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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. What is Ayush treatment?
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
4 minutes
10th October
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
2. Late Vijay Tendulkar who died in 2008 were famous in which field?
6 months
Rs 270
The Delhi Metro
Playwright
3. What is the name of World's cheapest tablet PC?
Bangalore
Hindukush
Churchill
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
4. Who is the elected Prime Minister of Pakistan from Pakistan People's Party?
Ashoka
Yousuf Raza Gillani
Dumping
Mumbai
5. Name the largest oil refinery of India?
6 months
11th July
31st May
Vadodara
6. Who invented the steam engine?
Methane
Curiosity
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
7. On which day International Women's Day observed?
8th March
30th January
31st May
God particle or Higgs Boson
8. Name the Apple co-founder who changed the daily habits of millions by reinventing computing - music and mobile phones?
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
Michael Phelps
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
Nek Chand
9. Name the eminent Hindi authors chosen for Jnanpith Award 2011?
7th April
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
New Agra Fort
10. What is the other name of deuterium oxide?
Heavy water
Lala Lajpat Rai
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
90 degrees
11. Who wrote the book 'Animal's People'?
Baby Nargis
Indra Sinha64
Kulandei Francis
Vadodara
12. Which region of India is associated with pine forests?
Ripon
Uttarakhand
Indra Sinha64
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
13. Which is the great circle on earth's surface?
Bombay
Tamil Nadu
The equator
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
14. Which will be the new subject added to the curriculum of Kendriya Vidyalayas?
German
Mundak Upanishad
Kathak
15th January
15. Name the alloy of iron - chromium and nickel?
14th November
Amir Khusru
In Samba
Stainless steel
16. Who is the author of book 'Speed Post'?
Shobha De
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
Tamil Nadu
17. What was the main occupation of Palaeolithic (Old Stone Age) people?
V.S Naipaul
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
Hunting
Euclid
18. Which state has become the second highest power purchaser in the country after Punjab?
Jules Verne
Nitrogen
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
Paschim Banga1
19. When is Sadbhavna Diwas (Goodwill Day ) observed in India?
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20. Who was the first woman to go in space?
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
Stainless steel
Param Vir Chakra
Valentina Tereshkova
21. Where were Chola Kings ruling over?
Bhai Gurmej Singh
Mahatma Gandhi
Tamil Nadu
7th April
22. Why speed of sound is greater in solids than in liquids?
Silicon
Carbon dioxide
Because the solids have high elasticity.
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
23. At which point of earth weight of object will be minimum?
Johann Gregor Mendel
At the center of earth
Param Vir Chakra
The equator
24. How water in earthen pots remain cool?
Prof. V.N Datta
Strait of Gibraltar
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
1953
25. In how many time zones is U.S.A divided?
Due to radiation
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
5
26. Where is Boat Race a popular sport?
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
Kerala
India Museum at Kolkata
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
27. Which metal is used in pencils?
Mussoorie
Samuel Morse
Stainless steel
Graphite
28. What is the new name of Burma?
Myanmar
Sunita Williams
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
29. What is the maximum period of gap between any two sessions of the Indian Parliament?
Saka era
18th December
Rs 270
Six months
30. Name the Russian painter who had an 468 acre estate in Bangalore
Amir Khusru
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
China
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
31. Who invented the lift?
E.G.Otis
Mussoorie
Year of Disabled Soldiers
J.L.Baird
32. Which is our National song?
Vande Mataram
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
Speaker
Martin Luther King
33. Latitude and longitude are at what angle to each other?
The Lok Sabha
Perpendicular to each other
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.
Mohammad Iqbal
34. Why clear nights are more colder then cloudy nights?
Sidney Sheldon
Due to radiation
Contingency Fund of India
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
35. The World famous 'Peacock Throne' was kept in which Mughal building?
Amitabh Bachchan
Jonas Salk
New Agra Fort
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
36. What is the name of India's moon mission?
Jan 26 - 1950134
Mumbai
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
Chandrayaan
37. Who wrote the book 'Gullivers Travel'?
Jonathan Swift
Rs 270
M. Narasimhan
Roentgen
38. Who composed the National Anthem 'Jana Gana Mana'?
Rabindranath Tagore
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
Chaucer
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
39. Which is largest state of India?
Rajasthan
Punjab
Jonas Salk
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
40. Which state in India has three language teaching formula?
Ladakh
South Africa
Punjab
Ashoka
41. When is Commonwealth Day observed?
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.
24th May
USA
Himachal Pradesh
42. Where is National School of Mines located?
Pune
Rajasthan
Sunil Gavaskar
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
43. In how many time zones is the World divided?
24
Carbon dioxide
Jaya Dev
Jules Verne
44. Where is largest animal fair held in India?
Sonepur (Bihar )
At the center of earth
Gota in Sweden
Bengali
45. Usain Bolt adjudged as the fastest man on the earth in Olympics 2008 belongs to which country?
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
Jamaica
India
Harshavardhana
46. Name the strait which separates Africa from Europe?
Samar Guha
Strait of Gibraltar
Hunting
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
47. With whom are the rare replicas of sacred book Guru Granth Sahib?
Bangalore
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
55th rank
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
48. What is our National Anthem?
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
Jana Gana Mana
Hamid Ansari
49. Name the 17th Karmapa against whom the Una police filed a chargesheet under section 120-B of the IPC in 2011?
Dutch East Indies
At the center of earth
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.)
Painting
50. Name the Bollywood legend whose ancestral home in Peshawar - Pakistan has been turned into heritage site?
Dilip Kumar
New Agra Fort
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Fatehpur Sikri