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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Name the gas usually filled in the electric bulbs?
Protecting Flora and Fauna
Nitrogen
Saeed Mirza
Mumbai
2. Where is National School of Mines located?
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
Pune
Das Kapital
Maharaja Hari Singh
3. Which player is the author of book named 'Sunny Days'?
Sunil Gavaskar
China
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh
24th February
4. Who is the person of Indian origin nominated as the Governor of Louisiana - an American state?
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
Bobby Jindal
Jaya Dev
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
5. With whom the Income Tax Department decides to share its PAN card database?
Speaker
Jaya Dev
Roger Federer
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
6. On what occasion Bihar got its own state anthem and state prayer whose CD's were released by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar?
Pune
Aung San Suu Kyi
Julang-2
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
7. Who is generally regardedas the pioneer of Local Self Government in Modern India?
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
Sri Lanka
Ripon
Saka era
8. Who wrote 'Netaji - Dead or Alive'?
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
1st December
Samar Guha
Washing soda
9. Name the China's first woman astronaut into orbit?
Rahul Dravid
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
23rd December
Motion Picture
10. Who composed the National Anthem 'Jana Gana Mana'?
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
Bengali
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
Rabindranath Tagore
11. With which cells scientists for the first time have developed bone?
V. Anand
Galileo
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.)
9th August
12. Who won Jnanpith Award in 2010?
Arundhati Roy
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
Mahatma Gandhi
13. When India became a Sovereign - democratic republic?
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
Mahatma Gandhi
Jan 26 - 1950134
14. Who won bronze medal for India in men's 60 Kg freestyle wrestling?
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
Andhra Pradesh
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
15th March
15. Who is the author of the novel 'White Tiger'which won the Booker Prize 2008?
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Ashoka
N.E. Borlaug
Aravind Adiga
16. Which is the largest dome in India?
Tamil Nadu
Director General Anil Kaushik
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
17. Who is crowned Miss World 2011?
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
Indians
2G spectrum scam
18. What is the changed name of Orissa officially according to Presidential assent to the Bill?
Uttar Pradesh
Odisha
Football
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
19. Who is the first Indian male shuttler to reach Olympic quarters?
Heavy water
Torricelli
Leo Tolstoy
Parupalli Kashyap
20. Which gas is called laughing gas?
Jhumpa Lahiri
In front of New Delhi's High Court
Manipur54
Nitrous oxide
21. How is population density in India defined?
Harshavardhana
Iodine
The number of persons per square kilometre.
1953
22. Who wrote 'War and Peace'?
Bromine
Leo Tolstoy
23rd April
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
23. Radcliffe line is the boundary line between which countries?
India and Pakistan
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
Ganga
24. Usain Bolt adjudged as the fastest man on the earth in Olympics 2008 belongs to which country?
Kanishka
Jamaica
When sun is above the equator
Param Vir Chakra
25. Name the three new elements added to the Periodic Table in 2011?
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
Increases
U.K
26. Where were Chola Kings ruling over?
Marie Curie
The Bering Strait
Tungsten
Tamil Nadu
27. 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?
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
162
State Bank of India
Punjab
28. What was the old name of Indonesia?
Jawaharlal Nehru
5
Methane
Dutch East Indies
29. In which field Aachan Maharaj has distinguished himself?
Assam
Milkha Singh
Six months
Dance
30. Where is the only shrine in the world which has a natural statue of Hanuman that is not man made?
Methane - butane and propane
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
Khushwant Singh
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
31. Where are Dilwara Temples situated?
Graphite
Marie Curie
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
Punjab
32. How many images will be formed when an object is placed between two mirrors placed parellel to each other?
Gol Gumbaz
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
W.C Bannerjee
Infinite
33. Name the herbal drug developed by DRDO for soldiers working in high altitude areas?
Milkha Singh
Jyoti Amge
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
Performax
34. Name the smallest neighbour of India?
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
India
Japan
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
35. In which century did Ashoka reign?
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Third century B.C
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
36. Which city is known as 'Electronic City of India'?
Vice President of India
Music
Bangalore
Increases
37. Champion Trophy is associated with which game?
28th February
Hockey
Pakistan and Afghanistan
Michael Phelps
38. What will be the new name of West Bengal?
Mahatma Gandhi
UK
Trivandrum
Paschim Banga1
39. Which region of India is associated with pine forests?
Andhra Pradesh
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
Rajasthan
Uttarakhand
40. 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?
14th November
1.34 millions
Sodium
Mathura
41. Who was called the 'Napoleon of India'?
15th March
Florence Nightingale
G.V. Mavalankar
Samudragupta
42. Where is Lal Bahadur Shastri Academy which trains Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officers situated?
Jhumpa Lahiri
Satyendra Nath Bose
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
Mussoorie
43. Who is the creator of Rock Garden in Chandigarh?
India and Pakistan
29th August
Nek Chand
Saeed Mirza
44. Where is the birth place of Guru Nanak Ji?
Amitabh Bachchan
Talwandi
Amitabh Ghosh
Albert Einstein
45. Under which scam - the 43 year old daughter of former chief minister of Tamil Nadu M.Karunanidhi was in Tihar jail in 2011?
Gota in Sweden
Sitar
31st May
2G spectrum scam
46. How many lines are there in latitude and longitude?
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.
Greeks
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
Ganga
47. What is proxy voting?
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Shockley
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
48. Which cricketer known as 'Tiger' also father of famous actor died on 23rd September - 2011?
15th January
Mahatma Gandhi
Jawaharlal Nehru
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
49. Who propounded the Market Law?
Konark
Bleaching powder
J.B.Say
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
50. Name the Indian state where the game of Polo is said to have originated?
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
Jonas Salk
Vishnu Sharma
Manipur54