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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Why clear nights are more colder then cloudy nights?
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
Sidney Sheldon
Due to radiation
In front of New Delhi's High Court
2. Name the youngest skydriver in the country?
Year of Disabled Soldiers
Chandragupta Maurya
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
London
3. Who wrote the book 'Gullivers Travel'?
Jonathan Swift
Aravind Adiga
Dutch East Indies
Jawaharlal Nehru
4. Who is the author of book 'The Tribune 130 Years: A Witness to History'?
USA
Jaipur
Prof. V.N Datta
Maharaja Hari Singh
5. Usain Bolt adjudged as the fastest man on the earth in Olympics 2008 belongs to which country?
Jamaica
V. Anand
Uttar Pradesh
Zinc
6. Name one famous Sarod player?
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
Greeks
Amjad Ali Khan
7. With which field M.F. Hussian were associated?
6 months
Painting
Playwright
Vidya Balan
8. Who invented the steam engine?
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
2
Aravallis
Amitabh Bachchan
9. Which state has maximum density of canals?
Uttar Pradesh
Arundhati Roy
Graphite
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
10. Which cricketer known as 'Tiger' also father of famous actor died on 23rd September - 2011?
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
Jyoti Amge
Khadakvasla
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
11. Name the China's first woman astronaut into orbit?
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
Director General Anil Kaushik
Third century B.C
Indians
12. Which is largest populated city in India?
Mumbai
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
Zinc
13. Name the metal used as the filament of an electric bulb?
Tungsten
Chandragupta
Mundak Upanishad
Gwalior Gharana
14. Name the Bollywood legend whose ancestral home in Peshawar - Pakistan has been turned into heritage site?
Cyrus Mistry
Dilip Kumar
Ladakh
55th rank
15. Who got Arjuna Award in 2011?
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
11th May
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
Saeed Mirza
16. Who is the first Indian male shuttler to reach Olympic quarters?
Parupalli Kashyap
Dehradun
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
Cyrus Mistry
17. What is the practice of selling goods in a foreign country at a price below their domestic selling price is called?
29th August
Amitabh Bachchan
Dumping
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
18. Name the first Indian women shuttler to enter semifinal at the Olympics?
Later Vedic Age
Himachal Pradesh
Swarajya Party
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
19. Which metro has been certified by the United Nations as the first metro rail based system in the World to get carbon credits for contributing to the fight against climate changes?
Indra Sinha64
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
Firozeshah Tughluq
The Delhi Metro
20. When is World Food Day observed?
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
16th October
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
21. When is the UN Day observed?
Jawaharlal Nehru
Odisha
24th October
16th October
22. Where is Pushkar lake located?
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
Rajasthan
23. How many medals are won by India in Olympics 2012?
Paschim Banga1
Vande Mataram
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
Baby Nargis
24. What will be the new name of West Bengal?
8th May
Kushinagar
Jama Masjid
Paschim Banga1
25. What will be the difference in longitudes between two places if their time difference is 2 hours and 20 minutes?
35 degree
London
Madhya Pradesh
Allahabad Pillar inscription
26. Which day is known as World Tourism Day?
27th September
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
Edison
8th May
27. When is India's National Youth Day celebrated ?
12th January
Dadabhai Naoroji
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
God particle or Higgs Boson
28. Durand line is the border common to which two countries?
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
Leh
U.K
Pakistan and Afghanistan
29. Name the two living members of first Lok Sabha to be honored by President on 13th May - 2012 - 60th anniversary of our Parliament?
New Agra Fort
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
Manipur54
30. Who is the author of the book 'My Experiments with Truth'?
95th
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
Mahatma Gandhi
Prof. V.N Datta
31. Where is India's Space Rocket Launching Centre situated?
Carbon dioxide
Darsheel Safary
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
Sriharikota
32. Where did coins made of metal first appeared?
Firozeshah Tughluq
Later Vedic Age
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
Khushwant Singh
33. Who composed our National song?
1st May164
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Jamaica
34. Who wrote 'Netaji - Dead or Alive'?
Edison
M.N Roy62
Samar Guha
23rd December
35. Name the country which has longest international boundary with India?
Stainless steel
China
Dadabhai Naoroji
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
36. When an open bottle of scent is kept at one corner due to which phenomenon its fragrance is found in whole room?
India
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
Diffusion
Playwright
37. World Aids Day falls on which date?
Aravind Adiga
1st December
20th March
1st May164
38. Indian Air Force Day is observed on which day ?
India and Pakistan
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
Aung San Suu Kyi
8th October
39. What is the maximum period of gap between any two sessions of the Indian Parliament?
Jaipur
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
Shiv Prasad Singh
Six months
40. Name the shooter of Himachal Pradesh (Hamirpur) who won silver medal in Olympics 2012?
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41. Vijayghat ( Samadhi of Lal Bahadur Shastri) is situated on the bank of which river?
Das Kapital
Yamuna
15th March
Nitrogen
42. Who is the author of 'Tarikh-i-Alai' containing the details of the first few years of Sultan Alauddin Khilji?
Roger Federer
2G spectrum scam
Amir Khusrau
Will pass through Equator
43. Who is known as the Father of the Indian Constitution?
Hyderabad
Nikolaus Otto
Madhya Pradesh
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
44. Who wrote the famous play 'Macbeth'?
Carbon dioxide
Swarajya Party
William Shakespeare151
9th August
45. Which metal is used in pencils?
Samudragupta
Carbon dioxide
Graphite
Su-Kam Power Systems
46. Name the metal used in storage batteries?
Rajasthan
Lead
Allahabad Pillar inscription
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
47. When was Sangeet Natak Akademi set up by Government of India?
1953
Param Vir Chakra
Jules Verne
Kolkata
48. Where is the birth place of Guru Nanak Ji?
1.34 millions
Rajasthan
Talwandi
Vidya Balan
49. Where was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Avanti?
Ujjain
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
35 degree
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
50. What is added to remove permanent hardness of water?
1.34 millions
Washing soda
Lobsang Sangay
Chandragupta Maurya