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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Name the latest hi-tech weapon invented in 2011 to prevent obesity?
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2. Which is the state wise largest area under forest in India?
Julang-2
From fresh and purified fat stem cells ( Fat has a large number of tissue growing stem cells. People could go for liposuction and save fat cells for future use or can use immediately.)
Hamid Ansari
Madhya Pradesh
3. Who discovered photoelectric effect?
Albert Einstein
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
Jamaica
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
4. Who discovered blood grouping?
5th June
Landsteiner
Kathak
4 minutes
5. Who deciphered the genetic code?
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
Mahatma Gandhi
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
6. Who was the author of 'Hind Swaraj'?
Mahatma Gandhi
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
Later Vedic Age
8th March
7. Where in Delhi a bomb hidden in briefcase exploded killing 11 persons and injuring 47 in the worst attack in India's capital in 3 years in 2011?
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8. Where is head office of the State Bank of India located?
Krishna
South Kolkata
Mumbai
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
9. What is the ratio of width of our National Flag to its length?
Carbon dioxide
2:4
Shiv Prasad Singh
Palk Strait
10. Name the leader under whom India's first coalition government in New Delhi was formed?
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
Morarji Desai
Maharashtra
Khushwant Singh
11. What are the bank deposits that can be withdrawn without notice called?
Demand deposits
Year of Disabled Soldiers
15th August167
Mahatma Gandhi
12. Name the place where Lord Budha breathed his last?
35 degree
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.
Rajasthan
Kushinagar
13. Who was the first person to set foot on moon?
95th
Lawn Tennis153
Neil Armstrong
God particle or Higgs Boson
14. Kanchipuram is in which state?
Ripon
Tamil Nadu
Anna Hazare
It loses one day
15. Where are the headquarters of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts?
Jonathan Swift
1st May164
J.B.Say
New Delhi
16. What is the ratio of width of our National flag to its length?
Strait of Gibraltar
2:3161
Narendra Modi government
Contingency Fund of India
17. What is India's rank on Foreign money in Swiss banks?
V. Anand
55th rank
6 months
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
18. Between whom battle of Kurukshetra was fought?
Khushwant Singh
Indians
Kauravas and Pandavas51
11th May
19. In which century did Ashoka reign?
Third century B.C
Rajasthan
Mumbai
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
20. Name the Indian state where the game of Polo is said to have originated?
Maharaja Hari Singh
5th April
Manipur54
Mundak Upanishad
21. Which state has maximum density of canals?
Latitude includes 180 lines and longitude has 360 lines because longitude connects North Pole to South Pole and latitude is divided from east to west.
Uttar Pradesh
Greeks
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
22. Who wrote 'War and Peace'?
12th January
Silicon
Leo Tolstoy
The Reserve Bank of India
23. What is our National Anthem?
Jana Gana Mana
Samar Guha
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
24. What is difference between mass of body and its weight?
Maharashtra
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
India
25. Why sky appears to be blue?
Chandragupta Maurya
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
E.M Forster
Mohammad Iqbal
26. Who is going to receive highest US award?
Sachin Tendulkar
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
Aung San Suu Kyi
Punjab
27. When is India's National Youth Day celebrated ?
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
Graphite
Cavendish
12th January
28. Which day in India celebrated as Central Excise Day ?
Music
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
24th February
Maharashtra
29. Who made the highest score in an ODI against West Indiies in Indora in 2011?
Morarji Desai
July - 1947
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
30. Which metro has been certified by the United Nations as the first metro rail based system in the World to get carbon credits for contributing to the fight against climate changes?
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
The Delhi Metro
6 months
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
31. Who fought the Third Battle of Panipat?
Vishnu Sharma
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
Jana Gana Mana
Mohammad bin Kasim
32. What was adopted from the Maurya dynasty in the emblem of government of India?
Concave lens
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
The President
Four lions
33. Who appoints the Chairman and members of State Public Service Commission?
Governor
Akhilesh Yadav
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
34. At what price the menu of the first dinner served to the firstclass passengers of the ill fated liner Titanic on 10th April - 1912 sold?
Bromine
$46 - 00011
5 hours 30 minutes
Kapil Dev
35. Who wrote the novel 'Neela Chand'?
Vidya Balan
Shiv Prasad Singh
Pune
Jonathan Swift
36. Who is the second 100 percent visually impaired person to be accepted into the IAS?
Assam
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
Dutch East Indies
Lead
37. Name the sub-launched long range N-missile developed by China?
Standard time of the country138
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
Julang-2
Ganga
38. Who is crowned Miss Universe India 2011?
Ms. Vasuki Sunkavalli (of Hyderabad)
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
Mahatma Gandhi
Sunil Gavaskar
39. Which day is known as World Book and Copyright Day?
Michael Phelps
China
23rd April
Tamil Nadu
40. What is the original name of Mahabharata?
Sunderbans delta
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
Jai Samhita
Khushwant Singh
41. How many images will be formed when an object is placed between two mirrors placed parellel to each other?
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
Infinite
Only the first stanza
Amjad Ali Khan
42. Which city is called 'White City' of Rajasthan?
7th April
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
43. Where is the Caspian sea - the largest inland sea or lake in the world located?
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
Shockley
23rd April
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
44. Name the Strait which separates Asia from North America?
Mohammad bin Kasim
Oxygen and acetylene
The Bering Strait
Uttar Pradesh
45. Which is largest river without delta in India?
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
Narmada and Japti
1949
Infinite
46. Usain Bolt adjudged as the fastest man on the earth in Olympics 2008 belongs to which country?
Jamaica
Marie Curie
Hyderabad
Amitabh Ghosh
47. What is the name of first Indian aircraft developed by Government laboratory with private fund?
Darsheel Safary
Jonas Salk
Eagle
Jaya Dev
48. An air bubble in water acts as which lens?
Hampi
Raja Ravi Varma
Concave lens
9th August
49. Which gas is called laughing gas?
Nitrous oxide
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
Amitabh Ghosh
Prof. V.N Datta
50. Which is largest fresh water lake in India?
U.K
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
1949
Chilka lake (Orissa )