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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Who is vice President of India?
Dumping
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
Hyderabad
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
2. Who wrote an English novel 'In Custody'?
Anita Desai
26th January
Carbon dioxide
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
3. Who wrote the book 'Glimpses of World History'?
Perpendicular to each other
Jawaharlal Nehru
USA
Ladakh
4. Watches of a country is set according to what time?
Gagan Narang
Dumping
Standard time of the country138
Iodine
5. Where is the Caspian sea - the largest inland sea or lake in the world located?
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
India
Kulandei Francis
Vishnu Sharma
6. Our Indian National Calender is based on which era?
Robert Watson Watt
Only the first stanza
Vadodara
Saka era
7. When is National Science Day celebrated in India?
Bangalore
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
Jonas Salk
28th February
8. 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.
Longitudinal position
Gujarat
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.
9. Motilal Nehru and Chittaranjan Das were the founder members of which party?
The Lok Sabha
Swarajya Party
Ganga
Chandragupta Maurya
10. Who was first Indian woman to become president of U.N. General Assembly?
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
Jonas Salk
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
26th January
11. Which is the largest lake in India?
Wular lake (Kashmir)
S. Radhakrishnan
Sitar
Yamuna
12. Which is largest cave temple in India?
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Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
Jan 26 - 1950134
13. Name the shooter of Himachal Pradesh (Hamirpur) who won silver medal in Olympics 2012?
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14. Who was the first speaker of Independent India's Lok Sabha?
G.V. Mavalankar
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
Carbon dioxide
Standard time of the country138
15. Which is the largest zoo in India?
London
Allahabad Pillar inscription
Wular lake (Kashmir)
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
16. In which century did Ashoka reign?
Hockey
Saka era
Third century B.C
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
17. What will be the difference in longitudes between two places if their time difference is 2 hours and 20 minutes?
35 degree
Later Vedic Age
G.V. Mavalankar
Sachin Tendulkar
18. When comes the Farmer's Day (Kisan Divas )in India ?
South Kolkata
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
The equator
23rd December
19. Durand line is the border common to which two countries?
Bombay
Stainless steel
2:3161
Pakistan and Afghanistan
20. Which day is celebrated as National Maritime Day in India?
The Lok Sabha
5th April
Torricelli
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
21. Name two other clones left with NDRI?
Greeks
Karashapana
Firozeshah Tughluq
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
22. Name the alloy of iron - chromium and nickel?
Stainless steel
Forty-fourth Amendment
30th January
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
23. Which is the largest river delta of India?
Rs 270
1.34 millions
Ganga
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
24. Which was the great centre of trade and commerce in the Gupta period?
Baby Nargis
Longitudinal position
Hockey
Mathura
25. Where did coins made of metal first appeared?
Madhya Pradesh
Palk Strait
Later Vedic Age
Rabindranath Tagore
26. Who discovered the oral polio vaccine?
29th August
14th November
Maharaja Hari Singh
Jonas Salk
27. When was the foundation day of CSIR ( Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) observed?
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
1911133
Chandrayaan
8th October
28. Where is a tunnel near the Indo-Pak border detected?
India and Pakistan
In Samba
American firm Intra Pace unveils a stomach implant vi akeyhole surgery that can help people fight flab by warning the brain when enough food is taken. This credit card sized implant is named as 'Abiliti'.
Abul Kalam Azad
29. Who is the person of Indian origin nominated as the Governor of Louisiana - an American state?
Bobby Jindal
Bombay
Sitar
Heavy water
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?
8th March
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
Narendra Modi government
Jhumpa Lahiri
31. Who invented radar?
69 miles
Robert Watson Watt
Dr. F.G.Banting
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
32. Who is called Father of English Poetry?
Chaucer
55th rank
Karashapana
Strait of Gibraltar
33. Which place is famous for gigantic rock-cut statue of Budha?
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
Bamiyan
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
34. Name the player of USA who created history by grabbing his 22nd Olympic medal ?
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
Nek Chand
India
Nayantara Sahgal
35. Name the gases used in different types of welding?
Methane
Oxygen and acetylene
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
Heavy water
36. Who won bronze medal for India in 10m pistol event (London Olympics - 2012)?
Gagan Narang
14th November
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
Art and architecture
37. Where is the India's first largest bamboo museum?
Madhya Pradesh
Narendra Modi government
Edison
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
38. What is made from the mixture of lime and chlorine?
India and Pakistan
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
Bleaching powder
Third century B.C
39. Who invented the steam engine?
The Rajya Sabha
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
Bobby Jindal
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
40. When is World Laughter Day celebrated?
26th January
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Martin Luther King
Sunita Williams
41. Which is our National song?
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.
Vande Mataram
Rs 270
Aravind Adiga
42. When is the UN Day observed?
Aravind Adiga
24th October
Shockley
Dehradun
43. Name the Strait which separates Asia from North America?
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
India
The Bering Strait
Carbon dioxide
44. Who wrote the famous play 'Macbeth'?
William Shakespeare151
Stupa
Karashapana
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
45. Who is the author of book 'Freedom Behind Bars'?
Kiran Bedi
26th January
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
Hindukush
46. What is difference between mass of body and its weight?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Journalism
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
95th
47. With which field M.F. Hussian were associated?
Painting
Darsheel Safary
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
Chaucer
48. According to a poll conducted by global research company Ipsos - people of which country are happiest on this planet despite woes - conflicts?
6 months
Indians
Julang-2
Kathak
49. Name the two living members of first Lok Sabha to be honored by President on 13th May - 2012 - 60th anniversary of our Parliament?
Carbon dioxide
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
50. Which country is the world's largest recipient of arms?
Darsheel Safary
India
Chandrayaan
Madhya Pradesh