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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Where are relics of Buddha preserved?
Zinc
Stupa
Aravind Adiga
Johannes Kepler
2. Name the woman boxer of India who have won five time world championship in succession?
Mary Kom
Longitudinal position
H.P.S Ahluwalia
Ashoka
3. Where are Dilwara Temples situated?
6-14 years
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
Anna Hazare
Mathura
4. Who composed the National Anthem 'Jana Gana Mana'?
Rabindranath Tagore
Football
7th April
Dutch East Indies
5. In which Amendment Right to property was removed from the list of Fundamental rights?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
U.K
Pune
Forty-fourth Amendment
6. Where is the venue for the 2012 Olympics?
Will pass through Equator
London
Jonas Salk
Trivandrum
7. Whose name is associated with the council of the 'Nine Gems'?
Milkha Singh
Arthur Conan Doyle
London
Chandragupta-II
8. Name the player of USA who created history by grabbing his 22nd Olympic medal ?
Yousuf Raza Gillani
Hunting
UK
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
9. What is added to remove permanent hardness of water?
24th May
Washing soda
12th January
Dadabhai Naoroji
10. Which is the place experiencing minimum and maximum temperatures -28.3 degree Celsius and 15 degree Celsius respectively?
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
Leh
Demand deposits
E.M Forster
11. Which is the World's largest exporter of inverters?
Su-Kam Power Systems
Bombay
5th April
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
12. Who was the first lady to become judge of the Supreme Court?
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
Stupa
Karashapana
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
13. Year 2011 is observed by Army as what?
Makes cancer cell 'commit suicide'. It helps in stoping multiplication of tumorous cells and shut themselves down. Will be available in approximately 5 years and will be in pill form.
Due to radiation
Year of Disabled Soldiers
J.B.Say
14. Name the Earth- like planet whose existence is confirmed by American astronomers?
Roger Federer
Param Vir Chakra
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
15. Which is the language next to Hindi spoken by largest number of people in the Indian sub continent ?
Mumbai
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Bengali
Odisha
16. Who discovered blood grouping?
Forty-fourth Amendment
Bamiyan
Landsteiner
Demand deposits
17. What is Dry Ice?
Hunting
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
Narmada and Japti
Jai Samhita
18. Which place is going to have North India's biggest turf club?
Shobha De
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
30th January
Amjad Ali Khan
19. Who introduced the market regulations in India in ancient period?
Allauddin Khilji
Assam
95th
Painting
20. What is the reason found for ground water contamination in Punjab - especially in the Malwa region?
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
Talwandi
Aravallis
Param Vir Chakra
21. When is India's National Youth Day celebrated ?
The Bering Strait
12th January
Leo Tolstoy
Arundhati Roy
22. Usain Bolt adjudged as the fastest man on the earth in Olympics 2008 belongs to which country?
Washing soda
Jamaica
U.K
Alexander Graham Bell
23. Who is the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces in India?
Bangalore
Algernon Sidney
The President
Silver
24. What is the upper house of parliament known as?
The Rajya Sabha
Chaucer
Firozeshah Tughluq
Mumbai
25. Who discovered neutron?
Chadwick
Narmada and Japti
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
Martin Luther King
26. Upto where Chandragupta Maurya's empire extended in the north-west?
India and China
Ripon
Robert Watson Watt
Hindukush
27. When are days and nights equal throughout the globe?
1949
When sun is above the equator
Akbar
Euclid
28. Which metal is kept under kerosine?
Akbar
Sodium
Planning Commission
Kolkata
29. Who is known as Nightingale of India?
China
Sarojini Naidu
Shockley
Julang-2
30. Which battle opened the Delhi area to Muhammad Ghori?
Washing soda
Bromine
Second Battle of Tarain
Mahatma Gandhi
31. When in India National Technology Day celebrated?
Florence Nightingale
11th May
Haryana
Cyrus Mistry
32. Durand line is the border common to which two countries?
Jai Samhita
11th May
Pakistan and Afghanistan
Bangalore
33. What is the difference in time between two places 1 degree longitude apart?
In Samba
Motion Picture
Maharaja Hari Singh
4 minutes
34. Which cricketer known as 'Tiger' also father of famous actor died on 23rd September - 2011?
95th
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
Herodotus
Vice President of India
35. The Prime Minister is chairman of this
2
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
Planning Commission
Jane Austen
36. When is Sadbhavna Diwas (Goodwill Day ) observed in India?
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37. Which day is celebrated as World Red Cross Day?
The Delhi Metro
Methane
8th May
Galileo
38. Champion Trophy is associated with which game?
Hockey
Bamiyan
Harshavardhana
Bangalore
39. Name the subatomic particle which scientists claimed to have spotted and is believed to be a crucial building block in the formation of universe?
E.G.Otis
Param Vir Chakra
Painting
God particle or Higgs Boson
40. Who is the creator of 'Sherlock Holmes'?
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
Jai Samhita
Arthur Conan Doyle
41. Triple vaccine is administered to a new born child to save him from which diseases?
China
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
Infinite
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
42. Kanchipuram is in which state?
The Rajya Sabha
Tamil Nadu
Sri Lanka
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.
43. Who said - 'God helps those who helps themselves'?
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
5
Algernon Sidney
Year of Disabled Soldiers
44. Which is largest river without delta in India?
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
Painting
Narmada and Japti
E.G.Otis
45. In which field Aachan Maharaj has distinguished himself?
29th August
Fatehpur Sikri
Zinc
Dance
46. Who elects the Vice President of India?
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
Because the solids have high elasticity.
Rocky Marciano
Shimla and Hamirpur
47. Who is the creator of Rock Garden in Chandigarh?
Nek Chand
Makes cancer cell 'commit suicide'. It helps in stoping multiplication of tumorous cells and shut themselves down. Will be available in approximately 5 years and will be in pill form.
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Punjab
48. Who wrote our National Anthem?
Mahatma Gandhi
Gagan Narang
5th June
Rabindra Nath Tagore
49. Name the metal used as the filament of an electric bulb?
Vadodara
Tungsten
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
Golconda
50. At which point of earth weight of object will be minimum?
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
Bleaching powder
At the center of earth
Chaucer