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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Who is the first Indian sports person to win an individual Gold medal in the Olympic Games?
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
Abhinav Bindra
15th August167
Speaker
2. Name the Strait which separates Asia from North America?
The Bering Strait
Rabindranath Tagore147
India
Sukumar Sen
3. What is the name of first Indian aircraft developed by Government laboratory with private fund?
23rd December
Eagle
Dilip Kumar
Guru Gobind Singh
4. Name the state where bio-fuel outlet - first of its kind in the country will be opened?
When sun is above the equator
Michael Phelps
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
Jama Masjid
5. Which is largest river without delta in India?
Silicon
Narmada and Japti
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
10th December
6. One degree of longitude on equator is equal to what distance?
69 miles
Jawaharlal Nehru
Mumbai
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
7. Who wrote 'Gita Govinda'?
Jaya Dev
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
162
8. Name the person who transliterated Guru Granth Sahib in Braille?
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
Bhai Gurmej Singh
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
Prime Minister
9. Who invented the petrol engine?
Nikolaus Otto
Rabindranath Tagore147
Navtej Saran
Year of Disabled Soldiers
10. How many images will be formed when an object is placed between two mirrors placed parellel to each other?
Infinite
Will pass through Equator
24
11th May
11. Who wrote the book 'Ammi! Letter to a Democratic Mother'?
Paschim Banga1
Jonas Salk
Saeed Mirza
5th September
12. Which king brought the valleys of Indus - Ganga and Jamuna together for the first time under one political authority?
Ashoka
Jyoti Amge
162
Algernon Sidney
13. Who was the first Indian elected to the leadership of Communist International?
M.N Roy62
Hampi
31st May
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
14. At which place the largest industrial solar plant of the country became operational on 29th July - 2012?
Vidya Balan
Ludhiana
Rabindranath Tagore147
Mary Kom
15. Who wrote the book 'We Indians'?
Sodium
Khushwant Singh
Hunting
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
16. Name the metal used in storage batteries?
South Kolkata
Lead
1.34 millions
162
17. Name the metal used as the filament of an electric bulb?
Jan 26 - 1950134
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
Tungsten
18. Which is largest fresh water lake in India?
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
Dance
Third century B.C
Mumbai
19. Who invented telephone?
In front of New Delhi's High Court
15th August167
U.K
Alexander Graham Bell
20. What is the practice of selling goods in a foreign country at a price below their domestic selling price is called?
Dumping
14th November
8th May
Ujjain
21. Which anniversary of sandwich was celebrated by British town in May - 2012?
250th anniversary
Khushwant Singh
State Bank of India
Fatehpur Sikri
22. Which is the largest Church in India?
Chandragupta Maurya
Alexander Fleming
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
23. Name the cities of Himachal to be developed as the solar cities?
Cavendish
Painting
Shimla and Hamirpur
Julang-2
24. Which region of India is associated with pine forests?
Kerala
24
Uttarakhand
Later Vedic Age
25. Where were Chola Kings ruling over?
8th September
Vadodara
Tamil Nadu
Golconda
26. Who was the author of 'Bharat Bharati'?
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
INS Vikrant55
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
10th December
27. How is population density in India defined?
Maharashtra
The number of persons per square kilometre.
U.K
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
28. Who invented barometer?
Jonas Salk
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
Torricelli
Kerala
29. Whose autobiography is 'India Wins Freedom'?
23rd December
Mundak Upanishad
Mohammad bin Kasim
Abul Kalam Azad
30. In how many time zones is the World divided?
Bleaching powder
24
Tamil Nadu
Greeks
31. For what was Ashoka famous?
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
Chandrayaan
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
Ladakh
32. Who is known as founder of Mohemmadan Anglo-Oriental college at Aligarh?
5th June
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Kulandei Francis
33. Name the first ever pill approved by US to prevent HIV?
Finland
2:3161
Vice President of India
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
34. Usain Bolt adjudged as the fastest man on the earth in Olympics 2008 belongs to which country?
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
Jamaica
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
35. Which place is going to have North India's biggest turf club?
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
Contingency Fund of India
God particle or Higgs Boson
5 hours 30 minutes
36. Who is known as 'Lady with the Lamp'?
1911133
Dumping
Kanishka
Florence Nightingale
37. Name the gas used to extinguish fire?
The Delhi Metro
Carbon dioxide
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
Forty-fourth Amendment
38. Who discovered blood grouping?
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Marie Curie
Landsteiner
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
39. What is the name of India's first aircraft carrier?
INS Vikrant55
Martin Luther King
Allahabad Pillar inscription
Shobha De
40. Who was the first woman to go in space?
July - 1947
Methane
Robert Watson Watt
Valentina Tereshkova
41. Name the new nuclear powered submarine formally handed to India by Russia?
Akbar
Darsheel Safary
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
Vishnu Sharma
42. Who was the first lady to become judge of the Supreme Court?
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
31st May
Abhinav Bindra
Sushil Kumar
43. Name the NASA's most modern spacecraft successfully landed on Mars on 6th August - 2012 to begin a pioneering two year search to find out if the red planet is suitable for life and whether it can be inhabitable in the future?
Curiosity
24th May
Kolkata
Ganga
44. Why clear nights are more colder then cloudy nights?
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
Due to radiation
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
45. Who earned the title of 'Liberator'?
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
Chandragupta Maurya
Palk Strait
Third century B.C
46. Which is the longest river of India?
Chandragupta-II
Ganga
The Reserve Bank of India
Kalpakkam
47. Where is head office of the State Bank of India located?
Jama Masjid
Mumbai
Tungsten
Jagannath
48. Whose contemporary was Tulsidas?
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
Akbar
49. Who is the senior most Army officer to have faced a court martial and dismissed from service by an Indian Army Court?
Governor
Kulandei Francis
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
German
50. On which date Anti Tobacco Day observed?
31st May
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
Madhya Pradesh
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)