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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Name the Indian scientist who was a part of NASA team which has identified the landing site of the 'Curiosity'?
Manipur54
Amitabh Ghosh
12th January
Arundhati Roy
2. Name the Indian chess player who broke the World Record by finishing the game in twelve moves?
Khushwant Singh
V. Anand
Jan 26 - 1950134
Second Battle of Tarain
3. When India became a Sovereign - democratic republic?
Mumbai
Jan 26 - 1950134
Churchill
It loses one day
4. Name the Strait connecting Arabian Sea and the Bay ofBengal?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Mohammad Iqbal
Akhilesh Yadav
Palk Strait
5. Name the Apple co-founder who changed the daily habits of millions by reinventing computing - music and mobile phones?
Albert Einstein
Saka era
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
Alexander Fleming
6. Who was the first king to conquer Malwa - Gujarat and Maharashtra?
Raja Ravi Varma
Rs 270
Saka era
Chandragupta Maurya
7. What is the aim of the 'Biosphere Reserve Project'?
Protecting Flora and Fauna
Punjab
6-14 years
Director General Anil Kaushik
8. With which musical instrument was Ustad Mustaq Ali Khan associated?
Sitar
Roger Federer
American firm Intra Pace unveils a stomach implant vi akeyhole surgery that can help people fight flab by warning the brain when enough food is taken. This credit card sized implant is named as 'Abiliti'.
Golconda
9. When is India's National Youth Day celebrated ?
35 degree
Dance
Thailand
12th January
10. Name the Indian American astronaut who begins her 2nd space odyssey on July 15 - 2012?
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
Sunita Williams
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
5th September
11. Who painted the masterpiece 'Hamsa Damayanti'?
Raja Ravi Varma
Ladakh
Motion Picture
31st May
12. If in a mirror image of object appears to be larger then which type of mirror is used?
5
Amjad Ali Khan
Concave mirror
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
13. Name the gas usually filled in the electric bulbs?
Contingency Fund of India
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
Nitrogen
Sriharikota
14. Which is the largest cave in India?
Indra Sinha64
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
15. Who is the author of book 'India Wins Freedom'?
Mussoorie
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
Kolkata
16. Who led the first Muslim invasion of India?
Mehbooba Mufti
Mohammad bin Kasim
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
Uttarakhand
17. Which is the largest Gurudwara in India?
10th December
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
UK
Edison
18. For which dance Birju Maharaj is well known?
Forty-fourth Amendment
John Keats
Kathak
Samudragupta
19. Where is the National Defence Academy situated?
Allauddin Khilji
Khadakvasla
Ganga
Zinc
20. Who wrote the immortal song 'Vande Mataram'?
Sri Lanka
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
10th October
Jaya Dev
21. What is AERE?
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22. In which year was the National Anthem first sung?
Washing soda
1911133
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
Hockey
23. Who elects the Vice President of India?
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
Contingency Fund of India
Saka era
Gujarat
24. In India - who issues one rupee coins and notes as well as subsidiary coins?
Mehbooba Mufti
The Reserve Bank of India
23rd April
$46 - 00011
25. Which state in India has three language teaching formula?
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
Sri Lanka
Punjab
Madhya Pradesh
26. Which day is chosen to be celebrated as Father's Day?
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
Nek Chand
Chandragupta Maurya
Haryana
27. Who is known as Nightingale of India?
Sarojini Naidu
Dadabhai Naoroji
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
28. When comes the World Environment Day?
Strait of Gibraltar
5th June
Chadwick
Myanmar
29. On which day International Women's Day observed?
Arthur Conan Doyle
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
Chadwick
8th March
30. When is India's Army Day celebrated ?
Talwandi
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
15th January
Playwright
31. Who is the elected Prime Minister of Pakistan from Pakistan People's Party?
Yousuf Raza Gillani
Valentina Tereshkova
Chaucer
Parupalli Kashyap
32. What amount is purposed as per capita allocation for health sector for 2011-2012 - according to the official review of National Rural Health Mission?
Rabindranath Tagore147
Golconda
Rs 270
Vice President of India
33. Who invented barometer?
Algernon Sidney
Torricelli
2nd April - 2011
28th February
34. Who invented the television?
J.L.Baird
Jamaica
1.34 millions
30th January
35. Which is the largest port in India?
Governor
5th September
Mumbai
Nikolaus Otto
36. Vijayghat ( Samadhi of Lal Bahadur Shastri) is situated on the bank of which river?
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
1949
Yamuna
37. Name the Strait which separates Asia from North America?
Prof. V.N Datta
The Bering Strait
Anita Desai
Cavendish
38. Who wrote 'Netaji - Dead or Alive'?
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
Khushwant Singh
Su-Kam Power Systems
Samar Guha
39. When is the World Population Day observed?
24
26 years and 9 months
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
11th July
40. Which is the India's largest public sector commercial bank at present?
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
Sukumar Sen
Rabindranath Tagore147
State Bank of India
41. Who wrote the novel 'Neela Chand'?
Shiv Prasad Singh
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
The Reserve Bank of India
Amir Khusrau
42. Which megastar carried the Olympic flame on the torch relay leg between the City of London and the borough of South wark in London on 26th July - 2012 - a day before the opening ceremony of sporting spectacle?
Amitabh Bachchan
Oxygen and acetylene
USA
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
43. Who invented the lift?
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
Vadodara
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
E.G.Otis
44. Durand line is the border common to which two countries?
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
Kerala
Pakistan and Afghanistan
The Reserve Bank of India
45. Why the International Date Line makes slight deviation from 180 degree meridian?
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
New Delhi
46. What happens to speed of sound with rise in temperature?
State Bank of India
Increases
Akhilesh Yadav
1953
47. Who got Dhyan Chand Award in 2011?
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
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.)
Sitar
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
48. What will be the difference in longitudes between two places if their time difference is 2 hours and 20 minutes?
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
The Rajya Sabha
Palk Strait
35 degree
49. Which is the largest Mosque in India?
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
Sodium
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
Jama Masjid
50. Which day is known as World Tourism Day?
Shimla and Hamirpur
27th September
2
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)