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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Which actress has become the brand ambassador for sanitation compaign?
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
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
Kanishka
Vidya Balan
2. Name the gases used in different types of welding?
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
Oxygen and acetylene
95th
Tamil Nadu
3. Who was the first Indian elected to the leadership of Communist International?
Akbar
M.N Roy62
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Mary Kom
4. Which is the state wise largest area under forest in India?
Later Vedic Age
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
Madhya Pradesh
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
5. What is the latitude of South Pole?
Finland
Yamuna
90 degree
8th October
6. What happens when a ship crosses Date line from west to east?
Sukumar Sen
Jules Verne
Michael Phelps
It loses one day
7. At which place a devastating fire tore through seven storey AMRI hospital killing 91 people in 2011?
Robert Watson Watt
Finland
South Kolkata
Euclid
8. Which is the largest river delta of India?
Ganga
Karashapana
Third century B.C
Gota in Sweden
9. Who appoints the Chairman and members of State Public Service Commission?
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
Abhinav Bindra
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Governor
10. Which will be the new subject added to the curriculum of Kendriya Vidyalayas?
Rs 270
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
Contingency Fund of India
German
11. Who is called Father of English Poetry?
State Bank of India
Chaucer
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
Leo Tolstoy
12. Who won the first medal for India in Olympics 2012?
Edison
Hockey
In Samba
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
13. Triple vaccine is administered to a new born child to save him from which diseases?
2G spectrum scam
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
14. Who is the author of the book 'Unto the Last' which influenced Gandhi ji?
John Ruskin
Maharaja Hari Singh
Kushans
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
15. Who was the first lady to become judge of the Supreme Court?
5th April
Johannes Kepler
6-14 years
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
16. Where are the headquarters of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts?
New Delhi
Navtej Saran
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.)
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
17. Who became the first batsman in the history of cricket to score 100 international centuries?
Kalpakkam
Sachin Tendulkar
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.
Jonathan Swift
18. Which is largest man made lake in India?
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
Hunting
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
William Shakespeare151
19. Who is vice President of India?
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
Shimla and Hamirpur
Kanishka
20. Which day in India celebrated as Central Excise Day ?
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
24th February
21. Which is the largest Mosque in India?
Bangalore
Jama Masjid
Only the first stanza
12th January
22. At which place the largest industrial solar plant of the country became operational on 29th July - 2012?
Ludhiana
Hampi
Gagan Narang
Hindukush
23. Which day is celebrated as Independence Day of India?
15th August167
Amir Khusru
Tamil Nadu
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
24. What is the other name of deuterium oxide?
5th September
Heavy water
Perpendicular to each other
250th anniversary
25. Who wrote the book 'Animal's People'?
Mundak Upanishad
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.)
Milkha Singh
Indra Sinha64
26. Who was the first speaker of Independent India's Lok Sabha?
G.V. Mavalankar
Amitabh Bachchan
35 degree
J.L.Baird
27. Who won bronze medal for India in men's 60 Kg freestyle wrestling?
Golconda
Tamil Nadu
Dilip Kumar
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
28. Who is the World Player of Year?
Roentgen
Euclid
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
29. Who was the founder of the Khalsa?
Art and architecture
Guru Gobind Singh
Mussoorie
5th September
30. Who wrote the novel 'Neela Chand'?
Jhumpa Lahiri
Shiv Prasad Singh
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
The Lok Sabha
31. Radcliffe line is the boundary line between which countries?
Angle between the horizon and the equator
India and Pakistan
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
Bamiyan
32. Which is the largest Gurudwara in India?
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
Dadabhai Naoroji
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
33. What are GM Crops?
State Bank of India
Genetically Modified Crops.
Perpendicular to each other
Madhya Pradesh
34. Who introduced the market regulations in India in ancient period?
5th June
24
Allauddin Khilji
Because the solids have high elasticity.
35. Who wrote 'One Day Wonders'?
Lead
Sunil Gavaskar
Paschim Banga1
55th rank
36. Where is the Caspian sea - the largest inland sea or lake in the world located?
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
Gagan Narang
Yamuna
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
37. Which element is obtained from sea weeds?
Haryana
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
Four lions
Iodine
38. Who said 'I have nothing to offer except blood - sweat and tears'?
1949
Ludhiana
Churchill
Art and architecture
39. Which is the India's largest public sector commercial bank at present?
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Jaipur
State Bank of India
Kanishka
40. Which day is celebrated as International Literacy Day?
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
UK
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
8th September
41. Who was first Indian woman to become president of U.N. General Assembly?
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
42. Who invented telephone?
Cavendish
Demand deposits
Alexander Graham Bell
Leh
43. In which state is Ganesh Otsav celebrated?
1st May164
Maharashtra
Uttarakhand
Michael Phelps
44. Who invented the petrol engine?
Mahatma Gandhi
Narendra Modi government
Nikolaus Otto
1.34 millions
45. Name the youngest skydriver in the country?
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
Konark
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
Rahul Dravid
46. Where is the Indian Institute of Science located?
It loses one day
Bangalore
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
47. Name the last king of Jammu and Kashmir?
Pune
Maharaja Hari Singh
Assam
Lead
48. What was the main occupation of Palaeolithic (Old Stone Age) people?
U.K
Aravind Adiga
Narmada and Japti
Hunting
49. Who wrote the book 'We Indians'?
Khushwant Singh
Latitude includes 180 lines and longitude has 360 lines because longitude connects North Pole to South Pole and latitude is divided from east to west.
At the center of earth
Andhra Pradesh
50. Name the element required for conversion of solar energy?
Jawaharlal Nehru
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
Silicon
New Agra Fort