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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. What will be the new name of West Bengal?
Konark
Paschim Banga1
1st December
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
2. Who was the first person to set foot on moon?
Concave mirror
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
Eagle
Neil Armstrong
3. Who arranged the elements in the Modern Periodic Table?
Performax
Hindukush
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
Mosley
4. Where is Sun Temple situated?
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
Konark
$46 - 00011
Mary Kom
5. Champion Trophy is associated with which game?
$46 - 00011
UK
Hockey
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
6. Under which scam - the 43 year old daughter of former chief minister of Tamil Nadu M.Karunanidhi was in Tihar jail in 2011?
Samudragupta
2G spectrum scam
12th January
Anita Desai
7. Who headed the committee on computerisation in Indian banks(1988)?
Music
M. Narasimhan
Rajasthan
Vasudeva
8. When is Sadbhavna Diwas (Goodwill Day ) observed in India?
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9. Name the Indian state where the game of Polo is said to have originated?
Pune
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
Bengali
Manipur54
10. Who is known as founder of Mohemmadan Anglo-Oriental college at Aligarh?
Jane Austen
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Saka era
Karashapana
11. In which state is Ganesh Otsav celebrated?
8th October
Sunil Gavaskar
Maharashtra
The President
12. When comes the World Disabled Day?
Performax
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
15th March
At the center of earth
13. In which state are the World famous Ajanta Caves situated?
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
India
Maharashtra
Infinite
14. Name the book which has collection of speeches of N.G Ranga?
Tamil Nadu
Three Decades in Parliament
Edison
Hampi
15. Who is the renowned flute player?
UK
Contingency Fund of India
26th January
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
16. What is difference between mass of body and its weight?
Carbon dioxide
250th anniversary
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
Euclid
17. Name the largest oil refinery of India?
Kho-Kho
Vadodara
Four lions
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
18. Where are the headquarters of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts?
New Delhi
State Bank of India
Sitar
Mumbai
19. Who became the first batsman in the history of cricket to score 100 international centuries?
Sachin Tendulkar
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
Amitabh Bachchan
Bobby Jindal
20. Who wrote the book 'Glimpses of World History'?
Satyendra Nath Bose
24
Jawaharlal Nehru
Uttar Pradesh
21. Who is going to receive highest US award?
Aung San Suu Kyi
W.C Bannerjee
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Jai Samhita
22. Name the Indian American astronaut who begins her 2nd space odyssey on July 15 - 2012?
Albert Einstein
Sunita Williams
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
Jawaharlal Nehru
23. What are the estimated premature deaths caused annually by air pollution - according to the first pollution survey carried in Sept. - 2011 by World Health Organisation?
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
1.34 millions
Maharaja Hari Singh
William Wordsworth
24. Which city is known as 'Electronic City of India'?
Methane
8th October
Bangalore
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
25. How many total number of enclaves are to be exchanged between territories of two countries India and Bangladesh according to the treaty signed in Sept - 2011?
Krishna
Fatehpur Sikri
162
Valentina Tereshkova
26. Which country won the maximum number of medals in Olympics 2008 held in Beijing?
Rajasthan
USA
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
Torricelli
27. Year 2011 is observed by Army as what?
Year of Disabled Soldiers
Ganga
Aravallis
Oxygen and acetylene
28. When is National Science Day celebrated in India?
28th February
Jonathan Swift
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
29. Who discovered X-Ray?
Roentgen
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Krishna
30. Name the leader under whom India's first coalition government in New Delhi was formed?
Morarji Desai
Sushil Kumar
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
31. When India became a Sovereign - democratic republic?
Sri Lanka
55th rank
Jan 26 - 1950134
Bangalore
32. Who has been re-elected PDP President for the fourth time in Srinagar in 2011?
U.K
Pakistan and Afghanistan
Mehbooba Mufti
27th September
33. Who discovered the oral polio vaccine?
Jonas Salk
24th May
Lobsang Sangay
20th March
34. Where in Delhi a bomb hidden in briefcase exploded killing 11 persons and injuring 47 in the worst attack in India's capital in 3 years in 2011?
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35. According to a poll conducted by global research company Ipsos - people of which country are happiest on this planet despite woes - conflicts?
Equator
Indians
Hamid Ansari
Vande Mataram
36. Who was the first recipient of Nehru Award for International Understanding?
John Keats
V. Anand
Martin Luther King
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
37. At what age World's oldest dog Pusuke died?
26 years and 9 months
Carbon dioxide
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
Chilka lake (Orissa )
38. Where are the World famous Khajuraho sculptures located?
1st May164
South Africa
Algernon Sidney
Madhya Pradesh
39. Name the famous ruler of ancient India - who towards the end of his life converted to Jainism?
Chandragupta
Jagannath
Saka era
Motion Picture
40. Which is the largest river delta of India?
23rd April
The Rajya Sabha
Chandrayaan
Ganga
41. Name the smallest neighbour of India?
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
Jaya Dev
26 years and 9 months
42. Where is the birth place of Guru Nanak Ji?
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
Talwandi
Odisha
2:3161
43. Which anniversary of sandwich was celebrated by British town in May - 2012?
Sitar
250th anniversary
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
28th February
44. After whose name the Nobel Prize was started?
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
Michael Phelps
W.C Bannerjee
Japan
45. What is the ratio of width of our National Flag to its length?
Jonathan Swift
July - 1947
5th September
2:4
46. On which date Anti Tobacco Day observed?
Chadwick
Jayadeva
The Delhi Metro
31st May
47. Name the herbal drug developed by DRDO for soldiers working in high altitude areas?
Jama Masjid
Alexander Fleming
8th September
Performax
48. Who wrote the immortal song 'Vande Mataram'?
Diffusion
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
W.C Bannerjee
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
49. Who got Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna (highest sports award in country) award?
Myanmar
Gagan Narang (shooter)
Rajasthan
Amitabh Ghosh
50. Which is the largest cave in India?
V.S Naipaul
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
Dutch East Indies