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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Which city is called 'White City' of Rajasthan?
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
1st May164
The Lok Sabha
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
2. If in a mirror image of object appears to be larger then which type of mirror is used?
Maharashtra
The Reserve Bank of India
Concave mirror
Andhra Pradesh
3. Which sportsperson won the maximum number of Olympic Gold Medals?
Julang-2
Michael Phelps
5th September
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
4. Who discovered the electric lamp?
Herodotus
Perpendicular to each other
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
Edison
5. For what is Bijapur known?
Gol Gumbaz
Aravind Adiga
95th
Johannes Kepler
6. Where is National School of Mines located?
Forty-fourth Amendment
Heavy water
Pune
Johann Gregor Mendel
7. Why clear nights are more colder then cloudy nights?
Due to radiation
Valentina Tereshkova
INS Vikrant55
Mundak Upanishad
8. Who invented transistor?
William Shakespeare151
London
Shockley
Das Kapital
9. Who composed the famous song 'Sare Jahan Se Accha'?
Three Decades in Parliament
Mohammad Iqbal
Sriharikota
Third century B.C
10. What is the estimated premature deaths caused annually by outdoor air pollution - according to the first pollution survey carried out by World Health Organisation in Sept. - 2011?
Bobby Jindal
26 years and 9 months
1.34 millions
Kanishka
11. Which country has World's largest democracy?
Mundak Upanishad
95th
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
India
12. On which date India won the World Cup in Mumbai?
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
2nd April - 2011
Euclid
Because the solids have high elasticity.
13. Name the ship commissioned by India which is biggest in its class in the World?
Kulandei Francis
Alexander Graham Bell
Will pass through Equator
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
14. Who wrote the book 'Ammi! Letter to a Democratic Mother'?
Saeed Mirza
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
Methane - butane and propane
15. Which was the most commonly used coin in Mauryan period?
Standard time of the country138
Karashapana
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
Yousuf Raza Gillani
16. When is the UN Day observed?
Dr. F.G.Banting
24th October
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
26 years and 9 months
17. When comes National Sports Day of India?
Concave lens
29th August
In Samba
Methane
18. What is the latitude of South Pole?
90 degree
69 miles
Sri Lanka
Pakistan and Afghanistan
19. Which is the largest area wise state in India?
Tamil Nadu
Sitar
Yamuna
Rajasthan
20. Which is largest state of India?
E.M Forster
Rajasthan
Methane - butane and propane
John Ruskin
21. Who discovered the oral polio vaccine?
Akbar
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
Aravind Adiga
Jonas Salk
22. Who got Dronacharya Award in 2011 ?
5th September
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
23. Which was the musical instrument used by Amir Khusro?
Thailand
Nek Chand
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
Sitar
24. What is difference between mass of body and its weight?
Sri Lanka
Vasudeva
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
Hyderabad
25. Where is Indian Cancer Research Institute situated?
Thailand
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
Hyderabad
Bombay
26. Who said 'Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err'?
Mahatma Gandhi
It loses one day
Planning Commission
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
27. Who invented the television?
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
J.L.Baird
Hindukush
Hyderabad
28. Who is the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces in India?
Lobsang Sangay
24th May
The President
Neil Armstrong
29. Name the Strait connecting Arabian Sea and the Bay ofBengal?
Rocky Marciano
Palk Strait
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
24th February
30. Which countries are located on the Greenwich Meridian?
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
8th September
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
1953
31. Name the state of India having longest coastline?
Andhra Pradesh
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
4G technology will offer many advancements to the wireless market including downlink data rates well over 100 Mbps - low latency - very efficient spectrum use and low cost implementation.
Demand deposits
32. Who will be the new Director General of Police (DGP) after the retirement of P.S. Gill?
Nitrous oxide
Director General Anil Kaushik
Hyderabad
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
33. Where is Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research located?
Motion Picture
Chilka lake (Orissa )
V. Anand
Kalpakkam
34. 'Nokia' the telecom company belongs to which country?
Torricelli
Haryana
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
Finland
35. Who got Dhyan Chand Award in 2011?
Chandrayaan
India Museum at Kolkata
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
36. Who is the author of the novel 'White Tiger'which won the Booker Prize 2008?
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
Aravind Adiga
37. From which mines was the famous Kohinoor diamond produced?
Ogyen Trinley Dorjee - the third most important Tibetian religious head after Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama. (as police recovered currencies of 26 countries including 1 - 20 - 197 chinese yuan and around Rs 5.3 million in Indian currency.)
Gota in Sweden
Tamil Nadu
Golconda
38. Who discovered Penicillin?
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
Alexander Fleming
Hyderabad
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
39. How many cities can be protected by the missile defence shield developed by India?
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
Allahabad Pillar inscription
2
God particle or Higgs Boson
40. Name the ballistic missile that lifted off from Wheeler Island in Odisha on 9th August - 2012?
India
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
J.B.Say
Gol Gumbaz
41. Where is the India's first largest bamboo museum?
1949
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
2:4
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
42. What are GM Crops?
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
Firozeshah Tughluq
Param Vir Chakra
Genetically Modified Crops.
43. Who discovered blood grouping?
Amir Khusru
Landsteiner
Gagan Narang
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
44. Who propounded the Market Law?
Mahatma Gandhi
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
Saka era
J.B.Say
45. Name the 17th Karmapa against whom the Una police filed a chargesheet under section 120-B of the IPC in 2011?
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
5th September
Ogyen Trinley Dorjee - the third most important Tibetian religious head after Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama. (as police recovered currencies of 26 countries including 1 - 20 - 197 chinese yuan and around Rs 5.3 million in Indian currency.)
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
46. What are the bank deposits that can be withdrawn without notice called?
Demand deposits
Dutch East Indies
Amjad Ali Khan
Tamil Nadu
47. Which day in India celebrated as Central Excise Day ?
24th February
Jayadeva
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
48. Kanchipuram is in which state?
Mumbai
Tamil Nadu
Bromine
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
49. Which is the largest cave in India?
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
Mumbai
M. Narasimhan
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
50. Who has been selected as the new head of Tata empire in 2011?
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
Abhinav Bindra
Cyrus Mistry
Raja Ravi Varma