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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Satyan Bose is known for his excellence in which field?
Makes cancer cell 'commit suicide'. It helps in stoping multiplication of tumorous cells and shut themselves down. Will be available in approximately 5 years and will be in pill form.
Stupa
Abul Kalam Azad
Motion Picture
2. Which country is the world's largest recipient of arms?
Ganga
Because the solids have high elasticity.
India
Assam
3. Which is largest populated city in India?
Year of Disabled Soldiers
6 months
Mumbai
5th June
4. What are the bank deposits that can be withdrawn without notice called?
Edison
Demand deposits
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Mathura
5. Who has been selected as the new head of Tata empire in 2011?
Amitabh Bachchan
Tamil Nadu
Cyrus Mistry
Curiosity
6. What is the upper house of parliament known as?
Gujarat
The Rajya Sabha
Hindukush
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
7. Name the Indian chess player who broke the World Record by finishing the game in twelve moves?
Firozeshah Tughluq
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
Motion Picture
V. Anand
8. Who fought the Third Battle of Panipat?
30th January
Manipur54
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
Himachal Pradesh
9. Which painting got the highest price ever paid for a work of art at any auction?
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10. Name the herbal drug developed by DRDO for soldiers working in high altitude areas?
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
Bengali
Performax
Three Decades in Parliament
11. Which actress has become the brand ambassador for sanitation compaign?
1st May164
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
Vidya Balan
Vasudeva
12. Name the player of USA who created history by grabbing his 22nd Olympic medal ?
Uttar Pradesh
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
Jonathan Swift
24th October
13. After whose name the Nobel Prize was started?
Angle between the horizon and the equator
Sriharikota
Dutch East Indies
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
14. Which is the largest populated state in India?
Hyderabad
15th January
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
Uttar Pradesh
15. When is India's Republic Day celebrated?
26th January
Planning Commission
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
Due to radiation
16. To whom President of India can write if he wants to resign from office?
India and China
Vice President of India
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
$46 - 00011
17. Which is largest fresh water lake in India?
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
Sunita Williams
Latitude includes 180 lines and longitude has 360 lines because longitude connects North Pole to South Pole and latitude is divided from east to west.
Sunderbans delta
18. Who invented barometer?
Dadabhai Naoroji
Ashoka
Torricelli
26th January
19. Name the temple where majority of pilgrims visiting tonsure their heads and offer their hair to Lord Venkateswara?
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
Will pass through Equator
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh
Razia Sultana
20. Who is the author of novel 'The White Tiger'?
35 degree
Prime Minister
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
Aravind Adiga
21. Who wrote the first history book?
Rabindranath Tagore147
Maharashtra
Herodotus
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
22. What is KG5 drug?
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23. From which mines was the famous Kohinoor diamond produced?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Golconda
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
Painting
24. On what occasion Bihar got its own state anthem and state prayer whose CD's were released by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar?
Golconda
12th January
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
25. Who wrote the famous novel 'Pride and Prejudice'?
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
Jane Austen
Carbon dioxide
German
26. Where were remains of Vijayanagar Empire found?
Dumping
Hampi
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
1st May164
27. Where is the birth place of Guru Nanak Ji?
Talwandi
Abul Kalam Azad
Edison
Amitabh Ghosh
28. Which day is observed as Sanskrit Day in India?
Arundhati Roy
5th September
Bobby Jindal
24
29. Who invented the telegraphic code?
Talwandi
Samuel Morse
Methane
U.K
30. Who was the first lady to become judge of the Supreme Court?
Gujarat
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
Marie Curie
31. Which age group children in India are ensured free and compulsory education?
Kanishka
Uttar Pradesh
6-14 years
8th September
32. Who was the chairman of Constituent Assembly?
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Das Kapital
33. Players of which state got the maximum Olympic medals in London Olympics?
South Africa
90 degree
Haryana
Amir Khusrau
34. Which country topped medal table in Olympic 2012?
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
Six months
Florence Nightingale
35. When was the Constituent Assembly that framed Constitution for Independent India set up?
New Delhi
1949
Chandrayaan
Julang-2
36. Where is Pushkar lake located?
24th February
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
Rajasthan
Das Kapital
37. Who is the elected Prime Minister of Pakistan from Pakistan People's Party?
Kho-Kho
Swarajya Party
Yousuf Raza Gillani
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
38. Radcliffe line is the boundary line between which countries?
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
5th September
India and Pakistan
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
39. Whose autobiography is 'India Wins Freedom'?
5th September
Jaya Dev
Sunderbans delta
Abul Kalam Azad
40. Who wrote the famous play 'Macbeth'?
The Rajya Sabha
William Shakespeare151
Chandrayaan
Samar Guha
41. 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?
Playwright
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Curiosity
Lead
42. Who is the author of book 'The Tribune 130 Years: A Witness to History'?
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
It loses one day
18th April
Prof. V.N Datta
43. Where did the World's costliest crash took place?
E.G.Otis
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
Gol Gumbaz
44. Who became the first batsman in the history of cricket to score 100 international centuries?
Yamuna
Sachin Tendulkar
Amir Khusrau
Narmada and Japti
45. Who said - 'God helps those who helps themselves'?
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
Myanmar
Algernon Sidney
Shimla and Hamirpur
46. Who won bronze medal for India in 10m pistol event (London Olympics - 2012)?
Gagan Narang
Protecting Flora and Fauna
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
Harshavardhana
47. Which game is associated with Merdeka Cup?
Madhya Pradesh
Kerala
Football
16th October
48. Which is the largest lake in India?
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
69 miles
Wular lake (Kashmir)
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
49. World Human Rights Day is observed on which day?
10th December
Amir Khusrau
Jaipur
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
50. 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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