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General Knowledge Trivia Test

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1. Which day in India is celebrated as Children's Day?






2. Late Girilal Jain was a noted figure in which field?






3. Who elects the Vice President of India?






4. Where is the World's largest ship canal?






5. Who wrote the book 'Gullivers Travel'?






6. Name the country's longest railway tunnel excavated?






7. Who invented the petrol engine?






8. Name the Indian American astronaut who begins her 2nd space odyssey on July 15 - 2012?






9. In which Amendment Right to property was removed from the list of Fundamental rights?






10. Who is the author of the novel 'White Tiger'which won the Booker Prize 2008?






11. What are the benefits of medicine Performax?






12. Who won Jnanpith Award in 2010?






13. Who will be the new Director General of Police (DGP) after the retirement of P.S. Gill?






14. For which dance Birju Maharaj is well known?






15. Who is the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces in India?






16. Which is largest cave temple in India?






17. What is India's rank on the Transparency International (TI) corruption Perception Index out of 183 countries in 2011?






18. Who is crowned Miss Universe India 2011?






19. Where is the National Defence Academy situated?






20. When is the UN Day observed?






21. Who discovered Penicillin?






22. Name the eminent Hindi authors chosen for Jnanpith Award 2011?






23. To whom President of India can write if he wants to resign from office?






24. Which is the largest Church in India?






25. Name the Strait which separates Asia from North America?






26. Watches of a country is set according to what time?






27. Who invented the mercury thermometer?






28. Who has been appointed the Governor of RBI after the retirement of Shri Y.V. Reddy?






29. Who was first Indian woman to become president of U.N. General Assembly?






30. When was Sangeet Natak Akademi set up by Government of India?






31. Which is the largest port in India?






32. What is Dry Ice?






33. Who won bronze medal for India in 10m pistol event (London Olympics - 2012)?






34. Who wrote the famous play 'Macbeth'?






35. In how many time zones is U.S.A divided?






36. During whose reign The Mathura School of art flourished?






37. Where is the only shrine in the world which has a natural statue of Hanuman that is not man made?






38. What is our National Anthem?






39. What reference is taken to know the local time of a place?






40. Name the former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister whose admirers have decided to build a temple to perpetuate his memory?






41. Name the ballistic missile that lifted off from Wheeler Island in Odisha on 9th August - 2012?






42. Who wrote Panchatantra?






43. When are days and nights equal throughout the globe?






44. Which is the great circle on earth's surface?






45. Who won the first medal for India in Olympics 2012?






46. What is AERE?

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47. Where is Char Minar located?






48. Name the gas used to extinguish fire?






49. When is India's Republic Day celebrated?






50. Name the ship commissioned by India which is biggest in its class in the World?