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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Who invented the steam engine?
Kushinagar
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
Wular lake (Kashmir)
90 degrees
2. When in India National Technology Day celebrated?
Florence Nightingale
11th May
S. Radhakrishnan
Concave mirror
3. Why clear nights are more colder then cloudy nights?
Jagannath
Dutch East Indies
God particle or Higgs Boson
Due to radiation
4. Why speed of sound is greater in solids than in liquids?
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
Because the solids have high elasticity.
8th September
Rs 270
5. Who deciphered the genetic code?
Jama Masjid
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
Mahatma Gandhi
6. Name the mineral found in Zawar mines?
Music
16th October
Zinc
Uttarakhand
7. Which is the largest planetarium in India?
Prof. V.N Datta
250th anniversary
Kolkata
5 hours 30 minutes
8. Name the Indian scientist who was a part of NASA team which has identified the landing site of the 'Curiosity'?
Mussoorie
J.L.Baird
Amitabh Ghosh
4 minutes
9. With which musical instrument was Ustad Mustaq Ali Khan associated?
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
Sonepur (Bihar )
Sitar
Arthur Conan Doyle
10. Name the alloy of iron - chromium and nickel?
Stainless steel
Chandragupta-II
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
Carbon dioxide
11. Who wrote the line 'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever'?
G.V. Mavalankar
2
John Keats
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
12. Where is famous Somnath Temple located?
Landsteiner
Mahatma Gandhi
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
Gujarat
13. In which field the name of Gangubai Hangal associated?
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
Music
14. When comes National Sports Day of India?
8th May
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
29th August
Oxygen and acetylene
15. Who wrote the famous play 'Macbeth'?
Ganga
Painting
William Shakespeare151
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
16. Name the Apple co-founder who changed the daily habits of millions by reinventing computing - music and mobile phones?
4 minutes
Rs 270
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
W.C Bannerjee
17. Where is Sun Temple situated?
15th March
Sunil Gavaskar
State Bank of India
Konark
18. Name the first ever pill approved by US to prevent HIV?
Stupa
Mary Kom
Guru Gobind Singh
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
19. Who was the first recipient of Nehru Award for International Understanding?
Martin Luther King
Swarajya Party
15th January
Ripon
20. With which sports is Sushma Saroelker associated?
Demand deposits
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
Yousuf Raza Gillani
Kho-Kho
21. Which metal is kept under kerosine?
Anita Desai
William Shakespeare151
Sodium
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
22. Under which scam - the 43 year old daughter of former chief minister of Tamil Nadu M.Karunanidhi was in Tihar jail in 2011?
2G spectrum scam
Bleaching powder
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
23. On which date Anti Tobacco Day observed?
31st May
Curiosity
11th May
8
24. In which century did Ashoka reign?
Journalism
1.34 millions
Euclid
Third century B.C
25. What is e-bomb?
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26. When is the UN Day observed?
Fatehpur Sikri
Sunita Williams
24th October
Bombay
27. Which is the world's second cheapest city according to global survey?
Akhilesh Yadav
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
Zinc
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
28. Who composed the national song of India (Vande Maatram)?
Amir Khusrau
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
The Delhi Metro
Bromine
29. Who made the highest score in an ODI against West Indiies in Indora in 2011?
Three Decades in Parliament
Ganga
Curiosity
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
30. Name the seas joined by Suez Canal?
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
Bromine
Zinc
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
31. Who is the author of book 'Speed Post'?
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
Art and architecture
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
Shobha De
32. Who discovered the electric lamp?
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
Algernon Sidney
Edison
33. Which sportsperson won the maximum number of Olympic Gold Medals?
New Delhi
Michael Phelps
1949
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
34. Which country won the maximum number of medals in Olympics 2008 held in Beijing?
Khadakvasla
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
At the center of earth
USA
35. Where is Bihar's first all women police station located?
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
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.
Bamiyan
90 degrees
36. 'Nokia' the telecom company belongs to which country?
In Samba
Finland
Uttar Pradesh
South Kolkata
37. How many stanza's of Jana Gana Mana song were adopted as National Anthem?
Only the first stanza
8th May
Mumbai
Music
38. Which day is celebrated as National Maritime Day in India?
5th April
Indra Sinha64
Gagan Narang (shooter)
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
39. Who was the first woman to go in space?
12th January
Valentina Tereshkova
Wular lake (Kashmir)
In Samba
40. Who got the greatest Olympic athlete of all time Trophy?
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
Michael Phelps
Demand deposits
26th January
41. Who got Arjuna Award in 2011?
Golconda
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
Prof. V.N Datta
Aravallis
42. Which painting got the highest price ever paid for a work of art at any auction?
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43. Where is Pushkar lake located?
Tamil Nadu
Rajasthan
15th August167
1911133
44. What is the name of World's cheapest tablet PC?
Anna Hazare
Carbon dioxide
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
45. Where is the Indian Institute of Science located?
Bangalore
India
S. Radhakrishnan
Leo Tolstoy
46. Which day in India celebrated as Central Excise Day ?
Playwright
Mohammad Iqbal
Samuel Morse
24th February
47. Who invented the petrol engine?
Nikolaus Otto
Jayadeva
Performax
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
48. Who headed the committee on computerisation in Indian banks(1988)?
M. Narasimhan
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.)
Painting
M.N Roy62
49. What is the ratio of width of our National flag to its length?
2:3161
8th May
Eagle
Firozeshah Tughluq
50. Which is the largest dome in India?
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
Kho-Kho
Ludhiana
Guru Gobind Singh