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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Who is the new captain of the Indian Premier League team Rajasthan Royals?
Rahul Dravid
Leh
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
2. In which year was the National Anthem first sung?
1911133
90 degree
Kolkata
Samar Guha
3. Which is the highest military award for valour in India?
Kulandei Francis
Satyendra Nath Bose
Sidney Sheldon
Param Vir Chakra
4. When is World Health Day celebrated?
Michael Phelps
Motion Picture
7th April
Dilip Kumar
5. Who fought the Third Battle of Panipat?
Art and architecture
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
Gagan Narang
6. Who was the author of 'Hind Swaraj'?
Carbon dioxide
Michael Phelps
Edison
Mahatma Gandhi
7. What is the time difference between IST and GMT?
Aravallis
5 hours 30 minutes
Khushwant Singh
Jaya Dev
8. When is Commonwealth Day observed?
German
24th May
India and China
Mehbooba Mufti
9. Which day is celebrated as Independence Day of India?
Leo Tolstoy
8th September
Krishna
15th August167
10. In how many time zones is the World divided?
Bobby Jindal
Marie Curie
24
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
11. Where is the Caspian sea - the largest inland sea or lake in the world located?
Standard time of the country138
Nek Chand
Konark
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
12. Who is the author of the book 'We Indians'?
Gota in Sweden
Khushwant Singh
The President
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
13. Name the temple where majority of pilgrims visiting tonsure their heads and offer their hair to Lord Venkateswara?
24th May
Rajasthan
Hamid Ansari
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh
14. Name two other clones left with NDRI?
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
5th September
Amir Khusrau
Abhinav Bindra
15. Who was the only Muslim woman to sit on the throne of Delhi?
Rajasthan
It loses one day
Trivandrum
Razia Sultana
16. Name the sub-launched long range N-missile developed by China?
Later Vedic Age
Kiran Bedi
Julang-2
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
17. Which day is celebrated as World Red Cross Day?
8th May
Kanishka
Later Vedic Age
35 degree
18. Motilal Nehru and Chittaranjan Das were the founder members of which party?
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
Mary Kom
Swarajya Party
Indians
19. Which is the largest zoo in India?
Contingency Fund of India
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
Kauravas and Pandavas51
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
20. Who is the author of the book 'My Experiments with Truth'?
Mahatma Gandhi
Myanmar
The Lok Sabha
Akhilesh Yadav
21. Who appoints the Chairman and members of State Public Service Commission?
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
India
South Africa
Governor
22. Name the first heavyweight boxer to go undefeated throughout his career?
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
Rocky Marciano
Dumping
Dance
23. Which is the great circle on earth's surface?
Mehbooba Mufti
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
The equator
24. Name the alloy of iron - chromium and nickel?
8
Gagan Narang (shooter)
Stainless steel
India Museum at Kolkata
25. In which century did Ashoka reign?
Protecting Flora and Fauna
Third century B.C
Morarji Desai
95th
26. Which will be the new subject added to the curriculum of Kendriya Vidyalayas?
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
German
Fatehpur Sikri
Ludhiana
27. Where is India's Space Rocket Launching Centre situated?
Genetically Modified Crops.
The President
Nek Chand
Sriharikota
28. Name the eminent Hindi authors chosen for Jnanpith Award 2011?
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
Bombay
29. Who wrote the book 'Animal's People'?
State Bank of India
July - 1947
Hamid Ansari
Indra Sinha64
30. Which city is known as 'Electronic City of India'?
Roentgen
11th May
Bangalore
Wular lake (Kashmir)
31. Upto where Chandragupta Maurya's empire extended in the north-west?
Mohammad Iqbal
1953
Hindukush
Sukumar Sen
32. What is difference between mass of body and its weight?
Greeks
Bangalore
Anna Hazare
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
33. Who headed the committee on computerisation in Indian banks(1988)?
Odisha
State Bank of India
M. Narasimhan
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
34. Why Shimla is cooler than Amritsar though they have same latitude?
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
Manipur54
35. Who is the author of book 'Speed Post'?
Shobha De
Haryana
Concave lens
Firozeshah Tughluq
36. When is Martyr's Day in India celebrated ?
30th January
The equator
Rajasthan
Harshavardhana
37. Name the shooter of Himachal Pradesh (Hamirpur) who won silver medal in Olympics 2012?
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38. Who is known as the Father of the Indian Constitution?
Khushwant Singh
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Demand deposits
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.)
39. Which is the largest Gurudwara in India?
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
German
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
Bobby Jindal
40. World Human Rights Day is observed on which day?
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
10th December
Arthur Conan Doyle
23rd April
41. Who wrote the first history book?
Herodotus
Chilka lake (Orissa )
2G spectrum scam
Washing soda
42. Who said - 'God helps those who helps themselves'?
Algernon Sidney
Vice President of India
Anna Hazare
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
43. Name the country's longest railway tunnel excavated?
Saeed Mirza
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
Nikolaus Otto
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
44. Who is the author of the book 'The Exile'?
Kiran Bedi
Rabindranath Tagore147
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
Navtej Saran
45. Who was the founder of the Khalsa?
Guru Gobind Singh
Swarajya Party
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
24th February
46. Who discovered the electric lamp?
Dance
Mehbooba Mufti
Edison
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
47. Where is Pushkar lake located?
Euclid
Rajasthan
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
Robert Watson Watt
48. What is the designation of the chairperson of Lok Sabha?
Bombay
Jama Masjid
Mumbai
Speaker
49. Who composed the famous song 'Sare Jahan Se Accha'?
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
Mohammad Iqbal
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Arundhati Roy
50. Which is largest state of India?
35 degree
Rajasthan
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
Standard time of the country138