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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Who has become the first lady jawan in Indian army?
Torricelli
Ms. Vasuki Sunkavalli (of Hyderabad)
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
UK
2. Which is largest populated city in India?
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
Six months
Mumbai
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
3. Who was called the 'Napoleon of India'?
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Samudragupta
4. Who is the second 100 percent visually impaired person to be accepted into the IAS?
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
Dance
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
' Why This Kolaveri Di' the song released on 16th Nov. written and sung by Dhanush
5. Who discovered the laws of planetary motion?
Gol Gumbaz
Nitrous oxide
The number of persons per square kilometre.
Johannes Kepler
6. Where is the National Institute of Nutrition located?
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
Hyderabad
Albert Einstein
Eagle
7. When is National Science Day celebrated in India?
Kulandei Francis
28th February
2:4
Cyrus Mistry
8. Which day in India is celebrated as Children's Day?
Edison
14th November
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
5 hours 30 minutes
9. Who was the first speaker of Independent India's Lok Sabha?
15th March
90 degree
Milkha Singh
G.V. Mavalankar
10. Where is Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research located?
Hampi
Jan 26 - 1950134
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
Kalpakkam
11. Which is the largest Church in India?
Planning Commission
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
4 minutes
12. What is AERE?
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13. Where is Pushkar lake located?
Rajasthan
Hampi
Zinc
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
14. Which is the India's largest public sector commercial bank at present?
Due to radiation
State Bank of India
Chandragupta Maurya
Lala Lajpat Rai
15. Name the subatomic particle which scientists claimed to have spotted and is believed to be a crucial building block in the formation of universe?
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
God particle or Higgs Boson
V. Anand
4 minutes
16. Which day is known as World Book and Copyright Day?
Jonathan Swift
23rd April
Odisha
H.P.S Ahluwalia
17. How many cities can be protected by the missile defence shield developed by India?
Param Vir Chakra
5th September
Gol Gumbaz
2
18. Which is the largest port in India?
Mumbai
Vande Mataram
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
Shockley
19. Watches of a country is set according to what time?
Standard time of the country138
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
Ms. Vasuki Sunkavalli (of Hyderabad)
Uttar Pradesh
20. What is proxy voting?
Dilip Kumar
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
U.K
21. Which cricketer known as 'Tiger' also father of famous actor died on 23rd September - 2011?
London
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
Bamiyan
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
22. Which country has World's largest democracy?
India
William Wordsworth
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
Mary Kom
23. Name the famous ruler of ancient India - who towards the end of his life converted to Jainism?
Chandragupta
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
Darsheel Safary
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
24. Who wrote the book 'Around the World in Eighty Days'?
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
Jules Verne
5th September
69 miles
25. Radcliffe line is the boundary line between which countries?
India and Pakistan
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
24th February
26. When is the UN Day observed?
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
July - 1947
24th October
Michael Phelps
27. Who has been re-elected PDP President for the fourth time in Srinagar in 2011?
Mehbooba Mufti
11th May
Punjab
Madhya Pradesh
28. Which gas is used for preparation of soda water?
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
Raja Ravi Varma
Carbon dioxide
Valentina Tereshkova
29. Which hockey team won the Asian Championship Trophy at Ordos(China) in 2011?
Maharaja Hari Singh
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
Bamiyan
India
30. Kanchipuram is in which state?
Strait of Gibraltar
Tamil Nadu
Sarojini Naidu
Journalism
31. Who wrote the line 'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever'?
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
Golconda
John Keats
69 miles
32. Who got Dhyan Chand Award in 2011?
India
Sunil Gavaskar
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
Krishna
33. Name the woman boxer of India who have won five time world championship in succession?
The equator
Mary Kom
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
New Agra Fort
34. Who was the chairman of Constituent Assembly?
The Reserve Bank of India
Prime Minister
G.V. Mavalankar
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
35. Which gas is called laughing gas?
Nitrous oxide
Equator
Lala Lajpat Rai
Saeed Mirza
36. Where is Bihar's first all women police station located?
Sitar
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
Dr. F.G.Banting
Hockey
37. Name the metal used in storage batteries?
Infinite
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
Lead
38. Who is called Father of English Poetry?
Chaucer
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
Neil Armstrong
Football
39. Name the scientist who got Nobel Prize twice for the same subject?
Alexander Graham Bell
Marie Curie
In Samba
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.
40. What is the name of India's moon mission?
Nek Chand
Chandrayaan
Algernon Sidney
Concave mirror
41. Where is the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre located?
Pune
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
Trivandrum
42. Name the Strait connecting Arabian Sea and the Bay ofBengal?
Palk Strait
Angle between the horizon and the equator
27th September
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
43. Who led the first Muslim invasion of India?
Swarajya Party
Mohammad bin Kasim
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
15th August167
44. Which is the largest river delta of India?
Khushwant Singh
95th
Ganga
11th May
45. Name the smallest neighbour of India?
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
10th October
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
Governor
46. The World famous 'Peacock Throne' was kept in which Mughal building?
New Agra Fort
Mathura
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
47. Who was the founder of the Khalsa?
Zinc
26th January
Guru Gobind Singh
Mahatma Gandhi
48. Where were Chola Kings ruling over?
Shimla and Hamirpur
Tamil Nadu
5th June
1st December
49. When comes the World Disabled Day?
15th March
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
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.
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh
50. From where the longest circle which can be drawn from earth's surface will pass?
Lead
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
Kolkata
Will pass through Equator