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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. 'Nokia' the telecom company belongs to which country?
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
Sunil Gavaskar
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Finland
2. Who elects the Vice President of India?
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
Jayadeva
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
Florence Nightingale
3. Where are Dilwara Temples situated?
Mahatma Gandhi
15th January
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
Milkha Singh
4. Name the latest India's surface -to-surface missile successfully test fired (on 26th Sept - 2011)?
Bobby Jindal
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
Nikolaus Otto
Hyderabad
5. Who is the author of book 'India Wins Freedom'?
Chilka lake (Orissa )
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
Mathura
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
6. What is the other name of deuterium oxide?
2:3161
Greeks
Jawaharlal Nehru
Heavy water
7. Which book is entitled as 'Bible of Communism'?
Mussoorie
Das Kapital
Year of Disabled Soldiers
Ganga
8. Radcliffe line is the boundary line between which countries?
India and Pakistan
Kushinagar
Jama Masjid
Mahatma Gandhi
9. Which hockey team won the Asian Championship Trophy at Ordos(China) in 2011?
Gagan Narang (shooter)
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
Martin Luther King
India
10. Who appoints the Chairman and members of State Public Service Commission?
Stainless steel
Genetically Modified Crops.
Governor
Sarojini Naidu
11. How many postal zones are there in India - under the PIN Code System?
Nikolaus Otto
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Andhra Pradesh
8
12. Which village of Andhra Pradesh may be sitting over one of the world's largest uranium reserves?
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
Abul Kalam Azad
Kulandei Francis
13. Where is head office of the State Bank of India located?
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
Mumbai
Bengali
14. When is World Laughter Day celebrated?
Vocal Music
7th April
26th January
London
15. Who was the first woman to go in space?
Jai Samhita
Valentina Tereshkova
69 miles
Kerala
16. Name the metal present in photo films?
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
Rajasthan
Silver
Tungsten
17. Who said 'Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err'?
Mahatma Gandhi
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
G.V. Mavalankar
Anna Hazare
18. Which country has World's largest democracy?
Jan 26 - 1950134
Mumbai
Chandragupta
India
19. Which state in India has three language teaching formula?
Mumbai
E.G.Otis
Punjab
Painting
20. On which date Quit India Day comes?
9th August
India and China
Euclid
Mundak Upanishad
21. Liquefied Petroleum Gas consists mainly which gases?
USA
Methane - butane and propane
Vice President of India
24th October
22. Which non -metal remains liquid at room temperature?
Second Battle of Tarain
Bromine
Renders electronic gadgets useless and effectively neutralises the adversary's command control and communication capability by producing a strong electromagnetic field generating powerful electricity surges that play havoc with electronic circuits wi
95th
23. What will be the difference in longitudes between two places if their time difference is 2 hours and 20 minutes?
German
35 degree
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
24. Which place is going to have North India's biggest turf club?
Kathak
Sunita Williams
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
Mumbai
25. By whom is the Vice-President of the Indian Union elected?
Tamil Nadu
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
Mundak Upanishad
Harshavardhana
26. From which mines was the famous Kohinoor diamond produced?
Roger Federer
Golconda
Swarajya Party
Mohammad bin Kasim
27. Who discovered Penicillin?
Michael Phelps
Alexander Fleming
Methane
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
28. When comes the World Environment Day?
5th June
Forty-fourth Amendment
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
At the center of earth
29. Who discovered the laws of planetary motion?
26th January
Contingency Fund of India
Methane
Johannes Kepler
30. Who is the creator of Rock Garden in Chandigarh?
Bhai Gurmej Singh
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
Prime Minister
Nek Chand
31. While playing with which team Rahul Dravid completed his 10000 runs in the Test cricket?
South Africa
Kanishka
Narmada and Japti
Michael Phelps
32. Name the world's shortest living woman?
INS Vikrant55
Carbon dioxide
Jyoti Amge
Konark
33. Who won Jnanpith Award in 2010?
Indra Sinha64
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
Heavy water
Football
34. Where is the famous Meenakshi Temple situated?
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
Jawaharlal Nehru
Jonathan Swift
Tamil Nadu
35. What is made from the mixture of lime and chlorine?
Baby Nargis
Manipur54
Vice President of India
Bleaching powder
36. Greenwich mean time (GMT) is the standard time of which country?
U.K
Florence Nightingale
Vocal Music
Aravind Adiga
37. What is equal to latitude of a place?
Angle between the horizon and the equator
German
Jules Verne
Kerala
38. Name the Strait connecting Arabian Sea and the Bay ofBengal?
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
Punjab
Palk Strait
Lawn Tennis153
39. Who got Dhyan Chand Award in 2011?
Silicon
Aravind Adiga
Diffusion
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
40. Name the leader under whom India's first coalition government in New Delhi was formed?
Wular lake (Kashmir)
J.B.Say
July - 1947
Morarji Desai
41. What is the name of World's cheapest tablet PC?
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
Firozeshah Tughluq
Zinc
Manipur54
42. Which is largest populated city in India?
Florence Nightingale
Ripon
Jane Austen
Mumbai
43. The Prime Minister is chairman of this
Satyendra Nath Bose
Andhra Pradesh
Planning Commission
Narendra Modi government
44. What is proxy voting?
26th January
35 degree
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
6 months
45. Which is the largest populated state in India?
Due to radiation
Carbon dioxide
Sunil Gavaskar
Uttar Pradesh
46. Which day is known as World Book and Copyright Day?
Dilip Kumar
23rd April
Methane - butane and propane
8th May
47. Name the player of USA who created history by grabbing his 22nd Olympic medal ?
Perpendicular to each other
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
Jamaica
Torricelli
48. Name the scientist who got Nobel Prize twice for the same subject?
Palk Strait
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
Navtej Saran
Marie Curie
49. Who is the second 100 percent visually impaired person to be accepted into the IAS?
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
Alexander Fleming
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
Jayadeva
50. Which is the largest Gurudwara in India?
Mundak Upanishad
Chandrayaan
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
German