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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Where is the birth place of Guru Nanak Ji?
Talwandi
5th June
Aravallis
Sitar
2. Which day is observed as Sanskrit Day in India?
J.L.Baird
It loses one day
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
5th September
3. Who wrote the book 'A Passage To India'?
E.M Forster
8th May
Jawaharlal Nehru
M. Narasimhan
4. Which sportsperson won the maximum number of Olympic Gold Medals?
Akhilesh Yadav
5th June
Michael Phelps
Hockey
5. Which is the largest district in India?
H.P.S Ahluwalia
Morarji Desai
Ladakh
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
6. Which ruler was adorned with the title of 'Maharajadhiraja'?
Kanishka
Director General Anil Kaushik
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
7. Which was the most commonly used coin in Mauryan period?
$46 - 00011
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
Mahatma Gandhi
Karashapana
8. Which state in South India have a thermal station at Tuticorin?
20th March
Jyoti Amge
Tamil Nadu
Akhilesh Yadav
9. Which is the India's largest public sector commercial bank at present?
State Bank of India
Carbon dioxide
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
Bobby Jindal
10. Which player is the author of the book 'Straight From The Heart'?
Kapil Dev
V. Anand
Carbon dioxide
Sitar
11. Name the great poet who graced the court of Alauddin Khilji?
Albert Einstein
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
Amir Khusru
Second Battle of Tarain
12. What are the estimated premature deaths caused annually by air pollution - according to the first pollution survey carried in Sept. - 2011 by World Health Organisation?
1.34 millions
The President
Uttarakhand
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
13. Name the Indian scientist who was a part of NASA team which has identified the landing site of the 'Curiosity'?
London
1911133
Amitabh Ghosh
Rabindra Nath Tagore
14. Why Shimla is cooler than Amritsar though they have same latitude?
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
Wular lake (Kashmir)
Dehradun
Aravind Adiga
15. Who is the author of novel 'The White Tiger'?
Genetically Modified Crops.
Sri Lanka
Landsteiner
Aravind Adiga
16. Name the metal present in photo films?
Rocky Marciano
Silver
12th January
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
17. Who was the only Muslim woman to sit on the throne of Delhi?
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
Razia Sultana
Hockey
Jaipur
18. Mainly which gas is present in gobar gas?
12th January
London
Methane
23rd April
19. Where is ABG Shipyard the India's largest private sector shipyard?
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
The number of persons per square kilometre.
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
20. Who fought the Third Battle of Panipat?
Mosley
Johann Gregor Mendel
Diffusion
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
21. Which king brought the valleys of Indus - Ganga and Jamuna together for the first time under one political authority?
Navtej Saran
Carbon dioxide
Ashoka
30th January
22. Who was the author of 'Bharat Bharati'?
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
Gagan Narang (shooter)
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
23. Name the largest oil refinery of India?
Vadodara
Tamil Nadu
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Jules Verne
24. In which century did Ashoka reign?
Mary Kom
Kulandei Francis
2G spectrum scam
Third century B.C
25. What is the maximum duration for which the Vice President can officiate as the President of India?
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
11th July
6 months
26. Which is the largest area wise state in India?
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.)
Stupa
Rajasthan
U.K
27. Hawa Mahal is situated in which city?
India and China
Jaipur
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
15th January
28. What is the estimated premature deaths caused annually by outdoor air pollution - according to the first pollution survey carried out by World Health Organisation in Sept. - 2011?
Six months
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
8th March
1.34 millions
29. In which state is Ganesh Otsav celebrated?
Ashoka
Amjad Ali Khan
USA
Maharashtra
30. Which is largest state of India?
Uttarakhand
Rajasthan
Painting
J.L.Baird
31. At what age World's oldest dog Pusuke died?
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
Hindukush
26 years and 9 months
Bhai Gurmej Singh
32. Who deciphered the genetic code?
$46 - 00011
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
Dumping
W.C Bannerjee
33. Which is the largest cave in India?
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
Third century B.C
Diffusion
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
34. Where is Boat Race a popular sport?
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
Amir Khusru
Kerala
35. A famous novel 'Pride and Prejudice 'is written by whom?
W.C Bannerjee
Su-Kam Power Systems
18th December
Jane Austen
36. Greenwich mean time (GMT) is the standard time of which country?
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
U.K
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
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
37. Which day is celebrated as International Literacy Day?
Manipur54
Morarji Desai
8th September
Infinite
38. Where is the venue for the 2012 Olympics?
London
1953
July - 1947
Himachal Pradesh
39. On globe - the latitude and longitude intersect at what angle?
V. Anand
90 degrees
Eagle
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
40. What is the other name of deuterium oxide?
Silver
5 hours 30 minutes
Gota in Sweden
Heavy water
41. Who is the renowned flute player?
Akbar
Rahul Dravid
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
Marie Curie
42. Who elects the Vice President of India?
Jhumpa Lahiri
8th May
Akbar
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
43. Name the three new elements added to the Periodic Table in 2011?
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
India Museum at Kolkata
At Magdalla port near Surat.
44. Why sky appears to be blue?
18th December
Sunil Gavaskar
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
45. Who is the author of the book 'We Indians'?
Hampi
Khushwant Singh
Football
Silicon
46. Which is largest man made lake in India?
State Bank of India
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
Chandragupta Maurya
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
47. Who is crowned Miss World 2011?
26th January
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
Cavendish
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
48. Name the mountain range which stretches from Gujarat in the West to Delhi in the North?
Jonathan Swift
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
Aravallis
10th December
49. Where was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Avanti?
Ujjain
Swarajya Party
Methane - butane and propane
Rabindranath Tagore147
50. Name the world's shortest living woman?
Ashoka
Jyoti Amge
Cavendish
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant