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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Who is the creator of 'Sherlock Holmes'?
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
Arthur Conan Doyle
69 miles
Jai Samhita
2. When is India's National Youth Day celebrated ?
Mohammad Iqbal
12th January
1.34 millions
Genetically Modified Crops.
3. Who won the Wimbledon title for seventh time and 17th grand slam crown after beating Andy Murray in male category in 2012?
Bangalore
Roger Federer
1949
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
4. Who has been selected as the new head of Tata empire in 2011?
Cyrus Mistry
Chandragupta Maurya
M.N Roy62
South Kolkata
5. Who is the author of the book 'The Exile'?
China
Navtej Saran
W.C Bannerjee
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
6. Who has been re-elected PDP President for the fourth time in Srinagar in 2011?
24
Stupa
Jonathan Swift
Mehbooba Mufti
7. Name one famous Sarod player?
Amjad Ali Khan
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
Jonathan Swift
8. Which is the largest Church in India?
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
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.
Bangalore
Saka era
9. On which date Chennai turned 372 years?
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
Sushil Kumar
Kulandei Francis
Eagle
10. Which region of India is associated with pine forests?
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
Uttarakhand
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
11. Who wrote 'Gita Govinda'?
Director General Anil Kaushik
Kanishka
Jaya Dev
India Museum at Kolkata
12. Who wrote our National Anthem?
Nayantara Sahgal
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Yousuf Raza Gillani
Mumbai
13. Which state of India has highest production of tea?
Assam
16th October
11th May
New Agra Fort
14. Name the scientist who got Nobel Prize twice for the same subject?
Karashapana
The Delhi Metro
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.)
Marie Curie
15. From where are the words 'Satyameva Jayate' (inscribed below the base plate of the emblem of India) taken?
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
India and China
23rd December
Mundak Upanishad
16. Name the sub-launched long range N-missile developed by China?
5th April
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
Julang-2
Krishna
17. Begum Akhtar is associated with which field?
Kiran Bedi
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
Vocal Music
5th September
18. Which states are known for Cauvery Water dispute?
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
When sun is above the equator
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
Su-Kam Power Systems
19. Name the latest hi-tech weapon invented in 2011 to prevent obesity?
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20. Where at present the BRAHMOS missiles are assembled?
Johannes Kepler
Hyderabad
John Keats
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
21. Term Double Fault is associated with which game?
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
Lawn Tennis153
Yamuna
Raja Ravi Varma
22. Which day in India is observed as Minorities Rights Day?
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
M. Narasimhan
London
18th December
23. Who was the first woman to go in space?
Valentina Tereshkova
New Delhi
Motion Picture
India
24. Who became the first batsman in the history of cricket to score 100 international centuries?
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Tamil Nadu
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
Sachin Tendulkar
25. Name the person who presided over the first session of Indian National Congress in 1885?
W.C Bannerjee
Washing soda
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
Jayadeva
26. Who wrote the book 'We Indians'?
Khushwant Singh
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
E.G.Otis
27. Name the shooter of Himachal Pradesh (Hamirpur) who won silver medal in Olympics 2012?
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28. Name the state of India having longest coastline?
Andhra Pradesh
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
India
Neil Armstrong
29. Which day is celebrated as International Literacy Day?
Prime Minister
Jonathan Swift
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
8th September
30. When comes the Farmer's Day (Kisan Divas )in India ?
Mundak Upanishad
23rd December
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
31. Who got Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar in 2011 ?
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
Shiv Prasad Singh
2:4
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
32. Which book is entitled as 'Bible of Communism'?
Bombay
Das Kapital
Dutch East Indies
Mohammad bin Kasim
33. Which is the largest delta in India?
Saeed Mirza
Mohammad Iqbal
Nikolaus Otto
Sunderbans delta
34. Who is known as Father of Geometry?
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
Euclid
Thailand
35. Name two other clones left with NDRI?
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Samar Guha
Akbar
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
36. Latitude and longitude are at what angle to each other?
Perpendicular to each other
Rocky Marciano
Sodium
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
37. An air bubble in water acts as which lens?
Harshavardhana
INS Vikrant55
Renders electronic gadgets useless and effectively neutralises the adversary's command control and communication capability by producing a strong electromagnetic field generating powerful electricity surges that play havoc with electronic circuits wi
Concave lens
38. Where did India's first Formula one race took place in 2011?
Equator
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
Mumbai
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
39. Which day is known as World Tourism Day?
Vishnu Sharma
Mehbooba Mufti
27th September
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
40. Which was the most commonly used coin in Mauryan period?
Karashapana
Pune
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
41. Watches of a country is set according to what time?
Rabindranath Tagore
N.E. Borlaug
Standard time of the country138
Three Decades in Parliament
42. After whose name the Nobel Prize was started?
15th January
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
43. In which state are the World famous Ajanta Caves situated?
Maharashtra
Albert Einstein
Anna Hazare
Swarajya Party
44. Triple vaccine is administered to a new born child to save him from which diseases?
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
162
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Indra Sinha64
45. From which mines was the famous Kohinoor diamond produced?
Later Vedic Age
Ms. Vasuki Sunkavalli (of Hyderabad)
Florence Nightingale
Golconda
46. Who wrote the book 'Glimpses of World History'?
Dehradun
Jawaharlal Nehru
15th August167
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
47. At what price the menu of the first dinner served to the firstclass passengers of the ill fated liner Titanic on 10th April - 1912 sold?
Golconda
Jan 26 - 1950134
Konark
$46 - 00011
48. Who invented the steam engine?
Kalpakkam
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
49. Which city is known as 'Electronic City of India'?
Bangalore
Second Battle of Tarain
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
Prof. V.N Datta
50. Name the woman boxer of India who have won five time world championship in succession?
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
Madhya Pradesh
Amir Khusrau
Mary Kom