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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Who was the founder of the Khalsa?
Vidya Balan
29th August
Guru Gobind Singh
250th anniversary
2. Where is a tunnel near the Indo-Pak border detected?
In Samba
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
Chaucer
Rajasthan
3. Who is the senior most Army officer to have faced a court martial and dismissed from service by an Indian Army Court?
Ujjain
Iodine
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
Strait of Gibraltar
4. When is National Science Day celebrated in India?
26th January
Arthur Conan Doyle
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
28th February
5. Where is the only shrine in the world which has a natural statue of Hanuman that is not man made?
S. Radhakrishnan
Myanmar
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
Roentgen
6. Name the country's longest railway tunnel excavated?
China
Graphite
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
7. Name the former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister whose admirers have decided to build a temple to perpetuate his memory?
Jhumpa Lahiri
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
Dehradun
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
8. Who is generally regardedas the pioneer of Local Self Government in Modern India?
Ripon
The Lok Sabha
Darsheel Safary
Bombay
9. When is the World Population Day observed?
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
Jamaica
11th July
10. Which non -metal remains liquid at room temperature?
Indra Sinha64
Bromine
It loses one day
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
11. Who discovered photoelectric effect?
Kulandei Francis
Curiosity
July - 1947
Albert Einstein
12. What are the benefits of medicine Performax?
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.
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
India and China
Aung San Suu Kyi
13. What is the reason found for ground water contamination in Punjab - especially in the Malwa region?
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
The Delhi Metro
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
Madhya Pradesh
14. Which state in India has three language teaching formula?
Punjab
Prof. V.N Datta
Martin Luther King
Samuel Morse
15. Greenwich mean time (GMT) is the standard time of which country?
Darsheel Safary
U.K
Later Vedic Age
South Africa
16. Who is the richest Indian in the World according to the 2011 Forbes India annual rich list?
10th December
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
V.S Naipaul
Michael Phelps
17. Which place is going to have North India's biggest turf club?
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
Lawn Tennis153
China
Dance
18. Name the alloy of iron - chromium and nickel?
Assam
Second Battle of Tarain
Ladakh
Stainless steel
19. Who discovered the oral polio vaccine?
Jonas Salk
Assam
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
Standard time of the country138
20. Who is the World Player of Year?
Gujarat
26th January
Allahabad Pillar inscription
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
21. Where is Boat Race a popular sport?
Rajasthan
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
Kerala
India
22. When is the UN Day observed?
24th October
Only the first stanza
Carbon dioxide
Saka era
23. What is proxy voting?
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
Bengali
Sarojini Naidu
20th March
24. In which state is Ganesh Otsav celebrated?
Myanmar
Maharashtra
Later Vedic Age
The number of persons per square kilometre.
25. Whose autobiography is 'India Wins Freedom'?
India
Abul Kalam Azad
Jane Austen
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
26. What is difference between mass of body and its weight?
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
Chadwick
Methane
27. What amount is purposed as per capita allocation for health sector for 2011-2012 - according to the official review of National Rural Health Mission?
31st May
Arthur Conan Doyle
Rs 270
State Bank of India
28. On which date Anti Tobacco Day observed?
Gagan Narang
31st May
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'.
15th March
29. Who wrote the book 'Around the World in Eighty Days'?
Chandragupta
5
Jules Verne
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
30. On which date India won the World Cup in Mumbai?
Second Battle of Tarain
2nd April - 2011
Roentgen
Das Kapital
31. Which is the largest district in India?
Mahatma Gandhi
Ladakh
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
32. Champion Trophy is associated with which game?
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
Hockey
N.E. Borlaug
33. Whom did Dalai Lama announced to be his successor in March - 2011?
15th January
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
Lobsang Sangay
Khushwant Singh
34. Who is called 'Grand Old Man of India'?
Milkha Singh
Dadabhai Naoroji
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
35. Who propounded the Market Law?
Music
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
J.B.Say
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
36. Name the country which is second largest producer of horticulture commodities such as fruits - vegetables and flowers in the world?
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
The Rajya Sabha
India
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
37. Which metal is used in pencils?
Graphite
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
Indians
Dutch East Indies
38. Which is the largest dome in India?
Football
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
39. Which country has an Unwritten Constitution?
10th December
UK
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
Konark
40. Name the gas usually filled in the electric bulbs?
Nitrogen
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
Jane Austen
India
41. Where were Chola Kings ruling over?
Mary Kom
Raja Ravi Varma
8th March
Tamil Nadu
42. Late Vijay Tendulkar who died in 2008 were famous in which field?
Playwright
10th December
V.S Naipaul
Samar Guha
43. When an open bottle of scent is kept at one corner due to which phenomenon its fragrance is found in whole room?
Diffusion
Amir Khusru
Talwandi
5th April
44. What is the common name of sodium carbonate?
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
UK
Washing soda
45. Who won the silver medal in 66 Kg wrestling and is the first Indian to win two individual Olympic medals?
Sushil Kumar
Mary Kom
Dumping
Kushans
46. How many total number of enclaves are to be exchanged between territories of two countries India and Bangladesh according to the treaty signed in Sept - 2011?
The Bering Strait
Yousuf Raza Gillani
162
Jules Verne
47. Which is the place experiencing minimum and maximum temperatures -28.3 degree Celsius and 15 degree Celsius respectively?
Leh
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
Mahatma Gandhi
Indra Sinha64
48. While playing with which team Rahul Dravid completed his 10000 runs in the Test cricket?
South Africa
Kauravas and Pandavas51
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.)
German
49. Who wrote the novel 'Neela Chand'?
Sunderbans delta
Shiv Prasad Singh
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
50. Who composed the National Anthem 'Jana Gana Mana'?
Satyendra Nath Bose
Rabindranath Tagore
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
New Agra Fort