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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. What will be the new name of West Bengal?
Fatehpur Sikri
Paschim Banga1
Mosley
Jama Masjid
2. Who will be the new Director General of Police (DGP) after the retirement of P.S. Gill?
24
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
Director General Anil Kaushik
Mundak Upanishad
3. Name the gases used in different types of welding?
Oxygen and acetylene
Mosley
Akhilesh Yadav
Roger Federer
4. For what was Ashoka famous?
4 minutes
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
6 months
1st December
5. Which sportsperson won the maximum number of Olympic Gold Medals?
5th September
Michael Phelps
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
Heavy water
6. In which field the name of Gangubai Hangal associated?
Music
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
Jhumpa Lahiri
7. Name the 17th Karmapa against whom the Una police filed a chargesheet under section 120-B of the IPC in 2011?
Sitar
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
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.)
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
8. Year 2011 is observed by Army as what?
Talwandi
Year of Disabled Soldiers
H.P.S Ahluwalia
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
9. Name the mineral found in Zawar mines?
26th January
Paschim Banga1
Krishna
Zinc
10. Who fought the Third Battle of Panipat?
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
5th September
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
11. Who has been re-elected PDP President for the fourth time in Srinagar in 2011?
Dance
8th May
Mehbooba Mufti
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
12. Who propounded the Market Law?
M.N Roy62
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
J.B.Say
Khadakvasla
13. Who painted the masterpiece 'Hamsa Damayanti'?
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
Raja Ravi Varma
Rabindra Nath Tagore
1911133
14. Who was called Bollywood's first superstar?
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Ms. Vasuki Sunkavalli (of Hyderabad)
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
15. Which river is related to Nagarjun Sagar Project?
Krishna
Four lions
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
J.L.Baird
16. Where is ABG Shipyard the India's largest private sector shipyard?
At Magdalla port near Surat.
1.34 millions
V.S Naipaul
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
17. At which place a devastating fire tore through seven storey AMRI hospital killing 91 people in 2011?
Art and architecture
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
South Kolkata
Jonathan Swift
18. Where is Buland Darwaza located?
Sodium
4 minutes
16th October
Fatehpur Sikri
19. Who invented the mercury thermometer?
Sodium
Bamiyan
Shiv Prasad Singh
Galileo
20. Name the first Indian women shuttler to enter semifinal at the Olympics?
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
11th July
1953
11th May
21. Who is the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces in India?
Increases
Nayantara Sahgal
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
The President
22. Who wrote the immortal song 'Vande Mataram'?
Roentgen
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
Stainless steel
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
23. 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
Mussoorie
Landsteiner
Paschim Banga1
24. Kathakali a folk dance is prevalent in which state?
Chandragupta Maurya
Rahul Dravid
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
Kerala
25. Where are the headquarters of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts?
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
Finland
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
New Delhi
26. Who is known as 'Lady with the Lamp'?
Jonas Salk
5th September
Florence Nightingale
At Magdalla port near Surat.
27. Which is the largest dome in India?
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
Sonepur (Bihar )
28. When are days and nights equal throughout the globe?
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
Third century B.C
Param Vir Chakra
When sun is above the equator
29. Where were remains of Vijayanagar Empire found?
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.)
Indians
Hampi
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
30. 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?
$46 - 00011
V. Anand
Infinite
N.E. Borlaug
31. Which gas is used for preparation of soda water?
Sushil Kumar
Fatehpur Sikri
Carbon dioxide
Silver
32. Where is Lal Bahadur Shastri Academy which trains Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officers situated?
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
Mussoorie
20th March
5th June
33. Which is the largest auditorium in India?
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
Kanishka
Nikolaus Otto
31st May
34. What is our National Anthem?
Jana Gana Mana
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
Landsteiner
Concave lens
35. Who invented the telegraphic code?
Odisha
Roentgen
Samuel Morse
Later Vedic Age
36. Who discovered insulin?
Abul Kalam Azad
22nd April
Dr. F.G.Banting
Tamil Nadu
37. Which is the largest river delta of India?
Silicon
Ganga
Michael Phelps
Kiran Bedi
38. What is KG5 drug?
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39. Who is the author of 'Tarikh-i-Alai' containing the details of the first few years of Sultan Alauddin Khilji?
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.)
Palk Strait
Amir Khusrau
V.S Naipaul
40. The World famous 'Peacock Throne' was kept in which Mughal building?
New Agra Fort
9th August
Lead
Greeks
41. Name one famous Sarod player?
Sunderbans delta
When sun is above the equator
Amjad Ali Khan
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
42. Who was the first woman to go in space?
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
Chandragupta Maurya
Konark
Valentina Tereshkova
43. Who is the author of the book 'My Experiments with Truth'?
Gujarat
Mahatma Gandhi
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
Maharashtra
44. By whom is the Vice-President of the Indian Union elected?
28th February
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
Rajasthan
23rd April
45. Who presented the first Union Budget of Independent India?
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
Amir Khusrau
Third century B.C
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
46. Who invented telephone?
M.N Roy62
India
Julang-2
Alexander Graham Bell
47. Name the world's shortest living woman?
Rocky Marciano
8th October
Jyoti Amge
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
48. Who is known as the Father of the Indian Constitution?
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
God particle or Higgs Boson
In front of New Delhi's High Court
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
49. Which country is the second largest producer of sugar?
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
Leh
India
Ludhiana
50. Why the International Date Line makes slight deviation from 180 degree meridian?
Lawn Tennis153
16th October
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
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