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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. When is World Food Day observed?
16th October
31st May
Prime Minister
INS Vikrant55
2. Begum Akhtar is associated with which field?
Bombay
Vocal Music
Three Decades in Parliament
Trivandrum
3. At what age World's oldest dog Pusuke died?
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
26 years and 9 months
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
Rahul Dravid
4. Which country was under the grip of a severe earthquake followed by tsunami recently?
Japan
Aravallis
Mohammad bin Kasim
16th October
5. Which day in India is observed as Minorities Rights Day?
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
18th December
1st May164
Curiosity
6. Where is the only shrine in the world which has a natural statue of Hanuman that is not man made?
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
Jane Austen
When sun is above the equator
7. Where is ABG Shipyard the India's largest private sector shipyard?
New Delhi
Aravind Adiga
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Edison
8. During whose time the Gandhara School of art developed?
At the center of earth
Fatehpur Sikri
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
Kushans
9. Who won the silver medal in 66 Kg wrestling and is the first Indian to win two individual Olympic medals?
Raja Ravi Varma
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
Neil Armstrong
Sushil Kumar
10. Who has been selected as the new head of Tata empire in 2011?
Jayadeva
Das Kapital
Cyrus Mistry
Demand deposits
11. Who wrote the book 'We Indians'?
Jane Austen
Third century B.C
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
Khushwant Singh
12. What will be the difference in longitudes between two places if their time difference is 2 hours and 20 minutes?
Mahatma Gandhi
1st December
35 degree
Lawn Tennis153
13. Who was the author of 'Bharat Bharati'?
Eagle
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Sunderbans delta
14. Name the baby of Uttar Pardesh who is the symbolic seven billionth baby ?
Zinc
Baby Nargis
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
Edison
15. An air bubble in water acts as which lens?
Uttarakhand
16th October
Lobsang Sangay
Concave lens
16. With which musical instrument was Ustad Mustaq Ali Khan associated?
Rs 270
E.M Forster
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
Sitar
17. Where is Pushkar lake located?
6-14 years
The Reserve Bank of India
Rajasthan
35 degree
18. Which is largest fresh water lake in India?
Sarojini Naidu
The Delhi Metro
24th February
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
19. Which day is observed as World Heritage Day?
Diffusion
18th April
Carbon dioxide
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
20. Who is the richest Indian in the World according to the 2011 Forbes India annual rich list?
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
Playwright
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
21. If in a mirror image of object appears to be larger then which type of mirror is used?
J.L.Baird
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
Cavendish
Concave mirror
22. Who is called 'Grand Old Man of India'?
Dadabhai Naoroji
Zinc
20th March
God particle or Higgs Boson
23. Where were Chola Kings ruling over?
Strait of Gibraltar
Finland
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
Tamil Nadu
24. Hawa Mahal is situated in which city?
V.S Naipaul
Rajasthan
Jaipur
China
25. Where is the world's largest solar power project going to be set up?
Shobha De
Ladakh
Amjad Ali Khan
Maharashtra
26. Which country has an Unwritten Constitution?
UK
Bombay
Johannes Kepler
Sunil Gavaskar
27. Who composed the national song of India (Vande Maatram)?
Sushil Kumar
Shobha De
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Navtej Saran
28. What is the ratio of width of our National Flag to its length?
2:4
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
Playwright
Khushwant Singh
29. In which field the name of Gangubai Hangal associated?
Music
The Lok Sabha
Ladakh
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
30. Where is Union Budget presented firstly?
Mahatma Gandhi
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
7th April
The Lok Sabha
31. For what was Gupta dynasty famous?
God particle or Higgs Boson
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
Art and architecture
Rajasthan
32. Name the Earth- like planet whose existence is confirmed by American astronomers?
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
Jagannath
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
Mahatma Gandhi
33. Who wrote 'One Day Wonders'?
Kanishka
6-14 years
5th June
Sunil Gavaskar
34. Who said - 'God helps those who helps themselves'?
Algernon Sidney
Tungsten
Firozeshah Tughluq
11th July
35. What is the name of World's cheapest tablet PC?
Churchill
26 years and 9 months
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
36. Where is the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre located?
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
Trivandrum
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
Saka era
37. With which cells scientists for the first time have developed bone?
Nikolaus Otto
Contingency Fund of India
Playwright
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.)
38. Who won Jnanpith Award in 2010?
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
Mumbai
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
Swarajya Party
39. What reference is taken to know the local time of a place?
Mahatma Gandhi
Longitudinal position
Sriharikota
7th April
40. 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?
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
162
INS Vikrant55
Shimla and Hamirpur
41. Who is the new youngest Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh?
Harshavardhana
Akhilesh Yadav
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
5 hours 30 minutes
42. On which date Quit India Day comes?
9th August
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
Kulandei Francis
Albert Einstein
43. On what occasion Bihar got its own state anthem and state prayer whose CD's were released by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar?
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
Johann Gregor Mendel
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
24th October
44. How many images will be formed when an object is placed between two mirrors placed parellel to each other?
Infinite
Punjab
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
Silicon
45. Who said 'Child is the father of Man'?
William Wordsworth
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
2
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
46. Who is the author of book 'Speed Post'?
Shobha De
5 hours 30 minutes
Julang-2
Algernon Sidney
47. Who got Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna (highest sports award in country) award?
Bengali
Johannes Kepler
Gagan Narang (shooter)
Madhya Pradesh
48. What is India's rank on Foreign money in Swiss banks?
55th rank
Dadabhai Naoroji
Vande Mataram
Maharashtra
49. Which river is related to Nagarjun Sagar Project?
Krishna
Demand deposits
Harshavardhana
Diffusion
50. Who founded the Saka Era?
Kanishka
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
15th January