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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Why sky appears to be blue?
Mathura
Tamil Nadu
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
Hampi
2. Who was the only Muslim woman to sit on the throne of Delhi?
Bobby Jindal
Razia Sultana
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
When sun is above the equator
3. In which field the name of Gangubai Hangal associated?
Music
Jayadeva
Michael Phelps
Nikolaus Otto
4. Where is Indian Cancer Research Institute situated?
Standard time of the country138
Bombay
Kauravas and Pandavas51
18th April
5. Name the gas used to extinguish fire?
2
Carbon dioxide
26th January
Uttar Pradesh
6. Where is the venue for the 2012 Olympics?
Roger Federer
London
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
7. Which day in India celebrated as Central Excise Day ?
William Shakespeare151
N.E. Borlaug
Albert Einstein
24th February
8. Who presented the first Union Budget of Independent India?
Tamil Nadu
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
23rd December
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
9. Name the element required for conversion of solar energy?
Kulandei Francis
Silicon
Johann Gregor Mendel
Bamiyan
10. Term Double Fault is associated with which game?
Lawn Tennis153
Eagle
Bombay
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
11. Who composed our National song?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Mahatma Gandhi
Playwright
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
12. Where is the National Institute of Nutrition located?
18th December
Myanmar
Akhilesh Yadav
Hyderabad
13. Where did coins made of metal first appeared?
Later Vedic Age
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
26 years and 9 months
14. How is population density in India defined?
Pakistan and Afghanistan
Mundak Upanishad
Third century B.C
The number of persons per square kilometre.
15. According to a poll conducted by global research company Ipsos - people of which country are happiest on this planet despite woes - conflicts?
Wular lake (Kashmir)
Director General Anil Kaushik
Herodotus
Indians
16. Who was the first king to conquer Malwa - Gujarat and Maharashtra?
Chandragupta Maurya
U.K
Vishnu Sharma
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
17. What is the name of India's moon mission?
Leo Tolstoy
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
Chandrayaan
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
18. Latitude and longitude are at what angle to each other?
Hyderabad
Mary Kom
China
Perpendicular to each other
19. Where is head office of the State Bank of India located?
Talwandi
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
Mumbai
Gol Gumbaz
20. With whom the Income Tax Department decides to share its PAN card database?
Sitar
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
Su-Kam Power Systems
26th January
21. Name the largest oil refinery of India?
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
Vadodara
Madhya Pradesh
Bhai Gurmej Singh
22. Who was the first recipient of Nehru Award for International Understanding?
Arundhati Roy
Edison
Martin Luther King
2nd April - 2011
23. When comes the Farmer's Day (Kisan Divas )in India ?
23rd December
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
5th June
Bengali
24. Which fund can be used to meet the unanticipated expenditurewithout the prior approval of the Parliament?
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
Contingency Fund of India
Graphite
5 hours 30 minutes
25. What happens when a ship crosses Date line from west to east?
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Guru Gobind Singh
It loses one day
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
26. Who got Tenzing Norgay Adventure Award in 2011?
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
Washing soda
Roger Federer
Shobha De
27. Name the smallest neighbour of India?
Hockey
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
Football
Baby Nargis
28. Who was the First Election Commissioner of India?
Vishnu Sharma
5th September
Sukumar Sen
In Samba
29. Who was the author of 'Hind Swaraj'?
8th October
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
Mahatma Gandhi
India
30. With which field M.F. Hussian were associated?
Mundak Upanishad
Painting
Aravind Adiga
Zinc
31. Vijayghat ( Samadhi of Lal Bahadur Shastri) is situated on the bank of which river?
Chandragupta-II
Guru Gobind Singh
J.B.Say
Yamuna
32. Name the gases used in different types of welding?
American firm Intra Pace unveils a stomach implant vi akeyhole surgery that can help people fight flab by warning the brain when enough food is taken. This credit card sized implant is named as 'Abiliti'.
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
Arundhati Roy
Oxygen and acetylene
33. Which is the world's second cheapest city according to global survey?
Sodium
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
Diffusion
V.S Naipaul
34. Who is the renowned flute player?
8th October
The President
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
Jamaica
35. When is Sadbhavna Diwas (Goodwill Day ) observed in India?
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36. Which gas is called laughing gas?
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
Nitrous oxide
37. Name the Indian chess player who broke the World Record by finishing the game in twelve moves?
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
Methane
V. Anand
Rajasthan
38. Name the Indian state where the game of Polo is said to have originated?
Manipur54
11th July
Nitrous oxide
G.V. Mavalankar
39. Name the latest hi-tech weapon invented in 2011 to prevent obesity?
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40. Which is the largest lake in India?
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
Wular lake (Kashmir)
Johann Gregor Mendel
41. Who got the greatest Olympic athlete of all time Trophy?
Kushans
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
Tamil Nadu
Michael Phelps
42. Who is the author of novel 'The White Tiger'?
Aravind Adiga
Jane Austen
Jonas Salk
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
43. In which year was the National Anthem first sung?
1911133
H.P.S Ahluwalia
New Delhi
Kerala
44. India is facing pressure from the US and other Western countries to break trade ties with which country?
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
American firm Intra Pace unveils a stomach implant vi akeyhole surgery that can help people fight flab by warning the brain when enough food is taken. This credit card sized implant is named as 'Abiliti'.
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
Chadwick
45. Who won Jnanpith Award in 2010?
Paschim Banga1
Hockey
Shiv Prasad Singh
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
46. Upto where Chandragupta Maurya's empire extended in the north-west?
Hindukush
Methane - butane and propane
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Ripon
47. What is the name of World's cheapest tablet PC?
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
Cavendish
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
48. World Human Rights Day is observed on which day?
New Delhi
10th December
Ganga
Amir Khusru
49. Where is the world's largest solar power project going to be set up?
Sidney Sheldon
Maharashtra
Longitudinal position
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
50. On which date Anti Tobacco Day observed?
31st May
Ashoka
Roentgen
Johann Gregor Mendel