SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
General Knowledge Trivia Test
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
general-knowledge
,
trivia
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Who wrote the book 'The Namesake'?
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
Kerala
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
Jhumpa Lahiri
2. Which is the largest zoo in India?
Mundak Upanishad
Johannes Kepler
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
$46 - 00011
3. Where is the only shrine in the world which has a natural statue of Hanuman that is not man made?
1.34 millions
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
11th May
1911133
4. Which region of India is associated with pine forests?
Florence Nightingale
Uttarakhand
V.S Naipaul
5th June
5. Whose name is associated with the council of the 'Nine Gems'?
Chandragupta-II
Palk Strait
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
Bangalore
6. Which day is chosen to be celebrated as Father's Day?
Prime Minister
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
Mumbai
Hampi
7. Who invented the mercury thermometer?
15th January
Tamil Nadu
Galileo
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
8. Which battle opened the Delhi area to Muhammad Ghori?
11th May
Ujjain
Vocal Music
Second Battle of Tarain
9. Where is ABG Shipyard the India's largest private sector shipyard?
The Lok Sabha
10th December
Kiran Bedi
At Magdalla port near Surat.
10. Name the leader under whom India's first coalition government in New Delhi was formed?
7th April
Hyderabad
Morarji Desai
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh
11. Who said - 'God helps those who helps themselves'?
55th rank
Uttar Pradesh
Kolkata
Algernon Sidney
12. Name the sub-launched long range N-missile developed by China?
Aravind Adiga
Kauravas and Pandavas51
Julang-2
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
13. On whose written advice President can proclaim Emergency?
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
V.S Naipaul
Prime Minister
Anna Hazare
14. Where is the Indian Institute of Science located?
Uttarakhand
Bengali
Bangalore
Jonas Salk
15. How is population density in India defined?
Nayantara Sahgal
The number of persons per square kilometre.
The Lok Sabha
10th December
16. Where is largest animal fair held in India?
22nd April
Sonepur (Bihar )
Six months
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
17. Who wrote the novel 'Neela Chand'?
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
Washing soda
Shiv Prasad Singh
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
18. Which country has World's largest democracy?
India
Uttarakhand
20th March
12th January
19. Which was the musical instrument used by Amir Khusro?
Lala Lajpat Rai
Su-Kam Power Systems
Sitar
69 miles
20. Where is India's Space Rocket Launching Centre situated?
Sriharikota
Is a herbal formulation of 10 selected herbs known to have adaptogenic properties. It helps to improve the physical and mental performance by increasing blood oxygenation and reducing low density lipoproteins and cholesterol.
Chandragupta
Infinite
21. In which Amendment Right to property was removed from the list of Fundamental rights?
16th October
Johann Gregor Mendel
Forty-fourth Amendment
Roger Federer
22. Name the great Hindu king who combined in himself the qualities of Samudragupta and Ashoka?
Harshavardhana
Albert Einstein
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
4G technology will offer many advancements to the wireless market including downlink data rates well over 100 Mbps - low latency - very efficient spectrum use and low cost implementation.
23. What is the latitude of South Pole?
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
Bangalore
Is a herbal formulation of 10 selected herbs known to have adaptogenic properties. It helps to improve the physical and mental performance by increasing blood oxygenation and reducing low density lipoproteins and cholesterol.
90 degree
24. Where is the National Institute of Nutrition located?
Cyrus Mistry
Curiosity
India and Pakistan
Hyderabad
25. With which field M.F. Hussian were associated?
Nek Chand
Painting
Konark
23rd April
26. Who wrote 'War and Peace'?
Is a herbal formulation of 10 selected herbs known to have adaptogenic properties. It helps to improve the physical and mental performance by increasing blood oxygenation and reducing low density lipoproteins and cholesterol.
Leo Tolstoy
Ludhiana
11th May
27. When is the Mother's Day celebrated?
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
Speaker
11th May
28. Who was the author of 'Hind Swaraj'?
Iodine
Mahatma Gandhi
Arundhati Roy
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
29. Who wrote the first history book?
Herodotus
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
Khushwant Singh
30. Which gas is called laughing gas?
Nitrous oxide
Sarojini Naidu
2nd April - 2011
Gwalior Gharana
31. Where is Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research located?
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
Kalpakkam
32. Name the state where bio-fuel outlet - first of its kind in the country will be opened?
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
Param Vir Chakra
Jan 26 - 1950134
33. Where is the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre located?
Lead
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.)
90 degrees
Trivandrum
34. Where are Dilwara Temples situated?
Ashoka
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
11th May
Washing soda
35. Who got Tenzing Norgay Adventure Award in 2011?
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
Saka era
11th May
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
36. Name the three new elements added to the Periodic Table in 2011?
Roger Federer
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
John Ruskin
$46 - 00011
37. What is KG5 drug?
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
38. Who discovered the laws of planetary motion?
Johannes Kepler
J.B.Say
It loses one day
Madhya Pradesh
39. Who is the author of book 'The Shape of the Beast'?
Arundhati Roy
Sunil Gavaskar
Longitudinal position
Music
40. Who is known as Nightingale of India?
15th January
Sarojini Naidu
5
Ripon
41. Which metal is used in pencils?
Akbar
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
Graphite
S. Radhakrishnan
42. What is the changed name of Orissa officially according to Presidential assent to the Bill?
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
Odisha
Dehradun
Playwright
43. Who invented the television?
Shobha De
J.L.Baird
Razia Sultana
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
44. Where is Sun Temple situated?
Shiv Prasad Singh
Maharashtra
Konark
Vice President of India
45. What are GM Crops?
South Kolkata
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
5 hours 30 minutes
Genetically Modified Crops.
46. After whose name the Nobel Prize was started?
8th May
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
47. 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?
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
48. What are the benefits of medicine Performax?
Is a herbal formulation of 10 selected herbs known to have adaptogenic properties. It helps to improve the physical and mental performance by increasing blood oxygenation and reducing low density lipoproteins and cholesterol.
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
Akbar
New Delhi
49. When is the World Population Day observed?
18th December
Jane Austen
Jan 26 - 1950134
11th July
50. When are days and nights equal throughout the globe?
Anna Hazare
When sun is above the equator
Abhinav Bindra
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas