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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. What is proxy voting?
250th anniversary
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
Demand deposits
Gol Gumbaz
2. Who is the author of book 'Freedom Behind Bars'?
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
1st December
Kiran Bedi
3. What is the name of India's moon mission?
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
Sri Lanka
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Chandrayaan
4. For what is Bijapur known?
God particle or Higgs Boson
Gol Gumbaz
1.34 millions
Hyderabad
5. Name one famous Sarod player?
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
Amjad Ali Khan
Tamil Nadu
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
6. Where is Char Minar located?
In Samba
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
Hyderabad
Tungsten
7. Which game is associated with Agha Khan Cup?
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
Hockey
Vadodara
Florence Nightingale
8. What is difference between mass of body and its weight?
India and China
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
Madhya Pradesh
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
9. In which century did Ashoka reign?
Third century B.C
Gagan Narang
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
The Bering Strait
10. Name the subatomic particle which scientists claimed to have spotted and is believed to be a crucial building block in the formation of universe?
Vasudeva
Forty-fourth Amendment
God particle or Higgs Boson
J.L.Baird
11. From which mines was the famous Kohinoor diamond produced?
Bangalore
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
Golconda
N.E. Borlaug
12. Where were remains of Vijayanagar Empire found?
Six months
Hampi
Art and architecture
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh
13. Name the state of India having longest coastline?
Andhra Pradesh
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
H.P.S Ahluwalia
India
14. Which is the Garden City of India?
Bangalore
Himachal Pradesh
Sunil Gavaskar
U.K
15. Who is the first Indian male shuttler to reach Olympic quarters?
Parupalli Kashyap
Bangalore
Rajasthan
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
16. How many spokes are there in our national emblem 'Ashoka Chakra'?
Kerala
God particle or Higgs Boson
24
Samar Guha
17. Name the former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister whose admirers have decided to build a temple to perpetuate his memory?
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
Dumping
18. Name the place where Lord Budha breathed his last?
15th August167
Kushinagar
Journalism
India and China
19. Which sportsperson won the maximum number of Olympic Gold Medals?
Amjad Ali Khan
Michael Phelps
When sun is above the equator
India Museum at Kolkata
20. Who is called the Flying Sikh of India?
Saeed Mirza
Four lions
E.M Forster
Milkha Singh
21. Who is vice President of India?
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
Sunita Williams
Parupalli Kashyap
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
22. Name the person who transliterated Guru Granth Sahib in Braille?
Harshavardhana
The Delhi Metro
Bhai Gurmej Singh
Dr. F.G.Banting
23. Which is the largest lake in India?
Carbon dioxide
Wular lake (Kashmir)
7th April
Indra Sinha64
24. Which is the largest public sector bank in India?
Mumbai
Jan 26 - 1950134
Firozeshah Tughluq
State Bank of India
25. When India became a Sovereign - democratic republic?
Aung San Suu Kyi
Narendra Modi government
250th anniversary
Jan 26 - 1950134
26. Name the youngest skydriver in the country?
When sun is above the equator
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
Odisha
Governor
27. Who won bronze medal for India in 10m pistol event (London Olympics - 2012)?
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
Yamuna
Gagan Narang
11th July
28. Who wrote the book 'Gulliver's Travels'?
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
Sonepur (Bihar )
1.34 millions
Jonathan Swift
29. Which was the great centre of trade and commerce in the Gupta period?
Mathura
15th January
H.P.S Ahluwalia
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
30. What happens to speed of sound with rise in temperature?
Painting
Lead
2nd April - 2011
Increases
31. Why the International Date Line makes slight deviation from 180 degree meridian?
Milkha Singh
Rs 270
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
Jawaharlal Nehru
32. Name the NASA's most modern spacecraft successfully landed on Mars on 6th August - 2012 to begin a pioneering two year search to find out if the red planet is suitable for life and whether it can be inhabitable in the future?
Curiosity
INS Vikrant55
Prime Minister
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
33. What will be the difference in longitudes between two places if their time difference is 2 hours and 20 minutes?
Tamil Nadu
Milkha Singh
E.G.Otis
35 degree
34. Who got Tenzing Norgay Adventure Award in 2011?
Sitar
Yousuf Raza Gillani
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
35. In which state are the World famous Ajanta Caves situated?
Maharashtra
Robert Watson Watt
26th January
Mumbai
36. Where is Sun Temple situated?
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
India and Pakistan
Konark
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
37. Where is head office of the State Bank of India located?
Florence Nightingale
Mumbai
It loses one day
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
38. When was the Constituent Assembly that framed Constitution for Independent India set up?
Ganga
Oxygen and acetylene
95th
1949
39. Who founded the Saka Era?
Churchill
Kanishka
M.N Roy62
USA
40. Who is the author of the novel 'White Tiger'which won the Booker Prize 2008?
Silicon
Dumping
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
Aravind Adiga
41. Name the 17th Karmapa against whom the Una police filed a chargesheet under section 120-B of the IPC in 2011?
Second Battle of Tarain
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Ogyen Trinley Dorjee - the third most important Tibetian religious head after Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama. (as police recovered currencies of 26 countries including 1 - 20 - 197 chinese yuan and around Rs 5.3 million in Indian currency.)
Mussoorie
42. Who wrote the book 'Gullivers Travel'?
Jonathan Swift
J.L.Baird
Art and architecture
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
43. Who discovered photoelectric effect?
Albert Einstein
Vice President of India
China
Haryana
44. Usain Bolt adjudged as the fastest man on the earth in Olympics 2008 belongs to which country?
Jamaica
Akbar
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
45. Who led the first Muslim invasion of India?
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
Gujarat
Diffusion
Mohammad bin Kasim
46. Where is the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre located?
Trivandrum
Das Kapital
2:4
Paschim Banga1
47. Which player is the author of book named 'Sunny Days'?
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
Sunil Gavaskar
South Africa
Ladakh
48. Name the Strait which separates Asia from North America?
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
26th January
The Bering Strait
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
49. Which states are known for Cauvery Water dispute?
India Museum at Kolkata
Mehbooba Mufti
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
Jyoti Amge
50. Name the temple where majority of pilgrims visiting tonsure their heads and offer their hair to Lord Venkateswara?
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh
Rajasthan
Hyderabad
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156