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General Knowledge Trivia Test

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. What is the name of India's moon mission?






2. Who was the first lady to become judge of the Supreme Court?






3. Where is the World's largest ship canal?






4. Our Indian National Calender is based on which era?






5. What is the new name of Burma?






6. Name the Bollywood legend whose ancestral home in Peshawar - Pakistan has been turned into heritage site?






7. Who is the author of book 'India Wins Freedom'?






8. Where is Pushkar lake located?






9. What is the ratio of width of our National Flag to its length?






10. Which is the largest district in India?






11. Who is the author of the book 'We Indians'?






12. In which year was the National Anthem first sung?






13. Who discovered the electric lamp?






14. At which place a devastating fire tore through seven storey AMRI hospital killing 91 people in 2011?






15. Name the Strait connecting Arabian Sea and the Bay ofBengal?






16. Who composed the National Anthem 'Jana Gana Mana'?






17. Where is the National Defence Academy situated?






18. Who said 'Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err'?






19. Which day is celebrated as Independence Day of India?






20. Which day in India is celebrated as Children's Day?






21. Who discovered insulin?






22. Who was called the 'Napoleon of India'?






23. When was the Constituent Assembly that framed Constitution for Independent India set up?






24. What is KG5 drug?

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25. Where is ABG Shipyard the India's largest private sector shipyard?






26. Who got Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar in 2011 ?






27. What is India's rank on the Transparency International (TI) corruption Perception Index out of 183 countries in 2011?






28. What is Dry Ice?






29. Which is the largest auditorium in India?






30. 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?






31. Name the shooter of Himachal Pradesh (Hamirpur) who won silver medal in Olympics 2012?

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32. Which song became the most searched You tube video in India in 2011?

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33. Where is a tunnel near the Indo-Pak border detected?






34. What is e-bomb?

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35. Which day is celebrated as World Red Cross Day?






36. Which country was under the grip of a severe earthquake followed by tsunami recently?






37. Name the gases used in different types of welding?






38. Who is called 'Grand Old Man of India'?






39. Name the metal used in storage batteries?






40. Name the first ever pill approved by US to prevent HIV?






41. At which place the largest industrial solar plant of the country became operational on 29th July - 2012?






42. After whose name the Nobel Prize was started?






43. On which date Quit India Day comes?






44. Who is sworn as the 14th Vice President of India?






45. Name the NASA's most modern spacecraft successfully landed on Mars on 6th August - 2012 to begin a pioneering two year search to find out if the red planet is suitable for life and whether it can be inhabitable in the future?






46. With whom the Income Tax Department decides to share its PAN card database?






47. With which field M.F. Hussian were associated?






48. Where is Buland Darwaza located?






49. Where did the World's costliest crash took place?






50. Which is the largest populated state in India?