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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Hawa Mahal is situated in which city?
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
Vadodara
Jaipur
2. Who wrote 'One Day Wonders'?
Tamil Nadu
Sunil Gavaskar
11th July
Golconda
3. During whose reign The Mathura School of art flourished?
London
Vasudeva
The President
Perpendicular to each other
4. What is the original name of Mahabharata?
Jai Samhita
Tamil Nadu
Graphite
Silver
5. Name the country which is second largest producer of horticulture commodities such as fruits - vegetables and flowers in the world?
Satyendra Nath Bose
11th May
Ganga
India
6. With whom the Income Tax Department decides to share its PAN card database?
Aravallis
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
Firozeshah Tughluq
Mumbai
7. Which child artist got Critics Best Actor Award for his acting in a film Taare Zameen Par?
20th March
27th September
Darsheel Safary
Equator
8. Name two other clones left with NDRI?
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
Perpendicular to each other
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
Shobha De
9. Who said 'Child is the father of Man'?
William Wordsworth
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
Protecting Flora and Fauna
Longitudinal position
10. Where are the World famous Khajuraho sculptures located?
Madhya Pradesh
Ripon
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
Shobha De
11. Who wrote an English novel 'In Custody'?
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
Sarojini Naidu
Maharashtra
Anita Desai
12. Where is Indian Cancer Research Institute situated?
Bombay
The number of persons per square kilometre.
Wular lake (Kashmir)
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
13. Name the three new elements added to the Periodic Table in 2011?
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
Martin Luther King
14. Who is the author of book 'Freedom Behind Bars'?
V.S Naipaul
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
Mosley
Kiran Bedi
15. What are the bank deposits that can be withdrawn without notice called?
2:4
Aung San Suu Kyi
Demand deposits
Sunderbans delta
16. A famous novel 'Pride and Prejudice 'is written by whom?
10th October
Roentgen
1st December
Jane Austen
17. Who is known as founder of Mohemmadan Anglo-Oriental college at Aligarh?
Methane - butane and propane
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Nek Chand
Makes cancer cell 'commit suicide'. It helps in stoping multiplication of tumorous cells and shut themselves down. Will be available in approximately 5 years and will be in pill form.
18. Which day is observed as Sanskrit Day in India?
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
Narmada and Japti
14th November
5th September
19. From which mines was the famous Kohinoor diamond produced?
Kushinagar
Pune
Hyderabad
Golconda
20. In India - who issues one rupee coins and notes as well as subsidiary coins?
The Reserve Bank of India
German
E.M Forster
Jawaharlal Nehru
21. Name the woman boxer of India who have won five time world championship in succession?
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
Mary Kom
Cavendish
Carbon dioxide
22. How many stanza's of Jana Gana Mana song were adopted as National Anthem?
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
18th April
Karashapana
Only the first stanza
23. Name the Indian scientist who was a part of NASA team which has identified the landing site of the 'Curiosity'?
Amitabh Ghosh
Sunderbans delta
Will pass through Equator
Kanishka
24. Which is the Garden City of India?
Shimla and Hamirpur
Bangalore
Vasudeva
Sri Lanka
25. Name the scientist who got Nobel Prize twice for the same subject?
India and China
2
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.
Marie Curie
26. Who was called Bollywood's first superstar?
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
26th January
8th October
Landsteiner
27. Which region of India is associated with pine forests?
Uttarakhand
Nayantara Sahgal
Abul Kalam Azad
Pune
28. In which Amendment Right to property was removed from the list of Fundamental rights?
The Lok Sabha
16th October
18th April
Forty-fourth Amendment
29. Who wrote the book 'Eternal Himalayas'?
Jhumpa Lahiri
H.P.S Ahluwalia
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
30. Where is Boat Race a popular sport?
Kerala
Mehbooba Mufti
Galileo
Churchill
31. When is the World Population Day observed?
24
Haryana
11th July
Param Vir Chakra
32. Which is the largest area wise state in India?
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
Director General Anil Kaushik
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
Rajasthan
33. When is World's Sparrow Day observed?
It loses one day
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
20th March
Khushwant Singh
34. Name the last king of Jammu and Kashmir?
Sitar
Maharaja Hari Singh
Alexander Fleming
28th February
35. Name the smallest neighbour of India?
Nikolaus Otto
6-14 years
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
Vocal Music
36. Who is the first Indian male shuttler to reach Olympic quarters?
Punjab
Ganga
Parupalli Kashyap
Su-Kam Power Systems
37. With which sports is Sushma Saroelker associated?
Kho-Kho
Konark
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
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
38. Who discovered neutron?
Algernon Sidney
90 degree
Cyrus Mistry
Chadwick
39. Year 2011 is observed by Army as what?
Year of Disabled Soldiers
Heavy water
1949
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
40. An air bubble in water acts as which lens?
Concave lens
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
V.S Naipaul
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.)
41. Who said 'I have nothing to offer except blood - sweat and tears'?
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
Churchill
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
Shiv Prasad Singh
42. Who invented the television?
Hockey
Rs 270
J.L.Baird
29th August
43. Which day is celebrated as Independence Day of India?
15th August167
Martin Luther King
Nayantara Sahgal
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
44. Whose contemporary was Tulsidas?
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
10th October
24th February
Akbar
45. Which is the India's largest public sector commercial bank at present?
Albert Einstein
Ludhiana
State Bank of India
Samudragupta
46. Name the youngest skydriver in the country?
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
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.)
1949
47. Who is the 26th Chief Minister of Karnataka?
Contingency Fund of India
Sitar
German
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
48. Which is the largest dome in India?
Makes cancer cell 'commit suicide'. It helps in stoping multiplication of tumorous cells and shut themselves down. Will be available in approximately 5 years and will be in pill form.
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
Hyderabad
49. One degree of longitude on equator is equal to what distance?
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
Jonas Salk
Carbon dioxide
69 miles
50. Who is the author of the book 'Unto the Last' which influenced Gandhi ji?
Cyrus Mistry
John Ruskin
Madhya Pradesh
16th October