SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
General Knowledge Trivia Test
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
general-knowledge
,
trivia
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Whom did Dalai Lama announced to be his successor in March - 2011?
Ms. Vasuki Sunkavalli (of Hyderabad)
Second Battle of Tarain
' Why This Kolaveri Di' the song released on 16th Nov. written and sung by Dhanush
Lobsang Sangay
2. Who wrote the novel 'Neela Chand'?
Jawaharlal Nehru
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
Shiv Prasad Singh
29th August
3. Who will be the new Director General of Police (DGP) after the retirement of P.S. Gill?
It loses one day
Tamil Nadu
Director General Anil Kaushik
John Keats
4. Who is the author of book 'The Shape of the Beast'?
Nayantara Sahgal
28th February
Arundhati Roy
Wular lake (Kashmir)
5. Which is largest river without delta in India?
Narmada and Japti
Michael Phelps
Gota in Sweden
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
6. Who wrote the book 'The Namesake'?
Jhumpa Lahiri
14th November
Hockey
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
7. Who is the author of book 'Gita Govinda'?
Kulandei Francis
Sunderbans delta
Jayadeva
11th May
8. On which day International Women's Day observed?
8th March
5 hours 30 minutes
Sunil Gavaskar
Satyendra Nath Bose
9. How many total number of enclaves are to be exchanged between territories of two countries India and Bangladesh according to the treaty signed in Sept - 2011?
Kalpakkam
Lobsang Sangay
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
162
10. Who discovered the laws of planetary motion?
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
Johannes Kepler
Algernon Sidney
Samar Guha
11. Who crafted the wax statue of Anna Hazare?
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
12. Name the woman boxer of India who have won five time world championship in succession?
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
Mary Kom
15th March
Swarajya Party
13. What is the practice of selling goods in a foreign country at a price below their domestic selling price is called?
William Wordsworth
The equator
Yousuf Raza Gillani
Dumping
14. Name the seas joined by Suez Canal?
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
Gujarat
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
15. Name the Bollywood legend whose ancestral home in Peshawar - Pakistan has been turned into heritage site?
24th February
24th October
Alexander Graham Bell
Dilip Kumar
16. Where is head office of the State Bank of India located?
Hyderabad
Mumbai
Prime Minister
Assam
17. Who is known as 'Lady with the Lamp'?
Year of Disabled Soldiers
Florence Nightingale
Because the solids have high elasticity.
35 degree
18. Year 2011 is observed by Army as what?
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
Year of Disabled Soldiers
Sukumar Sen
19. Under which scam - the 43 year old daughter of former chief minister of Tamil Nadu M.Karunanidhi was in Tihar jail in 2011?
55th rank
Paschim Banga1
2G spectrum scam
Maharaja Hari Singh
20. From where the longest circle which can be drawn from earth's surface will pass?
Bobby Jindal
Will pass through Equator
Satyendra Nath Bose
Vasudeva
21. When is World Food Day observed?
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
Methane
16th October
35 degree
22. When is the World Population Day observed?
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
South Kolkata
Jonathan Swift
11th July
23. Name the youngest skydriver in the country?
Sunil Gavaskar
Anna Hazare
Director General Anil Kaushik
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
24. Who is called Father of English Poetry?
1.34 millions
Chaucer
95th
Gol Gumbaz
25. Latitude and longitude are at what angle to each other?
12th January
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
Perpendicular to each other
26. Which is the language next to Hindi spoken by largest number of people in the Indian sub continent ?
Third century B.C
Saeed Mirza
Bengali
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
27. Which state is going to be first carbon-neutral state in the country by 2020?
Prime Minister
Lala Lajpat Rai
Dilip Kumar
Himachal Pradesh
28. Name the Indian American astronaut who begins her 2nd space odyssey on July 15 - 2012?
Maharashtra
Sunita Williams
Jawaharlal Nehru
Bangalore
29. Name the cities of Himachal to be developed as the solar cities?
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
Shimla and Hamirpur
Uttarakhand
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
30. What is made from the mixture of lime and chlorine?
Jan 26 - 1950134
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
J.L.Baird
Bleaching powder
31. Which child artist got Critics Best Actor Award for his acting in a film Taare Zameen Par?
India and Pakistan
Darsheel Safary
Hindukush
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.
32. In which state is Ganesh Otsav celebrated?
Jan 26 - 1950134
Jawaharlal Nehru
Maharashtra
Dance
33. Who became the first batsman in the history of cricket to score 100 international centuries?
Jaya Dev
Sachin Tendulkar
5 hours 30 minutes
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
34. Who was the first king to conquer Malwa - Gujarat and Maharashtra?
Maharashtra
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
Chandragupta Maurya
V. Anand
35. Which is the Garden City of India?
Bangalore
Pakistan and Afghanistan
Madhya Pradesh
Vishnu Sharma
36. When was the Constituent Assembly that framed Constitution for Independent India set up?
Mahatma Gandhi
Samudragupta
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
1949
37. Which was the musical instrument used by Amir Khusro?
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
Due to radiation
18th December
Sitar
38. Who got the greatest Olympic athlete of all time Trophy?
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
Kulandei Francis
U.K
Michael Phelps
39. The Rath Yatra at Puri is celebrated in honour of which Hindu deity?
Kathak
Jane Austen
Jagannath
2nd April - 2011
40. Who wrote the first history book?
1.34 millions
Herodotus
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
Mahatma Gandhi
41. Which is the largest museum in India?
Florence Nightingale
Hyderabad
Hockey
India Museum at Kolkata
42. Name the mineral found in Zawar mines?
Gagan Narang (shooter)
Abhinav Bindra
Tamil Nadu
Zinc
43. Name the ballistic missile that lifted off from Wheeler Island in Odisha on 9th August - 2012?
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
Jane Austen
Churchill
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
44. Name the new nuclear powered submarine formally handed to India by Russia?
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
Mumbai
Su-Kam Power Systems
Narendra Modi government
45. What are GM Crops?
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
1.34 millions
Genetically Modified Crops.
Himachal Pradesh
46. What is the other name of deuterium oxide?
Heavy water
Konark
Sidney Sheldon
Roger Federer
47. Upto where Chandragupta Maurya's empire extended in the north-west?
Mussoorie
Morarji Desai
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
Hindukush
48. Where is Boat Race a popular sport?
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
6-14 years
Kerala
Bombay
49. Which country was under the grip of a severe earthquake followed by tsunami recently?
Sitar
Second Battle of Tarain
Planning Commission
Japan
50. Who got Arjuna Award in 2011?
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
26th January
Performax
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