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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. 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.
24th February
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
Raja Ravi Varma
2. What is the common name of sodium carbonate?
Anna Hazare
Johannes Kepler
1.34 millions
Washing soda
3. Which river is related to Nagarjun Sagar Project?
Arthur Conan Doyle
8th September
Krishna
Param Vir Chakra
4. India is facing pressure from the US and other Western countries to break trade ties with which country?
Playwright
Mehbooba Mufti
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
1953
5. What is e-bomb?
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6. When is World Laughter Day celebrated?
Bromine
Kushans
26th January
Concave lens
7. Our Indian Constitution closely follows the Constitutional system of which country?
U.K
Motion Picture
Roger Federer
Rocky Marciano
8. Name the player of USA who created history by grabbing his 22nd Olympic medal ?
Hockey
Punjab
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
William Wordsworth
9. Which state in India has three language teaching formula?
Razia Sultana
Punjab
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
U.K
10. Which metro has been certified by the United Nations as the first metro rail based system in the World to get carbon credits for contributing to the fight against climate changes?
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
The Delhi Metro
Churchill
Karashapana
11. By whom is the Vice-President of the Indian Union elected?
Satyendra Nath Bose
15th August167
Hindukush
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
12. Which is the largest zoo in India?
Odisha
Sidney Sheldon
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
29th August
13. What is the difference in time between two places 1 degree longitude apart?
Sunil Gavaskar
4 minutes
Haryana
Karashapana
14. Name the former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister whose admirers have decided to build a temple to perpetuate his memory?
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
Jawaharlal Nehru
Vishnu Sharma
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
15. Who is the author of the book 'My Experiments with Truth'?
Aung San Suu Kyi
Myanmar
The Delhi Metro
Mahatma Gandhi
16. Who inspired Green Revolution in India?
India and China
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
N.E. Borlaug
Michael Phelps
17. Where is famous Somnath Temple located?
Mahatma Gandhi
1st December
23rd April
Gujarat
18. Name one famous Sarod player?
Amjad Ali Khan
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Sri Lanka
Later Vedic Age
19. Usain Bolt adjudged as the fastest man on the earth in Olympics 2008 belongs to which country?
Dehradun
2
Vidya Balan
Jamaica
20. Which is the largest delta in India?
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
Manipur54
State Bank of India
Sunderbans delta
21. Who wrote the first history book?
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
Chandragupta Maurya
Herodotus
Kathak
22. When is World's Sparrow Day observed?
Ms. Vasuki Sunkavalli (of Hyderabad)
20th March
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
Neil Armstrong
23. What is our National Anthem?
Arthur Conan Doyle
Jama Masjid
Sushil Kumar
Jana Gana Mana
24. Latitude and longitude are at what angle to each other?
Perpendicular to each other
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
25. At what age World's oldest dog Pusuke died?
Konark
26 years and 9 months
Sunil Gavaskar
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
26. Who has become the first lady jawan in Indian army?
Krishna
Chandrayaan
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
Mathura
27. Where is Indian Cancer Research Institute situated?
Bombay
Bromine
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
Trivandrum
28. Which is largest river without delta in India?
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
India
Narmada and Japti
Director General Anil Kaushik
29. Whose influence is reflected in the sculptures of the Gandhara school?
Greeks
4 minutes
2
Shockley
30. What is the estimated premature deaths caused annually by outdoor air pollution - according to the first pollution survey carried out by World Health Organisation in Sept. - 2011?
Yousuf Raza Gillani
Mosley
1.34 millions
Mundak Upanishad
31. Who was the only Muslim woman to sit on the throne of Delhi?
11th May
Shockley
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
Razia Sultana
32. Name the seas joined by Suez Canal?
11th July
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
State Bank of India
33. Who got Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar in 2011 ?
Sonepur (Bihar )
Roentgen
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
Carbon dioxide
34. Who is the new youngest Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh?
5th June
Akhilesh Yadav
Raja Ravi Varma
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
35. Name the person who transliterated Guru Granth Sahib in Braille?
Bhai Gurmej Singh
Morarji Desai
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
Assam
36. Name the famous ruler of ancient India - who towards the end of his life converted to Jainism?
Rabindranath Tagore
Palk Strait
Kolkata
Chandragupta
37. Name the scientist who got Nobel Prize twice for the same subject?
Bengali
Marie Curie
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
E.G.Otis
38. What is the ratio of width of our National Flag to its length?
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
2:4
Anita Desai
Speaker
39. Who wrote the book 'Eternal Himalayas'?
Bangalore
H.P.S Ahluwalia
2nd April - 2011
1949
40. What is made from the mixture of lime and chlorine?
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
Bleaching powder
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
Narendra Modi government
41. Who is called 'Grand Old Man of India'?
South Kolkata
Jan 26 - 1950134
Trivandrum
Dadabhai Naoroji
42. Why Shimla is cooler than Amritsar though they have same latitude?
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
China
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
43. How is population density in India defined?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
The number of persons per square kilometre.
Allahabad Pillar inscription
Marie Curie
44. Who discovered the noble gases?
Uttar Pradesh
Because the solids have high elasticity.
Year of Disabled Soldiers
Cavendish
45. Name the Indian who won Magsaysay award for community initiatives in Tamil Nadu?
Kulandei Francis
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
China
8
46. Radcliffe line is the boundary line between which countries?
India and Pakistan
Rabindranath Tagore
The Lok Sabha
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
47. Who is the author of book 'The Shape of the Beast'?
Arundhati Roy
Andhra Pradesh
Mohammad Iqbal
23rd December
48. Late Girilal Jain was a noted figure in which field?
Mathura
Journalism
Hampi
Bamiyan
49. Which cricketer known as 'Tiger' also father of famous actor died on 23rd September - 2011?
Jhumpa Lahiri
State Bank of India
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
50. Vijayghat ( Samadhi of Lal Bahadur Shastri) is situated on the bank of which river?
Robert Watson Watt
Yamuna
W.C Bannerjee
Saka era