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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Who has become the first lady jawan in Indian army?
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
Punjab
Alexander Graham Bell
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
2. Which was the most commonly used coin in Mauryan period?
Jaya Dev
Karashapana
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
Jane Austen
3. When comes the Farmer's Day (Kisan Divas )in India ?
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
26th January
23rd December
Mussoorie
4. Who discovered the laws of planetary motion?
Journalism
Johannes Kepler
Sri Lanka
Carbon dioxide
5. Where are relics of Buddha preserved?
Satyendra Nath Bose
Silicon
Stupa
Sunita Williams
6. Where is the National Defence Academy situated?
Vasudeva
Khadakvasla
Chaucer
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
7. An air bubble in water acts as which lens?
Hockey
Nitrogen
Concave lens
Dutch East Indies
8. Where is the famous Meenakshi Temple situated?
Heavy water
Narmada and Japti
Tamil Nadu
Silver
9. Which is the World's largest exporter of inverters?
Governor
Bengali
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Su-Kam Power Systems
10. Which country is the world's largest recipient of arms?
Mahatma Gandhi
India
Alexander Graham Bell
Jana Gana Mana
11. When is World Health Day celebrated?
15th August167
New Delhi
7th April
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
12. Name the eminent Hindi authors chosen for Jnanpith Award 2011?
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
Journalism
Torricelli
2
13. Which actress has become the brand ambassador for sanitation compaign?
Lawn Tennis153
Chadwick
8th October
Vidya Balan
14. With whom are the rare replicas of sacred book Guru Granth Sahib?
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
8th October
Konark
Samuel Morse
15. One degree of longitude on equator is equal to what distance?
69 miles
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
1.34 millions
16. Who is going to receive highest US award?
Kapil Dev
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
Dutch East Indies
Aung San Suu Kyi
17. Kathakali a folk dance is prevalent in which state?
J.B.Say
4 minutes
Kerala
Three Decades in Parliament
18. Which day in India is observed as Minorities Rights Day?
Standard time of the country138
Gol Gumbaz
18th December
23rd December
19. Where were Chola Kings ruling over?
Tamil Nadu
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
Jawaharlal Nehru
24th May
20. In which Amendment Right to property was removed from the list of Fundamental rights?
Genetically Modified Crops.
The Lok Sabha
Dutch East Indies
Forty-fourth Amendment
21. Who founded the Saka Era?
Andhra Pradesh
Kanishka
Samar Guha
Vande Mataram
22. Who is the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces in India?
29th August
The President
Ms. Vasuki Sunkavalli (of Hyderabad)
Sonepur (Bihar )
23. Which is the largest Gurudwara in India?
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
Three Decades in Parliament
Speaker
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
24. Who was the first lady to become judge of the Supreme Court?
V.S Naipaul
Graphite
10th October
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
25. Name the scientist who got Nobel Prize twice for the same subject?
When sun is above the equator
In Samba
Marie Curie
Akbar
26. Who is sworn as the 14th Vice President of India?
The Rajya Sabha
Firozeshah Tughluq
Hamid Ansari
Mumbai
27. Which state has maximum density of canals?
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
Uttar Pradesh
Ashoka
Jonathan Swift
28. Name the metal present in photo films?
Silver
State Bank of India
Sriharikota
South Kolkata
29. Name the Strait which separates Asia from North America?
Anita Desai
Dehradun
The Bering Strait
90 degrees
30. During whose reign The Mathura School of art flourished?
Vasudeva
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Bhai Gurmej Singh
Sachin Tendulkar
31. Who presented the first Union Budget of Independent India?
Bengali
Heavy water
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
32. Where is the World's largest ship canal?
Jane Austen
Lead
Second Battle of Tarain
Gota in Sweden
33. Where is Buland Darwaza located?
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
Shobha De
Fatehpur Sikri
John Keats
34. Which day in India is celebrated as Children's Day?
Chandragupta-II
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
14th November
Dance
35. Where in Delhi a bomb hidden in briefcase exploded killing 11 persons and injuring 47 in the worst attack in India's capital in 3 years in 2011?
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36. What are the estimated premature deaths caused annually by air pollution - according to the first pollution survey carried in Sept. - 2011 by World Health Organisation?
4 minutes
1.34 millions
15th August167
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
37. Greenwich mean time (GMT) is the standard time of which country?
Jules Verne
India and China
8th October
U.K
38. Mc. Mohan Line demarcates the boundary between which countries?
India and China
Later Vedic Age
Florence Nightingale
Abhinav Bindra
39. What is e-bomb?
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40. When is the UN Day observed?
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
24th October
Sitar
41. Which metal is used in pencils?
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
Graphite
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
Stainless steel
42. 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 Lok Sabha
Jonathan Swift
162
At Magdalla port near Surat.
43. What is proxy voting?
Harshavardhana
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
Chandragupta Maurya
Aravind Adiga
44. Which age group children in India are ensured free and compulsory education?
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
Kho-Kho
6-14 years
Amitabh Bachchan
45. Durand line is the border common to which two countries?
2:4
Pakistan and Afghanistan
1949
Edison
46. Who is the 26th Chief Minister of Karnataka?
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
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
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
Zinc
47. While playing with which team Rahul Dravid completed his 10000 runs in the Test cricket?
South Africa
Sri Lanka
24
2:4
48. When comes National Postal Day in India?
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
10th October
State Bank of India
New Agra Fort
49. Which day is celebrated as National Maritime Day in India?
India and China
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
Pakistan and Afghanistan
5th April
50. What is added to remove permanent hardness of water?
15th January
55th rank
Washing soda
5th April