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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Who is the author of book 'The Tribune 130 Years: A Witness to History'?
Prof. V.N Datta
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
At Magdalla port near Surat.
July - 1947
2. Which is largest populated city in India?
Mumbai
1st May164
Lobsang Sangay
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
3. Which state has become the second highest power purchaser in the country after Punjab?
Mahatma Gandhi
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
Methane - butane and propane
The President
4. What was the main occupation of Palaeolithic (Old Stone Age) people?
Aravallis
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
Hunting
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
5. Who was the first Indian elected to the leadership of Communist International?
Ashoka
M.N Roy62
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
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
6. What is the practice of selling goods in a foreign country at a price below their domestic selling price is called?
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
Dumping
Dadabhai Naoroji
Tamil Nadu
7. What is the name of India's moon mission?
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
Iodine
Narendra Modi government
Chandrayaan
8. Who is called the Flying Sikh of India?
Kiran Bedi
Milkha Singh
90 degree
Amitabh Bachchan
9. Why Shimla is cooler than Amritsar though they have same latitude?
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
26 years and 9 months
Jaya Dev
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.
10. Who wrote the book 'Around the World in Eighty Days'?
Sitar
Jules Verne
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
Herodotus
11. When comes the World Disabled Day?
Khushwant Singh
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
Genetically Modified Crops.
15th March
12. Which state of India has highest production of tea?
Paschim Banga1
Gujarat
Chandragupta Maurya
Assam
13. 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?
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
$46 - 00011
Akhilesh Yadav
Saeed Mirza
14. On whose written advice President can proclaim Emergency?
Prime Minister
Aravallis
Chandragupta
Diffusion
15. Who said 'I have nothing to offer except blood - sweat and tears'?
1.34 millions
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
Churchill
16. Who wrote the book 'The Daughter of the East'?
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
Anna Hazare
Talwandi
Bamiyan
17. Who composed the National Anthem 'Jana Gana Mana'?
Rabindranath Tagore
Chilka lake (Orissa )
M.N Roy62
1949
18. Who is the renowned flute player?
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Methane - butane and propane
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
19. Between whom battle of Kurukshetra was fought?
In front of New Delhi's High Court
Kauravas and Pandavas51
Football
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
20. Which is the largest dome in India?
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
Hunting
Sukumar Sen
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
21. Whom did Dalai Lama announced to be his successor in March - 2011?
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
23rd April
Lobsang Sangay
22. An air bubble in water acts as which lens?
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
Alexander Graham Bell
Concave lens
Gagan Narang (shooter)
23. Who wrote 'Netaji - Dead or Alive'?
Samar Guha
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
Stupa
24. Who is the author of 'Tarikh-i-Alai' containing the details of the first few years of Sultan Alauddin Khilji?
Amir Khusrau
E.M Forster
Ladakh
Only the first stanza
25. Name the scientist who is considered as the Father of Genetics?
Johann Gregor Mendel
Mohammad bin Kasim
Art and architecture
5th April
26. Indian Air Force Day is observed on which day ?
Cyrus Mistry
Aung San Suu Kyi
8th October
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
27. Which place is going to have North India's biggest turf club?
The equator
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
State Bank of India
Saka era
28. For what was Gupta dynasty famous?
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
Greeks
Art and architecture
Allahabad Pillar inscription
29. Which is the highest military award for valour in India?
Jonathan Swift
Mohammad bin Kasim
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
Param Vir Chakra
30. Who is the creator of 'Sherlock Holmes'?
Arthur Conan Doyle
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
Cyrus Mistry
Year of Disabled Soldiers
31. What is the time difference between IST and GMT?
Music
5 hours 30 minutes
27th September
Vidya Balan
32. At which point of earth weight of object will be minimum?
At the center of earth
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
In Samba
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.
33. How many spokes are there in our national emblem 'Ashoka Chakra'?
Su-Kam Power Systems
24
Stainless steel
Washing soda
34. Who wrote 'War and Peace'?
E.G.Otis
Lead
Leo Tolstoy
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
35. Name the 17th Karmapa against whom the Una police filed a chargesheet under section 120-B of the IPC in 2011?
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
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.)
Kerala
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
36. Who is the author of the book 'Unto the Last' which influenced Gandhi ji?
God particle or Higgs Boson
John Ruskin
Stupa
Bangalore
37. Who is crowned Miss Universe India 2011?
Ms. Vasuki Sunkavalli (of Hyderabad)
162
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
Music
38. What is added to remove permanent hardness of water?
Washing soda
Bengali
Karashapana
Tamil Nadu
39. Who wrote the first history book?
Rajasthan
Herodotus
At the center of earth
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
40. What is proxy voting?
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
The equator
Standard time of the country138
India and China
41. Who invented transistor?
Mundak Upanishad
Shockley
15th March
Gwalior Gharana
42. Which is the world's second cheapest city according to global survey?
Amir Khusru
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
God particle or Higgs Boson
Diffusion
43. To whom President of India can write if he wants to resign from office?
Ripon
Zinc
Vice President of India
Kolkata
44. How many stanza's of Jana Gana Mana song were adopted as National Anthem?
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
Parupalli Kashyap
Only the first stanza
Chandragupta Maurya
45. Who composed our National song?
Washing soda
23rd April
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
V. Anand
46. Which king brought the valleys of Indus - Ganga and Jamuna together for the first time under one political authority?
Ashoka
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
Euclid
Sidney Sheldon
47. Who won the silver medal in 66 Kg wrestling and is the first Indian to win two individual Olympic medals?
Pune
11th July
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
Sushil Kumar
48. Name the mineral found in Zawar mines?
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
4G technology will offer many advancements to the wireless market including downlink data rates well over 100 Mbps - low latency - very efficient spectrum use and low cost implementation.
Zinc
It loses one day
49. Which book is entitled as 'Bible of Communism'?
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
Kushinagar
10th December
Das Kapital
50. Which village of Andhra Pradesh may be sitting over one of the world's largest uranium reserves?
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
Washing soda
South Africa
Planning Commission