jhumpa Lahiri
Andhra Pradesh
49. Which is largest man made lake in India?
Cavendish
Standard time of the country138
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
Kanishka
50. Liquefied Petroleum Gas consists mainly which gases?
Sunil Gavaskar
William Wordsworth
Roentgen
Methane - butane and propane