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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Which is the largest lake in India?
Wular lake (Kashmir)
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
Stupa
Marie Curie
2. Who discovered X-Ray?
Myanmar
Ujjain
Roentgen
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
3. When in India Teachers Day celebrated?
W.C Bannerjee
Kerala
India
5th September
4. On which date Quit India Day comes?
Haryana
Genetically Modified Crops.
9th August
14th November
5. Name 72 year old social activist who supported Jan Lokpal Bill?
1.34 millions
15th January
Anna Hazare
Krishna
6. Name the gas used to extinguish fire?
Carbon dioxide
India and Pakistan
Bombay
Mehbooba Mufti
7. When was the foundation day of CSIR ( Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) observed?
The number of persons per square kilometre.
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
5 hours 30 minutes
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
8. Who has been appointed the Governor of RBI after the retirement of Shri Y.V. Reddy?
69 miles
Trivandrum
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
Akhilesh Yadav
9. Who is the creator of Rock Garden in Chandigarh?
Hyderabad
Johannes Kepler
Bangalore
Nek Chand
10. Who wrote the book 'We Indians'?
When sun is above the equator
Chandrayaan
95th
Khushwant Singh
11. Name the two living members of first Lok Sabha to be honored by President on 13th May - 2012 - 60th anniversary of our Parliament?
Sunderbans delta
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
Finland
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
12. Who is known as Father of Geometry?
Vasudeva
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
Euclid
Roentgen
13. Why sky appears to be blue?
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
William Shakespeare151
Diffusion
Tamil Nadu
14. Who headed the committee on computerisation in Indian banks(1988)?
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
The Bering Strait
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
M. Narasimhan
15. When in India National Technology Day celebrated?
Vadodara
Strait of Gibraltar
Mary Kom
11th May
16. Vijayghat ( Samadhi of Lal Bahadur Shastri) is situated on the bank of which river?
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
Yamuna
Jama Masjid
27th September
17. Which is the Garden City of India?
2G spectrum scam
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
July - 1947
Bangalore
18. For what is Bijapur known?
Gol Gumbaz
Hyderabad
INS Vikrant55
India
19. When is World Laughter Day celebrated?
26th January
The Bering Strait
10th December
Baby Nargis
20. Who was the first Indian elected to the leadership of Communist International?
5th September
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
M.N Roy62
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
21. Which metal is used in pencils?
Graphite
Hyderabad
Chadwick
250th anniversary
22. Name two other clones left with NDRI?
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
Gota in Sweden
Angle between the horizon and the equator
Zinc
23. Name the Indian state where the game of Polo is said to have originated?
Manipur54
Jama Masjid
Thailand
William Wordsworth
24. On whose written advice President can proclaim Emergency?
Prime Minister
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
25. Which musical instrument is said to be invented by Amir Khusro?
M.N Roy62
Param Vir Chakra
Sitar
Mussoorie
26. What reference is taken to know the local time of a place?
Jhumpa Lahiri
Demand deposits
Longitudinal position
God particle or Higgs Boson
27. Which country has World's largest democracy?
Chadwick
India
Khadakvasla
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
28. Which is the great circle on earth's surface?
Nek Chand
The equator
Tamil Nadu
Mahatma Gandhi
29. What was the old name of Indonesia?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
5th September
Dutch East Indies
Hindukush
30. The World famous 'Peacock Throne' was kept in which Mughal building?
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
New Agra Fort
Prime Minister
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
31. Who has become the first lady jawan in Indian army?
Sunita Williams
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
95th
90 degree
32. Which is largest cave temple in India?
Nitrogen
Hamid Ansari
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
India and China
33. On which date Chennai turned 372 years?
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
Maharaja Hari Singh
69 miles
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
34. Where are the World famous Khajuraho sculptures located?
Madhya Pradesh
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
Kerala
In Samba
35. What is added to remove permanent hardness of water?
Raja Ravi Varma
Washing soda
Ladakh
Silver
36. What is the original name of Mahabharata?
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
Jai Samhita
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
U.K
37. Who is the author of the book 'We Indians'?
The Lok Sabha
5
Maharashtra
Khushwant Singh
38. Who discovered neutron?
Chandragupta-II
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
Chadwick
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
39. What is our National Anthem?
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
Mosley
Amjad Ali Khan
Jana Gana Mana
40. How many spokes are there in our national emblem 'Ashoka Chakra'?
Chaucer
Hockey
When sun is above the equator
24
41. Who is the author of the book 'Unto the Last' which influenced Gandhi ji?
UK
Sidney Sheldon
John Ruskin
John Keats
42. What was adopted from the Maurya dynasty in the emblem of government of India?
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
Bangalore
31st May
Four lions
43. Which painting got the highest price ever paid for a work of art at any auction?
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44. Who wrote an English novel 'In Custody'?
Performax
Anita Desai
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
Sodium
45. Who founded the Saka Era?
The equator
Zinc
2G spectrum scam
Kanishka
46. Which is the language next to Hindi spoken by largest number of people in the Indian sub continent ?
Bengali
U.K
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
47. Which is the place experiencing minimum and maximum temperatures -28.3 degree Celsius and 15 degree Celsius respectively?
Talwandi
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
Sitar
Leh
48. What is the maximum period of gap between any two sessions of the Indian Parliament?
Six months
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
Rabindranath Tagore147
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
49. From where the longest circle which can be drawn from earth's surface will pass?
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
Will pass through Equator
Second Battle of Tarain
50. Whose name is associated with the council of the 'Nine Gems'?
When sun is above the equator
Julang-2
Chandragupta-II
William Shakespeare151