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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Which place is going to have North India's biggest turf club?
Maharashtra
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
Only the first stanza
Himachal Pradesh
2. On which part of earth days and nights are of equal length always?
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
Jaipur
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
Equator
3. What amount is purposed as per capita allocation for health sector for 2011-2012 - according to the official review of National Rural Health Mission?
4 minutes
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
Rs 270
4. Name the country which has longest international boundary with India?
China
Pune
Torricelli
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
5. Mc. Mohan Line demarcates the boundary between which countries?
Aravind Adiga
India and China
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
The Bering Strait
6. What is Dry Ice?
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
Thailand
New Delhi
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
7. Durand line is the border common to which two countries?
Amir Khusrau
Pakistan and Afghanistan
India
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
8. A famous novel 'Pride and Prejudice 'is written by whom?
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
Parupalli Kashyap
Jane Austen
9. Radcliffe line is the boundary line between which countries?
India and Pakistan
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
1949
26th January
10. Who wrote the first history book?
Herodotus
New Agra Fort
Baby Nargis
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
11. Who elects the Vice President of India?
V. Anand
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
8th October
Football
12. Who inspired Green Revolution in India?
N.E. Borlaug
China
Milkha Singh
London
13. Why bubble of water shines?
Mary Kom
Khadakvasla
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
14. Whom did Dalai Lama announced to be his successor in March - 2011?
Kolkata
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
Lobsang Sangay
15. Which country is the second largest producer of sugar?
William Shakespeare151
Madhya Pradesh
Tamil Nadu
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
16. Where is Char Minar located?
5th June
Hyderabad
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
Sunita Williams
17. Who is the author of the book 'Unto the Last' which influenced Gandhi ji?
Silver
John Ruskin
55th rank
State Bank of India
18. Name the gas used to extinguish fire?
Johann Gregor Mendel
Saeed Mirza
Carbon dioxide
Su-Kam Power Systems
19. Who published the 'Red Data Book' containing information on the wild animals and plants in danger of extinction?
E.G.Otis
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Jane Austen
Lead
20. Who said 'Child is the father of Man'?
6 months
William Wordsworth
Sachin Tendulkar
Cyrus Mistry
21. What is the name of India's moon mission?
Gwalior Gharana
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Samudragupta
Chandrayaan
22. Who is known as 'Lady with the Lamp'?
Mehbooba Mufti
' Why This Kolaveri Di' the song released on 16th Nov. written and sung by Dhanush
Florence Nightingale
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
23. What is the upper house of parliament known as?
The Rajya Sabha
Jawaharlal Nehru
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.)
Michael Phelps
24. What happens when a ship crosses Date line from west to east?
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
It loses one day
Euclid
2G spectrum scam
25. At what age World's oldest dog Pusuke died?
Rajasthan
26 years and 9 months
31st May
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
26. Where are the achievements of Samudragupta described on?
Florence Nightingale
Allahabad Pillar inscription
India
Firozeshah Tughluq
27. When is Martyr's Day in India celebrated ?
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
30th January
Bamiyan
Ripon
28. Who discovered photoelectric effect?
Albert Einstein
Kulandei Francis
Graphite
Aravind Adiga
29. Which day is known as World Tourism Day?
Swarajya Party
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
Sunderbans delta
27th September
30. Who deciphered the genetic code?
Krishna
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
Indra Sinha64
Samudragupta
31. Who is the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces in India?
The President
Vice President of India
Sunderbans delta
Kushans
32. Which metal is kept under kerosine?
Genetically Modified Crops.
4 minutes
Sodium
Longitudinal position
33. Who was the first king to conquer Malwa - Gujarat and Maharashtra?
Maharashtra
Chandragupta Maurya
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
Bamiyan
34. What was the old name of Indonesia?
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
Dutch East Indies
H.P.S Ahluwalia
Gota in Sweden
35. When in India Teachers Day celebrated?
5th September
Neil Armstrong
Uttarakhand
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
36. Which book is entitled as 'Bible of Communism'?
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Das Kapital
37. What are GM Crops?
Jagannath
Harshavardhana
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
Genetically Modified Crops.
38. With which cells scientists for the first time have developed bone?
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
Rahul Banerjee (archery ) - Preeja Sreedharan (athletics) - Vikas Gowda (athletics) - Jwala Gutta(badminton) - M Suranjoy Singh(boxing) - Zaheer Khan (cricket) - Sunil Chhetri(football) - Ashish Kumar (gymnastics) - Rajpal Singh (hockey) - Ra
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.)
Andhra Pradesh
39. Name the Strait connecting Arabian Sea and the Bay ofBengal?
Chaucer
Palk Strait
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
Indra Sinha64
40. Which is the largest cave in India?
Sarojini Naidu
Kathak
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
41. Who was the author of 'Bharat Bharati'?
26 years and 9 months
W.C Bannerjee
Lala Lajpat Rai
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
42. On globe - the latitude and longitude intersect at what angle?
William Shakespeare151
22nd April
Tamil Nadu
90 degrees
43. Who wrote the book 'A Passage To India'?
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
Gwalior Gharana
E.M Forster
Guru Gobind Singh
44. At which place a devastating fire tore through seven storey AMRI hospital killing 91 people in 2011?
Rajasthan
Roentgen
The Delhi Metro
South Kolkata
45. Where is the National Institute of Nutrition located?
Hyderabad
M.N Roy62
Silver
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
46. Name the temple where majority of pilgrims visiting tonsure their heads and offer their hair to Lord Venkateswara?
Abul Kalam Azad
15th March
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh
Art and architecture
47. Who is crowned Miss Universe India 2011?
Johannes Kepler
Ms. Vasuki Sunkavalli (of Hyderabad)
Dr. F.G.Banting
Increases
48. When was the foundation day of CSIR ( Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) observed?
In Samba
Valentina Tereshkova
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
Maharaja Hari Singh
49. Which state of India has highest production of tea?
Mosley
Assam
Kanishka
J.L.Baird
50. What is AERE?
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