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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. On globe - the latitude and longitude intersect at what angle?
Gagan Narang (shooter)
Sarojini Naidu
Mumbai
90 degrees
2. Name the great poet who graced the court of Alauddin Khilji?
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
Amir Khusru
Karashapana
3. Kathakali a folk dance is prevalent in which state?
Kerala
Bamiyan
Jamaica
The Reserve Bank of India
4. Who wrote the book 'Glimpses of World History'?
Guru Gobind Singh
Demand deposits
Sitar
Jawaharlal Nehru
5. Who is the first Indian male shuttler to reach Olympic quarters?
24
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
Parupalli Kashyap
Kalpakkam
6. Who was the author of 'Bharat Bharati'?
Concave mirror
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
Samudragupta
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh
7. Which fund can be used to meet the unanticipated expenditurewithout the prior approval of the Parliament?
Director General Anil Kaushik
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
Contingency Fund of India
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
8. Which is largest man made lake in India?
18th April
Gol Gumbaz
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
Algernon Sidney
9. Who was the only Muslim woman to sit on the throne of Delhi?
Chadwick
Razia Sultana
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
Later Vedic Age
10. Begum Akhtar is associated with which field?
Vocal Music
Golconda
Methane - butane and propane
Shobha De
11. Name the book which has collection of speeches of N.G Ranga?
Chandragupta
Three Decades in Parliament
Mahatma Gandhi
Vocal Music
12. Where is the famous Meenakshi Temple situated?
Jules Verne
Tamil Nadu
8th May
Sitar
13. Durand line is the border common to which two countries?
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
Aravallis
W.C Bannerjee
Pakistan and Afghanistan
14. With which cells scientists for the first time have developed bone?
23rd December
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
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.)
15. What is the ratio of width of our National Flag to its length?
Aravind Adiga
India and Pakistan
2:4
In Samba
16. Which is the state wise largest area under forest in India?
14th November
Madhya Pradesh
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
Planning Commission
17. What is difference between mass of body and its weight?
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
Albert Einstein
Shiv Prasad Singh
18. Which country has World's largest democracy?
Tamil Nadu
2nd April - 2011
India
Saka era
19. Which is our National song?
Vande Mataram
Finland
The Rajya Sabha
India
20. Who discovered the oral polio vaccine?
USA
State Bank of India
Alexander Graham Bell
Jonas Salk
21. Who won the Wimbledon title for seventh time and 17th grand slam crown after beating Andy Murray in male category in 2012?
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
Roger Federer
Michael Phelps
Galileo
22. Why sky appears to be blue?
Haryana
Kushinagar
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
27th September
23. With which musical instrument was Ustad Mustaq Ali Khan associated?
Sitar
Mahatma Gandhi
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Bamiyan
24. Who got Dronacharya Award in 2011 ?
Razia Sultana
Jawaharlal Nehru
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
The Reserve Bank of India
25. Who discovered Penicillin?
Alexander Fleming
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
Oxygen and acetylene
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
26. Who made the highest score in an ODI against West Indiies in Indora in 2011?
Strait of Gibraltar
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
2
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
27. Where did the World's costliest crash took place?
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
Su-Kam Power Systems
11th May
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
28. Name the last king of Jammu and Kashmir?
Maharaja Hari Singh
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
Lala Lajpat Rai
Indians
29. Which sportsperson won the maximum number of Olympic Gold Medals?
5th September
Motion Picture
Amjad Ali Khan
Michael Phelps
30. Who won the first medal for India in Olympics 2012?
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
7th April
Three Decades in Parliament
31. Name the woman boxer of India who have won five time world championship in succession?
35 degree
2:4
Rabindranath Tagore147
Mary Kom
32. Which country has hosted the Asian Games for maximum number of times?
Thailand
Alexander Graham Bell
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
1911133
33. Which village of Andhra Pradesh may be sitting over one of the world's largest uranium reserves?
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
Alexander Fleming
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
Algernon Sidney
34. Who wrote the book 'Around the World in Eighty Days'?
162
India
Jules Verne
Four lions
35. Where is famous Somnath Temple located?
Marie Curie
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
Parupalli Kashyap
Gujarat
36. Where is the India's first largest bamboo museum?
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
Bromine
India and Pakistan
Sitar
37. Name the baby of Uttar Pardesh who is the symbolic seven billionth baby ?
Assam
Mathura
Kerala
Baby Nargis
38. What is the ratio of width of our National flag to its length?
2:3161
Kushinagar
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
Four lions
39. What is the difference in time between two places 1 degree longitude apart?
4 minutes
Finland
Rajasthan
11th May
40. On which part of earth days and nights are of equal length always?
Equator
German
S. Radhakrishnan
Allauddin Khilji
41. Which ruler was adorned with the title of 'Maharajadhiraja'?
Kanishka
Punjab
Kalpakkam
Year of Disabled Soldiers
42. From which mines was the famous Kohinoor diamond produced?
State Bank of India
Kushans
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.
Golconda
43. Name the Strait which separates Asia from North America?
The Bering Strait
Tungsten
Will pass through Equator
Kanishka
44. In which century did Ashoka reign?
Journalism
Third century B.C
Amir Khusru
Gagan Narang
45. Name the Indian woman boxer who won bronze medal in Olympics?
Cavendish
Mary Kom
W.C Bannerjee
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
46. At which point of earth weight of object will be minimum?
At the center of earth
Anna Hazare
Zinc
Madhya Pradesh
47. Which element is obtained from sea weeds?
Iodine
Vadodara
Palk Strait
11th July
48. Who is author of 'Hindu view of life'?
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
S. Radhakrishnan
U.K
Chandragupta-II
49. What was adopted from the Maurya dynasty in the emblem of government of India?
Hindukush
Four lions
$46 - 00011
Chandrayaan
50. Who founded the Saka Era?
Lawn Tennis153
Later Vedic Age
Herodotus
Kanishka