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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Where were Chola Kings ruling over?
Sriharikota
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
Tamil Nadu
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
2. Name the ship commissioned by India which is biggest in its class in the World?
Maharashtra
Vice President of India
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
Roentgen
3. Who is the creator of 'Sherlock Holmes'?
Gota in Sweden
24th October
Arthur Conan Doyle
24
4. From where the longest circle which can be drawn from earth's surface will pass?
1.34 millions
Torricelli
Swarajya Party
Will pass through Equator
5. Who brought and installed two Asokan pillars in Delhi?
1st December
31st May
Firozeshah Tughluq
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
6. When is Commonwealth Day observed?
Landsteiner
24th May
31st May
Vidya Balan
7. Where did the World's costliest crash took place?
Swarajya Party
Martin Luther King
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
Infinite
8. Where is largest animal fair held in India?
Lead
Heavy water
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
Sonepur (Bihar )
9. Name the state of India where diamond mines are mainly found?
India Museum at Kolkata
Madhya Pradesh
Stupa
Razia Sultana
10. Who is called 'Grand Old Man of India'?
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
Washing soda
Dadabhai Naoroji
11. Name the latest hi-tech weapon invented in 2011 to prevent obesity?
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12. Who discovered X-Ray?
Roentgen
11th May
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
13. What is equal to latitude of a place?
Anna Hazare
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
Angle between the horizon and the equator
Milkha Singh
14. When is the Mother's Day celebrated?
11th May
Alexander Fleming
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
15. Which is largest man made lake in India?
Palk Strait
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
Anita Desai
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
16. When in India National Technology Day celebrated?
11th May
Nitrous oxide
Nayantara Sahgal
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
17. Who was the founder of the Khalsa?
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
William Wordsworth
Kiran Bedi
Guru Gobind Singh
18. Who is called Father of English Poetry?
Three Decades in Parliament
Chaucer
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
1.34 millions
19. Who got Arjuna Award in 2011?
Michael Phelps
Karashapana
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
U.K
20. Who was the first woman to go in space?
162
1st December
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
Valentina Tereshkova
21. Which is the largest lake in India?
' Why This Kolaveri Di' the song released on 16th Nov. written and sung by Dhanush
Wular lake (Kashmir)
Tamil Nadu
Narendra Modi government
22. Who wrote the book 'The Namesake'?
Jhumpa Lahiri
Anita Desai
Prof. V.N Datta
Jai Samhita
23. Who presented the first Union Budget of Independent India?
Rabindranath Tagore
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
Samar Guha
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
24. Who will be the new Director General of Police (DGP) after the retirement of P.S. Gill?
Increases
26th January
When sun is above the equator
Director General Anil Kaushik
25. Name the Indian state where the game of Polo is said to have originated?
Methane - butane and propane
Manipur54
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
26. Who crafted the wax statue of Anna Hazare?
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27. For which dance Birju Maharaj is well known?
Karashapana
Kathak
Four lions
16th October
28. Who elects the Vice President of India?
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
Thailand
18th December
H.P.S Ahluwalia
29. Where at present the BRAHMOS missiles are assembled?
Algernon Sidney
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
Hyderabad
30. Whom the Gujarat High Court issued contempt notice on 15th Feb. - 2012 for not obeying its order to compensate people whose shops were burnt down in the post-Godhra riots?
Narendra Modi government
8th May
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
Churchill
31. Name the world's shortest living woman?
Jyoti Amge
John Ruskin
State Bank of India
29th August
32. Where is the only shrine in the world which has a natural statue of Hanuman that is not man made?
15th August167
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
Lala Lajpat Rai
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
33. In India - who issues one rupee coins and notes as well as subsidiary coins?
Allauddin Khilji
The Reserve Bank of India
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
6 months
34. Where is Buland Darwaza located?
Saka era
Fatehpur Sikri
W.C Bannerjee
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
35. Who wrote the book 'Gullivers Travel'?
Jonathan Swift
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
36. Where did coins made of metal first appeared?
1st May164
Later Vedic Age
Kathak
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
37. After whose name the Nobel Prize was started?
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
2
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
Albert Einstein
38. Which is the state wise largest area under forest in India?
12th January
Madhya Pradesh
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
Gagan Narang (shooter)
39. One degree of longitude on equator is equal to what distance?
69 miles
Jaya Dev
Planning Commission
1949
40. Which day is celebrated as Independence Day of India?
Mary Kom
15th August167
2G spectrum scam
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
41. Who composed the National Anthem 'Jana Gana Mana'?
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Edison
Robert Watson Watt
Rabindranath Tagore
42. When is Sadbhavna Diwas (Goodwill Day ) observed in India?
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43. In which field Aachan Maharaj has distinguished himself?
Lawn Tennis153
Dance
4 minutes
26th January
44. Who is author of 'Hindu view of life'?
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
S. Radhakrishnan
Kapil Dev
Punjab
45. Name the great Hindu king who combined in himself the qualities of Samudragupta and Ashoka?
Strait of Gibraltar
Harshavardhana
Vidya Balan
Hyderabad
46. Who wrote the popular book 'The Naked Face'?
Sidney Sheldon
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
Jonathan Swift
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
47. Which is the largest populated state in India?
Hyderabad
Maharashtra
8th March
Uttar Pradesh
48. Name the Russian painter who had an 468 acre estate in Bangalore
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
U.K
49. Which gas is called laughing gas?
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
Nitrous oxide
Gujarat
Kulandei Francis
50. Which is the India's largest public sector commercial bank at present?
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
State Bank of India
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139